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Here’s the rap on marketplaces where buyers meet sellers: Some of them leak revenue. Unicorns are looking leaky these days. Read More... →

A temporary WhatsApp shutdown is not even close to the craziest thing happening with the Brazilian internet right now. If Brazil’s conservative Congress gets its way, they’re going to take down the entire social web as we know it, with bills circulating through the legislature to criminalize posting social media content and allow the government to spy on its citizens. Read More... →

WhatsApp has been blocked for 48 hours in Brazil following a court order by a judge in Brazil. It has been alleged that the messaging service has been providing “pirate” services, undermining the role of the country’s telecommunications companies and should be regulated. The so-called blockade goes into effect at midnight tonight. As a result […]... →

In what is sure to be seen by some as government interference and general misunderstanding of technology, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has released a proposal that would require drivers to be present in self-driving vehicles. That limits any possibility for parents to send their kids off alone, any delivery services hoping to utilize autonomous vehicles without paying human… Read More... →

A year ago, UploadVR was formed as one of many meetups for developers interested in virtual reality. Today, the company has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from China’s Shanda Group. That tells you how fast things are moving in the world of VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion market by 2020, […]... →

Lew Cirne, founder and CEO of the seven-year-old software analytics company New Relic, has a lot for which to be thankful. Near the very top of his list? The fact that New Relic went public a year ago, after raising roughly $214 million from investors. (Its market cap today is $1.78 billion.) We talked earlier today about what’s keeping so many other companies from doing the same. Our… Read More... →

NextEv, a Chinese electric car company potentially taking on Tesla and Faraday Future, has tapped Padmasree Warrior for the U.S. CEO position. Warrior will also head up software development and the user experience globally for the Shanghai-based company. According to Warrior, NextEv has already pulled in half a billion dollars of the $1 billion it plans to raise from the likes of Sequoia… Read More... →

Компания Lamoda объявила о запуске маркетплейса для сторонних продавцов. Как Firrma сообщили в компании, комиссия площадки в базовом варианте будет рассчитываться в зависимости от стоимости подтвержденных заказов. В пакет услуг маркетплейса входит доставка в крупнейшие города России службой LM Express, услуги хранения и упаковки товаров, услуги фотостудии, трансграничные операции.  О компании Lamoda Lamoda является онлайн-ритейлером одежды, обуви и аксессуаров в России и СНГ.  На данный момент компания Lamo... →

On the heels of reports that Apple Pay is gearing up for a February launch of Apple Pay in China, the country’s biggest credit card company has entered into a JV with a mobile payments startup out of the UK to take its own steps into smartphone-based transactions. UnionPay, the state-run company that controls debit and credit card payments processing in China, has inked a 10-year… Read More... →

Posted by Dr-PeteIt's been 3 1/2 years since we launched the MozCast project, and one request I hear a lot is if we can make more than 30 days worth of data available. So, working with Dave Snyder and the team at CopyPress, we've put together the highlights of 2014 and 2015 — the confirmed algorithm updates you already know, and the ones you might have missed. The data is mine, but credit for everything else goes to CopyPress (Thanks, Dave!). If you have any questions about specific events or dates, feel fr... →

This week, I learned that the bill in question (HR-158) has Obama’s support, has cleared the House of Representatives with a whopping 407-19 majority, and is on track to be passed by the Senate within days. While the bill attempts to help make Americans safe from terrorism, it’s not only unlikely to do so, but risks implementing a discriminatory regime that could be used against… Read More... →

When it comes to gathering data to help you better serve your customers, prospects, and community members, there are two alternate approaches: qualitative research and quantitative research. Quantitative research is the numerical data gathered by most analytics solutions. It is the “how many” of the research world, helping to explain the number of visitors you’ve had, […]... →

Riot Games, the maker of the enormously popular League of Legends multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA), is now 100-percent-owned by China’s Tencent. Los Angeles-based Riot Games made the announcement somewhat casually as part of a post about changes coming to Riot’s compensation structure. There was no mention of the cost of the transaction, as […]... →

While traditional gaming powers in Japan are nearly all focused on mobile, one of the country’s biggest publishers is looking toward a virtual future. Colopl, which produces dozens of hit mobile games for iOS and Android, announced today that it is starting a $50 million fund that it will use to help upstart developers working in the […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join VB’s Mark Sullivan, Kahuna’s Doug Roberge and mCordis’ Michael Becker talk mobile app success. Watch their live and unscripted roundtable on-demand right here for free. “If I’m the user, how is this going to make my life better?” This question raised by VentureBeat’s Mark Sullivan is one that must be answered if marketers expect to […]... →

It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of Rwanda. The first thing you notice is how exceptionally clean the streets of Kigali appear. That’s because of a ban on… Read More... →

Music listening service Pandora saw a dramatic dip and then a dramatic spike in after-hours trading Wednesday, as investors were reading the tea leaves and then learned of the Pandora royalty rate decision. Investors had been waiting all year for the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision, which determines how much Pandora will be paying artists for the next five years. They settled on 17… Read More... →

Minecraft is an excellent way to lose dozens of hours engineering virtual buildings and machines, but now an interesting new company has devised a way to bridge those digital creations into our physical world. LittleBits is a Minecraft invention studio, which is kind of a crazy business model when you think about it, and it […]... →

Google may be poised to remove SMS and MMS functionality from Android’s Hangouts messaging app, according to a report in Phandroid (via Android Police). No reason was given for the alleged move, though this feature has had its share of growing pains since its initial inclusion in late 2013. Currently Android users can choose to route […]... →

In a year when the stock market has essentially been flat, a few tech companies have killed it on the public markets. Companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix created tremendous shareholder value this year, and their public market valuations are showing it. Click through to read about nine of the best performing public technology companies of 2015. And, stay tuned for the next… Read More... →