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HTC sent out invitations today for the unveiling of its 2016 flagship smartphone, which will be known as simply the HTC 10. The date for the launch event, to be held simultaneously in New York, London, and Taipei at 1PM GMT on April 12, is not a complete surprise: it’s the same date seen on several […]... →

Фотоприложение от «ВКонтакте» Snapster обновилось до второй версии на платформе iOS. Теперь сервис предоставляет пользователям возможность публиковать фотографии в «комнатах» — тематических группах.... →

Apple doesn’t like to talk about specs. But it turns out my boss Matthew Panzarino already has review units of the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. So nobody is going to stop us if we want to run Geekbench on these new devices. The result is both interesting and unsurprising. While the 9.7-inch iPad Pro features an A9X chip like its big brother, it’s a bit underclocked. Read More... →

Фонд сооснователей соцсети «ВКонтакте» Льва Левиева (на фото) и Вячеслава Мирилашвили Vaizra Investments в четвертый раз инвестировал в платформу для медицинского страхования сотрудников компаний Maxwell Health.  Maxwell Health закрыла раунд С объемом $22 млн. В сделке приняли участие фонды Tribeca Venture Partners, Schooner Capital, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Industry Ventures, Catalyst Health Ventures, Cambia Health Solutions, Adams Street Partners, Cendana Capital, Sun Life Financial, GIS Strategic Ventures... →

A new service from the online wedding inspiration startup Loverly wants to put the capabilities of a wedding planner right in your pocket. Officially launching today, Loverly is unveiling a new chat-based “concierge” service that will send brides and grooms a list of vetted wedding vendors that match the couple’s budget, needs and who have availability for the wedding date… Read More... →

Popular YouTuber Casey Neistat has a knack for viral hits. He’s called out Apple, blew through the entirety of Nike’s #MakeItCount filming budget traveling around the world and still got the shoe brand to showcase the video on its site, and Neistat most recently gained notoriety for snowboarding on the back of a Jeep through New York City during the January 2016 snowstorm.… Read More... →

«Яндекс» назвал действия российских властей «политически мотивированными» и предупредил инвесторов, что ужесточение контроля за российским сегментом интернета является одной из угроз для развития бизнеса в стране. Об этом пишет РБК, изучившее отчет компании за 2015 год.... →

VB EVENT: On Thursday, VentureBeat will host an event in SF to showcase our research on how to best put together a fast-growth mobile strategy using data. Our research — based on thousands of surveys and other data — suggests that the best strategy is one where a company’s marketers collaborate closely with engineers. It all goes down […]... →

Chinese game publisher Youzu Interactive has acquired German game developer Bigpoint for up to 80 million euros, or $89.68 million. The deal is one more sign of how the $99.3 billion game business has gone global and Chinese publishers are using their financial power to become players on the global stage. China is important to […]... →

Houzz, the home remodelling site with a focus on giving you house envy, today announced that it is opening up its Commerce API for third-party developers. While you may mostly look at Houzz as a mobile app and website that features beautiful home remodelling photography in an effort to connect you to the professionals behind these projects, the service also features a thriving marketplace… Read More... →

ClicksMob and AppGrade are getting hitched. ClicksMob is a mobile-only performance advertising platform that delivers users to app developers and publishers. As a third-party broker, ClicksMob can access thousands of sources of traffic, making mobile advertising more efficient by matching advertisers and publishers. Now the company is merging with AppGrade to focus on monetizing video ads for […]... →

David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his own new firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and it’s apparently targeting $50 million for its debut fund. Refactor, which was incorporated seven months ago, doesn’t appear to have a site up and running yet. But the SEC filing lists… Read More... →

Today Google finally told the world its real strategy for competing with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google first launched the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2012, but it has always been in the shadows of AWS. Google tried using major price cuts in order to gain ground […]... →

Сервис по вызову такси Uber запустил программу поощрения за выявление ошибок и уязвимостей в работе сайтов и приложений компании. Главный приз — $10 тысяч — получит тот, кто сможет завладеть учетными записями Uber или запустит вредоносный код на сервере сервиса.... →

2016 is potentially the end of the road for the Wii U. Nintendo is going to end production of its latest home console, according to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will essentially put the struggling system out of its misery as the gaming company shifts from Wii U and the aging 3DS handheld […]... →

Основатель «Кофейни 42» запустил в Facebook интересную дискуссию... →

Shopify has launched a developer SDK that merchants can use to integrate the ecommerce platform into their websites and mobile apps. This new tool builds off of the integrations that were made with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The first companies to have incorporated the SDK include Houzz, Wanelo, and Ebates. With this SDK, merchants and […]... →

Проект BOOKINNA, разработанный компанией «ИННА ТУР», привлек инвестиции в размере 500 млн рублей от группы частных инвесторов в обмен на 49% долю в компании. Об этом Firrma сообщили в BOOKINNA. В проект вложился пул частных инвесторов, среди которых бизнес-ангел Анатолий Захаров. Инвестиции будут поступать в несколько траншей. Сделка направлена на развитие и масштабирование платформы, а также на эффективное взаимодействие с ведущими экспертами российской IT-индустрии. Компания также планирует запустить новы... →

Twitter today is announcing an enhancement to its Crashlytics crash reporting tool. Once developers have turned on the Answers mobile analytics tool within Crashlytics, they can now receive special Velocity Alerts that are meant to stand out from all other alerts, because they’re probably the most important. “Now … our system will proactively check to […]... →

Основатель рекомендательной системы Relap.io Сергей Шалаев и его коллеги взяли интервью у технического директора сервиса для создания зацикленных видеороликов Coub Михаила Табунова. Предприниматели обсудили проблемы разработки собственной рекомендательной системы, создание рекламных проектов для аудитории Coub, а также поговорили о таск-менеджерах и книгах для руководителей.... →