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The 9th Annual Crunchies are fast approaching, and as we look ahead to what’s shaping up to be our best Crunchies yet, we thought it’d be fun to take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the Crunchies of yore. Mars was on the minds of voters at the 6th Crunchies in 2013. The Mars Curiosity Rover launched from Cape Canaveral in November 2011, landed on the Red Planet on August… Read More... →

Over the last year, Slack engineer Erica Baker has become a well-known advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Although she started at Slack as a build and release engineer, her role has since evolved to include some work around diversity and inclusion. Baker recently sat down with me to discuss diversity, inclusion and her role at Slack. Here’s the full Q&A,… Read More... →

Алексей Поликарпов, бывший коммерческий директор компании «Тематические медиа» (издания «Хабрахабр», «Мегамозг») инвестировал в сервис по доставке еды «Нужен ужин». Как сообщил Firrma Алексей Поликарпов, сделка состоялась в январе 2016 года и составила 2 млн рублей. Доля инвестора в стартапе не раскрывается по соглашению сторон. Известно, что по итогам сделки Алексей Поликарпов назначен коммерческим директором сервиса, а также его исполнительным директором по совместительству. Осенью 2015 года стартап привл... →

Back when I reported on whether we would see a full new ‘Apple Watch 2.0’ in March (still no), I mentioned that a March event from Apple could still happen — and that likely releases would be an iPad and smaller iPhone. At the time, the event was in a state of flux, according to a couple of sources — basically in a holding pattern that depended on what hardware was… Read More... →

A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield replaces the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European Court of Justice last October, on the grounds that US mass surveillance programs were violating fundamental European privacy rights. Read More... →

One of the top free-to-play digital card games in the world has some big changes coming. Publisher Blizzard is breaking up its Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card battler into two distinct play format. The first, called Wild, is the same Hearthstone you’ve played over the last few years. It enables you to use any card […]... →

Brands, start your GIF engines. Kik, the chat app with 300 million registered users, is giving companies the chance to boost their marketing via their own GIFs on its service. Read More... →

Представитель МТС Дмитрий Солодников обвинил аналитическое агентство Telecom Daily в некорректном исследовании качества сотовой связи и передачи данных в Москве. На своей странице в Facebook он написал, что методика тестирования, применяемая исследовательской компанией, не соответствует методике Минкомсвязи.... →

The latest version of Android is finally on 1 percent of devices. Google released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and the preceding zero for Marshmallow’s adoption is gone. Android Marshmallow debuted just over four months ago on September 29 with the launch of Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P. But […]... →

Early-stage investor 500 Startups has kicked off its 2016 Distro Dojo season with the first session taking place in London, England. Today the accelerator and venture capital firm announced the six startups it’ll be working with to scale their business. The companies are Fy, Bidvine, Click Mechanic, Bizimply, Rock Pamper Scissors, and StoreMaven. In December, 500 […]... →

When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice. That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. The company just raised $4 million from Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and Venrock among… Read More... →

When Yahya Mokhtarzada got a $40 bill from Gogo, he started taking a closer look at the subscriptions on his bank statement. It turned out that he had been subscribed to the service for more than a year — which racked up to a substantial amount of money. “I called them to give me a refund on it, which was nice, but I said how many people are out there that have these subscriptions… Read More... →

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It’s been years in the making, but Netflix has finally pivoted to a premium channel for the web. It started as a DVD subscription service and evolved into a Spotify for movies. But now that Netflix is available everywhere around the world, it is just like HBO without a cable channel. Read More... →

Американская BitTorrent, которой принадлежат крупнейшие торрент-клиенты BitTorrent и uTorrent, опубликовала вакансию директора по продажам в России. Компания планирует размещать в своих приложениях рекламу российских брендов.... →

Intel will power the technology behind Lady Gaga’s upcoming performance at the Grammy Awards. It’s part of the world’s biggest chip makers image makeover, where it wants to be known for the great technology experiences that others can create with products that have its chips on the inside. Lady Gaga’s performance at the Grammy’s will […]... →

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If you’re wondering about the seed-stage investment landscape in New York City, a new report from NextView Ventures could be a good place to start. Pulling data from a number of sources (including AngelList, CrunchBase and Mattermark),  NextView principal Tim Devane found that there were  175 seed-stage deals (defined as rounds of less than $4.5 million) in New York City last… Read More... →

Das Keyboard, makers of super-clicky, super-heavy keyboards for hacker ninja warriors has announced a new line of keyboards and mice for the gaming set. Called Division Zero, the new X40 keyboard has a metal top panel, LED-lit keys, and new gold-plated switch contacts. The top panel is removable and replaceable and n-key rollover for maximum badassery. They’ve also launched an M50 mouse… Read More... →

That was hard on Facebook’s bottom line. These people’s homes didn’t have high-speed mobile networks or them couldn’t afford them, which meant loading the ad-filled News Feed was an agonizing experience. They were on feature phones or older smart phones with small screens so ads didn’t look that enticing. And some simply didn’t have the buying power to… Read More... →