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It’s pundit time — this time, digital media style.  Last year I predicted challenges to YouTube’s dominance in online video, a beginning of cord cutting and the unbundling of video services, and an explosion in short form video content. This year the media landscape will continue to shift as VR grows up and consolidation takes over. Read More... →

Apple is reportedly developing a tool that will let existing iPhone users more easily switch to Android. Such an option would be a big departure for Apple and its closed ecosystem, but it is apparently the result of pressure from carriers, not because the American company suddenly wants to play nice. Apple has a very […]... →

Posted by tallen1985We know Facebook has a huge amount of data on people. For the last 18 months, they've been sharing more of this information than ever before through their platform, Audience Insights. As a result, we can begin to pull together audience personas for very little cost other than time, effort, and a Facebook account. This post is going give a whirlwind tour of how we can begin to use Audience Insights to build personas for our business that will allow us to target content better and keep peo... →

The White House has teamed up with Amazon to make President Obama’s last State of the Union (SOTU) address more accessible to the people. On Tuesday, not only will the President’s address will be available to stream on-demand through Amazon Video, but the speech will be made available across all devices however people want. For […]... →

Самое важное, что произошло за первые десять дней 2016 года... →

10 января советник президента России Владимира Путина по интернету Герман Клименко стал гостем программы «Точка» на «Эхе Москвы», в которой ответил на вопросы журналиста Александра Плющева. Редакция vc.ru выбрала основные заявления Клименко.... →

Aerodrome is working with the City of Boulder, Nevada, to launch the first commercial drone airport — the Eldorado Droneport. It’s one of only a handful of FAA-appointed UAS test sites in the United States. The plan is to offer training, maintenance and other support functions for the commercial drone industry, as well as for individual drone pilots. The company already… Read More... →

In the retail world we live in today, it’s hard to know who your customers are. Unlike in the days of brick and mortar stores, customers in today’s online shopping marketplace are cloaked in layers of anonymity, their wants, desires and specific shopping styles all filtered out by keyboards and IP addresses. This presents a major marketing problem for many web enterprises. How do… Read More... →

Ford made headlines at CES this week when it announced a major partnership that will integrate Amazon’s technology into its cars, also following rumors that the company is working with Google to develop and manufacture self-driving cars. Even a couple of years ago, these combinations would have seemed shockingly strange, but today the only thing remotely surprising is that it took… Read More... →

Yesterday, Tesla Motors released software update 7.1 for the Model S and Model X, allowing the electric cars to park themselves while you stand by and watch in awe. Today, CEO Elon Musk made a bold prediction: In 2018, this feature will work from anywhere that cars can drive. Called Summon, the functionality is part […]... →

As you may have heard, brash comic Chelsea Handler is set to host a new series on Netflix entitled “Chelsea Does…” in which she’ll explore a range of issues, including a universe still foreign to many outside of it: Silicon Valley. Now, as the series debut approaches on Saturday, January 23rd , at least one venture firm –- Foundation Capital — is waiting on… Read More... →

The e-sports industry is getting big. Really big. More people watch Twitch than CNN. Riot, Valve, Activision-Blizzard and EA all have e-sports initiatives. The largest tournaments attract tens of millions of viewers and offer multi-million dollar prize pools for the best players in games like League of Legends and Dota 2. However, when taking a closer look at the economics of e-sports and… Read More... →

GUEST: Recently, the UK Office of National Statistics estimated that 35% of the babies born today will live to 100. We live in exciting times for the healthcare industry, and innovative startups are a big part of that story. But even with the explosion of digital startups aimed at revamping the healthcare industry, many of the […]... →

A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity. We haven’t seen anything of this magnitude since the invention of the printing press in the 1400s. And this is just the beginning. Read More... →

Apple Music has surpassed 10 million subscribers, according to a report from the Financial Times. Showcasing rapid growth, the number is a 50% increase from the 6.5 million paid subscribers that CEO Tim Cook claimed in October. Apple launched its music streaming service last June, offering free three-month trials (Apple Music for Android launched in November). Those who didn’t cancel… Read More... →

GUEST: Funding drives our entire ecosystem. Like cheap Saudi oil sending shockwaves across global markets, so too the ebb and flow of venture/Investment capital determines the pace by which ideas have a chance to become profitable realities. We’ve written and read a great deal about the 4x increase in VC investments over the last four years. […]... →

The term “financial inclusion” is a new buzzword in the fintech space. With the rise of services like Abra and MPesa, we are convinced that bitcoin is the solution to the problems of the unbanked. With bitcoin, we say, the house cleaner in Dubai can get her money home and the refugee can get his money over the border into a safer place. I’m even known to wax poetic about… Read More... →

You can call Ledger Wallet CEO Eric Larchevêque the Winklevoss of France given that he stores around 1,000 bitcoins on his bitcoin wallet — that’s around $450,000 as of today. But it also shows how secure the company’s wallet is. I interviewed him on our stage at CES. Read More... →

GUEST: I went to two CFO events last fall: a panel for hyper-growth companies in Silicon Valley and a breakfast in Dallas for Fortune 500 CFOs. Each event had a different theme, but the conversation at both ended up being the same: how the role of CFO is changing with the proliferation of technology and big […]... →

I survived another Consumer Electronics Show. I believe this is my 20th time at the biggest tech trade show in North America. After five days in Las Vegas, I’m tired but not sick. I’m still writing stories from all of the events and booths I saw at the event, which drew more than 170,000 people […]... →