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It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited launch in Australia. Read More... →

It’s been almost two years since Square expanded its mobile payments service into a new country — it most recently hit Japan, its first foray outside of North America, in May 2013 — but this week it went Down Under with a long-awaited launch in Australia. Read More... →

Фонд Pulsar Venture Capital заявил, что предоставит приоритетные места на участие в международной акселерационной программе для стартапов, основатели которых — женщины. Как Firrma сообщили в фонде, в акселератор планируется взять до 15 стартапов, основанных женнщинами. Точно количество будет зависеть от проведенной питч-сессии на Казанской Венчурной Ярмарке. Фонд предполагает, что таким образом обратит внимание на  недостаточное количество женщин-технологических предпринимателей в отрасли. «Это часть нашего... →

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The director of UK spy agency, GCHQ, has urged closer co-operation between governments and the tech sector to end what he dubbed the “abuse of encryption”, describing it as a “moral problem” which democratic societies must grapple with in order to strike a balance between security and privacy. Read More... →

Основатель имиджборда 4chan Кристофер Пул рассказал в своем блоге на Tumblr, что стал одним из сотрудников Google. Чем именно он будет заниматься в компании, Пул уточнять не стал, но издание Mashable со ссылкой на вице-президента фирмы Брэдли Горовица сообщило о присоединении Пула к команде стриминговых и фотосервисов в рамках работы над соцсетью Google+.... →

Posted by MrADThomsonWhile the digital marketing agency I work for, Three Deep, doesn’t get a lot of business through local searches, people do have to find their way to our office from time to time. After recently moving our office across downtown St. Paul, we took the opportunity to clean up our messy local SEO footprint. Having an up-to-date local footprint may help us rank for general terms. Most importantly, it will provide accurate results and directions to those searching for us by name.In this artic... →

Венчурный фонд Ильи Голубовича I2BF Global Ventures инвестировал в израильский стартап Utilight, который использует лазерную технологию бесконтактной 3D-печати для производства печатной электроники, в том числе солнечных батарей. Utilight привлек $2,9 млн в раунде А. В сделке также приняли участие SCI Advanced Technology Fund, группа бизнес-ангелов из Азии, а также существующие инвесторы — Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC), Waarde Capital. Также компания получила $3 млн в виде гранта от офиса Руководителя... →

500 Startups is continuing its efforts to tap on Asia’s fast-growing startup scene after the U.S.-headquartered VC firm announced a $10 million fund in Vietnam. Read More... →

A day after Finnish oline bank Holvi got acquired by BBVA, here comes yet more consolidation in Europe’s fintech landscape. Today, Atom Bank — a still stealth, online-only startup, coincidentally also backed by BBVA — announced its first acquisition: Grasp, a design and development house based out of the north of England. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, an Atom… Read More... →

Кросплатформенный рекламно-аналитический сервис Facebook Atlas ввел функцию Offline Actions, которая позволит маркетологам загружать данные о покупках с мест продаж и анализировать их в контексте рекламных кампаний.... →

Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright to bolster its shipping features. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, though I understand the acquisition includes ParcelBright’s tech and customer base. Meanwhile, founders Daniel Lipinski and Carlos Vilhena will stay involved in the form… Read More... →

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If you’re on the hunt for an easy way to convert your online documents to an ebook-friendly format, Google has quietly announced that it will now let you save your documents directly to the .epub (EPUB) format. First released in 2007, EPUB has emerged as the most broadly supported file format for ebooks, and as […]... →

Google is currently talking with several Indian telecoms to help launch Project Loon, which uses balloons instead of cellular towers to provide affordable Internet access in remote areas. According to an article in the Economic Times, the company is in discussions with BSNL and other companies to pilot Project Loon in India. Read More... →

Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that manages hugely popular payments service Alipay, is raising a new round of financing that could value the company as high as $60 billion ahead of a much-speculated public listing. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that its Skype Translator — a tool that automatically translates your speech into text and computer-generated speech in the other person’s language in real time — now supports Arabic. So Skype Translator now speaks a total of eight languages — in addition to Arabic, it also speaks English, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, […]... →

500 Startups announced today that the launch of a $10 million micro-fund that will invest solely on Vietnamese startups. It’s the latest in a series of such investment vehicles the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program has created in the past year. The organization plans to fund between 100 to 150 companies that have some connection to the […]... →

Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth supported language. As the Skype team told a small group of reporters at a press event in its Palo Alto offices last month, the company decided to add Arabic in part because… Read More... →

Truecaller has announced plans to merge two of its flagship apps into one as part of the Swedish startup’s efforts to create the ultimate phone call management app. If you’re new to Truecaller, the Stockholm-based company has built a solid reputation over the past seven years with its crowdsourced approach to helping users flag rogue […]... →