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Amid headlines about billion-dollars valuations are many employees who remain trapped unless their employers eventually go public or else sell to an acquirer in a cash deal. The problem centers on the option plan structure that startups use. Owing to a decades-old tax provision, employees have to exercise their options within 90 days of leaving or else lose them to the company. It’s… Read More... →

China’s Mobvista has agreed to acquire mobile ad monetization firm NativeX for $25 million in cash. The deal signals further consolidation in the mobile market for advertising aimed at acquiring new users for games and apps. In this multibillion-dollar market, bigger companies are going global by amassing operations in each regional market. “It’s important to be […]... →

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Another despatch from the ‘mobile messaging is eating the world’ file: blue collar recruitment app and European startup Corner Job has closed a $10 million Series A funding round. Read More... →

Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing – will now support video-sharing, the company announced today. The new feature is live in the updated version of the Moments mobile application for iOS and Android devices. In a few weeks, Facebook says that Moments will also allow users to include videos… Read More... →

Дизайнер Сэмюэл Халик опубликовал на Medium заметку о причинах своего отказа от использования корпоративного мессенджера Slack. Запись он оформил в виде прощального письма. Редакция vc.ru приводит перевод текста.... →

Data intelligence startup Terbium Labs announced today that it staged a $6.4 million series A investment led by .406 Ventures. The Baltimore-based startup said it’ll use the investment to fuel enterprise sales of its intelligence system Matchlight, a dark web data intelligence platform that offers protection to “organizations from relentless attempts to steal data for personal, monetary, […]... →

You can now share videos with your friends within Facebook’s Moments app. The company released an update today for the photo-sharing app today and said that in the coming weeks, it’ll launch an ability to include videos in Moments slideshows. The addition of video support comes as Facebook revealed more than 400 million photos have been […]... →

VB WEBINAR: CRO (conversion rate optimization) offers tremendous gains in engagement, often at a fraction of the cost of other marketing tools. Join our free webinar and learn from the experts exactly how to leverage the power of CRO — and the best tools they’re using to do it. Register here for free. Driving visitors to your sites takes […]... →

Microsoft’s augmented reality development kit costs $3,000, and that’s because it shares some components that you’d normally find in spacecraft, guided missiles, and drones. HoloLens, the head-mounted display that mixes digital imagery with the real world, starts shipping to developers March 30, and preorders are open right now. Of course, you’ll need to drain a […]... →

Fund February: A flurry of VC funds launch in Israel. Read More... →

Автор книги "Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent" Сидни Финкельштейн изучил, как успешные предприниматели отбирают кандидатов для работы, и привел примеры вопросов, которые они задают на собеседованиях.... →

MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managing MongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this market, it’s looking to expand into new areas. Before launching any new products, though, the company decided to change its name and because of this, MongoLab is now mLab. MongoLab/mLab CEO and co-founder Will Shulman tells me that he always saw MongoLab… Read More... →

Фонда поддержки малых форм в научно-технической сфере («Фонд Бортника») могут присоединить к одному из действующих институтов инновационного развития — в частности, к «Роснано» или «Сколково». Об этом сообщает РБК. В рамках оптимизации инновационных институтов обсуждается возможность укрупнения действующих фондов. По данным издания, «фонд Бортника», скорее всего присоединят или к «Роснано» или «Сколково». Также рассматривалась интеграция с РВК, Фондом инфраструктурных и образовательных программ или Фондом р... →

Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like PayPal and Venmo: the ability to maintain a cash balance. That is, users can now choose to switch on an optional “Cash Drawer” to hold onto money in the app, similar to other digital wallets. Read More... →

Forget about finding your son. Fallout Shelter has some new tools in its important quest for user retention. The mobile hit released a new update today, developer Bethesda announced, that adds crafting. Fallout Shelter has been a hit for Bethesda, managing to earn 12 million downloads in a day, Bethesda creative director Todd Howard told […]... →

Ментор рубрики «Рынок игр» Сергей Бабаев побеседовал с руководителем игровой студии Pixonic (мобильная игра Walking War Robots) Филиппом Гладковым о том, как тот пришел в игровую индустрию, о риске, уверенности в «хитовости» собственных игр, доходах и планах компании.... →

С момента основания в 2006 году Twitter потерял более $2 млрд, сообщает The Next Web со ссылкой на ежегодный отчет компании перед Комиссией по ценным бумагам и биржам США.... →

А Rusbase обратился к ученому и узнал, насколько такие технологии эффективны... →

HTC’s $799 Vive virtual reality headset opened for pre-orders this morning. The headset will begin shipping April 5 in the US, just a week or so after the consumer launch of the the Oculus Rift, which launches March 28. Pre-orders can be placed on the HTC site today for shipment to the US and 23 other countries. The $799 package includes the headset, a pair of controllers and two… Read More... →