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Издание Harvard Business Review опубликовало материал о шести основных мифах, сопровождающих разработку любого продукта, написанную Стефаном Томке (профессор Гарвардской школы бизнеса) и Дональдом Рейнертсеном (писатель, автор книги «Правила разработки продукта»). На статью обратил внимание российский инвестор Аркадий Морейнис.Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

VB WEBINAR: Despite the massive potential of email, thousands of marketers are seeing deflating email campaign rates — but that shouldn’t be the case in 2016. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how today’s customer behavioral data will blow your current email results out of the water. Register here for free. No marketing strategy does better than email, done right. According […]... →

We don’t have too many details as of yet, but Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai just let the world know where and when Google I/O will take place this year. I/O'16 coming to neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, May 18-20. More details soon. #io16 — sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) January 12, 2016 The conference usually takes place… Read More... →

It’s that time of the year again. After a restful holiday season, filled with Disrupt Europe and CES, we’re ready to hit the road again and visit some of our favorite cities. The first TC Meetups of the year will go down in Boston and Atlanta, on February 23 and February 25 respectively. We’ve visited both cities for the past few years, and have never been let down by the… Read More... →

In its latest feature expansion, 3D model repository Sketchfab has just added a VR button, allowing owners of Google Cardboard to don their VR goggles to get a more immersive view of the content on its platform. Because 2016 is ‘year of the great VR reboot’, and therefore also the year of the scramble to create VR content. Read More... →

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai today announced that this year’s big Google I/O developer conference will be hosted at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on May 18-20. There’s some meaning behind the location. “To celebrate our 10th anniversary of developer gatherings, we’ll be hosting I/O in our backyard at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in […]... →

Убыток сервиса перевозок Uber в первом полугодии 2015 года составил почти $987,2 млн, сообщает The Information со ссылкой на внутренние документы компании. При этом за весь 2014 год компания потеряла $671,4 млн.... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Scottish tech titan Skyscanner raises $192 million to grow its travel search engine globally Skyscanner, one of the oldest and largest flight search engines on the Web, has raised its first major round of […]... →

It’s easy to miss something at CES. 170,000 people descended on Las Vegas this year to see some 3,800 exhibitors scattered around almost 2.5 million square feet of event space, displaying thousands and thousands of gadgets and toys. After going up and down escalators in event spaces all over the Las Vegas strip, you see a lot of […]... →

Mike Hennessy thinks finding potential recruits is just like marketing — you have to keep them interested and snatch them at the right time. That’s why he started SmashFly, a startup that manages inbound interest from potential recruits and keeps them engaged with a company that’s eventually hoping to convert them to an employee. To do that, SmashFly has raised $22 million in… Read More... →

Following CES in Las Vegas last week, VR is on the minds and lips of everyone in the tech and gaming space. But even though virtual reality is more immersive than any form of entertainment previously known, it still can’t manipulate all the senses at once. Alton Towers Resort has developed a way to make the VR experience even more true to life… By strapping you to a roller… Read More... →

GUEST: Text, sentiment, and social analytics help you tune in, at scale, to the voice of the customer, patient, public, and market. The technologies are currently being applied in an array of industries ranging from healthcare to finance, media, and consumer markets. They distill business insight from online, social, and enterprise data sources. It’s useful stuff, […]... →

A year ago, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich pledged to make Intel’s U.S. workforce fully representative of the population when it comes to women and underrepresented minorities by 2020. He also pledged to spend more than $300 million to diversify the talent in the tech industry, and to invest $125 million in companies run by […]... →

Recruiting software engineers is a massive headache for both startups and established companies. For a while now, HackerRank has tried to make both applying for these jobs and hiring the right talent a little bit easier. Today, the company is taking a major new step in this direction with the launch of HackerRank Jobs, a job search app that connects companies directly with software engineers… Read More... →

Telegram has been down in Saudi Arabia since Sunday evening and the company has been left bewildered by the abrupt disruption to their platform. “I confirm, Telegram traffic is partly limited in Saudi Arabia since yesterday evening. The reasons are unknown,” Pavel Durov said via Twitter. The reports began to trickle in earlier that day by users as they tried to determine whether… Read More... →

VLC, the popular video-playing software offering support for a wide range of media formats, is now available for Apple TV. For those with large video collections, that means you’ll be able to play your files on your TV’s big screen without having to convert them to a supported format. One of the more notable features in the new release is that the VLC app now supports… Read More... →

Издание Adweek составило традиционный рейтинг наиболее просматриваемых рекламных роликов на YouTube за месяц. В декабре 2015 года наибольшее количество популярных видео выпустил игровой разработчик Supercell для своих брендов Clash of Clans и Boom Beach.... →

What could be cooler than a name like “Bosphorus Mechatronics?” How about a little box that lets you connect almost anything to anything including wireless connections and rotary input. The board, which runs Windows or Linux and is called TinyLab, is a tinkerers dream with over 20 I/O and storage options as well as Arduino support. “Tinylab is especially for lazy ones. If… Read More... →

«Альфа-Банк» открыл для сторонних учащихся свою корпоративную образовательную площадку «Альфа-опыт». В рамках проекта эксперты «Альфа-Банка» будут делиться своим профессиональным опытом и знаниями со всеми желающими. Ранее площадка была предназначена только для сотрудников банка. Как пояснил Firrma представитель «Альфа-Банка», сейчас проект вырос из внутреннего до коммерческого для внешней аудитории. В ближайшее время на площадке пройдут обучающие семинары по темам «Страновые и санкционные ограничения бизне... →

After four days of journeying through some of the 2.47 million square feet of exhibit space at the 2016 International CES, I felt like I had a good download on the patterns and trends that I was seeing over and over again. My Intel Basis Peak smartwatch told me that, over four days at CES, I […]... →