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BMW планирует выпустить беспилотный автомобиль уже через пять лет.... →

Amazon will soon roll out its own private-label brands of common household items like coffee, diapers, and other perishable groceries, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The offerings will consist of perishable goods like baby food, tea, coffee, spices, and non-perishables like laundry detergent. These products will live under brand names like Happy Belly, Wickedly Prime,… Read More... →

When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you have four seconds from the time you release the spoon — the aluminum lever that holds down the fuse trigger — until it explodes. Four seconds can be a very long time. Read More... →

Who remembers Pokemon Snap? The game was released in 1999 for N64 as a rail “shooter”, and let you take pictures of Pokemon while riding through different courses. But while your path through each level was predetermined, the photographs were not. Meaning users had free control of the camera and absolute discretion in what they could photograph and which type of shot to use.… Read More... →

Posted by willcritchlowWhat would you say if I told you that the average SEO at a big company has been waiting over six months for their highest priority technical change and doesn’t anticipate seeing it deployed for at least another six months? (40+% have been waiting over a year). If you work in that kind of environment, there’s a good chance you’re not surprised, and if you’ve worked as a consultant and your experience is anything like mine, you might even be asking yourself “is that all?” It’s such a co... →

Although there is still a lot of hype surrounding 3D printing and how it may or may not be the next industrial revolution, the cost of printing continues to drop while the quality of 3D prints continues to rise. This development can be traced to advanced 3D printing technologies becoming accessible due to the expiration of key patents on pre-existing industrial printing processes. Read More... →

Last year was a massive year for mergers, with industry giants like Dell and Aol finally closing deals that were large enough to make 2015 a record-breaking year. Predictions mostly held that 2016 would be another huge year for mergers, as they are one of the best ways to continue growing share price after a prolonged bull market. Read More... →

Fundraising is a game of competition. VCs compete against other VCs to fund the latest startups. Startups compete with other startups to attain funding from the brand name VCs. So, to be successful fundraising, “the founder must create a competitive process between VCs,” according to Aaron Hirschhorn, the founder of DogVacay, in our latest interview Read More... →

Internet accessibility for all people, of all ages and in all places has unleashed unprecedented resources and opportunities. It also unlocked our digital and physical security. The sacrifice of safety is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. Can the tools that caused this vulnerability be reappropriated to make us safer? Read More... →

В середине мая Google объявила, что с лета 2016 года прекратит размещать в своё рекламном сервисе AdWords объявления компаний, выдающих микрозаймы сроком до 60 дней. Директор по маркетингу сервиса онлайн-кредитования MoneyMan Илья Болтнев написал для vc.ru колонку о том, как запрет Google повлияет на положение на рынке интернет-рекламы и почему поисковик смягчит свою позицию.... →

Самые популярные и обсуждаемые тексты уходящей недели на vc.ru — в традиционном воскресном дайджесте.... →

В мессенджере Telegram Павла Дурова 15 мая появилась возможность редактирования сообщений. Функция доступна как в личной переписке, так и в групповых чатах, говорится в официальном блоге сервиса.... →

Power now resides with massive centralizing corporations like Google and Facebook and thus the Internet no longer reflects the interests of its users. So, the digital revolution has pretty much failed, according to Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger. But not all is lost. Wenger has a three part solution to fix the future – all of which rests of putting power back into the hands… Read More... →

Политики могли бы использовать специализированный отечественный рекламный инвентарь, но его развитие остановилось ещё 4 года назад, поэтому ЕдРу приходится работать через Google.... →

С 9 по 11 мая в Нью-Йорке прошла десятая технологическая конференция TechCrunch Disrupt. Основатель студии Jubel Юлия Беляк, побывавшая на мероприятии в качестве волонтёра, написала для vc.ru краткий отчёт о конференции.... →

In the ever-shifting landscape of cyberthreats and attacks, having access to timely information and intelligence is vital and can make a big difference in protecting organizations and firms against data breaches and security incidents. Malicious actors are getting organized, growing smarter and becoming more sophisticated, which effectively makes traditional defense methods and tools… Read More... →

Asem Hasna, 22, heard dead silence for five minutes after a shell blew his left leg off in a small town southwest of Damascus in April 2013. A mathematics student turned volunteer paramedic Hasna had opened the ambulance door after loading injured rebels from the battlefront in Khan El Shih when Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian military forces had shelled the area. Read More... →

The online game BREAKAWAY culminates with a girl being abducted, forced into a locker and left there after continual bullying and abuse. But the game is not glamorizing gangs, instead it’s trying to teach boys and girls between the ages of 9 and15 what constitutes –- or doesn’t constitute — a healthy, equal attitude towards girls and women. Read More... →

Сервис Rubrain.com собрал для vc.ru коллекцию GIF-анимаций, которые описывают жизнь и работу фрилансеров.... →

Очень многие просили меня высказаться по поводу ситуации с РБК. Я ждал пока частично сойдут эмоции. Тут всем все очевидно, все кто хотел уже высказались, добавить что-то трудно. Думаю, что высокой спешности в продаже компании больше нет. Отсутствие потребности срочно продать должно успокоить ситуацию внутри компании. А ушедшие люди займутся чем-то новым, можно только пожелать им спокойнее перенести эту тяжелую ситуацию и побыстрее заняться чем-то еще. Но высказаться я хотел о другом. За последние годы помен... →