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First Round Capital, the 12-year-old, early-stage venture firm, has brought aboard Birchbox cofounder and former co-CEO Hayley Barna as a venture partner. Barna, who is expected to spend a couple of years at the firm while she decides her next moves, will be based in New York and focus largely on e-commerce opportunities. Recode had the news earlier today; First Round partner Phin Barnes has… Read More... →

Fallout 4 doesn’t want you to quit it just yet. Developer Bethesda revealed the first wave of downloadable add-on content for its popular role-playing game, Fallout 4. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC open-world game was the third best-selling release of 2015, according to market research firm The NPD Group, and additional content like this […]... →

Data analytics startup Wavefront announced today its launch from stealth after an $11.5 million funding round led by Sequoia. Wavefront also said Sequoia Ventures’ Bill Coughran will join its board. The startup says it “allows users to visualize and query a wide range of metrics, including computing load and performance data” in real time to […]... →

There are apps that promise to help you free up space on your smartphone by backing up then deleting your photos. There are apps that help you organize your photos into albums, and share them with friends. And there are apps that aim to simply move photos off your phone into the cloud for safe-keeping. A growing startup called Everalbum, however, wants to do it all. The company, which now… Read More... →

Сегодня интернет-омбудсмен Дмитрий Мариничев собрал компании и общественные организации для обсуждения проблем ИТ, интернет и телеком-отраслей в рамках подготовки доклада президенту, который предположительно будет представлен в мае этого года. Roem.ru опросил участников встречи чтобы выяснить, какие предложения могут быть выдвинуты по итогам дискуссии. Перечисление проблем отрасли и возможных способов их решения заняло около 60 машинописных листов, при этом большинство пунктов касались вопросов регулировани... →

If there’s anything that Facebook Messenger, Slack, and Operator have shown, it’s that we’re in an era of conversational commerce. It’s an environment where phone calls are eschewed in favor of instant messaging. But even with more applications and services incorporating chat services, until recently, developers were resigned to building their own. Now, with the […]... →

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by MLSDev. If you ever had to deal with estimates to build a mobile app (either as a client or an estimator/contractor) then you definitely would have had the following conversation at least once: Client: “I have an idea for an app and I want an accurate estimate right now.” Contractor: “I cannot give […]... →

We’ve been hearing a lot about cooling valuations for once-hot startups and a general tightening of the VC purse strings. But if sums are becoming more modest, there are still investments to be made, funds getting raised, and ever more VCs emerging. A case in point is Titanium Investments. The young Moscow-based VC that got its start investing in Russian and Israeli startups, today… Read More... →

Americans still love their video games. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today that the U.S. gaming industry — including sales of home consoles, software, mobile games, and other digital products — generated $23.5 billion in revenue in 2015. This is an increase from 2014, which earned $22.4 billion. The industry is growing, thanks to […]... →

Vive, the Classpass for hair blowouts, has announced the close of a $2.3 million seed round, led by Deep Fork Capital with participation by Y Combinator, Crunchfund, Ludlow Ventures, Vayner RSE, Maveron, Expansion Venture Capital, T5 Capital, Kosinski Ventures, Haystack Fund, and angel investors Pascal Levy-Garboua, Paul Buchheit and Scooter Braun’s SB Projects. Vive offers on-demand… Read More... →

Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from General Catalyst Partners, RRE, Betaworks, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, CAA and other existing Giphy investors. Giphy launched out of betaworks back in 2013 with one goal: to let the world search, discover,… Read More... →

The tech industry has a responsibility to do something about how Silicon Valley and San Francisco are evolving, and the displacement we’ve created. Each and every company has an impact on the people who live here — whether that’s on their health, homes, well-being or environment. All businesses have a responsibility to their stakeholders — investors, customers and… Read More... →

Skype for iOS now sports native support for Microsoft Office documents, meaning you can Available in both the iPhone and iPad apps, the Office integration is a natural extension to the existing tie-up between Skype and Office that gives you free video- and voice-calls in Word, Excel, OneNote, and PowerPoint. So you could already see […]... →

В 2013 году поисковик заплатил за него $80 млн - порядка 2,5 млрд рублей .... →

Компания отчиталась о своих финансовых показателях за 2015 год... →

Аналитическая платформа SimilarWeb поделилась с vc.ru результатами исследования взаимодействия пользователей с приложениями на базе Android. Аналитики выяснили, когда установившие приложение пользователи удаляют его, каковы средние показатели удержания для игровых и неигровых сервисов и какие программы удаляют меньше всего. Редакция vc.ru выбрала несколько интересных моментов из материала.... →

Amazon.com said it has acquired Indian payments processor Emvantage Payments for an undisclosed sum.... →

With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices – often dubbed the “Internet of Things” – consumers are rightly worried about the security and privacy implications associated with always-on hardware in their homes that listen, watch, observe and then store data in the cloud. Today, a company called Silk Labs, co-founded by former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal, is launching… Read More... →

Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s The Division is one of the biggest video games coming out this spring. And Tobii hopes to make it stand out even more with a new eye-tracking technology that lets the player target enemies with his or her eyes. It takes aim assist to a whole new level. Tobii has created a […]... →

Комитет Госдумы по информационной политике, информационным технологиям и связи поддержал законопроект, обязывающий российские и иностранные IT-компании платить НДС, в случае оказания услуг в России. Об этом сообщает РБК Рекомендации к принятию законопроекта будут направлены в комитет Госдумы по бюджету и налогам. В конце декабря законопроект поддержало правительство при условии его доработки. Окончательное принятие законопроекта обяжет компании платить дополнительный налог с 1 января 2017 года. НДС обяжут п... →