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Amazon today disclosed that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud infrastructure provider that companies use to run applications, brought in $2.4 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2015. That’s a 69 percent year-over-year increase. That growth rate is lower than it was in the prior quarter, when AWS posted a 78 […]... →

The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the road globally by 2020. Each of those cars will be equipped with more than 200 sensors, more than double the number of sensors in connected cars on the road today. Read More... →

Представители соцсети отметили, что в дальнейшем будут тестировать способы монетизации музыкального контента... →

28 января 2016 года, 00:00. Банк «Интеркоммерц», который до конца 2015 года был основным партнёром сервиса «Рокетбанк», начал задерживать выдачу крупных вкладов физическим лицам из-за проблем с ликвидностью, сообщает РИА Новости. Также организация временно не проводит часть платежей юрлиц, отмечает агентство.Обновлено в 13:30. «Рокетбанк» разослал своим клиентам письмо, в котором предупредил о проблемах «Интеркоммерца».Обновлено в 16:50. Представители «Рокетбанка» отправили клиентам сервиса второе письмо, в... →

We’re pleased to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 is heading south to Los Angeles. And it’s going to have a new one-day event dubbed VR Pulse to zero-in on the excitement of virtual reality games and entertainment. Our ninth annual GamesBeat event takes place at the Terranea Resort on August 1 to August 3 in Rancho […]... →

Apple has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout, Bloomberg reported a bit ago and TC just confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LearnSprout is a three-year-old, San Francisco-based software startup whose online data insights help K-12 educator track students’ performance. The company had raised $4.7 million from investors across two rounds, including… Read More... →

Ajit Pai, FCC Commissioner and outspoken critic of the Title II regulation proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, says Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs should not support Net Neutrality. Read More... →

Wael Ghonim is an activist who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Ghonim, who worked for Google at the time, used social media to unite Egyptians and create the movement in his country and was jailed for it. Thanks to social media… Read More... →

IBM today is announcing that it’s buying Resource/Ammirati, a digital marketing agency with offices in Columbus, Ohio, and New York. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The odd name of the company being acquired is a result of Resource, based in Ohio, buying Ammirati, which was based in New York, in April 2014. The deal […]... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Dropbox today released its diversity numbers for 2015, and the numbers show that a greater share of its employees are white and male than in 2014. In addition to releasing the figures, Dropbox also announced that it has hired Judith Williams as its new global head of diversity. Previously […]... →

BirdEye, a three-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based software company focused on helping its clients improve their business reputations and customer experiences in real time, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. Plenty of Silicon Valley luminaries also piled into the round, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; Square’s project… Read More... →

Google объявила размер компенсации, которую она выплатила своему бывшему сотруднику, случайно выкупившему на одну минуту домен Google.com за $12. За свою находку Санмай Вэд получил $6006,13 — в этой сумме компания спрятала шутку, связанную со своим названием.... →

Patrick Sexton asked if he can publish the new changes and additions made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines update I mentioned this morning. So here is his take on that. But first, Patrick Sexton is the author of Varvy.com and the co-founder of getlisted...... →

Dropbox just released its diversity report for 2015 on the company’s blog, citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25% of the VPs at Dropbox being women, but an overall decline in percentage of women at Dropbox overall. Last year, Dropbox was 33.9% women worldwide. This year, that percentage has dropped to 32% worldwide. Regarding blacks and… Read More... →

A refrain about my generation is that we are too ephemeral and that our memories are too fleeting. Exhibit A: Snapchat. Now, obviously generational complaints are generally bullshit and olds are meant to be ignored, but it’s also not like I just want to forget everything either. Shryne is an app for storing memories. It’s not a diary or a full backup, it allows you to… Read More... →

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (By Dustin Volz and Eric Auchard for Reuters) — A U.S. Senate panel approved measures on Thursday that were causing concern in Europe among negotiators hammering out a new trans-Atlantic pact on electronic data transfer, an issue for many companies such as Facebook and Microsoft. In a step toward addressing global concerns about data […]... →

VB EVENT: Mark Twain wasn’t the most exemplary businessman, but he had an uncanny eye for what drives people, and what separates the ordinary from the extraordinary. Today’s marketing leaders are extraordinary people, often melding traits like intelligence and toughness with “softer” skills like self-awareness and empathy. The most dynamic, influential leaders wed an analytic intelligence with […]... →

SEATTLE — I was able to use the HTC Vive virtual reality headset with a full set of near-finished games at an event held by Valve, the creator of the Steam VR system upon which the Vive is based. And the verdict is that it’s a good simulator of an immersive experience, and it can provide […]... →

The mobile experience for Reddit has honestly always kind of sucked, and that’s one of the things Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has devoted a ton of resources to since coming on as redditor-in-chief. Today, in a post on the site, Huffman announced that Reddit would be releasing the beta of its Android app today with an iOS versions soon to follow. “Whether you access it from your desktop,… Read More... →

Компания «Яндекс», которой принадлежит сервис «Кинопоиск», обновила его логотип. Кроме того, разработчики перенесли новую версию сайта на домен plus.kinopoisk.ru и добавили знак плюса в логотип.... →