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CurrencyFair, one of a number of so-called peer-to-peer currency exchanges, has scored a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Proxy Ventures. It brings total raised by the 2010-founded company to around €20 million — a figure that is dwarfed by noisy rival TransferWise, which closed $58 million in Series C funding last year alone. Read More... →

Not to be left behind as companies like IBM, Cisco and Microsoft all expand their services for enterprises opting for hybrid cloud environments, Google today announced a raft of partnerships to advance its position in the market, too. Google Stackdriver, the company’s platform for managing IT ops between Google’s cloud platform, AWS, and other servers, is now… Read More... →

Microsoft and its publishing partners may begin seeing a bump in the sales of their older hits today as the company makes it easier to buy certain classics. An Xbox One update is rolling out today that introduces a number of highly requested features. Key among these is the capability to purchase backward-compatible Xbox 360 […]... →

Today at the GCPNext16 event in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Google StackDriver, a tool that gives IT a unified tool for monitoring, alerting, incidents management and logging complete with dashboards providing visual insights across each category. Google purchased Stackdriver, the Cambridge, MA company in 2014 when it was mostly devoted to AWS cloud monitoring. It helped… Read More... →

Google today announced at its GCP NEXT conference in San Francisco that it’s adding more enterprise-focused features to its Google Cloud Platform public cloud. Most prominently, there’s a new tool available in beta called Cloud IAM that allows big companies to make sure that certain people can only do certain things with Google cloud infrastructure. […]... →

Онлайн-кинотеатр Megogo решил заняться кинопрокатом и создал для этого отдельную компанию — Megogo Distribution. Это первый российский онлайн-кинотеатр, который решил заняться таким бизнесом, пишет РБК.... →

Google today announced a new machine learning platform for developers at its NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco. As Google chairman Eric Schmidt stressed during today’s keynote, Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” With this new platform, Google will make it easier for developers to use some of the machine learning smarts Google… Read More... →

Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on, by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. We’d been hearing murmurs about this service developing for weeks now. The company formally announced the service today… Read More... →

Google today announced at its GCP NEXT conference in San Francisco a new service called Cloud Machine Learning in a limited preview. The tool relies on the TensorFlow machine learning library that Google open-sourced a few months ago. And it powers another new product called the Google Cloud Speech API. Google’s launch of the service […]... →

Emergence Capital led a $20 million investment for BetterWorks, the startup announced today. BetterWorks’s software helps enterprises to manage and track their employees progress. Some of the startups’ customers includes AOL, Airbnb, and Shutterstock. The Redwood City-based startup said that the funds from this investment will be used to “further develop its operational suite and continue to expand […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: While there is still much mystery surrounding Huawei’s April 6 launch event in London, at least one of the pieces has fallen into place, with new information on a stripped-down version of the flagship P9 set to debut at the unveiling. Retail branding is not yet known for this handset — we’re calling it the […]... →

When Apple introduced its new iPad Pro 9.7″, one of the small technical specifications touted has led to the most questions from readers: the new embedded Apple SIM. For context, Apple introduced its Apple SIM — a programmable version of a regular SIM card that allowed people to choose between dozens of carriers world wide in an on-device interface — with the iPad Air 2.… Read More... →

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Российский предприниматель Юрий Мильнер поднялся на 17 место в «списке Мидаса» – рейтинге лучших венчурных инвесторов по версии Forbes. Это на три позиции выше, по сравнению с прошлым годом. Самой значительной сделкой Мильнера по версии издания были инвестиции в компанию Twitter на ранних стадиях.  Мильнер – единственный российский инвестор в «списке Мидаса». Forbes оценивает его состояние в $2,9 млрд, большая часть из которого ему принесли продажа акций компании Facebook в 2013 году. Первое место в «списке... →

Back in October, we wrote about how the team behind contacts management app Brewster got acqui-hired by RBI, the owner of Burger King and other fast-food brands, where they would work on building tech for RBI and maintain Brewster, which was not part of the RBI deal, as a side project. Today comes some news for a landing place for Brewster itself: it’s been acquired by FullContact,… Read More... →

Ментор рубрики «Рынок игр» Сергей Бабаев и комментатор LCL Михаил Olsior Зверев поговорили с успешными игроками в League of Legends из СНГ и спросили, можно ли совмещать такую карьеру с учёбой и «физическим» спортом, на чём основан отбор в команду Na'Vi и как проходят тренировки киберспортсменов.... →

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Israeli company Cellebrite has been appointed by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, according to Israeli newspaper the Yedioth Ahronoth and Reuters. Cellebrite has been developing Read More... →

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Microsoft has unveiled an A.I.-powered chat bot called Tay.ai, which was built by the Microsoft Technology and Research and Bing teams, with the goal of conducting real-world research on conversational understanding, the company says. The bot, which is aimed at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., currently works over a variety of popular social applications, including Twitter, Kik, and… Read More... →