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«Яндекс» отказался предоставить подразделению Федеральной таможенной службы (ФТС) личную переписку пользователя «Яндекс.Почты» и отстоял свою правоту в суде, пишет «Коммерсантъ». Это был первый случай, когда компанию пытались привлечь к ответственности за подобный отказ, рассказала изданию представитель «Яндекса» Ася Мелкумова.... →

Пищевая компания договорилась о создании СП с производителем средства Proactive... →

Sostav.ru и iMARS продолжают еженедельный мониторинг тендеров в сфере коммуникаций... →

Elon Musk likes his secrets. Tesla Motors isn’t known for being particularly open to the media, especially when it comes to major projects like the lithium-ion battery cell “Gigafactory” taking shape just outside Reno, Nevada. Billed as the largest factory of its kind in the world, the Gigafactory has been strictly off limits to the […]... →

We are accustomed to hearing that European tech is perpetually in Silicon Valley’s shadow. Now there have been suggestions that the local tech scene is starting to feel Silicon Valley’s valuation woes. If true, this should raise alarm bells, because if European technology startups struggle to raise money from wary investors, it could hit the brakes on Europe’s budding… Read More... →

Sanitation and Health Rights in India is the fruit of work that 29-year-old Anoop Jain has struggled with for the better part of the last six years. After a trip to the Himalayas left Jain with an abiding sense of the profound transformations that could be wrought through non-profit work, the son of an oil man who claims New Orleans as his home has been working tirelessly for India’s… Read More... →

It seems that some iOS users on older devices are running into a snag during the 9.3 update. If you have an iPhone 5S, iPad Air or earlier model, you might want to wait a few days for the update to the update. Read More... →

The first Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets have shipped, according to Oculus VR chief executive Brendan Iribe. The headsets should start arriving on launch day on March 28, Iribe said in a tweet. The first Oculus Rift has shipped, deliveries begin Monday 3.28.2016. pic.twitter.com/C0MMKmezun — Brendan Iribe (@brendaniribe) March 24, 2016 The Oculus VR Kickstarter […]... →

Posted by Whitespark[Estimated read time: 6 minutes] Citation consistency got you down? It's one of the most important local search ranking factors, but it can be an overwhelming task to find inconsistencies, and it's often easy to create accidental duplicate listings. In today's guest Whiteboard Friday, Darren Shaw, founder of Whitespark and recent speaker at MozCon Local, outlines a foolproof way to discover all your NAP variations to prepare for proper citation building. Click on the whiteboard image abo... →

Posted by Whitespark[Estimated read time: 6 minutes] Citation consistency got you down? It's one of the most important local search ranking factors, but it can be an overwhelming task to find inconsistencies, and it's often easy to create accidental duplicate listings. In today's guest Whiteboard Friday, Darren Shaw, founder of Whitespark and recent speaker at MozCon Local, outlines a foolproof way to discover all your NAP variations to prepare for proper citation building. Click on the whiteboard image abo... →

For human lip readers, context is key in deciphering words stripped of the full nuance of their audio cues. But a technology model for lip-reading developed at the University of East Anglia in the UK has been shown to be able to interpret mouthed words with a greater degree of accuracy than human lip readers, thanks to the application of machine learning. Read More... →

FEATURE: We already knew that Sony Computer Entertainment was shifting to Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) in April, but now the company has revealed it is also starting a new mobile-gaming division. ForwardWorks Corporation is a Sony subsidiary that will will “deploy new services toward the ever-expanding smartdevice market” beginning April 1. Unlike SIE, ForwardWorks will keep […]... →

Despite the denizens of the Web coming together yesterday to crack the case, we probably still have no clue what the controller for Nintendo’s mysterious NX console looks like. A few days OK, Reddit user Idriss2Dev posted an image of what he claimed was the controller for Nintendo’s upcoming console. In that same thread, he […]... →

Posted by tomcoad“The extent to which consumers are familiar with the qualities or image of a particular brand of goods or services.” Oxford English Dictionary's definition of brand awarenessHow does anyone, not least a search engine, quantify brand awareness? Is it possible to accurately measure a consumer’s familiarity of a brand, and how can a search engine use this as an accurate metric from which it can factor it into a ranking algorithm? And if it could, can this be influenced by external factors, suc... →

Apple today confirmed reports that it’s working with the entertainer Will.i.am and producers Ben Silverman and Howard Owens on a new nonscripted television series about the app ecosystem and app development. “We’ve seen some really, truly inspiring and incredible stories from our developers in what they’ve done, where they come from, how they started and […]... →

Esports has an enormous audience, and it’s quickly making more cash thanks to the power of those dedicated fans. Corporations are going to spend $325 million on sponsorships and marketing related to the esports market this year, according to intelligence firm Newzoo. That’s 70 percent of all the revenue competitive gaming will generate in 2016. […]... →

Longing for the days of the sticky floored arcades of your youth and long nights spent with the the Atari 2600, but can’t be bothered to dig through your mum’s basement to find all the bits and bobs to throw yourself into a retro-gaming binge? Aren’t you in some industrial-strength luck. Available starting today on Steam, Atari Vault gives you 100 retro games to while away… Read More... →

Apple’s plans for its first original TV show don’t make it sound like a swing-for-the-fences, House of Cards-style project. Instead, it’s working on an unscripted TV series about apps and app developers. There are some big names attached, though, including musician Will.i.am and TV executives Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens. (Silverman was previously co-chairman at NBC… Read More... →

Supersonic planes, food harvesting robots, and instant HIV diagnosis were some of the ideas that wowed us on Demo Day 2 for Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch. We queried investors and TechCrunch’s writers to come up with our top 8 picks from all 59 startups that presented. Check out our coverage of the 60 YC startups from Tuesday plus our 7 favorites. Additional reporting by Megan… Read More... →

Martin Hellman, Stanford Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, was one of those awarded this year’s Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery. Named for computer science pioneer Alan Turing, the award is widely regarded as the highest distinction in Computer Science. Hellman and then-Stanford researcher Whitfield Diffie won the award for their fundamental… Read More... →