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It’s been three years since Livefyre acquired social aggregator Storify, and the company hasn’t really made major waves in the service — until now. Livefyre announced today the launch of Storify 2, an upgrade to the real-time storytelling product that now provides improved workflows and collaboration tools to streamline live blogging for large news organizations. […]... →

Facebook called the detention of its vice president for Latin America on Tuesday an "extreme and disproportionate measure" stemming from a case in Brazil involving its messaging service Whatsapp, which operates separately from the Facebook platform.... →

Директор по торговле ETF в компании JonesTrading Дейв Лутц рассказал изданию Bloomberg, какие книги читают или советуют прочитать специалисты по торговле и трейдингу с Уолл-стрит.... →

Google today rolled out a refreshed look-and-feel for its Developer Program Policy Center, aimed at making its guidelines for app developers easier to locate, read through, and understand. The revamp includes a visual makeover utilizing Google’s own, colorful “Material Design” to organize the policies by themes like “Restricted Content” or “Privacy and… Read More... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучила ситуацию на digital-рынке книг: что происходит с электронными книгами, как создаются краткие содержания и на чем зарабатывают сервисы, которые дают авторам возможность издавать свои произведения самостоятельно.... →

After years of development and demos, virtual reality’s moment of truth is approaching. And that’s pretty exciting for Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR, which Facebook bought for $2 billion in 2014. Luckey has been touting the virtues of VR for several years, and he was out again at Microsoft’s Xbox spring showcase to […]... →

FEATURE: Pokémon is a multimedia giant, but it all started with one man. That would be Satoshi Tajiri, who created developer Game Freak and the initial idea that would become one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week. Sales for the series has reached over 200 million, but […]... →

Организаторы музыкального фестиваля Rock in Rio будут распространять билеты при помощи технологии российского стартапа Radario. Как сообщили Firrma в Radario, контракт был подписан на эксклюзивных правах. Ранее Rock in Rio сотрудничал с компаниями Ticketmaster и Eventim по продаже и распределению билетов. Теперь билетные компании будут получать квоты билетов (билетную информацию к продаже) от организатора фестиваля Rock in Rio через единое ядро российской компании Radario. Rock in Rio будет также продавать ... →

Entrepreneurs in developing nations have redefined the words “bootstrapping” and “disruptive,” creating all kinds of businesses that solve major societal problems. These solutions affect hundreds, thousands and sometimes millions of people, and are often developed with few resources and scarce funding. For me, it’s impossible to think about these two (sometimes… Read More... →

Roger, the walkie-talkie style voice messaging app created by a team of ex-Spotify engineers, has landed on Android. Read More... →

New Yorkers, what are you doing tonight? Whatever it is, drop it and buy tickets to the New York TC Meetup. We’ve got an amazing lineup for tonight, and we’ll be at Output Williamsburg, which is where the cool kids hang out. Trust me. To start out the show, we’ll be having a little fireside chat with Susan Lyne of BBG Ventures, and then we’ll head straight into the… Read More... →

Industrial Toys wants to get us hooked on playing shooter games on mobile. That’s why the indie game studio is unveiling Midnight Star: Renegade, the second in a series of shooter games for mobile devices. Shooters are a multibillion-dollar genre on consoles and PCs, but they haven’t translated well to mobile because of the touch-screen […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: Instagram is one of the few “authentic” social networks. Why? Because it lacks a feature Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all enjoy, but one that makes those platforms open to abuse and bots. Automated posting. Because Instagram doesn’t allow you to create posts through its API, you have to use the app itself to upload or capture […]... →

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VB INSIGHT: Leanplum, a mobile marketing automation platform, is announcing its first research study today, called “Breaking Barriers to Push Notification Engagement.” The study, which is the result of an analysis of 671 million push notifications and 1.4 billion in-app events, reveals that upwards of 63 percent of marketers around the world completely miss the mark on messaging, […]... →

Despite a trio of parliamentary committees criticizing the UK government’s draft surveillance legislation — and some committee members even calling for a complete rethink — the government is rushing ahead anyway… Read More... →

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SPONSORED: The Game Developers Conference recently released results of its fourth annual State of the Industry Survey. It reveals trends in the games industry based on the feedback of more than 2,000 game developers just ahead of the 30th edition of GDC and the inaugural edition of the Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC).... →

Игорь Артемьев раскритиковал силовиков за чрезмерное внимание к рекламной индустрии... →

PREVIEW: Pit People is not going to win Microsoft the console wars. It’s not going to get more gamers on the PC. But it just might be silly enough to attract a small smattering of fans who like this sort of thing. I saw a preview of developer The Behemoth’s Pit People for the Xbox One […]... →