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Социальная сеть Facebook интегрировала в свой Messenger музыкальный сервис Spotify, пишет TechCrunch. Теперь пользователи Facebook Mesenger могут обмениваться музыкой из сервиса.... →

Пользователи обсуждают сомнительный PR конкурса #TinkoffGirl... →

Запуск проекта по обмену звонками и сообщениями состоится уже летом... →

GUEST: American Express may be looking to leverage its position as both payment network and issuer to make loyalty reward points more akin to real money, according to patent documents recently published by the US Patent & Trademark Office. The patent application filed by American Express back in 2014, titled “Third Party Digital Wallet Pay With […]... →

At a panel discussion today at the RSA conference in San Francisco, Apple found two unlikely allies when the former heads of the NSA and Homeland Security threw their support behind encryption technologies. Michael Chertoff, who was the head of Homeland Security under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and who helped author the USA Patriot Act, and former NSA head Mike McConnell… Read More... →

Warc назвал самых успешных рекламодателей по итогам 2015 года... →

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

Market movements in the technology sector — particularly in SaaS tech companies — are causing a stir among investors. It’s always a challenge to estimate valuation ranges for publicly traded companies because these calculations require assumptions of growth. Investors are trying to draw parallels between publicly traded companies and private venture-funded companies, but a… Read More... →

Lavabit, a company that operated an encrypted email service for more than 400,000 people — reportedly including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden — before it shut down in 2013 under legal pressure from the FBI, rose from the dead today. In an federal court filing, the company came down in defense of Apple as the major […]... →

Ubisoft is about to launch its next major franchise, and the company is taking notes from the competition about how to avoid disappointing fans. Tom Clancy’s The Division, an apocalyptic shooter set in New York, has a year of extra content in the works, and the publisher is providing a detailed roadmap for when fans […]... →

Lucas Jackson/Reuters Pictures Snapchat has raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments at a $16 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. Snapchat’s last round of funding in May 2015 reportedly valued the company at $16 billion. The new funding is technically part of that same round, according to the WSJ, as Snapchat had set […]... →

(Reuters) – Amazon has quietly dropped support for disk encryption on its Fire tablets, saying the feature that secures devices by scrambling data was little used by customers. Privacy advocates and some users criticized the move, which came to light on Thursday even as Apple was waging an unprecedented legal battle over U.S. government demands that […]... →

For the first time in about eight years, we saw a decline in the small business customer base of app developers (in terms of revenue and per-project value). The primary reason cited is the rise of white labels and SDKs. “Uber for X” toolkits have indeed become a force to reckon with. Small businesses increasingly rely on “ready to use” frameworks rather than opting… Read More... →

In the latest sign of support for Apple’s ongoing security legal battle, Box, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech behemoths have filed an “amicus brief,” meaning that they have aligned interests and want their voice to be heard in the upcoming appeals. This is a different amicus brief than the one filed by Square, Twitter, LinkedIn and others earlier today. The… Read More... →

Sony is launching a new research and development program called “Future Lab” where it will make available some product prototypes to the public with the expectation of soliciting feedback and validating its hypotheses. The electronics manufacturer is bringing its first project to next week’s South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas where the focus […]... →

Posted by randfish[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] Identifying your target market is only one-fifth of the battle. If you want to win the proverbial war, you have to know your audience inside and out. Discovering the sites they visit and using that knowledge to your advantage is key, but the best practices to do so can feel unclear. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand outlines a five-step process to more effectively reach and market to your target community. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high... →

Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges including Jazz great Pat Metheny will pick their favorites and you, the viewer, can jam along on your desk. The entrants include a unique home-brew system that lets pianists play the rhythm guitar, a… Read More... →

Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. This year. Right now. It’s a very different message than VCs are receiving from many other institutions, judging by our recent conversations with these backers, called limited partners.… Read More... →

ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of the four co-founders previously worked together at mobile ad company Millennial Media, where Avon was chief… Read More... →

Основатели издательства нашли прибыльную модель за пределами стран СНГ, там же проект продолжит работу и после перехода под управление Sports.ru .... →