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Я искал человека без опыта в Scrum. Именно так: хороших Scrum-мастеров на рынке все равно нет.... →

London-based Pusher, the company powering The NY Times’ live election results and DraftKing’s fantasy scoring results, just raised $2.5 million to up its stakes further. The money came from SaaS Capital, which focuses on debt financing aimed at the Software as a Service (SaaS) space. Read More... →

VR is widespread in design, education and entertainment. But before VR hit the mainstream, it was first and foremost an important resource for our armed forces. After decades of perfecting VR in military applications, we are finally making this concept of “inhabiting” a computer-generated environment work for home users. And, VR is going back to the battlefield — to save… Read More... →

Nest Labs, the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, is parting ways with a few dozen employees who work on its Internet of Things platform. According to a Fortune report that we’ve independently confirmed, those employees are joining Google per a restructuring. Both companies are subsidiaries of parent company Alphabet. The move would seem to make sense. Like Nest, Google… Read More... →

30 августа российская компания WayRay выпустила ролик, рекламирующий голографический навигатор Navion, которым можно управлять, не отвлекаясь от дороги. В видео показана краткая история создания устройства. Об этом vc.ru рассказали представители стартапа.... →

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

Google is running its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move would put Google in direct, immediate competition with Uber, which helps explain even further the recent departure of Alphabet executive David Drummond from Uber’s board. Google’s new offering piloted in May, according to the WSJ, and uses the Google-owned Waze app to… Read More... →

Издание The Washington Post опубликовало список параметров для таргетинга рекламы на Facebook в США, состоящий из 98 пунктов. Среди информации, которую собирает компания, есть данные о площади жилья пользователя и активности использования кредитных карт.... →

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a slow fundraising start in Silicon Valley. In the June lead-up to the final state primaries, Trump had raised very few dollars in the region that’s typically lucrative for political contenders. A TechCrunch analysis of Federal Election Commission data found that Trump had only raised a paltry $30,556 from donors in San Francisco and… Read More... →

Digital hospitality platform Velocity announced this week that, following its $16 million Series A last year, the company raised $22.5 million led by DIG Investments. The company creates curated dining experiences for time-poor diners looking to expand their horizons. The money will be invested in expansion to 29 cities over the next three years, with a heavy focus on the U.S. Read More... →

Директор по маркетингу американского рителйера Target Джефф Джонс (Jeff Jones) назначен на должность президента Uber, говорится в сообщении сервиса. Райан Грейвс (Ryan Graves), занимавший этот пост ранее, останется в компании.... →

Facebook’s goal of tracking ads all the way through to a customer’s purchase at point-of-sale is getting a big boost today with a makeover of the Facebook Offers program. Now designed to be more mobile-friendly, Facebook is allowing businesses to create two kinds of offers – those customers can redeem online and those they redeem in-store – while also making it… Read More... →

A little-known startup is in meltdown mode after a former employee took to Medium to accuse the company of scamming her out of her wages and firing her in retaliation after she filed a wage claim to recoup the unpaid cash. The Medium post was widely shared online; in response, the company shuttered its website and threatened legal action against the writer, calling her “a disgruntled… Read More... →

Холдинг «Газпром-медиа» по итогам второго квартала 2016 года впервые за последние несколько лет получил операционный убыток на сумму 277 млн рублей, пишут «Ведомости». В компании объясняют это высокими расходами на запуск «Матч ТВ» и перезапуск НТВ.... →

Госкорпорация «Ростех» и с Фонд развития промышленности (ФРП) создали лизинговую компанию «Нацпромлизинг», которая будет развивать лизинг промышленного оборудования. Об этом сообщает РБК. Компания была зарегистрирована 5 августа. Ее уставный капитал составляет 50 млн рублей. 51% «Нацпромлизинга» принадлежит «дочке» «Ростеха» «РТ-Развитие бизнеса», 20% — у ФРП, 29% у бывшего гендиректора «Сбербанк Лизинга» Дмитрия Ерошок. Он возглавил «Нацпромлизинг». «Нацпромлизинг» сконцентрируется на лизинге продукции, ... →

Pebble is getting ready to start shipping new hardware, including the Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2, but first it has something for existing device owners. The new Pebble software update includes some big tweaks to how Pebble operates, both for end users and developers, including improvements to actions and a brand new health app. The key components of the update include basic tweaks to how… Read More... →

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On-Demand Geofilters from Snapchat let anyone build a custom filter for their event (or for whatever reason – I’m not judging your Snapchat filter needs), which was a petty good idea when the offering launched back in February. Today it becomes an even better idea, thanks to new templates that let users create their own customized geofilters without any special knowledge of… Read More... →

Calramon Mabalot is a pretty wild kid. He likes 3D printing and, along with his brother, he builds lots of cool projects – including a mechanical hand for a local teacher he met while building 3D projects. In an interview with 3DPrintingIndustry, Mabalot described how he designed and built a prosthetic hand complete with full articulated fingers. Why did he want to build a 3D-printed arm? Read More... →

Apple’s reality TV show ‘Planet of the Apps’ keeps getting weirder. Every time Apple and Propagate release new information about the show, it gets harder to understand what they’re actually trying to build. This time, Variety got a statement saying that Jessica Alba is joining the cast of the show as a mentor and adviser. In case you missed the previous episodes, Planet… Read More... →