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Microsoft today is announcing that its Yammer enterprise social network will now be turned on by default for all eligible commercial customers of Office 365 suite of services. Until this point, Office 365 administrators had to set up Yammer in order to allow employees to use the service. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion in […]... →

Владелец крупнейших торрент-клиентов планирует более тесно работать с брендами и агентствами... →

VB EVENT: Mondelez International, the reincarnated spin-off of Kraft Foods, is a pro at creative ideas and execution. Its Oreo brand became a social media sensation during its centennial Daily Twist campaign, which combined top-notch photography and big news moments to create viral photos like the Gay Pride cookie and Mars Rover cookie. Oreo’s famous “dunk in […]... →

Augmented reality glasses firm Magic Leap’s confirmed that it has raised $793.5 million from Alibaba Group and other investors. Together with the expected closing of the $5.9 billion acquisition of King by Activision Blizzard, the Magic Leap funding could do wonders for game-related deal activity in 2016. As we noted yesterday, game industry transactions for […]... →

Вице-мэр Москвы Максим Ликсутов, возглавляющий департамент транспорта столицы, заявил, что работа Uber в Москве будет прекращена, если компания не согласится работать только с водителями, обладающими лицензиями таксистов. Об этом он рассказал в интервью «Газете.ру».... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — проект «Дисциплина», который позволяет собирать данные о работе сотрудников и представлять их в цифрах и графиках. Передаем микрофон.... →

Launching out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class today is a company I interviewed way back in 2013 in Startup Alley. Incredibly, Instabug startup started building the app during the turmoil in Egypt back in 2012 and made it out of the chaos of the Egyptian revolution to make it to, and through, YC. That’s True Grit. Today, they’re going out of beta and are launching their… Read More... →

Are smart toys worth the risk? That’s a question parents are asking themselves these days as they weigh the usefulness and delight that comes from cloud-connected toys, with the potential for them to be turned into spying devices, as was the claim against the Wi-Fi-enabled “Hello Barbie,” or the possibility of massive leaks involving their children’s personal… Read More... →

Are smart toys worth the risk? That’s a question parents are asking themselves these days as they weigh the usefulness and delight that comes from cloud-connected toys, with the potential for them to be turned into spying devices, as was the claim against the Wi-Fi-enabled “Hello Barbie,” or the possibility of massive leaks involving their children’s personal… Read More... →

Рыночный потенциал корпоративных мобильных приложений оценивается в 100 млрд долларов США. Но до сих пор стремительно разработчики приложений mobile-first видели в смартфонах только дополнительные экраны.... →

I like single-use apps, with their inherently low cognitive load. I’m also a huge fan of having other people do work for me. A new app from Playlists.net, the Spotify community and playlist sharing site acquired by Watner Music Group, hits both of those notes. Read More... →

Американский инди-разработчик игр Эрик Терешински, занимавшийся созданием симулятора муравья, объявил о закрытии проекта из-за конфликта со своими коллегами, пишет Kotaku. По словам автора игры, его партнёры по бизнесу потратили собранные у инвесторов и пользователей Kickstarter средства на «алкоголь, рестораны, бары и стриптизерш».... →

Китайский производитель смартфонов Xiaomi, портфельный проект фонда Юрия Мильнера и Алишера Усманова DST Global, вышел на рынок США. Об этом сообщает BBC. Xiaomi будет продавать отдельные модели смартфонов в официальном интернет-магазине. Кроме последних моделей смартфонов, такие как, к примеру, Mi Note, устройства также не будут поддерживать работу 4G-сетей. Продажи начнутся на этой недели.  Ранее сообщалось, что Xiaomi не смог выполнить план по продажам в 2015 году. Ухудшение коньюктуры китайского рынка с... →

The focus of brand mobile advertising has tended to be either on the desktop or on performance. But most commentators agree that mobile is huge, and a viable ad channel. Investors must agree because mobile ad platform Widespace has now secured $17.2m (€15.8 million) in growth capital from Kreos, a leading European provider of growth debt to high-growth companies, which now joins existing… Read More... →

Сара Фрайер подготовила для издания Bloomberg рассказ о том, как в Facebook принимают решения об изменении продукта и какую роль играет в компании автор идеи дополнить кнопку «лайка» другими реакциями Крис Кокс.Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод материала.... →

В январе 2016 года по российскому сегменту Facebook распространился флешмоб #моипервыеденьги, запущенный гендиректором Rusbase Марией Подлесновой. Редакция vc.ru долго терпела, но всё же решила собрать истории российских предпринимателей и представителей ИТ-индустрии, которые рассказали о своём первом заработке.... →

Mobile collaboration app Zula, co-founded by noted investor Jeff Pulver in 2013, won the Audience award at TC Disrupt a few years ago, and a seed round From Microsoft Ventures. From there things didn’t quite pan out, and now the company has pivoted into a new product that aims to “make podcasting accessible to the masses.” ZCast claims to allow anyone to produce a high… Read More... →

Last year will be remembered as one of the biggest years of extremist violence around the world. The west has experienced several brutal tragedies, while those in the Middle East and central Africa have survived unimaginable suffering at the hands of such terrorist groups as Boko Haram and ISIS. Still, education is the enemy of radicalism. Read More... →

Jukely, a monthly concert subscription service, says it’s breaking records and not the vinyl kind. Though it didn’t want to say how many members are currently on the platform, founder Bora Celik did say it would soon be able to get a crowd to fill New York’s Madison Square Garden (capacity for the concert venue is 18,200, for reference). That growth also means adding in… Read More... →

Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were entrepreneurs. It was a nice, small dinner talking about startups and the French tech ecosystem. Read More... →