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As promised, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) opened its drone registry today. If you live in the U.S. and own any kind of drone that weighs more than 0.55 pounds and less than 55 pounds (and that’s pretty much every drone that isn’t a toy drone like the Parrot MiniDrone), you have until February 19, 2016 to register it. If you buy a new drone after today, you… Read More... →

If you’re buying a Tesla Model S, you can probably afford to bring your own tunes to the mix, but the company has announced today that you’ll get free Spotify Premium integration with your purchase in Europe, Australia and Hong Kong. Not for the US, but it’s still one final burn for the previously implemented and now acquired Rdio. Here’s what Spotify’s… Read More... →

Lyft has authorized a Series F round in which it could raise as much as $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing a Delaware state filing. We hear that Credit Suisse is running the fundraise — the big banks are getting involved with some of these large rounds, sorting everything out amongst the many investors. Goldman has been handling Uber’s mega-rounds,… Read More... →

Еженедельная подборка новостей о российском венчурном рынке за прошедшие семь дней.... →

OK, it doesn’t exist just yet, but one group called “Pinball Labs” has a new Kickstarter to bring back the feels you felt when you entered an arcade with tons of pinball games. There’s nothing like the sounds and visuals of old pinball machines (I love Addams Family) and it could become a…reality once again in VR. The Kickstarter recently went live and this video… Read More... →

Earlier this month, Microsoft launched Cortana for Android and iOS in the U.S. and China. Not even two weeks later though, and the company has disabled the digital assistant’s hands-free feature on Android. “Hey Cortana” allows users to open Cortana and give her commands just by saying those two words. The feature is similar to […]... →

Today, Yahoo announced that one of their crown jewels, a relationship that they have with NBC Sports, has been renewed. In a post, Ian Weingarten, SVP, Corporate Development and Partnerships, said: We’ve renewed our partnership with NBC Sports Group, bringing even more content to Yahoo/NBC Sports viewers, including Premier League highlights, NBC Sports Regional Network team reports, and… Read More... →

The Federal Trade Commission announced that it has won concessions in a settlement with software maker Oracle over the company’s failure to uninstall older, insecure Java SE software from customer PCs upon upgrade. This, said the FTC, despite Oracle’s explicit promise to its users that updates would render their machines “safe and secure.” By abandoning […]... →

За неделю клиентами «Кнопки» стали только трое предпринимателей, и эксперимент досрочно прекращён.... →

Don’t believe everything you read on Medium. Over the weekend a Medium post appeared online under the headline “Dropbox Cafeteria Awarded A Michelin Star.” “The 2016 Michelin Guide stars have been released, and among the many big names on the list is one unlikely winner: The Tuck Shop, Dropbox’s office cafeteria, was one of 51 […]... →

For the past year and a half the Brooklyn-based development shop, HappyFunCorp has been laboring over a new graph that would offer new ways to interact with Twitter and Instagram. Now, just in time for the holidays, the company is unveiling the first fruits of that labor with Voyour. Read More... →

Венчурная компания The Unitled Retail Lab инвестировала в интернет-платформу для планирования и контроля ремонта жилья Radme.ru в обмен на долю в 10%. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  Средства  пойдут на разработку полноценной альфа-версии продукта и тестирование разных каналов привлечения пользователей, а также различных пользовательских сценариев и монетизации. Постинвестиционная оценка проекта не раскрывается. По пословам представителя компании «она соответствует рыночным показателям». Ранее стартап ... →

Square is announcing that the App Marketplace has seen 100,000 sellers connected, a number that has doubled since January of last year. Read More... →

Microsoft is buying Talko, the mobile messaging startup founded by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s former Chief Software Architect until 2010. The company says today the acquisition, whose terms were not disclosed, involves the Talko technology and the team. Talko employees will now join Skype, while Talko itself is being shut down. Ozzie, however, will not be rejoining Microsoft as a part of… Read More... →

Two former Theranos employee have filed complaints so far with the Food and Drug Administration over alleged faulty test results. The latest complaint is aimed at a test for herpes – and it is the only test the FDA has so far approved blood diagnotistics startup Theranos to run using its proprietary technology. One former employee filed a complaint in September to the Centers for… Read More... →

PayPal is revealing some new numbers today about One Touch, a feature that lets customers make online purchases with the tap of a button. Eight months ago PayPal rolled out a tool called One Touch that eschews the normal checkout process of typing in billing credentials in favor of tapping a single button to make a purchase. […]... →

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Возглавляемая Катериной Тихоновой компания объявила о результатах конкурса научных проектов «Эврика! Концепт»... →

VB WEBINAR: Waterfall mediation has been a reliable way for publishers to earn revenue from their available ad slots and to keep all of that ad real estate filled. However, there are real issues with the waterfall model in how it finds ads for publishers.... →

It’s been just under 3 months since Apple debuted “Live Photos” with the iPhone 6s and, slowly but surely, big third parties are finding ways to integrate them. Tumblr picked them up just days ago… and now Live Photos are getting support from the biggest photo sharing beast of them all: Facebook. Starting with an update hitting this morning, Facebook is rolling out… Read More... →