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20:00 07.03.2016

This startup just got $4 million to get you to eat more bugs

Gross? Well, that gross idea just pulled in a $4 million Series A round from AccellFoods, existing investor Collaborative Fund and a bunch of angels including Nas and Tim Ferris. The team behind the creepy crawlies as food company previously raised $1.6 million, adding up to $5.6 million in total financing thus far. It’s the sort of weird approach that is often celebrated in startup land. Read More... →

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19:49 07.03.2016

What if Facebook forgot Donald Trump?

This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media spend to the $22.25 million spent in 2008, and you’ll see a 5,000 percent increase. But forget ad spend for a second. Think about… Read More... →

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19:17 07.03.2016

Apple loses e-books price-fixing appeal in Supreme Court

Apple looks to have come to the end of the road in a long running legal saga involving allegations of an e-books price inflating conspiracy. Read More... →

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19:02 07.03.2016

Apple to pay $450 million as U.S. Supreme Court rejects e-books price-fixing appeal

WASHINGTON (By Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Apple Inc’s challenge to an appellate court decision that it conspired with five publishers to increase e-book prices, meaning it will have to pay $450 million as part of a settlement. The court’s decision not to hear the case leaves […]... →

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19:01 07.03.2016

Investments in VR/AR have already hit $1.1 billion in 2016

Augmented reality and virtual reality have been the subject of a lot of hype from proponents who advocate its inevitability as a mainstream platform. With over $1.1 billion invested in the space in the last two months according to Digi-Capital, it seems that the growing class of VR/AR evangelists includes investors. Now, $793.5 million of this sum was a single Series C in the augmented… Read More... →

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19:00 07.03.2016

AR/VR investments hit $1.1B in first two months of 2016, already beating last year’s total

Augmented reality and virtual reality investment reached $1.1 billion in the first 2 months of this year, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. That figure is impressive because it beats the $686 million in AR/VR investments for all of 2015, and this is the first time that AR/VR investment has topped a billion dollars in any […]... →

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19:00 07.03.2016

Why TechHire needs to continue with the next U.S. president

We’re now a year into the White House’s TechHire initiative to help more Americans qualify for better, higher-paying tech jobs regardless of their pedigree. The verdict so far? TechHire has seen solid traction, but evaluating this effort through a short-term lens misses the point of its grand ambitions. Read More... →

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18:59 07.03.2016

World first: Watch the live stream of pitches from inside a Royal Palace today

A couple of years ago The Duke Of York in England launched his Pitch@Palace events which have become a regular, and respected fixture in the London startup scene. Today, for the first time ever, anyone will be able to watch their Startup Pitch event being broadcast live from St James’s Palace in London. As far as we know, this is a world first. Here’s the live stream:… Read More... →

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18:49 07.03.2016

Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X ransomware

Apple has shut down what appears to have been the first, fully-functional ransomware targeting Mac computers. This particular form of cyber threat involves malware that encrypts the data on your personal computer so you can no longer access it. Afterwards, the hackers request that you pay them in a hard-to-trace digital currency – in this case, bitcoin – in order to for you… Read More... →

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18:42 07.03.2016

Fear and loathing at RSA — Hacking, security and the limits of protection

People are trying to steal your credentials or trick you into giving them important information. They are exploiting unpatched operating systems, locating security holes in applications and hacking into unprotected hardware. You’re not paranoid, you’re told. Hackers, con artists and social engineers really are out to get you, and frankly you’re pretty helpless to stop them.… Read More... →

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18:30 07.03.2016

Startup Turkey, in its 8th year, reveals a vibrant Turkish startup ecosystem

In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 600, is one of the country’s premier startup events. Read More... →

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18:27 07.03.2016

Microsoft cancels Fable Legends and proposes closing Lionhead Studios

Microsoft has delivered some unexpected bad news today. The company announced today that it is cancelling Fable Legends, the next installment in the fantasy series that has been an Xbox staple since its debut in 2004. Microsoft also said that it has proposed completely closing Fable developer Lionhead Studios. This could mark the end of […]... →

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17:53 07.03.2016

Кейс: Как Wheely мотивирует водителей работать с помощью баллов за менее выгодные заказы

Аналитик сервиса для вызова автомобилей Wheely Роман Соловьев написал для vc.ru колонку о системе мотивации водителей. Компания ввела для них баллы, которые можно заработать, выезжая по менее выгодным заказам, чтобы потом обеспечить себе допуск к более доходным и простым.... →

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17:35 07.03.2016

Score one free drink a day with Hooch, a subscription-based cocktail app

Hooch, which just launched in LA, is a subscription-based app that gives its members one cocktail a day for just $9.99 per month. Yes, we’re being serious. For less than the price of one cocktail, you can get one free drink each day at your choice of dozens of bars around New York or LA. But how could the company possibly be making money? Essentially, the service acts as a promotional… Read More... →

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17:19 07.03.2016

March 2016 Google Webmaster Report

This may be one of the largest set of links in my Google monthly recaps ever. Truth is, there weren't any major algorithm shifts...... →

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17:11 07.03.2016

SoftBank to split Japan business from overseas operations, including Sprint and Alibaba stakes

(By Supantha Mukherjee, Reuters) – Japanese telecoms conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp said it would separate its domestic business from overseas operations to better manage its mobile and broadband investments across the world. The overseas unit would include SoftBank’s stakes in Sprint Corp and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and the domestic business would include its holdings […]... →

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17:07 07.03.2016

Staff Finder, the on-demand marketplace for temporary staff, bags €20M from One Peak and Goldman Sachs

Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital. Terms of the investment isn’t being disclosed, however sources tell TechCrunch that the round is in the region of €20 million. Read More... →

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17:02 07.03.2016

As losses mount for SoundCloud, the music startup hires its first CRO, NBCU’s Alison Moore

As SoundCloud — the audio streaming startup approaching 200 million users whose catalogue is based around user-generated content — struggles with mounting losses, label licensing, and new monetizing features, it has hired an exec to tackle those challenges head on. Today the Berlin-based startup is announcing that Alison Moore has joined SoundCloud as its first chief… Read More... →

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17:00 07.03.2016

Canada’s Execution Labs shuts game accelerator and moves upstream to larger investments

After three years, Canada’s Execution Labs has decided to shut its game startup accelerator program. Now it is transitioning to doing fewer, more custom investments in independent game studios. The effort shows that making fewer bets on more advanced startups may yield better results in the maturing $90 billion game industry. The news isn’t good for […]... →

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17:00 07.03.2016

Skyhook launches its new Personas to help solve a $100B industry problem

EXCLUSIVE: Location-based marketing continues to be stuck in the past. Whether you’re sending a coupon to a customer because GPS says they’re near your store, switching up the creative on your app in-store thanks to smart beacons, or serving an in-app advertisement thanks to a WiFi SSID, all the most often-quoted examples work in the same way. […]... →

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