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18:00 26.03.2016

Virtual currencies create pathways for people in emerging economies

Immense hype surrounds virtual currencies and distributed ledgers these days. Maybe this is inevitable if you combine an inscrutable, cutting-edge technology, its enigmatic origins, and a flow of $1 billion in venture funding thus far. But will these technologies create pathways for people in emerging economies to access and use financial services that meet their needs? Read More... →

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17:01 26.03.2016

«Формат сервиса по продвижению событий оказался в кризис самым выигрышным» — Обзор руководителя отдела маркетинга сервиса KudaGo

Максим Полкунов, руководитель отдела маркетинга сервиса KudaGo написал для vc.ru о рынке продвижения мест и событий. Он вспомнил, с чего все начиналось, подвёл первые итоги и поделился опытом компании, которая стала одним из лидеров отрасли.... →

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17:00 26.03.2016

U.S. iPhone users spent an average of $35 on apps last year, most of it on games

U.S. iPhone users spent an average of $35 on apps during 2015, according to research by Sensor Tower. Of that amount, $25, or 71 percent, was spent on games. The research is based on 110 million iPhones that were in active use in the U.S. last year, according to Sensor Tower and data from Consumer […]... →

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16:00 26.03.2016

This War On Math Is Still Bullshit

In the wake of Paris, San Bernardino, and now Brussels, the encryption debate has become such a potent cocktail of horror, idiocy, and farce that it has become hard to tease out any rational threads of discussion. There is so much stupidity that I hardly know where to begin; but let’s start with the farce. Everybody loves a farce, right? Read More... →

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15:00 26.03.2016

Rivals of Aether’s creator details his Smash Bros. inspirations

How about: Super Smash Bros. is a popular fighting series, so it’s lack of clones when compared to other successful games stands out. Most fighting games stick to the formula established by Street Fighter, focusing on depleting an opponent’s health bar while performing special moves only possible by specific button combos. Smash Bros., meanwhile, is […]... →

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13:45 26.03.2016

Microsoft took action on 63% of ‘revenge porn’ requests

It happens a lot: two people break up, one of them is angry and post private, explicit photos and videos of the other person online. It’s called “revenge porn.” Both Microsoft andGoogle announced new policies last summer to remove “revenge porn” from their search engines if the victim fills out a form and requests it. Microsoft will even […]... →

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12:06 26.03.2016

Как Destiny изменила игры для консолей с помощью freemium-механики

Разработчик из компании Zynga Александр Коллинз написал для блога Deconstructor of Fun о том, как игра Destiny изменила игры для консолей с помощью freemium-механики. Редакция рубрики «Рынок игр» приводит перевод его заметки.... →

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10:58 26.03.2016

Sharp and Foxconn ready to sign $4 billion takeover agreement

(Reuters) – Sharp and Taiwan’s Foxconn are set to sign a takeover deal next week after repeated delays, with the two sides set to agree on a smaller bailout than originally planned for the troubled Japanese electronics maker, Japanese media said on Saturday. The two companies will hold board meetings on Wednesday to approve the […]... →

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09:16 26.03.2016

5 неочевидных минусов коллтрекинга, о которых нужно знать

На текущий момент у каждого calltracking-сервиса есть свои подводные камни, о которых мы и поговорим... →

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09:02 26.03.2016

The 10 biggest European tech stories this week

This week, Tech.eu tracked 47 funding deals and 13 M&A transactions in Europe and Israel. Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along with interesting news regarding fledgling European startups, tech investors old and new, a number of good reads published elsewhere, government and policy news, as […]... →

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06:16 26.03.2016

Uber recruiting engineers by randomly sending a coding game to play during rides

Microsoft engineer Joshua Debner was taking an Uber in Seattle to meet a friend when the new notification popped up on the screen. Uber wanted to play a game called Code on the Road. Uber confirmed to Business Insider that it’s found a new way to lure engineers to work for the fast-growing startup by […]... →

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05:00 26.03.2016

What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience

If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just say the idea that I can hold this thing, this little cloth rectangle of varying denomination, and exchange it for tangible goods and services is, at the very least, a system of belief. How we carry our money, and how we’ve evolved to think… Read More... →

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03:45 26.03.2016

VR Sports, Ninja Trainer reveal VR’s potential for destruction

I hit a man last week. Actually, I hit him three times. Now, these were not deliberate acts of violence. No — they were accidental moments of virtual reality havoc. If you remember the early days of Nintendo’s Wii motion-controller console, you can probably recall people breaking their televisions because they were flailing their arms […]... →

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03:12 26.03.2016

DARPA kicks off $2m Grand Challenge focused on intelligently splitting up radio spectrum

DARPA has a new Grand Challenge underway, but it’s not an automation moonshot like the self-driving car challenges of the early 2000s or the recent Robotics Challenge. The Defense Department’s R&D wing wants to revolutionize something with a bit less sex appeal, but plenty of real-world applications: radio frequency spectrum splitting. Read More... →

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03:00 26.03.2016

Live is having a moment

Twitter, which turned 10 this week, has apparently made Live its entire organizing principle. At an all-hands meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg declared live video a top priority for Facebook. Clearly, Zuck’s directing his fight toward Twitter’s Periscope, a mobile live streaming app which itself competed fiercely with Meerkat. Read More... →

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02:53 26.03.2016

Verizon says security breach leads to customer data leak

(Reuters) – Verizon said an attacker had exploited a security vulnerability on its enterprise client portal to steal contact information of a number of customers. The company said the attacker however did not gain access to Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) or other data. CPNI is the information that telephone companies collect including the time, […]... →

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02:18 26.03.2016

2020 is set to be the biggest year yet for Mars exploration

2020 is set to be a good year for Mars exploration. The United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, Europe, and Russia all have planned Mars missions that are scheduled to launch, or likely to launch, in that year. There have been over 40 missions to Mars throughout history. Some of these missions were failures, while others completed their goals and are no longer operational. Today, there… Read More... →

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00:52 26.03.2016

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund

Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of Paypal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek, and Brian Singerman. Founders Fund is known to focus on cutting-edge investments in space,… Read More... →

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00:46 26.03.2016

Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets

The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company has undertaken to answer at least some of these questions. Read More... →

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00:00 26.03.2016

Beware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley

A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley — albeit, with a dash of fear. International media outlets eagerly cover disruption developing in labs up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Boards of directors are spending hours debating how… Read More... →

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