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NEW YORK (Reuters, Andrew Chung) – Samsung took to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a last-ditch effort to pare back the more than $548 million in damages it must pay Apple for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone. Samsung’s petition must first be accepted for review by the Supreme Court. It […]... →

Most security services today give you virtual private networks that encrypt your connections (if you work for any sizable company, you probably use some kind of VPN client to log in to your intranet). New York-based Dispel, which is now coming out of stealth after more than two years of development, offers all of these features but then layers a number of other security tactics on top of… Read More... →

If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to offer an official app for the platform. Over on Reddit last week, the team shared the news: Hi everyone! I’m the product manager for native mobile here at Reddit. As many of you know, the team here has been working hard… Read More... →

I’ve always founder that the weirder gifts, no matter how much they cost, are the ones that people appreciate the most. Sure, you could send someone a boring gift card or a basic-ass iPhone case, but why? Spend some extra time on the always awesome Etsy and give back to the community while gifting some of the funniest and weirdest stuff you’ll find. And a lot of it is customizable. Read More... →

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Facebook says it has improved the way we embed public videos and posts from the social network. The company has released an API that now gives developers support for embedding video players into their applications and websites. The move comes nine months after Facebook unveiled a way for users to share content onto third party […]... →

Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundles emails about a trip you have coming up into a single Trip Bundle. Read More... →

Eschewing partnerships altogether may turn out to be overly naive. Read More... →

Российский фонд Titanium Investments повторно инвестировал в израильский стартап Cloudyn, который разработал сервис мониторинга облачной инфраструктуры. Объём раунда составил $11 млн. Возглавил сделку Carmel Ventures, текущими инвесторы RDseed и Titanium Investments также приняли участие. Всего компания привлекла $16,5 млн. Средства пойдут на расширение в другие регионы. В 2016 году компания планирует открыть офис в США. В сентябре Cloudyn привлек $4 млн в рамках инвестиционного раунда серии А. Раунд возгла... →

SocialRank has launched an enterprise product that will give brands, agencies, and organizations more information about who follows them on social media. Called SocialRank for Teams, it’s a collaborative team product that lets individual employees conduct research and gather intelligence on the customers interested in the company’s social media presence. It has also publicly launched […]... →

The rush to develop apps for Apple’s two newest products has kicked into high gear, as platform providers roll out tools to facilitate this trend. The latest entry comes from Parse, which today has launched two new SDKs for devices built around Apple’s watchOS 2 and tvOS systems — the Apple Watch and TV, respectively. […]... →

It’s been pretty quiet around Facebook’s Parse developer platform this year. The team launched its Internet of Things service in March and open-sourced its SDKs in August, but otherwise, we haven’t heard much about it. It looks like Facebook is putting a bit more emphasis on the service. The company today announced two new SDKs for Parse. The service now supports both… Read More... →

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

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Cloud-cost monitoring startup Cloudyn raises $11M Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million […]... →

Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping plans, Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google Maps iOS application which will now show you when stores are the busiest. Armed with this information, you can better plan when to visit the location in question in order to avoid the crowds. The feature is available not only for retail stores, but for any business where customers… Read More... →

Google today updated its Google Maps app for iOS with a slew of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Apple’s App Store. Although the app’s changelog only mentions “See popular times at more than a million places around the world” and “See up-to-date gas prices when searching for gas stations […]... →

Adobe is releasing a new “State of Content” survey that outlines five broad rules for marketers in 2016. Loni Stark, a senior director of strategy and product marketing at Adobe, told me that the goal behind was to help creative professionals answer the question, “What’s the best content for my customers and for my audience?” While the focus was on the content… Read More... →

Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its big-data analytics for marketers. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with Salesforce that it has acquired MinHash, a young startup based in Palo Alto co-founded by two data science engineers formerly with eBay and Avaya. MinHash had developed an AI platform as well as a “personal assistant” called AILA to crawl to… Read More... →

In an effort to stave off further cord-cutting as well as catch up with rivals, Verizon* announced today that its FiOS customers will be able to stream their DVR recordings outside of the home, anywhere they have an Internet connection for the first time. In addition, the company also says customers are now able to watch all their live TV channels on any device while in the home and on their… Read More... →

SPONSORED: Every unsecured IoT device can act as an entry point to your household as well as your online assets. Intruders can even use the Internet of Things to open your front door from the inside -- literally.... →