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Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it’s time to add another lock to its doors. In November I wrote that “Seriously, Instagram Needs Two-Factor Authentication”, and a tipster just told me they’ve spotted it in testing. Today, Instagram confirmed to me that it’s beginning to… Read More... →

Google launched TensorFlow Serving today, a new open source project that aims to help developers take their machine learning models into production. Unsurprisingly, TensorFlow Serving is optimized for Google’s own TensorFlow machine learning library, but the company says it can also be extended to support other models and data. Read More... →

A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are female, 15% are black and 10% are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced today at demo day. 500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in female founders. To date, more than 400 startups in the 500… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Top CMOs come together for a one-hour candid look at the best way to nail the key components of the customer journey — from which KPIs to watch to how best to budget across every stage of the journey. Register here for free. All great stories have humble beginnings and the same holds true for a customer’s journey. From their […]... →

VB EVENT: We’re pleased to introduce Jonathan Badeen as one of our speakers at the sixth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit on April 4-5. The event focuses on strategies business leaders are using to drive significant mobile growth. Executives will discuss the best practices around acquiring, engaging and nurturing users. One of the basics, of course, is simple, compelling design. That’s what […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Chatbots, historically maligned as “weak AI,” are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots (#ConvComm!) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it — or so proclaimed Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Read More... →

FEATURE: Blizzard Entertainment just celebrated a historic milestone — its 25th anniversary. From humble beginnings as a company porting games to the Amiga to developing some of the world’s most popular real-time strategy, massively multiplayer online, and collectible card games, Blizzard has grown into an iconic cornerstone of the entire gaming industry today. Blizzard turns 25 […]... →

Yahoo today announced big changes to its research operations and two prominent departures. Yahoo Labs head and former chief scientist Ron Brachman and Yahoo vice president of research Ricardo Baeza-Yates are both leaving. Meanwhile some Yahoo researchers will begin to work much more closely with Yahoo employees who work on product. Yahoo vice president of […]... →

There is a battle raging for curated social media supremacy. When big things happen, each of these apps wants to be where you see the best of and behind the scenes. They’ve all created their own features that take the work off your hands. Just sit back and watch, swipe, or scroll. But how do they feel and what do they do best? Last night we got a rare chance to directly compare… Read More... →

The Boston and Atlanta Meetups are but a week away, and we have finally confirmed the companies pitching in the Pitch-Offs. These startups will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges, and after each presentation they will be subject to a quick Q&A. At the end of all the pitches, the judges will determine the winners. First place gets a table… Read More... →

Gif search engine Giphy has taken in $55 million in funding, setting its valuation at $300 million, the company announced today. Giphy’s latest round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, while General Catalyst Partners, RRE, and Betaworks followed. The company isn’t trying monetize itself yet, as TechCrunch points out,  but the company has expanded beyond Gif searching with a Gif making app called Giphy […]... →

Российский венчурный фонд Titanium Investments привлек $50 млн для инвестиций в израильские стартапы в области Saas, IoT, виртуальной реальности и дополненной реальности. Вероятно, часть привлеченных средств пойдёт на участие в следующих раундах портфельных компаний фонда. Как сообщается, на сегодняшний день, фонд вложил в стартапы около $20 млн. Оценка портфеля составляет $350 млн. Titanium Investments владеет от 3% до 17% в каждой компании. Согласно Techcrunch, в портфеле фонда такие проекты, как: Feedvis... →

Google today announced that it has open-sourced TensorFlow Serving, a piece of software that makes it easy to deploy machine learning models that can make inferences about new data. The software, which is available on GitHub, works natively with Google’s previously open-sourced TensorFlow deep learning framework, but it can also support other tools. “TensorFlow Serving […]... →

Компания UberLin, позиционирующая себя как официальный партнёр сервиса Uber на Украине, опубликовала на своём сайте условия сотрудничества и требования к водителям, желающим работать в киевском Uber.... →

Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end. As first reported by CRN and also confirmed by us today, Google will stop selling Play for Education licenses on March 14. From what we understand, Google will continue… Read More... →

One startup that’s been busy building out a full beacon platform to take advantage of these opportunities is Kontakt.io, which, along with competitor Estimote, is headquartered in Krakow, Poland — a region fondly referred to as ‘Silicon Beacon’. Read More... →

A growing number of e-commerce businesses today are assisting their customers over SMS and mobile messaging. There are even SMS-based services, like Magic, Operator, GoButler, and others targeting the emerging “conversational shopping” market. Now, e-commerce platform Shopify is aiming to help its merchants better serve their customers via mobile messaging with the launch of… Read More... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис MyHound, в котором собраны имеющиеся в наличии товары для рыбалки, туризма и велоспорта из 100 офлайн-магазинов Санкт-Петербурга. Можно заказать нужный товар по единой цене и забрать его в одном из магазинов-партнеров. Передаем микрофон.... →

VB WEBINAR: Content marketing isn’t just another arrow in your quiver — our panel of top marketing professionals argue that when it’s used correctly, it’s a nuclear-grade weapon in the war for customer engagement and real ROI. Missed it? Access the webinar on demand right here. Content is king, and content marketing is essential in a world […]... →