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Today Apple invited the press to attend a March 21 event at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters. Apple has yet to share its plans for the event — it only offered this vague tagline: “Let us loop you in” — but the company is rumored to unveil a 4-inch iPhone 5se (a spiritual successor to the iPhone 5c) as well as […]... →

New York-based Yext, which helps businesses manage their listings for store locations, is announcing $88.8 million in revenue for its fiscal 2016 year. The company says this is a 48% increase from last year and that their workforce also grew by 38% to 455 employees. Yext recently added Google to its PowerListings network, which means that clients can update their Google Search and Maps… Read More... →

Apple just issued for its next press event. The event is going to happen on March 21. As usual, Apple wrote a cryptic message on its invites. “Let us loop you in,” the invite says. This story is developing… Read More... →

Опечатка в сообщении хакеров, которые пытались похитить средства Центрального банка республики Бангладеш, помогла предотвратить кражу более $800 млн. Об этом сообщает Reuters.... →

Колумнист New York Magazine Виджит Ассар написал, почему все попытки создать «убийцу электронной почты» бесперспективны. Автор убеждён, что протокол глубоко укоренился в жизни людей, и одной компании уже не по силам вытеснить его. Редакция vc.ru приводит перевод текста.... →

While the Apple vs FBI court battle has draw all eyes to the question of what should be considered ‘reasonable assistance’ for companies to provide law enforcement agencies, over in the UK the government is attempting to enshrine in law surveillance capabilities that would enable state agencies to compel even very small startups to bake insecurities into their systems in order to… Read More... →

When MaxPlay debuted its new game engine for the cloud era in October, it said it would disrupt the business of making games. And today, it is announcing the second part of its plan to overhaul games with MaxCore, which can dramatically improve the performance of games or virtual reality apps. San Francisco-based MaxPlay uses modern cloud […]... →

Another mobile company is getting into the virtual reality game. Colopl NI, the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese mobile developer that has a revenue of $700 million a year, announced today that it plans to move into the developing virtual reality field. To do so, it has promoted former chief operating officer Jikhan Jung to chief […]... →

The massage industry is getting a rubdown. Soothe has raised $35 million to bring on-demand massages to the masses. It’s one more example of how an on-demand app service can outmaneuver brick-and-mortar businesses, as Soothe says its costs can beat rivals in the traditional $14 billion U.S. massage market (according to the International SPA Association poll conducted […]... →

Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised $3.2 million to date. In September, Soothe snatched up its other competitor, Unwind Me, for an undisclosed amount. Soothe says the funding is for… Read More... →

In a bid to stand out in the bustling weather app crowd, crowdsourced app Sunshine is adding a new personalization feature — giving users the ability to specify how hot or cold the weather feels to them. Read More... →

Prosper Marketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and credit rehabilitation, has re-launched its BillGuard app (acquired last September) under its own brand as Prosper Daily. With the rebranding, the former BillGuard becomes Prosper’s first mobile app and is the company’s first beachhead into what chief executive Aaron Vermut hopes will be a broader suite of… Read More... →

Группа компаний «Мортон» купила 10% компании AT Energy, которая занимается производством водородных топливных элементов для беспилотных летательных аппаратов (БПЛА). Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По данным журнала Forbes, она была закрыта в конце 2015 года. «Мортон» планирует развивать и применять технологии в строительстве и транспорте. Инвестиции в AT Energy – это часть программы инвестирования корпорации в новые передовые технологии.  В октябре 2014 года AT Energy получила первый транш инвестиций от венч... →

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then, the company’s database focus remains squarely on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2016, which is currently available as a release candidate and which will become generally… Read More... →

Here’s a simple-but-handy-sounding update to Jukely — a standby list. For those of you who haven’t tried it, Jukely offers access to an unlimited number of concerts for $25 per month. (Some caveats: You can only be on one guest list at a time, and you have to pay extra if you want to bring a friend.) The goal is to make it easy for members to discover up-and-coming bands and… Read More... →

SPONSORED: It’s bad enough that the current ETL times for structured data is already a big data pipeline bottleneck. Now companies also need to contend with unstructured and semi-structured data streaming in from multiple sources simply because they have no choice.... →

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I’ve certainly had tedious back-and-forths where I’m trying to figure out when to meet with someone, and then where, and so on. That’s the problem that a startup called Cola is looking to solve. I first wrote about the company in November, when… Read More... →

“This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s free app lets students point their phone’s camera at a textbook page or piece of homework, and instantly see resources about key facts and tricky parts, prerequisites, and links to snippets of online classes or study guides that could help. But rather than manually cobble this info… Read More... →

Vimeo is furthering its investment in original programming, the company announced this morning with the unveiling of the video network’s second slate of programs and films. The new batch includes the company’s first-ever feature film as well as its first concert film, representing an expansion in terms of the type of content it aims to host on its service. The announcement… Read More... →

You might have noticed something puzzling if you’ve been keeping an eye on the crowdfunding space: A large number of seemingly promising crowdfunded hardware startups fail to deliver. The list of high-profile stumbles includes Zano, Kreyos and Jolla, to name a few. Then there are campaigns like the Skarp Razor, which is almost certain to not meet backer expectations — assuming… Read More... →