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Медиа-коммуникационный союз (МКС) подготовил поправки в закон «О связи», которые предполагают введение обязательной идентификации пользователей мессенджеров, сообщают РБК и RNS, в распоряжении которых оказался текст поправок. Также в документе говорится, что провайдеры и операторы связи будут обязаны отключать мессенджеры по требованию «уполномоченного федерального органа исполнительной власти».... →

GoTenna, a Brooklyn-based startup behind a portable personal antenna for smartphones, announced today that it caught a $7.5 million investment. Walden Venture Capital led the series A round, followed by MentorTech Ventures and Verizon subsidiary BBG Ventures. The investment, the startup says, will be used to grow its team and product pipeline in order to meet […]... →

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service that recently hit 1 billion users worldwide, is today rolling out a much-anticipated feature to its apps on iOS and Android devices: document sharing. Though the company hasn’t yet made an official announcement, a number of WhatsApp users have seen the feature pop up alongside other sharing options, like photo or video sharing,… Read More... →

When it comes to online advertising, one concern publishers, agencies, and marketers share is in determining where programmatic ads are being displayed. Everyone wants to get their money’s worth, but what happens when ads are served on sites where brands don’t have an audience? Pathmatics offers actionable data from across the industry in order to promote […]... →

Want to develop for Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed-reality platform but don’t want to pay $3,000 for the developer kit? Until now, it looked like you were out of luck, but as Microsoft announced today, you will soon be able to use a HoloLens emulator to write your applications even if you don’t own the actual hardware. The emulator, as well as all of Microsoft’s other… Read More... →

Cisco continued its buying spree today as it announced its intention to acquire Israeli chip designer Leaba Semiconductor for $320 million. Cisco sees this acquisition as a way to advance its hardware catalog with highly advanced chip technology. “By combining Leaba’s semiconductor expertise with the Cisco engineering team, we will accelerate our plans for Cisco’s… Read More... →

GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI. Daniela Perdomo, goTenna’s CEO and co-founder, told me that REI has signed on to be the startup’s exclusive retail launch partner. For the next three months, the only place you’ll be able to buy goTenna,… Read More... →

«Мы первыми из крупных площадок в рунете готовы […] проводить расчеты только на основе видимых показов».... →

Plane is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app acquired by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded to Couple and was sold to Life360). Born out of Allison’s own frustrations, after he moved countries, Plane is pithing itself as ‘social icebraker’, and lets anybody post a short location-based message — called a… Read More... →

Recruitment services giant CareerBuilder is expanding into the background screening realm today with the acquisition of Illinois-based Aurico. CareerBuilder is perhaps better known to most people for CareerBuilder.com, one of the biggest recruitment websites in the U.S. But the company also offers a range of human resources (HR) services to employers, covering job listings, sourcing, […]... →

EXCLUSIVE: We live in the age of the never-satisfied, always-mobile customer. That is just one of the statements I can confidently make after ingesting thousands of pages of mobile marketing and consumer attitude research over the last few months. Consumers want more, cheaper, faster, and better. Even when you give them what they want, they’ll ask […]... →

Поиск реальных конкурентов в поисковой выдаче является достаточно сложной задачей. В этом посте я расскажу, как мы решили эту проблему и покажу возможности нового сервиса. Поиск сайтов, которые находятся по тем же поисковым запросам, что и Ваш сайт не является достаточным условием того, что именно этот сайт будет Вашим конкурентов. Например, Wikipedia высоко ранжируется по многим коммерческим запросам, но совершенно не является конкурентом для остальных сайтов. Другая важная проблема — это поиск сопоставимы... →

Voice mail is so last century. The idea of phoning someone then leaving a rambling message when they don’t pick up seems decidedly antiquated in the age of instant connectivity, where friends, family, colleagues and others can be easily reached with a text. Voicemail is so over, in fact, that large corporations like JP Morgan and Coca-Cola have ditched the service entirely. If only… Read More... →

Robin and Saul Klein are the ‘father and son’ VCs behind the new LocalGlobe seed fund (website, twitter, Medium). Just recently they led a £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor Trussle. It’s likely to be among the first of many. Saul has been actively involved founding and investing in over a 100 tech companies in London since at least 1994, Robin for, well,… Read More... →

Геймдизайнер Nival Анатолий Шестов опубликовал в своем блоге перевод очередной лекции курса «Принципы игрового баланса» игрового дизайнера Яна Шрайбера, который работал над такими проектами, как Marvel Trading Card Game и Playboy: the Mansion.Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод с разрешения Шестова.... →

Google is still be in the process of bringing Android Pay to merchants’ around the U.S., but the Internet giant is now beginning a new pilot project that will let you sidestep the need to “tap and pay” with any physical contraption. Available now for Android and iOS, Hands Free was first teased last May […]... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — международный сервис «Свадебный эксперт», в котором можно нанять фотографа, ведущего, выбрать ресторан и арендовать автомобиль, а также составить список гостей, задач и расходов. Проект работает по франшизе. Передаем микрофон.... →

There has been a lot of hype around using drones to in precision agriculture, but for the time being, using regular planes outfitted with specialized cameras is still a more cost-effective way to cover wide swaths of land. YC-backed TerrAvion made an early bet on using planes for aerial imaging for precision agriculture, and after a few growing seasons, it’s now expanding its service by… Read More... →

The open data that is being released by the Federal Government and particularly by the Department of Commerce is a key asset that is enabling both transparency and business opportunities across industries. Read More... →

Following its acquisition of Stitch last year, SugarCRM — a CRM and open source competitor to Salesforce — has picked up another startup to enhance the arsenal of intelligent sales tools that it provides to its customers. The company has acquired Contastic, a startup based out of Mountain View that built a platform based around natural language processing technology to analyse… Read More... →