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Yahoo today announced an update that will allow people to sign up to use its services and make new Yahoo accounts — but with any email address. No longer will you need to create a Yahoo email address if you want to use, say, Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Yahoo senior product manager Assaf Kremer makes a […]... →

Для студентов предусмотрена возможность получения стипендии, которая позволит пройти обучение бесплатно... →

Команда Yesgraph — инструмента для рассылки мобильных приглашений пользователям — изучила интерфейс iOS-приложения Telegram с точки зрения роста и сформулировала рекомендации: как можно улучшить пользовательский опыт и процесс знакомства с сервисом. В рубрике Growth Hacks — выдержка наиболее интересных рекомендаций.... →

Выручка стартапа «Партия еды» за 2015 год составила 51 099 384 рублей, что на 300% больше, по сравнению с 2014 годом. Об этом в своем блоге сообщил основатель сервиса Михаил Перегудов.  По его словам, компания выполнила план на 93% в 2015 году, изначально рассчитывая выйти на 400% роста. С марта 2015 года компания не привлекала инвестиции, не использовала кредиты и другие внешние средства. В блоге также утверждается, что в течение года компания выпустила новые продукты, снизила стоимость продукции на 10%, п... →

Today Apple invited the press to attend a March 21 event at the company’s Cupertino, California headquarters. Apple has yet to share its plans for the event — it only offered this vague tagline: “Let us loop you in” — but the company is rumored to unveil a 4-inch iPhone 5se (a spiritual successor to the iPhone 5c) as well as […]... →

New York-based Yext, which helps businesses manage their listings for store locations, is announcing $88.8 million in revenue for its fiscal 2016 year. The company says this is a 48% increase from last year and that their workforce also grew by 38% to 455 employees. Yext recently added Google to its PowerListings network, which means that clients can update their Google Search and Maps… Read More... →

Apple just issued for its next press event. The event is going to happen on March 21. As usual, Apple wrote a cryptic message on its invites. “Let us loop you in,” the invite says. This story is developing… Read More... →

Опечатка в сообщении хакеров, которые пытались похитить средства Центрального банка республики Бангладеш, помогла предотвратить кражу более $800 млн. Об этом сообщает Reuters.... →

Колумнист New York Magazine Виджит Ассар написал, почему все попытки создать «убийцу электронной почты» бесперспективны. Автор убеждён, что протокол глубоко укоренился в жизни людей, и одной компании уже не по силам вытеснить его. Редакция vc.ru приводит перевод текста.... →

While the Apple vs FBI court battle has draw all eyes to the question of what should be considered ‘reasonable assistance’ for companies to provide law enforcement agencies, over in the UK the government is attempting to enshrine in law surveillance capabilities that would enable state agencies to compel even very small startups to bake insecurities into their systems in order to… Read More... →

When MaxPlay debuted its new game engine for the cloud era in October, it said it would disrupt the business of making games. And today, it is announcing the second part of its plan to overhaul games with MaxCore, which can dramatically improve the performance of games or virtual reality apps. San Francisco-based MaxPlay uses modern cloud […]... →

Another mobile company is getting into the virtual reality game. Colopl NI, the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese mobile developer that has a revenue of $700 million a year, announced today that it plans to move into the developing virtual reality field. To do so, it has promoted former chief operating officer Jikhan Jung to chief […]... →

The massage industry is getting a rubdown. Soothe has raised $35 million to bring on-demand massages to the masses. It’s one more example of how an on-demand app service can outmaneuver brick-and-mortar businesses, as Soothe says its costs can beat rivals in the traditional $14 billion U.S. massage market (according to the International SPA Association poll conducted […]... →

Soothe, the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised $3.2 million to date. In September, Soothe snatched up its other competitor, Unwind Me, for an undisclosed amount. Soothe says the funding is for… Read More... →

In a bid to stand out in the bustling weather app crowd, crowdsourced app Sunshine is adding a new personalization feature — giving users the ability to specify how hot or cold the weather feels to them. Read More... →

Prosper Marketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and credit rehabilitation, has re-launched its BillGuard app (acquired last September) under its own brand as Prosper Daily. With the rebranding, the former BillGuard becomes Prosper’s first mobile app and is the company’s first beachhead into what chief executive Aaron Vermut hopes will be a broader suite of… Read More... →

Группа компаний «Мортон» купила 10% компании AT Energy, которая занимается производством водородных топливных элементов для беспилотных летательных аппаратов (БПЛА). Сумма сделки не раскрывается. По данным журнала Forbes, она была закрыта в конце 2015 года. «Мортон» планирует развивать и применять технологии в строительстве и транспорте. Инвестиции в AT Energy – это часть программы инвестирования корпорации в новые передовые технологии.  В октябре 2014 года AT Energy получила первый транш инвестиций от венч... →

A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it announced that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then, the company’s database focus remains squarely on the upcoming release of SQL Server 2016, which is currently available as a release candidate and which will become generally… Read More... →

Here’s a simple-but-handy-sounding update to Jukely — a standby list. For those of you who haven’t tried it, Jukely offers access to an unlimited number of concerts for $25 per month. (Some caveats: You can only be on one guest list at a time, and you have to pay extra if you want to bring a friend.) The goal is to make it easy for members to discover up-and-coming bands and… Read More... →

SPONSORED: It’s bad enough that the current ETL times for structured data is already a big data pipeline bottleneck. Now companies also need to contend with unstructured and semi-structured data streaming in from multiple sources simply because they have no choice.... →