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Over the past few years, cyber insurance markets have been growing at between 25-50 percent CAGR each year. According to The Betterley Report 2015, annual policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion. The ecosystem of insurance underwriters, intermediaries/brokers, analysts/management consultants and compilers of insurance market information is evolving rapidly, trying to make the most of… Read More... →

Today’s Stories  Spotify family plan is now cheaper, $14.99 for up to 6 people Facebook Live lets you skip to the good part Comparably launches Glassdoor competitor that filters employee reviews by race and gender Kleiner is raising two new funds totaling upwards of $1.3 billion ‘Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur’, the iOS Notification Center game, acquired by Genera… Read More... →

Charity or opportunism? It’s so hard to tell, sometimes. In RideAustin’s case, it looks to be a bit of both. It’s a non-profit car-for-hire service that’s happy to abide by the city’s rules — and adds a layer of budget- and conscience-friendly features that may help it stay differentiated (and alive). Read More... →

Utah Senator Todd Weiler has proposed a bill to rid the state of porn by adding Internet filters and anti-porn software on all cell phones and requiring citizens to opt-in before viewing porn online. It’s to save the children, he says. Weiler successfully pushed an anti-porn resolution through the state senate earlier this year, declaring porn a “public health crisis.” He… Read More... →

Posted by bridget.randolph[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] Note: this post is based on a recent presentation I gave at LearnInbound Dublin. You can find the slides here. Mobile search as a topic has changed a lot over the past few years. When I first started looking at this, back in 2012, there was already a lot of discussion happening around the topic of mobile. And back then, the big question everyone was asking was, “what should my mobile strategy be?” Even then, things were shifting. At one of my early ... →

In the midst of a quest to become an international video streaming success, Netflix has been drawing criticism from core, U.S. customers who say its film and TV library— beyond original series and films– isn’t robust enough to whet their viewing appetites. Today, Netflix made an announcement seemingly tailored for these restless U.S. customers, touting a pay TV partnership… Read More... →

Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google’s use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle accused Google of stealing a collection of APIs, while Google suggested that Android transformed the smartphone market and Oracle sued out of desperation when its own smartphone attempts failed to launch. The case is expected to have… Read More... →

Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Snapchat is raising yet more financing at around a $20 billion valuation. Sources with knowledge of the deal say the social media giant is in the… Read More... →

Facebook responded today to official queries regarding its Trending Topics feature, specifically allegations made over the last few weeks that the team responsible for it was deliberately suppressing conservative views and arbitrarily elevating stories with little oversight. It denied the accusations, but nevertheless announced changes it would make to the process. Read More... →

Machine learning is accomplishing Facebook’s mission of connecting the world across language barriers. Facebook is now serving 2 billion text translations per day. Facebook can translate across 40 different languages in 1800 directions like French to English. And 800 million users, almost half of all Facebook users, see translations each month. Alan Packer, Facebook’s Director… Read More... →

Apple CEO Tim Cook made an uncharacteristic admission today in an interview with Indian news channel NDTV — that iPhones are too expensive. He immediately qualified it, and the context really is important, but it’s just one of those things you don’t hear very often. Read More... →

23 мая аудитория русскоязычного Facebook обратила внимание на однотипные публикации популярных пользователей о покупке акций через сервис Freedom24.ru, принадлежащий группе «Фридом Финанс». В какой-то момент начался флэшмоб: высмеивая ситуацию, другие пользователи стали копировать реальные заметки и публиковать их. Редакция vc.ru выяснила, с чем связан поток размещений и к каким результатам он привел.... →

I’m pretty excited and happy to announce that today I’m taking over Crunch Report. “I am the captain now.” I edited over 150 episodes of Crunch Report back when Sarah Lane hosted the show and I learned a lot: how to be super efficient at editing; learning what I personally liked and disliked about Crunch Report and basically eating; breathing and living this show. Since… Read More... →

Свободная продажа драгоценных камней и изделий из них запрещена с 1992 года, но до известного момента онлайн-предприниматели работали в "серой зоне".... →

In January, Twitter revealed that several of its key executives were leaving the company. We learned that former product head Kevin Weil landed at Instagram, and now Brian “Skip” Schipper, the former vice president of human resources at Twitter, is joining Yext, the fast-growing location data management company. Schipper will serve as Chief People Officer, overseeing global HR… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Ridesharing platform Lyft heard the people and the people wanted to schedule rides ahead of time. So, starting today, Lyft is adding a new feature to let you schedule that ride to the airport or crucial business meeting you need to be on time for in advance. Gett, a ridesharing service in New York has offered this feature for more than a year and we’ve heard rumors Uber has toyed with… Read More... →

A driverless car was involved in a traffic accident on a California city street earlier this year. No one was hurt in the small fender bender, but the accident does signal we are making incredible leaps forward on the road toward driverless cars. It may sound counterintuitive, but this crash shows just how far autonomous technology has come in such a short time. Read More... →

We’ve come a long way from the days of pale beige IP webcams with wonky interfaces and limited recording times. Today’s webcams, like the ZModo Pivot, are motion-sensing, low-light seeing, and notification-rich cylinders that hide out in secret places and store video for days at a time. In essence webcams have morphed from wonky toys to actual tools and, in the process, have gone… Read More... →

Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting as long as the creators don’t mind that they won’t be able to permanently save and share the video. The new Continuous Live Video API enables persistent streams like nature feeds, 24-hour windows into major landmarks, or cameras trained on a pit… Read More... →