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A team at the TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 hackathon has created what they say is one of the first personal assistants for the WhatsApp messaging platform. Called WhatsBot, the assistant uses a combination of artificial intelligence, location data from Foursquare, and mapping data from Esri in order to help you find places to meet up with friends, family, or colleagues. To use the… Read More... →

People in developing countries may not have the luxury of access to many modern technologies. They do, however, have affordable access to smartphones increasingly. According to a recent mobility report from Ericsson, there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions globally, with another 3.5 billion expected to come online by 2020. With that growth comes increasingly rapid SMS penetration, and… Read More... →

Ahoy, mates! We’re in foggy London town and Disrupt Europe 2015 is officially underway, as the Hackathon presentations kick off right now. In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s the scoop: Before every TC Disrupt conference, we give coders and developers from the area a chance to check out the coolest APIs in the land and throw together a MVP in less than… Read More... →

6 декабря в представители телеканала в качестве иллюстрации к одной из записей опубликовали изображение, на котором записаны пароли от аккаунтов проекта в социальных сетях. На ситуацию обратил внимание один из читателей vc.ru.... →

Dropping by the Disrupt London hackathon at around midnight, we expected to see many participants losing energy or flat-out asleep — and understandably so. Instead, almost everyone remained appallingly friendly, enthusiastic and eager to talk about their projects. They may have gotten a boost from the traditional midnight offerings of beer and pizza, not to mention a mysterious… Read More... →

Финорганизация провела рекламные торги с одним участником... →

Если коротко, то Google снова отложил апдейт «Пингвина», Яндекс рассказал о формировании сниппетов, а мы почти завершили «Рейтинг известности 2015»

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If you ask Alan Feld what Chinese investors should know before investing in Israeli startups, his answer is simple: a trusted, local partner. “Investing is very much a local business,” he explains. Feld is the cofounder and managing partner of Vintage Investment Partners, Israel’s only active fund of funds. They manage about $1 billion dollars […]... →

Скандально известная помощница Алексея Венедиктова покидает "Эхо Москвы"... →

Yahoo Inc's board of directors on Friday is in the third and final day of meetings that could decide the future of one of Silicon Valley's most prominent but troubled companies.... →

Big cities like San Francisco and New York are digital meccas, home to many of the world’s largest technology startups — and to hordes of smartphone-toting, app-using consumers. But when it comes to making a name for themselves, many of the companies hoping to influence these techie urbanites are going decidedly analog. In these cities, and others, it’s hard to miss the… Read More... →

Here’s hoping you had a happy turkey day! I’m sure by now that your refrigerator is cleared of leftovers, right? We took a break last week, so this week we’re rounding up two weeks in one! In our title story, Microsoft has announced big plans for Bing in the future. We’ll also visit search competitor Yandex and touch on some new features they introduced to their webmasters last week. In... [Read More...] The post Ante Up – Microsoft Goes “All In on Search”: Weekly Forum Roundup appeared first on Internet Ma... →

If you are thinking of going global, you may be interested in what Singapore has to offer. Having been consistently ranked by The World Bank as the world’s easiest place to do business, Singapore has embarked on an ambitious vision to build itself into a Smart Nation. It wants to bring together entrepreneurs, researchers, academics […]... →

The rise of the edtech industry has completely transformed the K-12 experience for students. But what about teachers? Shouldn’t technological innovation be used to improve teacher performance, just as it is doing for students? With a recent shift in education policy and reform focusing on teacher evaluation and accountability, this is a hole in the education technology market with… Read More... →

During its PlayStation Experience (PSX) event in San Francisco today, Sony unveiled some new information about the PlayStation VR and showed off some new titles. Unfortunately we’ve gotten no more information on dates aside from early 2016. However, the games we saw during today’s keynote look fantastic. Read More... →

Sony’s Richard Marks showed off the Sony PlayStation VR virtual reality system at the PSX fan event in San Francisco. Debuting next spring, the PlayStation VR is Sony’s entry in the hot field of VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion business by 2020. Marks’ two-person demo didn’t work as planned, but it […]... →

Tim Schafer from Double Fine Productions announced two remastered games will be coming to PS4 and PS Vita at the PlayStation Experience 2015 in San Francisco. Day of the Tentacle Remastered and Full Throttle Remastered are to reach both Sony consoles in March 2016. Day of the Tentacle first came out in 1993 and is […]... →

GUEST: As a CTO with one of the largest technology teams in Los Angeles, I do a lot of hiring. I am asked all the time what I look for in hiring talent — especially given the highly competitive technical recruiting environment. In the past, my response to “what is the ideal candidate” has typically been: […]... →

And we’re back, with the second of three posts on having success with code bootcamps. Having explored whether coding bootcamps work for hiring top tech talent (hint: the answer is yes), we turn to tips for hiring bootcamp grads. From my experience, here are the top hiring lessons your company needs to learn. Read More... →

5 декабря состоялась церемония Venture Awards Russia 2015, организованная медиа-проектами Firrma и RusBase. В номинации новый игрок года (NEW PLAYER OF THE YEAR) победил фонд RBV Capital. Персоной года (PERSON OF THE YEAR) стал Сооснователь и управляющий партнер Runa Capital Дмитрий Чихачев. Посевным инвестором года (SEED INVESTOR OF THE YEAR) – Altair Capital. Kорпоративным фондом года (CORPORATE FUND OF THE YEAR) стал фонд QIWI Venture. Инвестирующий не в IT (NON IT VENTURE OF THE YEAR) — I2BF Global.  Ст... →