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SPONSORED: Next week, eight VR startups are hoping to retrace Oculus’s path. They’ll participate at the company’s 2016 Emerging Companies Summit, in a session called the VR Showcase. Each will have an opportunity to describe their VR-based business in front of a live audience of VCs, technology executives, and press.... →

Microsoft today announced a slew of new Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, Ad Block, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js. Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with Edge extension support, arguably the most important feature missing from Microsoft’s new browser. But the […]... →

Wealthfront, the West Coast robo-advisor battling Betterment for the top spot in tech-enabled wealth management, is launching a new version (and vision) of its wealth management service. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company is integrating with tools like Venmo and Redfin, to get an even more complete picture of its customers financial holdings. Read More... →

At the Build Developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a series of new Office 365 developer tools designed to enhance how they interact with Office 365 platform. Microsoft outlined three new ways for developers to work with Office 365 including Graph APIs to provide intelligent integration inside third party applications using content from the Microsoft Graph,… Read More... →

Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tools and libraries, now you can use them with DocumentDB and take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud architecture. Read More... →

Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device, from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in more countries later. There have been Chromebase devices before. And two years ago Google […]... →

You don’t have to go pro to chase your competitive Rocket League dreams. The exciting car-soccer game is getting official competitions for players at the amateur, collegiate, and semi-pro levels in partnership with esports organizer ESL, American Video Game League, and Rocket League Central. These competitions will serve audiences who are not playing at the highest level […]... →

500 Startups is moving north of the border for its next micro-fund. The fund, called 500CAN, is targeting a $30 million size that will be focused on checking out what investments in Canada are all aboot. 500 is specifically looking to build presences in Toronto and Waterloo where some of the nation’s top engineering talent reside. This fund is going to be headed by 500 Startups… Read More... →

At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Skype, and Office 365. In November 2015, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Graph, which […]... →

Apple today rolled out an update to iOS 9.3 that fixes a nasty bug that many iOS device users discovered in the past few days. Essentially, people tried to click links in Safari — like Google search results — only to find that they didn’t work. Long pressing would sometimes make Safari freeze. Clicking links […]... →

Microsoft открыла бесплатный доступ к инструментам для создания кроссплатформенных приложений Xamarin для разработчиков, которые используют Visual Studio.... →

Компания J’son & Partners Consulting представила исследование венчурного рынка России за 2015 года. Как следует из отчета, исследователи выделили 187 венчурных инвестиций в российские компании с участием фондов и бизнес-ангелов. Лидером по количеству сделок стал Фонд развития интернет инициатив (ФРИИ). В денежном выражении объем сделок с раскрытыми финансовыми показателями составил 135 млн долларов, что, как отмечают авторы исследования, меньше, чем годом ранее. 85% сделок пришлось на ИКТ-сектор (по классиф... →

Well that was quick. A couple of days after a bug affecting iOS started making the news, Apple has released a fix. iOS 9.3.1, now available on the iPhone and iPad, fixes this bug. The changelog is quite sort as there’s only one item. “Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps,” it says. This is a developing story… Read More... →

April is the cruelest month. Call of Duty fans will be able to express themselves fully and get out their frustrations with the Eclipse downloadable content (DLC) for Call of Duty: Black Ops III on the PlayStation 4 starting April 19. The new DLC features diverse multiplayer maps, including the re-imaginging of Call of Duty: […]... →

Postmates, which is now completing 1 million deliveries a month, is digging in deeper to the e-commerce space with the launch of Postmates Plus Unlimited, a $9.99 per month subscription service that gets you free deliveries on all “Plus” orders over $30, minus the service fee. Plus merchants include American Apparel and thousands of other partners in the Postmates preferred… Read More... →

Кампания Share a Coke получит новое звучание... →

Big box retailers like Best Buy and Target have all kinds of financing card programs for their customers. But smaller and medium-sized merchants have no way to give their customers the same kind of financing plans. Until now. Blispay is a new startup founded by Greg Lisiewski, formerly of BillMeLater, which was acquired by PayPal for nearly $1 billion in 2008. From that point, he served… Read More... →

Генеральный директор медиаплатформы по созданию контентных ридеров Humpback Whale Андрей Нестеренков поделился с vc.ru своим мнением о современном присутствии брендов в сети. С его точки зрения, традиционные форматы изжили себя, в то время как контент, производимый компаниями, может сыграть большую роль в привлечении новых клиентов и удержании существующих.... →

Microsoft today announced a free public preview of Power BI Embedded, a version of the Power BI business intelligence (BI) service that can be tucked inside of other applications. “You can do this without requiring your users to buy or even be aware of what Power BI is,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for […]... →

Power BI is Microsoft’s tool for analyzing data and building interactive data-based dashboards and reports. At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, the company today announced the preview of Power BI Embedded. With this, developers will be able to integrate Power BI and its interactive dashboards right into their own apps. Power BI already allowed developers to push data… Read More... →