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Twilio has opened up its video calling capability to more people. The company announced that Twilio Video is now available to everyone as a public beta. Both its iOS and Javascript SDKs can be accessed via the account portal, giving developers the ability to incorporate peer-to-peer video chat right into their applications. Unveiled in April, […]... →

Google today announced that it has allocated $1 million for grants to give out for security vulnerability research, even when the research doesn’t directly lead to the discovery of bugs. This initiative, which was first introduced at the beginning of 2015, is in addition to Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program for bug bounties, which has existed […]... →

VB WEBINAR: DeltaDNA CEO Mark Robinson and VentureBeat’s own Dean Takahashi discuss what kind of F2P ad monetization works — and, as importantly, what doesn’t. This interactive web-based presentation is available for immediate perusal right now. Access the webinar for free right here. Ads are essential to the free-to-play game economy: Up to 50 percent of overall […]... →

Российские креативное агентство MOST Creative Club запустило проект So_sweater — на сайте пользователь может самостоятельно нарисовать любой рисунок на виртуальном свитере и заказать его с доставкой. Об этом vc.ru рассказали представители агентства.... →

Американская компания по разработке программного обеспечения Fellowship Filtering Technologies 12 декабря подала иск к голландской компании Yandex N.V. (владеет 100% российского ООО «Яндекс»), Yandex LLC (ООО «Яндекс») и Yandex Inc. (компания, зарегистрированная в США) за нарушение патента, сообщили «Ведомости».... →

Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company was considering an online poll for choosing how the next version of Android will be branded, according to NDTV (via XDA-Developers). The comment was made at a student forum in New Delhi, during a two-day stay in India by the Chennai-born executive. Pichai, CEO since August, reportedly suggested to […]... →

Microsoft has a new app out called ‘Microsoft Apps‘ on Android that contains a list of its Android apps that you can download on the Android app store. There are two parts to this development. The first is that Microsoft’s cross-platform work continues, and that the company has yet to let up an inch on its work to bring its software and services to users on every… Read More... →

Pinterest has a new way to entice users to come back and buy things: keeping tabs on the price. That comes in the form today of a new tool that helps Pinterest users monitor price drops on products they’ve pinned. When users save pins, they’ll get a heads up when a price drops in the form of an in-app notification and an email. They can then jump straight to that pin and make… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: Yahoo is announcing today that it has open-sourced algorithms for doing very quick and efficient computations on streams of data. The Java-based Data Sketches algorithms are now available for download on GitHub under an Apache License. It’s a type of technology that researchers have talked about more and more in the academic literature, usually with […]... →

Pinterest has launched a new notification feature that will let users know when there’s a price drop for a Buyable Pin. If you follow one of these pins and the advertiser or brand that established it reduces the price listed, an email notification trigger will be activated. Launched in June, Buyable Pins are the transactional […]... →

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (By Jeb Blount and Marcelo Teixeira for Reuters) — A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension of the services in Brazil of Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp phone-messaging application, overturning an order from a lower court. The interruption of WhatsApp’s text message and Internet telephone service caused outrage […]... →

Amazon already has the number one Shopping app in the App Store, but the company believes it still has room to grow. Now, to incentivize more customers to install its app and shop from their phones, the online retailer is pushing out a mobile referral program that’s paying up to $10 for each new mobile app user. That is, Amazon is offering current app users $5 to share the Amazon App… Read More... →

Российский предприниматель Роман Абрамович собирается инвестировать $2 млн в израильскую компанию MelCap, которая создала электронную капсулу для борьбы с ожирением. MelCap разрабатывает электронную таблетку-капсулу для борьбы с ожирением. Попадая в пищеварительный тракт, капсула вызывает чувство насыщения. Также капсула может использоваться для приема лекарственных средств, а также для лечения других желудочно-кишечных заболеваний. Компания основана три года назад Жозефом Море и Борисом Вознесенским. О Ром... →

VideoLAN today launched VLC, the world’s most used media player, for Chrome OS. You can download the new app, which is a port of the VLC version for Android, from the Chrome Web Store. Chrome OS was one of the last desktop operating systems for which VLC was not available (the media player exists for […]... →

First there were celebrities, then influencers, then non-verified individuals. Today, Facebook is opening up access to its live-streaming service to brands on the social network. Now companies like T-Mobile, Nike, Ford, NBC, the Golden State Warriors, and other savvy businesses will be able to talk to you live because we all know conversing with our […]... →

Обозреватель vc.ru собрал 16 приложений и сервисов, которые помогут сохранить здоровье предпринимателя в течение рабочего дня. В подборке — программы для поддержания физической формы, зрения, сна и правильного питания.... →

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Here comes livestream marketing. Today Facebook gave all Verified Pages the ability to broadcast on its Periscope-style Live feature. Sports teams, TV shows, bands, and brands can now start a Live feed, take comments in real-time from viewers, and their video will be saved for replays after they finish. Facebook’s play here is using the massive audiences these Pages have already built… Read More... →

Rob Leathern is hoping to help publishers embrace ad blocking, and he’s doing it under a familiar name — Optimal.com, which was previously the social ad company where Leathern was founder and CEO. Brand Networks acquired Optimal (okay, so not exactly the same name, but really, really close) in 2013. Leathern left six months later, though he stayed on the Brand Networks board… Read More... →

The people want what they want and they want bigger phones. Apple’s sales record has been gangbusters since the introduction of its larger iPhone 6, 6 Plus and iPhone 6s phones. Samsung also offers several bigger phones, as do LG, Motorola and many others. Apple and Samsung take up the lion’s share with 66 percent of the market, much of it with the new bigger smartphone… Read More... →