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Сбербанк, МТС и «Газпром» получили регистрационные свидетельства Роспатента на свои фирменные цвета — зелёный, красный и синий соответственно. Об этом сообщают «Ведомости» со ссылкой на участника телеком-рынка, а также на представителей нескольких юридических фирм, специализирующихся на патентном праве.... →

Косметический гигант увеличил продажи благодаря «поколению селфи»... →

After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye’s new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the iTunes App Store. Man thank you so so so much everyone for signing up to Tidal. Tidal is now the number one app in the world!!! pic.twitter.com/O3r9DkX03R — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 15, 2016 The album, which went live yesterday, was… Read More... →

Интеллектуальной собственностью компаний стали синий, зеленый и красный цвета... →

Investor and entrepreneur Jason Calacanis announced today that he has pivoted his Inside.com news service. He’ll be shuttering his company’s mobile app in favor of something that has “much better engagement”: email. “I’ve been beating my head against a wall for the last two years trying to make a news app experience work,” he wrote. “And […]... →

Big companies around the world have made – with varying degrees of success – plays at breaking into the health sector. Google and Apple are prime examples. Today, there are several technology and retail giants moving into health and healthcare that will surely cause disruptions, and push the sector further faster towards healthier populations that are being cared for in… Read More... →

Posted by bridget.randolphEveryone has an opinion about Tinder. Whether you’re happily single, actively seeking a partner, or in a committed relationship, something about the concept of "swiping" yes or no on strangers’ pictures seems to guarantee strong opinions. There are endless articles about what Tinder (and similar apps) say aboutmodern dating, love in the 21st century, and, more broadly, millennial shallowness. And, as someone who can’t resist twisting a good dinner party topic into a marketing blog ... →

Gravitational, a graduate of the Y Combinator 2015 class set out solve a very difficult problem for companies — how to deliver software in the cloud and on-premises from a single code base. Without a solution like the one from Gravaitional, companies would have to maintain two sets of code, which is simply too costly for most companies to pull off. That meant these companies were… Read More... →

In 1994, I eagerly accepted my first full-time position in research at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Part of my job was to find patients willing to participate in a prostate cancer study. After meeting these men, I got a glimpse of how their diagnosis had changed their lives. Specifically, I observed a stark difference in behavior between sick and healthy patients. Read More... →

GUEST: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise. The truth is that innovation in this domain, as in all technological domains, follows a predictable cycle and goes […]... →

Mattel’s View-Master Virtual Reality headset is getting some new upgrades that will likely cement it as one of the best Cardboard viewers on the market when it launches this fall. It was just last week that the viewer earned the milestone designation of being the first piece of virtual reality-focused hardware to be sold in-store and online by Apple. Now, the company is showing off… Read More... →

Apple and Samsung have been asymmetric competitors for years, fighting to grab smartphone market share and partnering when it comes to chips. According to a recent report from The Electronic Times, TSMC (the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) will be the only company manufacturing the A10 for the next iPhone. Samsung won’t be working with Apple for the next iPhone. Read More... →

this color barrier in tech — the product of implicit and explicit bias and a valley phenomenon known as ‘pattern matching’ coupled with long time systemic issues of educational and economic access in black communities — is starting to collapse. Read More... →

GUEST: So you have an exquisitely engineered product or an innovative service. Sorry, but that won’t be enough to sustain growth in today’s economy. From the customer’s point of view, you’re just getting started on meeting their basic expectations. Brands that differentiate themselves remember that driving purchase is all about creating great experiences for their customers […]... →

GUEST: My company’s main focus is on developing content, specifically photos, so we have been studying immersive video and virtual reality (VR) with particular interest. We are looking closely at the impact of several new VR creation and consumption technologies that launched last month at CES and at whether VR will be adopted by our users […]... →

Strong in tech, but lacking in either sunlight or warmth, the third annual Polar Bear Pitching competition, which took place on February 10–11, has found a perfect home in the city of Oulu, which lies 600 km north of Helsinki (and is reminiscent of the fictional depiction of the real city of Fargo, N.D.). Read More... →

Лучшее на vc.ru за неделю: Самые популярные и обсуждаемые тексты уходящей недели на vc.ru — в традиционном воскресном дайджесте.... →

Social mobile gaming company Zynga made Wall Street investors cringe this week. It beat earnings expectations in its fourth fiscal quarter earnings report on Wednesday, but chief executive Mark Pincus offered cautious guidance for the next quarter and delayed two major games. The company’s stock fell, and its valuation slipped from $1.9 billion to $1.7 billion. Zynga still […]... →

The Apple Watch is now available with a $100 discount at Best Buy, B&H and possibly other stores. For instance, the 38mm Sport model now costs $249 and the 42mm version costs $299. You might think that it means that the Apple Watch 2 is right around the corner, but it’s unlikely. Read More... →

Lara Croft and video game writer Rhianna Pratchett share more than a few traits. The hero of the Tomb Raider series and the writer of video game stories are both strong women with “daddy issues,” Pratchett jokes. Her father was Terry Pratchett, the author of 41 Discworld fantasy novels and the writer of 70 books that […]... →