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Chair Entertainment has been busy since it concluded its 50-million-download Infinity Blade mobile game series in 2014. Chair, a division of Epic Games, has just published Shadow Complex Remastered on the Xbox One and is prepping the title for the PlayStation 4 and Steam. It is also working on its Spyjinx game with Bad Robot Interactive, […]... →

Foursquare has just launched Swarm 4.0, complete with brand new profile pages, updated search capabilities, full-screen photos and a weekly Swarm update from your friends. The most important update to the app comes by way of new individual user profiles. These profiles show a clickable map of all the places you’ve ever been right at the top, followed by basic information like number… Read More... →

Foursquare has updated its Swarm app with a feature it calls an “important one.” Starting today, besides checking into places and competing for points against your friends, you now have access to an analysis of all that data. With “lifelogging,” you can see what story your check-ins have to tell. The main update takes place within your […]... →

Объём венчурных сделок в России в 2015 году вырос на 31% и составил $2,2 млрд, сообщает РБК со ссылкой на исследование Центра технологий и инноваций PwC и Российской венчурной компании (РВК). Более половины этого объёма принесла сделка по продаже пакета акций крупнейшего сайта объявлений Avito.... →

Компания отключила чат-бота из-за расистских высказываний... →

DoorDash is unveiling new versions of its website and app today, putting each restaurant’s delivery experience front-and-center. That’s happening through a new “Delight” score, which Head of Design Josh Abrams described as an “industry-first” rating — one that doesn’t just reflect the general quality of the meal, or the experience of dining in… Read More... →

Центр технологий и инноваций PwC совместно с РВК представили пятый ежегодный обзор венчурной индустрии России «MoneyTreeTM: Навигатор венчурного рынка» за 2015 год. По данным отчета, количество венчурных сделок  2015 году составило 180 (с учетом 29 сделок с неизвестной суммой), что на 21% выше показателя 2014 года. При этом количество венчурных сделок в сфере ИТ в 2015 году по сравнению с предыдущим годом сократилось на 27% и составило 97 сделок общей стоимостью $205,9 млн. Суммарный объем сделок в венчурно... →

Над большинством статей, доступных на Яндекс.Словарях, работали люди — профессиональные лингвисты. После 31 марта останутся только статьи сформированные роботом "Переводчик".... →

С 31 марта 2016 года сервис «Яндекс.Словари» будет закрыт, говорится в сообщении компании — вместо него пользователям предлагается воспользоваться «Яндекс.Переводчиком», в котором есть встроенные словари. В «Яндексе» рассказали vc.ru, что сервис пришлось закрыть из-за невысокой популярности и ограничений правообладателей, которые мешают развитию мобильных приложений компании.... →

Call it on-demand on steroids. A 10-month-old, San Francisco company called Recharge has developed an app that enables users to book a stay in hotel for just for 67 cents a minute, or $40 an hour. The offering sounds both brilliant and preposterous, yet it has already attracted some smart investors, including Scott and Cyan Banister and early Google engineer Harry Cheung, who’ve… Read More... →

Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube’s shadow over the past several months, despite the two networks’ symbiotic relationship. The company recently launched new, more personalized music applications on iOS, Android and Apple TV. Today it’s taking another step at making those apps better reflect users’ musical tastes through… Read More... →

Bitbucket Server, Atlassian’s self-hosted Git version control service, and Bitbucket Data Center are getting a small but potentially very useful feature in preview. The new early access version of Bitbucket now features the ability to search for code in your repositories. With this, you will be able to quickly find a code snippet (or maybe the source of a cryptic error message you… Read More... →

Google today updated Gmail with two new security improvements. The company also underlined a proposal to further boost email security as a whole. First up, Google has turned on its Safe Browsing service for Gmail users. While the feature has already been used to identify potentially dangerous links in messages, starting this week, Gmail users […]... →

Google is increasing the visibility of security warnings inside Gmail to help protect the service’s billion-plus active users more adequately. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that in the next few weeks it will roll out a preview of its Skype universal Windows app to people participating in the Windows Insider program. The current Skype app will still work on PCs running Windows 10, but Microsoft will be gradually bringing the existing app and the new one together. […]... →

People continue to spend more money on digital games. Consumers spent $6.2 billion on downloadable releases and microtransactions in free-to-play mobile and Web games last month, according to market-intelligence firm SuperData Research. That is up 10 percent year-over-year, and that growth came from console, PC, and mobile. The worldwide gaming market is worth $99.3 billion […]... →

AppDirect, a company that helps customers manage multiple cloud vendors, announced today it was buying former TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant Xendo for an undisclosed amount. Xendo, which actually launched at my first TechCrunch Disrupt in September, 2014 enables users to conduct federated searches across cloud services, a function that could prove quite useful for AppDirect. In… Read More... →

Resolution Games, the VR game studio started by Tommy Palm of Candy Crush Saga fame, has launched Bait!, a new free-to-play fishing game for the Samsung Gear VR virtual reality mobile headset. Bait! is one of a variety of games that Resolution Games is creating to lure gamers into VR. Stockholm, Sweden-based Resolution Games raised $6 […]... →

Not every great business is VC backable. But every business needs capital to grow. If you’re launching a great business, but you don’t plan on being a unicorn, keep reading. Read More... →

Microsoft today launched a preview of the next version of Skype for Windows 10. This preview, which is now rolling out to Windows Insiders, is the first full Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of Skype. The new version was written from scratch and features a redesigned user interface, though the functionality is mostly the same as in previous versions (and a few features are still… Read More... →