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Приложение для беременных и молодых мам Preggie привлекло $1 млн. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде AltaIR Capital, который также принимал участие в сделке.  В данный момент проект собирает еще $500 тысяч в рамках посевного раунда на инвестиционной площадке AltaClub. Как сообщается, монетизация стартапа будет осуществляться через услуги онлайн-образования, телемедицины, доставки, локальных платных объявлений и платежной инфраструктуры. Кроме того, деньги привлекаются за счет рекламной модели. Так, в Европе пе... →

We’ve all felt it — the little adrenaline rush and increased heart rate that comes when we meet someone we’re attracted to — but now we can track it. Once, a dating app with more than 600,000 users in just four months, has today announced an integration with Fitbit and Android Wear. Once works by offering a single potential suitor every day (which Once calls a… Read More... →

VB INSIGHT: Open. Click. Buy. It may soon be that easy. Email marketing, once a relatively simple way to communicate and sell products to customers, has matured dramatically. The number of vendors has grown, and the sectors within the email landscape have become increasingly complex. One of these sectors, personalization, is exactly why email still reigns supreme as the marketing ROI leader. A new report: Email Personalization: A vendor landscape overview […]... →

There have been plenty of premature obituaries for privacy falling from the lips of tech company CEOs in recent years. Yet the idea that people have a sub-set of personal information they wish to keep outside the public sphere persists — despite all the incentives and encouragements for the proverbial user to be as naked as can be when it comes to sticking their data online. Read More... →

Dutch payments company Adyen has reported a bumper year in 2015, as the fintech unicorn said it more than doubled its revenues last year to $350 million. Moreover, the Amsterdam-headquartered startup claims it processed a whopping $50 billion in transactions in the 12 months to December, up from $25 billion the previous year. Adyen says […]... →

Change.org, founded in 2007, long ago became the go-to place for people wanting to wrest the attention of corporate giants, as well as for local activists looking to affect change in their communities. Indeed, the San Francisco-based company now counts 130 million registered users around the globe – 35 million of them in the U.S. – and 30,000 campaigns are launched every month on… Read More... →

Биотехнологов испортит кадровый вопрос?... →

Google's John Mueller answered a question in the Google Hangout from Tuesday on why sometimes you will see in the search appearance HTML improvements for duplicate titles and descriptions in the Google Search Console when those pages are using rel=canonical...... →

Сервис видеостриминга запустился в 130 странах. Но у него по-прежнему проблемы... →

Список льгот и полезных сервисов для экспортера... →

Почему России критически важно наращивать экспорт, что государство для этого делает и какие препятствия видят предприниматели... →

Новую редакцию возглавит спортивный журналист Константин Клещев... →

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Looker is trying to simplify the way companies use analytics and today it announced $48 million in Series C funding to continue the mission. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). Previous investors Redpoint Ventures, Meritech and Sapphire Ventures also participated. This round doubles their total raised to date to $96 million. This funding round comes less than… Read More... →

Looker, a startup selling data analytics software, is announcing today a $48 million funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Looker can visualize data from many sources, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redshift, Cloudera Impala, HP Vertica, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake. It’s available as on-premises software or as a cloud service. The data […]... →

MiMedia is a slick personal cloud storage service for all of your photos, videos, music and other files. It has flown under the radar since the team started building it back in 2010, but it looks like the company is now ready to make a bit of a splash. New York-based MiMedia today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series C round. What’s a bit unusual about this round is that… Read More... →

Жертвы кислотных атак стали главными героинями индийской рекламы... →

Такси-сервис Gett начал работу на территории Краснодара, сообщили vc.ru в компании. Этот город стал десятым в России, где работает приложение сервиса.... →

Fresh from unveiling a slate of impressive new products at CES 2016, Razer — the high-end PC and gaming company — is offering its customers a 50 percent discount on its well-stocked catalog of peripherals for a 24-hour period. Read More... →

You’re out on the town, you don’t really know the contact details of everyone you’re hanging out with but you’re all having fun taking photos. It’s a familiar scenario. What now? Share them all on Facebook? Remember, those photos don’t die. Share on Snapchat? Maybe you’re not all using an app aimed mainly at teenagers, and it doesn’t work so well… Read More... →