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Холдинг «Газпром-медиа» приобрёл у владельца Евразийского трубопроводного консорциума Александра Карманова 49% акций кабельного телеканала A-One, посвящённого хип-хопу. На базе A-One планируется запустить новый музыкальный телеканал, пишет «Коммерсантъ».... →

«Газпром-медиа» приобрел долю в телеканале и намерен перезапустить проект... →

Изображение участницы движения за права женщин заменит седьмого президента... →

Question and answer site Quora has made its first push to monetize after it added advertising. Read More... →

Производитель грузовиков поможет родственникам водителей следить за ними... →

Отечественный рынок показал отрицательную динамику по безалкогольным напиткам... →

Zalora, the fashion-focused e-commerce site backed by Rocket Internet that’s in the process of selling off two of its 11 country businesses in Asia, has lost two key executives, TechCrunch understands. Read More... →

A federal judge ruled today that the FBI did not obtain the proper warrant before hacking a child porn website and that the evidence it collected against one of the defendants, Alex Levin, must be suppressed. The case centers on a child porn site called Playpen, which was hosted on a hidden Tor service intended to conceal users’ identities. Read More... →

What if I told you that you can strengthen your own core while liquid cooling your PC’s? That’s the dream, right? Better still, you can accomplish all of that in a single product — which is precisely the sort of innovation one has come to expect from a computer accessory manufacturer that recently announced a case that looks like a luxury yacht. Read More... →

A search engine that lets travelers find and book a stay in non-hotel lodgings, Tripping.com, has detected a burgeoning “budbnb” trend in Colorado. San Francisco-based Tripping.com aggregates vacation rental listings from the likes of HomeAway, Booking.com, VRBO and other sites, and shows travelers the best prices on available lodgings. It currently lists about 8 million… Read More... →

Posted by Kristina Kledzik[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] If you’re an SEO, chances are, you’ve recommended link building as a tactic. And, unless you work for a very trusting firm, you’ve probably been met with the question, “When will we see a return on our investment, and how much will we see?” This is a question I’ve been asked numerous times, but never had a good answer for. The truth is, a new link doesn't affect rankings immediately. That makes it hard to tie an individual link to SERP rankings incr... →

Billion-dollar customer insight startup Qualtrics hopes to recruit top Silicon Valley talent to its home base in Utah as it continues to grow and part of that strategy involves adding professional tech coach Kim Scott to the board of directors. Qualtrics become one of a handful of new unicorns in the Beehive State last year and it continues to climb up and to the right. But it’s hard… Read More... →

After years of VC exuberance, 2015 marked the end of an investment cycle for the adtech industry. Quite a few companies with high valuations stumbled, downsized, restructured and pivoted in order to achieve, or at least progress on a path toward, sustainable profitability. Yet, despite the contraction in VC investments, the industry is growing dramatically. Read More... →

To achieve market scale along the lines of GoPro and FitBit, effectively working with big retailers is a necessary part of the process. Despite the growth of online channels, over 90% of the $200B U.S. consumer electronics sales still comes from brick and mortar stores. Read More... →

My kids don’t turn off the damn lights. Ever. And now, with Curb, I have a new way to see when they leave on their lights. All I have to do is look at an app. This is the future of parenting — and, well, energy monitoring. Curb is a comprehensive household energy monitoring system. The system monitors the entire home by using sensors installed in the circuit breaker. For many… Read More... →

The celebrity gossip and news startup The Shade Room is back on Facebook, the startup announced today, albeit under a new moniker. It’s previous page, which had racked up over 4 million followers was “facebook.com/theshaderoom” and the new profile is “facebook.com/shaderoominc.” The startup said earlier its page had been removed from the Facebook ecosystem without… Read More... →

Messaging app Viber rolled out its own end-to-end encryption update yesterday, following in the footsteps of its competitor, WhatsApp, and allowing users to keep their calls and messages private. But researchers are questioning whether Viber’s messages are really as secure as the company claims. In a blog post announcing the change, Viber COO Michael Shmilov says that the new feature… Read More... →

Mindie does with soundtracks what Instagram did with filters: it makes boring imagery interesting. And with the insane amount of video that teens are sharing, the music video making app seemed too useful to die when its creators shut down Mindie in December. So Mindie’s technology is getting dug out of its grave thanks to an acquisition by Shots, the selfie app turned comedy feed backed… Read More... →

Rolltape is a voice messaging app that’s supposed to help you share personal, emotional moments with friends. Now, with the launch of Rolltape Radio, it can help you share those stories on a broader scale. The change is pretty straightforward. Previously, Rolltape messages (which are recommended to be five minutes or less, but have no hard limit) could only be shared with friends,… Read More... →

Michael Arrington — who famously cofounded TechCrunch in 2005 and just as famously parted ways with the outlet in 2011, one year after selling it to America Online — is now taking on a reduced role at the venture fund that he cofounded when he left TC. After an SEC filing surfaced earlier today showing that CrunchFund is targeting $40 million for its third fund and even more… Read More... →