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Two video game titans are getting together today in support of virtual reality. Valve and Unity Technologies are announcing today that the Unity Platform will have native support for SteamVR, which is Valve’s tech behind the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. This means that it will be easier for game developers to use the Unity game engine […]... →

Smart gardening startup Edyn announced today that it harvested a $2 million seed round. The Oakland, California-based startup also announced plans for an international expansion, starting with Japan. Edyn built a smart gardening system that helps plant enthusiasts to “stay connected to [their] garden” by regularly monitoring the soil and water conditions, along with temperature and […]... →

Lantern, a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s venture arm with participation from previous investors such as Mayfield and SoftTechVC. UPMC Enterprises, the hospital’s venture arm, has invested large sums of money in 12 other health startups… Read More... →

Apple has published four job postings that reveal the company’s intent to make its Siri personal digital assistant more capable when it comes to fielding queries about sports. Potentially, that could make Siri a more essential companion for resolving debates at the water cooler. The job postings, with the job title “Siri Software Engineer — […]... →

The gaming industry is already moving into a battle to decide how we’ll build virtual and augmented reality products, and one of the leaders in the game-making tool space is holding an event today to show off what it has in the works. Unity’s Vision Summit 2016 is bringing together specialists from a number of […]... →

Meet Immersit, a new kind of connected device for your couch launching today on Kickstarter. Immersit generates vibrations to immerse you in your movies or video games. And it works with your existing couch. Read More... →

OPINION: Just when it seemed Twitter was going to take one of its boldest steps toward reinvention ever, it turns out that the company hasn’t ventured as close to the cliff’s edge as we thought. Today, Twitter officially announced that the company has turned on an algorithm that displays a selection of the most popular or interesting tweets at […]... →

CrunchBase, a service that surfaces information about startup funding, venture capital investments and people in the startup ecosystem, was spun out of TechCrunch and its parent company AOL/Verizon late last year. At the time, the new company raised a funding round led by Emergence Capital, with AOL/Verizon still holding on to a significant stake in the company. Today, CrunchBase announced… Read More... →

This morning, the law firm Fenwick & West publishing new findings about all the U.S.-based unicorn financings that took place during the last nine months of 2015. It’s rife with interesting nuggets, but perhaps most fascinating is that in the fourth quarter of last year, half of the 12 rounds it tracked featured valuations in the $1 billion to 1.1 billion… Read More... →

Блог об автомобилях Jalopnik опубликовал видео с ходовыми испытаниями снегоболотохода «Шерп». Ролик привлёк внимание многих англоязычных СМИ, но остался почти не замеченным на родине — вездеходы собирают в Санкт-Петербурге. Редакция vc.ru обсудила с производителем детали и историю проекта.... →

IBM announced today that is has teamed with the Toronto Raptors to bring cognitive analysis in the form of IBM Watson to the NBA team’s talent evaluation process. The new tool called IBM Sports Insights Central, pulls in data from a variety of sources including statistics, video, social networking sentiment analysis, medical records and much more. It compares this data against the… Read More... →

A startup called Pantomime came up with a nifty system of enabling people to peer into animated virtual worlds without the need to wear virtual reality headsets. And now it is adding support for VR headsets so that multiple people can be in the same VR space more easily. The new technology is very innovative when […]... →

Humans have been having humans for hundreds of thousands of years as part of our genetic drive so it seems counter-Darwinian that some genes might work against our ability to make a baby. But that is exactly what certain genes might be doing, according to women’s health startup Celmatix, and they are now working with 23andMe to hopefully figure out why. Celmatix tries to take the… Read More... →

Еще прошлой весной Фалдин говорил, что у каждого предпринимателя наступает момент отдать управление проф управленцам, но сейчас пишет, что они не нужны.... →

Основатель Facebook покусился на принцип сетевой нейтральности, который запрещает провайдерам отдавать предпочтения определённым сетевым данным.... →

VB WEBINAR: Leading social media expert and author Jay Baer joins VB analyst Stewart Rogers in this quick 30-minute webinar. Together, they’ll cover off social media essentials to keep customers and turn them into top-tier loyalists and brand advocates. Register here for free. When it comes to engaging and establishing trust with your customers, there’s no marketing tool better […]... →

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Not only has Gjirafa developed an albanian search engine, which overcomes some of the complexities and uniqueness of the albanian language, but it is also tackling the region’s search engine chicken and egg problem: much of the information that users typically search for doesn’t yet exist online. Read More... →

Федеральная антимонопольная служба (ФАС) удовлетворила ходатайство госкорпорации «Ростех» о приобретении блокирующего пакета (25% плюс 1 голосующая акция) в ЗАО «Процессинговая компания «Юнион Кард». Об этом сообщает «Коммерсант». «Ростех» планировал приобрести блокпакет акций в «Юнион Кард», начиная с весны 2015 года. «Ростех» заинтересовался российской платежной системой,  с целью защиты от санкционной угрозы, а именно снизить зависимость от международных игроков в условиях санкций и ввести собственные ль... →