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Pinterest today has made a couple of moves aimed at bolstering its ads and commerce offerings. The company behind the popular visual discovery engine has acquired services The Hunt and Pext. Both of these companies will be shuttered as a result, and financial terms of the deal were not released. Within Pinterest, the secret sauce […]... →

Looking for new apps? You’ve got a few options. Almost 7,000 of them as of last week, in fact, on the iOS app store alone, and thousands more than that on Android. Thousands of them are games, and hundreds are Christmas-themed. But none for either Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. In fact, according to MightySignal there were 6,824 new […]... →

Яндекс приобрел технологии петербургского разработчика ПО в сфере информационной безопасности Agnitum и переводит в свой штат сотрудников компании. Эти технологии будут использоваться для защиты пользователей Яндекс.Браузера. Опыт Agnitum (производителя антивирусного ПО Outpost) поможет в развитии технологии активной защиты Protect, которая отвечает за безопасность пользователей Яндекс.Браузера. В ней сочетается несколько механизмов: защита от кражи паролей, функция «Безопасный Wi-Fi», блокировка подозрите... →

It’s been a tough fight, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, we hand-picked the 15 greatest companies from Europe and beyond so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield. They all presented in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. The startups were competing for £30,000 and the… Read More... →

BlaBlaCar pulled in $200 million and spread its ride-sharing platform to 20 countries this year. It now claims 25 million members worldwide. C0-founder and COO Nicolas Brusson told the TechCrunch Disrupt London audience in an onstage interview today at least 50 percent of that growth is from emerging markets like as Russia and India. All that growth probably seems sweet to Brusson and his team.… Read More... →

Understanding blockchain technology is not for the average person. This is level 10,000 on the nerd scale. Which makes for a sizable challenge if you’re a startup trying to build a business based on a technology most people will struggle to comprehend. Read More... →

Facebook is rolling out a number of new features for Pages designed to make it easier for businesses to communicate with customers. The biggest change, or at least the one consumers will see, is an expansion on an existing feature, where businesses add a badges to their Pages declaring that they’re “very responsive to messages” — but only if they respond to 90 percent… Read More... →

Компания Americhip запустила в России рекламу с функцией Shazam Visual Recognition, работающей по принципу QR-кода. С помощью приложения по распознаванию песен Shazam пользователь смартфона может просканировать рекламу на печатном макете, после чего на экране появятся дополнительные материалы о продукте или бренде. Об этом vc.ru сообщили представители Americhip.... →

REVIEW: Two months ago, after spending about 10 minutes with Google’s new Pixel C tablet, I thought the device wouldn’t be very useful, particularly because of its cramped keyboard. After spending several days with a review unit, though, I’ve changed my mind. Of course, the device is an Android tablet, so it’s not a full computer, […]... →

Hello from the other side. Omate, which made news a few years ago with a standalone smartwatch that aimed to give Android a run for its money, is back with the Rise, a “standalone smartwatch” that runs Android 5.1 and needs no phone. The Rise is running in a 48 hour crowdfunding campaign and you can get a watch for $199 during the early bird period. The watch has a 1.3-inch… Read More... →

Paris-based Devialet announced today that Apple has decided to feature the company’s Phantom speakers in its retail stores, giving the French company a major lift in its efforts to break big in the U.S. market. Released earlier this year after several years of development, the Phantom speakers have caused a sensation among audiophiles for their quality […]... →

It may not surprise anyone, but Adyen’s European chief executive Pieter van der Does thinks that European startups and tech are ready for a comeback. And though Europe won’t reach absolute parity with the U.S. investment and startup scene, he expects European startups to throw more weight around on the global stage. Any European company that does, is, in some ways, following… Read More... →

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A robotics company that teaches kids how to code, Codie Labs, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London this afternoon to show off their fast, rolling and programmable robot, Codie, which is controlled via a mobile application for iOS or Android. The Budapest-based startup earned the opportunity to present on the big stage by winning the Wild Card position, which pulls a promising company out… Read More... →

Google today announced Google Fiber could be coming to two of the biggest cities in the U.S.: Chicago and Los Angeles. The company is looking to build a joint planning process with each city’s leaders to roll out the $70 per month service. More specifically, the Google Fiber team is inviting the two cities to […]... →

А сотрудникам компании предложил перейти на работу в «Яндекс»... →

Mozilla выпустила блокировщик рекламы Focus для iOS 9, который работает только с Safari. Об этом сообщает The Verge.... →

EXCLUSIVE: Marketing automation vendor Act-On has a new CEO. Andy MacMillan took on the new role last month, after holding several roles at Salesforce, including COO of Products. I talked to MacMillan about why he took the new role and how he sees CRM and marketing automation evolving. As marketing takes up more of the customer […]... →

SPONSORED: Hey brands, reality check – your customers don’t care about that high priority item you’re trying to sell, so why do you keep trying to push it on them?... →

ANALYSIS: It’s no secret that Microsoft is struggling in the mobile space. Ever since its strategic 2010 reboot, wherein it scrapped its legacy Windows Mobile platform for the incompatible Windows Phone — in the face of unprecedented competition from Apple’s popular iPhone (not to mention Android) — the company has failed to gain anything close to […]... →