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Гендиректор «СТС Медиа» Юлиана Слащева покидает компанию, рассказали «Ведомостям» источники, близкие к владельцам холдинга. Точные сроки её ухода и имя преемника они не назвали.... →

Need a place to crash last-minute but don’t want to pay for a pricey, cookie-cutter hotel? Overnight can hook you up with a local to stay with right away. Request a room and Overnight averages just 45 seconds until you get a response, and in LA, the startup says its spots are 23% cheaper than equivalent dwellings on HotelTonight. Overnight is Airbnb for people who don’t plan ahead. Read More... →

If you’ve every tried to crop a photo (and in the age of Instagram, who hasn’t?) or simply adjust the horizon line, you know how hard it can be to find just the right crop that allows you to focus on what you want to highlight in a picture without cutting other important parts out of it or leaving you with white edges. If you’re a Photoshop user, you may soon have to maker… Read More... →

Live streaming platform and gamer community Twitch is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help spread its content further afield. The company has now debuted Clips, a feature that lets website viewers quickly and easily clip a 30-second portion video from others’ live streams. These clips automatically include links back to the original live broadcaster, which eliminates… Read More... →

Фонд генерального директора Mail.ru Group Дмитрия Гришина Grishin Robotics инвестировал в американскую компанию Planetary Resources, которая планирует мониторить космические объекты и осваивать астероиды. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде I2BF, который является инвестором фонда. Компания привлекла $21,1 млн. Раунд возглавил OS Fund, также участвовали Bulb Ventures, Vast Ventures, Conversion Capital, the Seraph Group, Space Angels Network и сооснователь Google Ларри Пейдж (Larry Page). I2BF в новом раунде не ... →

The new iOS and Android app Wyper brings the swipe left-swipe right matchmaking magic of Tinder to car shopping. When I spoke with creator Aaron Rosenthal, the app had only been out of beta and available nationwide for about a week and a half, and there had already been more than 100,000 swipes. “We had the ‘Tinder for cars’ part done a year ago,” Rosenthal said,… Read More... →

Here is some news you don’t read every day: Microsoft and Facebook today announced that they are teaming up to build a subsea cable across the Atlantic that will connect Virginia Beach, Virginia, with Bilbao, Spain. The companies say the so-called MAREA cable will allow them to “meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services… Read More... →

The American Civil Liberties Union wants to help Microsoft challenge government gag orders that prevent it from telling its customers when it receives warrants for their information. Microsoft sued the Justice Department in April, claiming that the government’s demands for silence were unconstitutional. The company said that Outlook.com and Office365 were the products most often… Read More... →

Microsoft is playing catch up when it comes to console sales. But it looks like the company doesn’t want to give up on dedicated gaming consoles. According to multiple reports, Microsoft is about to announce a new, slimmer Xbox One around E3 in June, and a more powerful Xbox One next year. In April 2016, FCC filings showed that Microsoft was Read More... →

Летом 2015 года Игорь Лутц покинул пост директора по маркетинговым коммуникациям «Яндекса», проработав в поисковике полгода.... →

26 мая отмечается День российского предпринимательства. К этой дате редакция vc.ru собрала коллекцию анимированных GIF о буднях российского бизнеса.... →

Walgreens (yes, that Walgreens — the one that also owns Duane Reade and is trying to buy Rite Aid for $17.2 billion) has long offered a number of tools for developers who want to plug into both its retail and pharmacy business. Today, the company is extending this program with the launch of two new APIs. The company launched its API program back in 2012 with a service that allowed… Read More... →

GitHub, the online repository startup, has released its first-ever diversity and inclusion report, revealing that it’s no different from the rest of tech companies in Silicon Valley and beyond. At a high level, GitHub is 64% male worldwide and 64% white in the U.S. That said, the company has improved since the end of 2014, when it was 79% male and 21% female worldwide. Among leading… Read More... →

We get it, you’re a busy person, and life moves at 132 MPH. But you still want to keep your finger on the pulse, if for no other reason to not be completely out of the loop at the office water cooler, right? Zolt is fresh out of its app wrapper to help you stay tuned, with 60-word news updates on the topics you care about. Read More... →

A new study from Pew Research claims that 62 percent of people get their news from social media, with 18 percent doing so very often. As expected, the top social media news source is Facebook. The study claims that two-thirds of Facebook’s user base read their news on the platform, with 59 percent of Twitter users getting news on Twitter, and 70 percent of Reddit users doing the same… Read More... →

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Главный редактор интернет-издания Tech in Asia Стивен Миллверд (Steven Millward) опубликовал заметку о том, почему WeChat не удалось выйти на мировой рынок мобильных приложений. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод текста.... →

«Яндекс» запустил пилотный проект гиперлокальных приложений для жителей конкретных районов Москвы, пишет The Village. Первым экспериментальным сервисом стало приложение для iPhone «В Хамовниках».... →

Edtech startup Skillshare Inc. has raised a $12 million round of venture funding to grow its marketplace of “bite-sized, self-paced courses for creators,” according to founder and CEO Michael Karnjanaprakorn. Amasia and Omidyar Network co-led the Series B investment in Skillshare joined by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. The funding brings the company’s total… Read More... →

В мае состоялась конференция игровых разработчиков DevGAMM Moscow 2016. Бывший генеральный продюсер Game Insight Леонид Сиротин выступил на ней с докладом о том, что входит в зону ответственности игрового продюсера, какие качества ему нужны на разных этапах разработки и из-за чего у проекта могут возникнуть проблемы.Редакция рубрики «Рынок игр» приводит расшифровку выступления Сиротина.... →