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GUEST: When Apple Pay was first announced back in September 2014, I was very enthusiastic about it. Finally, a dream come true! Someone, and not just someone but the biggest company in the world, had come up with a new generation of payment technology that would combine mobile and biometric forces. The long chain of disappointments, […]... →

Издание Forbes опубликовало колонку медиаэксперта Грега Сателла, в которой он объясняет, почему успех известных людей часто зависит от того, как быстро они учатся восстанавливаться после крупных неприятностей в своей жизни. vc.ru приводит перевод заметки.... →

GUEST: Famo.us raised $25 million last year, bringing its total funding to over $30 million. Fifteen months after its most recent raise, the company “laid off a big chunk of the team, including its VP of Engineering, Head of Open Source, and a dozen engineers” and switched directions for the third time. Famo.us had started as […]... →

No gymnasiums, no cafeterias and no administrators. That’s school policy at AltSchools, a chain of private, for-profit schools backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Mark Zuckerberg. At the location I visited this October, the school schedule was written on a white board and could be changed in real time. Students flowed between grade levels and classes based upon what they… Read More... →

GUEST: In the 2014 movie Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays a super powerful virtual sentient being with limitless power. In one scene, scientists examine a sample of rainwater under a microscope only to realize that it is swarming with intelligent nano-robots. These nano-robots are connected to, and controlled by Depp’s character, allowing him to transform everything in […]... →

Издание Business Insider опубликовало фотогалерею, посвящённую жизни и биографии Марка Андриссена — основателя компании Netscape и фонда Andreessen Horowitz, одной из самых известных венчурных фирм Кремниевой долины.... →

Honestly, I am sad but not surprised. Google implied that they are not doing holiday decorations this year...... →

Бывший шеф-редактор русскоязычного сегмента «Живого журнала» Павел Пряников рассказал о будущем ЖЖ — оно есть. И ещё немного порассуждал про соцсети.... →

Создаетель сайта для путешественников Trip Secrets Алексей Игнатов написал для vc.ru колонку, посвящённую монетизации тревел-проектов, в которой он перечислил все возможные способы, их преимущества и недостатки.... →

Сооснователь венчурного фонда InVenture Partners Сергей Азатян подтвердил факт переговоров о покупке «Фэшн пресс» (издает Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, «Домашний очаг» и другие издания) у финской компании Sanoma. Об этом он сообщил Firrma. Сергей Азатян отметил, что переговоры о покупке «Фэшн пресс»ведутся уже больше полутора лет: «За это время я встречался с представителями нескольких медиакомпаний, в том числе и с Sanoma Independent Media, так как я рассматриваю возможность расширения сферы свои... →

Лидер рок-группы «Аквариум» спел в подземном переходе в рамках проекта «Дождя»... →

Drone Bird was selected out of 139 application entries for a project-collecting campaign on the ReadyFor crowdfunding site last year.... →

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GUEST: The rate of data creation today is already simply mind-boggling. And it’s speeding up more every day. IDC’s latest Digital Universe study predicts about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet by 2020. Consumers create the vast majority of new data in the world today […]... →

One of the more interesting parts of the Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality initiative is the way Microsoft is listening to the public to direct some of its early-stage app development for the platform, through the Share Your Idea website launched earlier this month. One of the top three ideas on the site, based on votes, […]... →

Reminder: Almost 90 per cent of the revenue of the company formerly known as Google — grandly rebranded Alphabet this fall, even if everyone, including me, is still going to call Google Google — comes from advertising. Mountain View’s annual revenue is around $69 billion at this point. It makes almost all (89 per cent) of that money-mountain from ads. It might like… Read More... →

Google will remove YouTube’s Webcam Capture feature, which lets users record videos with webcams right on YouTube with no uploading required, after January 16, 2016. When you use Webcam Capture now, you’ll see a little warning near the top of the screen about the feature’s upcoming disappearance. Webcam Capture first showed up way back in […]... →

It’s taken long enough. Social news site Reddit has finally come up with a core app for Android. The company has begun taking requests for access to a beta version of the app. “As many of you know, the team here has been working hard to bring our official native Reddit app to Android for […]... →

Asia accounts for nearly half of the mobile learning revenues in the world. Thousands of hagwons, or “cram schools,” line the streets in South Korea, which has about 15 percent of the global tutoring market. Parents spend an average of $1,000 per month on private tutoring — an estimated 20 percent of the monthly cost to raise a child there. In India, 7.5 percent of… Read More... →

With the close of the Paris Climate Talks, tech titans pledging to invest in clean energy technologies, and Buffett’s Grandson starting a Berkshire Hathaway-like fund for impact investing, the question remains: how can tech solve climate change? Read More... →