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05:31 14.02.2016

Chris Milk’s startup Vrse is slowly building a collection of the top VR video around

A few months ago, I found myself in a yard next to a school in Peru. Some Americans had come to give away shoes to students. I saw the students playing soccer, jumping rope, and dancing in their newly acquired shoes. It nearly brought me to tears. I wasn’t actually there. I was watching a […]... →

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03:19 14.02.2016

Locate this! The battle for app-specific maps

GUEST: It’s no longer easy to get lost. Quite the opposite, we expect and rely on maps for our most common Internet tasks from basic directions to on-demand transportation, discovering a new restaurant or finding a new friend. And the battle is on between the biggest public and private companies in the world to shore up […]... →

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03:07 14.02.2016

The Great Tech Freakout: An Overview

Well if you were looking for lousy news this week, you didn’t need to search long to find it. Days after some hair-raising price falls for publicly traded LinkedIn and Tableau Software (they tanked 43 percent and 49 percent, respectively, on February 5), a broader base of both public and private tech companies prepared to take their lumps. They came quickly, too. Zenefits, the… Read More... →

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03:00 14.02.2016

How DHL Pioneered The Sharing Economy

DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on the street. For the trouble of giving up their baggage allowances, passengers were handed a free round trip plane ticket to Hawaii. Founded as a courier service in 1969, DHL used the spare capacity in travelers’ luggage to transport high value documents. To understand why it… Read More... →

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01:00 14.02.2016

Microsoft patents a modular PC with stackable components

Microsoft has patented a “modular computing device” that would enable people to put together the exact PC components they want, which would allow for replacement of certain parts rather than force people to buy entire new computers when they want upgrades. Microsoft applied for the patent in July 2015, and it was published earlier this […]... →

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00:00 14.02.2016

Top dating apps are just waiting to be hacked — analysis

GUEST: Dating apps are more popular than ever, especially in the run up to Valentine’s Day. According to Pew Research, 38% of U.S. singles may have a dating website or app to thank for their Valentine’s date this weekend. But are these apps secure, guaranteed against hackers interested in accessing so much highly sensitive data? Sadly, […]... →

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00:00 14.02.2016

The Probable, The Possible, The Delusional

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed before a joint session of Congress that before the end of the decade America would put a man on the moon. This was not an empty political promise to get elected, but a commitment of a sitting President boldly exposing himself to political ridicule in the face of failure. If we can take ourselves back to that moment, it would be fascinating to… Read More... →

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23:53 13.02.2016

В Facebook Messenger появилась функция отправки «валентинок»

К дню всех влюблённых сервис добавил новую опцию. Пользователи получили возможность отправлять сообщения в подарочной «упаковке».... →

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23:00 13.02.2016

How tech’s big 3 are getting ready to read your emotions

GUEST: Apple’s purchase of Emotient last month, a California-based firm that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret emotions from facial expressions, signals that big changes are coming to mobile devices. The move means that another tech giant has entered the AI arms race alongside Google and Facebook. This fact alone should have brands learning about the […]... →

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23:00 13.02.2016

Seeing Beyond The Hubris Of Facebook’s Free Basics Fiasco

What Zuckerberg and his U.S. team didn’t understand was that in India you can buy computer tablets and smartphones for as little as $50, and that 100MB of data—which is more than a Free Basics user will consume in a month—costs much less than a dollar. Read More... →

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22:45 13.02.2016

Главную страницу Look At Me отдали в управление роботу

Главную страницу сайта Look At Me начал формировать робот. Об этом сообщил в Twitter генеральный директор издательского дома Look At Media Алексей Амётов.... →

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22:00 13.02.2016

Europe’s new laws could cost you 4% of your revenues

GUEST: What’s 4% of your company’s global annual revenues? Are you prepared to pay this amount in fines? This is what you might face if you’re not paying attention to new data privacy developments in Europe, as penalties for mishandling European citizen data apply to all companies, not just those headquartered in the European Union. The […]... →

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21:05 13.02.2016

Blizzard cofounder Frank Pearce: 25 years of making games isn’t enough

Blizzard Entertainment is the division of Activision Blizzard that’s brought us games like StarCraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft, and it turned 25 this week. We ran an interview with Blizzard chief executive Mike Morhaime, who was one of the three original founders who started the company during the golden age of PC games. But […]... →

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21:00 13.02.2016

What New Mobile Hardware To Expect At MWC 2016

Mobile World Congress, the biggest tradeshow specifically focused on mobile, kicks off in just over a week’s time in Barcelona so here’s a quick rundown of some of the big hardware-focused announcements we’re expecting to land during the best part of a week of fully mobile-focused news… Read More... →

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21:00 13.02.2016

Bits are beating atoms: The Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon shuffle

GUEST: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have been dubbed the four horsemen of the tech industry. They are the biggest consumer companies and dominate the discussion through new initiatives such as drones and acquisitions such as Oculus. As our current tech era has evolved, Apple has led the pile with a huge market capitalization, and Facebook […]... →

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20:28 13.02.2016

Why mobile marketers are finding it painful to watch the presidential race

GUEST: We live in an age where 85 percent of millennials in the U.S. have a smartphone, and they are fiddling with their apps 15 times a day. So you have to wonder: Why aren’t presidential candidates using mobile in their campaigns more effectively? With the 2016 presidential election in full swing, it’s critical for candidates […]... →

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20:16 13.02.2016

It’s True, Black Female Founders Receive Basically Zero Venture Capital

In “The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Founders Women,” a recent report by #ProjectDiane, you’ll come across several startling statistics like, for example, of all venture deals from 2012 to 2014, only 0.2% (24 of 10,238 deals) went to went to black female founders. In researching the state of black women in tech, #ProjectDiane examined over 60,000 startups and identified just… Read More... →

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19:05 13.02.2016

How Monster Hunter finally found success in the United States

FEATURE: Monster Hunter hasn’t always been a success in the United States. Worldwide, it’s another story. Capcom’s Monster Hunter series has sold 35 million copies worldwide as of December, making it bigger sales-wise than Mega Man and just shy of Street Fighter, two of the publisher’s best-selling video game franchises. It has long been a success in the […]... →

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19:00 13.02.2016

How To Expand Your Marketplace To LA

“The theme of LA is diversity.” That is what DoorDash’s Kevin Huang told me in our conversation about how expanding on-demand marketplaces into LA differs from other markets. As an LA-based enterprise and marketplace investor, one of the most common questions I get from entrepreneurs is how to expand marketplaces into LA. While this includes all the usual difficulties of… Read More... →

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18:50 13.02.2016

Why Visa only owns about 1% of Square — not 10%, yet

Visa, the world's largest credit and debit card company, said on Friday it currently has about a 1 percent stake in mobile payments company Square Inc based on a 2011 investment.... →

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