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It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the myriad of options in the haircare section of your local store, but it turns out that of all those products, the formula within most shampoo and conditioner doesn’t vary much across brands. A new Y Combinator company, Function of Beauty, is looking to change all that. The company lets the user choose a scent and describe their own hair type,… Read More... →

Yahoo today is hoping to capitalize on the cord-cutting trend and consumers’ growing attachment to streaming video services with the launch of a new app called Yahoo Video Guide. The app, available now on iOS and Android, will help you find new movies and TV shows to watch on HBO, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other services, then allow you to launch titles directly in the video apps you… Read More... →

Компания по веб-аналитике SimilarWeb купила стартап мобильной аналитики из Кремниевой долины Quettra, рассказали Roem.ru в компании. По информации издания "Виси", сумма сделки составила $10 млн. Также SimilarWeb в результате сделки откроет офис в Долине. Сейчас SimilarWeb анализирует трафик на 80 млн сайтов и 3 млн приложений.... →

Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is reportedly raising $827 million in a third round of funding, according to Forbes. If it succeeds, that will be a strong signal of investor confidence in the fledgling technology, which can overlay animated imagery over the real world using glasses with special displays. Augmented reality is expected to become […]... →

Surely by now we know that every company is a software company, and as more companies focus on software development, it is increasingly difficult for them to manage the complexity around coordinating builds and creating executables. That’s where the open source Gradle tool comes in — and it got $4.2 million today to continue to expand the commercial company behind the open… Read More... →

Gradle, the startup behind the Gradle open source build automation software, is announcing today that it has taken on $4.2 million in funding. This is essentially the coming-out party for the startup, which has 35 employees. Gradle automates the process of compiling code, testing it, and creating files with all the necessary dependencies. It’s highly […]... →

TRData, a London-headquartered startup with a development team based in Ukraine and the majority of customers in Russia, makes for an interesting European tech story. Read More... →

It didn’t take long. A little bit more than two weeks after launching an OS X app, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is launching a Windows version. Like on OS X, this app takes advantage of the complete rewrite of WordPress.com. Read More... →

Сервис статистики SimilarWeb приобрёл платформу для анализа мобильных приложений Quettra, сообщили vc.ru в компании. Quettra станет офисом SimilarWeb в Кремниевой долине, а все её сотрудники перейдут на работу к покупателю.... →

Talk about “peak hours” with any engineer who is working on a video streaming website, and it will send shivers down their spine. French startup Streamroot is making sure that everything will run smoothly when it comes to bandwidth, delivery time, adaptive bitrate and all the other key technical words in the world of online video streaming. In particular, Streamroot uses… Read More... →

Cloud SQL, Google’s fully managed MySQL database service on its Cloud Platform, is getting a major upgrade today with the beta launch of version two of the service. The original Cloud SQL launched back in 2011 and hit general availability a full two and a half years later. Google says that after today’s update, Cloud SQL will feature throughput rates that are up to seven times… Read More... →

Yahoo has launched a mobile app aimed at helping you find which video-streaming service your favorite TV show or movie is appearing on. The Yahoo Video Guide is an iOS and Android app akin to the TV Guide of yesteryear, but modernized to account for the cord-cutting generation. “We believe that there’s a rapid shift in […]... →

Google is today announcing the beta availability of the second generation of the Google Cloud SQL service, a hosted version of the MySQL database. The second generation offers greater performance and storage than the original version, which first launched in 2011. The new version of Cloud SQL can scale up to 10 terabytes, 15,000 input/output […]... →

Facebook today is announcing that its researchers have developed hardware for a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which can be used inside several of the company’s applications. Facebook is publishing the hardware designs for anyone to explore through the Open Compute Project. The servers, codenamed Big Sur, are packed with graphics processing units […]... →

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SimilarWeb, a website- and app-tracking analytics company, has acquired Quettra, a mobile intelligence startup launched back in 2013 by a former Googler. Founded out of Israel in 2009, SimilarWeb offers tools to developers and publishers, providing key insights about their traffic and that of their competitors. The company has raised $65 million to date, including […]... →

Yet more consolidation is happening in the world of analytics. Today Israeli web analytics and traffic measurement startup SimilarWeb announced that it has acquired Quettra, a provider of mobile analytics and measurement tools founded by Ankit Jain, the former head of search and discovery in the Google Play store. Quettra was a relatively young startup. It only came out of stealth last year… Read More... →

Российский рекламный стартап GetShop.TV привлек инвестиции в обмен на 15% проекта. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  Сделка состоялась в сентябре 2015 года. В раунде приняли Игорь Лутц, Константин Синюшин в лице The Unitled Retail Labs, а также члены Venture Club, бизнес-ангелы Александр Бородич, Дмитрий Пучков и Федор Суздалев. Постинвестиционная оценка компании составила примерно $1 млн.  Средства пойдут на доработку продукта и масштабирование продаж, а также на альфа-тестирование технологии покупки из... →

Google’s plan to accelerate the mobile web – also known as the “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” or AMP, for short – now has a launch date. The company said this week that it will begin directing traffic to its sped-up AMP pages in Google Search starting in late February 2016. In addition, Google notes that Pinterest is already testing AMP pages in its mobile… Read More... →

After pricing its IPO at $21, above the expected range of $19 to $20 Australian-based unicorn Atlassian began trading at $27.67 on the Nasdaq today, under the ticker “TEAM.” This gives the company a valuation of $5.8 billion. Atlassian, whose backers include Accel and T. Rowe Price, raised capital at over a $3.3 billion valuation in the private markets. In the wake of companies… Read More... →