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Акционеры USM Holdings (Алишер Усманов, Владимир Скоч, Фархад Мошири, Иван Таврин и Иван Стрешинский) создали инвестфонд объёмом $1 млрд, предназначенный для инвестиций в технологические компании. Об этом сообщает РБК со ссылкой на представителя USM.... →

26 февраля на площадке ФРИИ Сити Холл директор по распространению технологий «Яндекса» Григорий Бакунов рассказал, зачем компании сотрудничество с ФРИИ и какие стартапы ей интересны. Редакция vc.ru публикует основные тезисы выступления.... →

Facebook is tweaking its News Feed algorithm when it comes to what’s live versus recorded. The company announced that with more people consuming Live videos, it’s looking at making this format a “new content type” that’s different from normal videos you upload later. It’s first steps involves featuring live videos streamed through Facebook higher in the […]... →

Despite many healthcare insurers having decried Obamacare as the end of days, the truth–as measured by both stock prices and revenue results–is the nation’s largest healthcare insurance companies have been steadily growing. Read More... →

At Kik, we’ve been thinking about the coming bot revolution for a long time. We first launched a basic bot platform a year and a half ago, and millions of users have been chatting with Kik bots ever since. Other messengers, such asTelegram and Slack, have been doing their own work with bots. Now, Facebook […]... →

Pebble’s latest smartwatches are now a little less cash. The Time Round is $199 and the Time is $149. At these prices, the Pebble sits more comfortable among its competition. Fitbit’s new Blaze costs $199 and Garmin’s Vivoactive is $219. At $149 rather than $199, the Pebble Time should look a bit more attractive to its target consumers. After all, the Time is a smartwatch… Read More... →

Big changes are coming to Disney Infinity. Previously, a new version of the (according to the market research group NPD, most popular) “toys to life” game would come out every year. Those would support new playsets and characters, but they wouldn’t work with older editions of Disney Infinity. Now, future figures and playsets will all work […]... →

It doesn’t matter if it was Live if you missed it. And Facebook knows that people watch actually Live streams 3X longer than saved ones. So it’s changing the News Feed to prefer on-going broadcasts. Twitter’s big advantage with Periscope is that they’re both inherently real-time platforms. Periscopes generate notifications for all your followers there, and show up… Read More... →

Pebble has made a handful of announcements today as the hardware startup looks to increase uptake of its popular smartwatch. The price of Pebble Time, which first went on sale last July, has been slashed from $199 to $150, while the Pebble Round, which went to market last September at a price of $249, will […]... →

Венчурный фонд Life.Sreda открыл коворкинг в Сингапуре. Пространство будет разделено на две части. В одной части будет находится команда Life.Sreda и его портфельные стартапы, в также проекты акселератора InspirAsia. Во второй части смогут расположиться любые финтех-проекты. Фонд не будет брать денег за работу в коворкинге.   Коворкинг занимает 3 200 квадратых футов (примерно 297,6 кв.м). Одна из целей открытия коворкинга в том, чтобы все, кто заинтересован в финтехе мог прийти и пообщаться с людьми из этой... →

Полиция Бразилии арестовала вице-президента Facebook по Латинской Америке Диего Хорхе Дзодана, пишет The Wall Street Journal. Задержание связано с нежеланием компании вадать следствию информацию о данных пользователей соцсети.... →

Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots of fascinating  information from the highly personable Szulczewski, who looked very much the part of… Read More... →

PREVIEW: Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy that uses all the brains in your computer’s processor and graphics chips to render as many as 100,000 moving objects on the screen at the same time. That lets you stage huge land battles for the control of planets in an intergalactic war. The game from Stardock and […]... →

If you’re sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook. The startup today launches its digital check service where you can send anyone a check with just their email address, and they can deposit it immediately online to get their money or even print it out. What’s remarkable is that… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: This is our closest look yet at Huawei’s upcoming flagship phone. Thanks to a person who was given some hands-on time with the device, VentureBeat is able to share some of the premiere photographs of Huawei’s flagship — the Huawei P9 — expected in the first half of 2016. The individual, who requested anonymity, also shared full specs […]... →

It looks like Apple isn’t the only tech giant battling against authorities over privacy issues and court orders. Today it emerged that Facebook’s vice president in Latin America, Diego Dzodan, was detailed by police in Brazil in connection with an ongoing investigation involving WhatsApp, a messaging app owned by Facebook. Facebook has hit back claiming it cannot provide… Read More... →

Just in time for Super Tuesday, the AP has launched a new tool in partnership with Google and Twitter that helps voters visualize what people are saying about the current elections, candidates and issues, as well as how that interest has changed over time. Effectively, the product, called AP Election Buzz, is a lot like a political-focused Google Trends tool mashed up with Twitter data.… Read More... →

Правительство России потратит до 5 млрд рублей из внебюджетных источников на поддержку разработки и продвижение российского программного обеспечения, следует из антикризисного плана на 2016 год, подписанного 1 марта премьер-министром РФ Дмитрием Медведевым. Ответственными за поддержку отечественных ИТ-проектов назначены Минкомсвязи и Минфин.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Delivia, который позволяет интегрироваться со службами доставки, подсчитывает сроки и стоимость доставки и анализирует ее экономические показатели. Передаем микрофон.... →

Today at 1pm EST representatives from Apple and the FBI will give testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. The hearing is titled “The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy,” and will be streamed live on YouTube. The hearing will cover the events surrounding the FBI’s request for Apple to unlock the iPhone of the San… Read More... →