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Yixia Tech, the Beijing developer behind Chinese video blogging app Miao Pai, has raised $200 million in Series D funding from microblogging platform Weibo, Sequoia Capital, YG Entertainment, and other investors at a valuation of $1 billion. Read More... →

Сеть фаст-фуда в нашей стране не пользуется антикризисными наработками своего основного рынка... →

В новой версии Google+ разработчики убрали со страниц компаний отзывы и другую информацию, включая адрес, телефоны и часы работы. Ниже – классический дизайн Google+: Новый дизайн: «Отзывы больше не будут отображаться на страницах компаний в новой версии Google+. При этом они по-прежнему доступны в Поиске и Картах Google», - комментирует изменение представитель Google Элизабет Пауэрс (Elizabeth Powers). Этот шаг со стороны Google может говорить о том, что он больше не намерен побуждать представителей мал... →

One of the nice things about living in the Bay Area or another technology hub is that everyone speaks the same language – there’s common jargon. As nice as going home and meeting family is, your language is going to need a bit of a readjustment. Here’s a list of some tech buzzwords that you can explain to your family when you’re not quietly moving your grandparents… Read More... →

Власти отреагировали на уничтожение турками российского бомбардировщика... →

Государство намерено ужесточить контроль за продажей и оборотом сим-карт... →

As the market for virtual reality technology continues to grow, Apple has made an interesting acquisition that could further its role in the space. TechCrunch has confirmed that Apple has snapped up Faceshift, a startup based in Zurich that has developed technology to create animated avatars and other figures that capture a person’s facial expressions in real time. There were… Read More... →

A company called eleVR, which does research in virtual reality and isn’t a gaming company at all, just shared a video for a virtual reality game they’re working on called ‘Float.” It’s a puzzle game and platform where you can visit floating islands to make them “come alive again.” You can play it on the HTC Vive only right now. Almost as fascinating as… Read More... →

Hey! Have you heard? There’s a new Star Wars movie coming out. Surprise! I know, right? Who knew. You’d think someone would have said something about it by now. Just kidding. Star Wars is on just about everything right now. Really. Walk into a toy store. Star. Wars. Everything. Now it’s all up in Google. Read More... →

Lawmakers and Congressional staffers may be trickling out of their Hill offices and to the airports, the encryption debate is not taking a holiday this week. Following media reports that the terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks communicated via encrypted messaging platforms, both opponents and proponents of backdoors for law enforcement are speaking up. Yesterday Senator Ron… Read More... →

Earlier today, The Information published a piece that told its readers that the “smart money is betting less on early-stage tech startups.” Per data provided to the news outlet by SignalFire, a venture firm and real-time information platform (you may have read about it here last month), blue-chip VCs accounted for 5.3 percent of Series A funding in the first nine months of… Read More... →

Posted by jenstarFor many SEOs, a glimpse at the Google’s Search Quality Rater’s Guidelines is akin to looking into Google’s ranking algorithm. While they don’t give the secret sauce to rank number one on Google, they do offer some incredible insight into what Google views as quality – and not-so-quality – and the types of pages they want to serve at the top of their search results. Last week, Google made the unprecedented move of releasing the entire Search Quality Rater’s Guidelines, following an analysis... →

Jet.com, an e-commerce company with its sights on Amazon, has raised a fresh $350 million, and according to a report on Re/code has “verbal agreements” for another $150 million. TechCrunch confirmed the details of the story with the firm. Jet has managed several feats in its short life, including generating a tectonic quantity of buzz by raising capital aggressively before its launch. Read More... →

Buying gifts for geek guys (with “geek” herein used in the most loving way possible, meaning someone who’s really into the thing they like) can be tough. Ask us what we want, and we usually say “Eh, I don’t know”. Fortunately, we have a bunch of geek guys on staff. Geeks of all shapes, sizes, and interests. And we know what we like. After much deliberation… Read More... →

When Slack’s IPO window opens, it wants to be able to quickly spring into the public markets. Otherwise it could see sour conditions or botched IPOs by other tech companies shut the window before it rings the opening bell. That’s why Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield says its already getting its ducks in a row so its poised to IPO when the time comes. Today, Butterfield The Australian… Read More... →

Engineering student James Patrick has built a working 3D-printable revolver that uses a rubber band and a nail to fire .22 bullets. The revolver can hold six or eight bullets and moves the cylinder from position to position after each shot. Patrick has built in a protective system that keeps the gun from firing when dropped. His last project, called the Songbird, a single shot model, is… Read More... →

Gillmor Gang – Matt Mullenweg, John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today at 3pmPT/6pmET. LIVE ChatCenter chatroom during LIVE recording Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE Our sister show G3 on Facebook HERE G3 show archives on Ustream Read More... →

Clique Media Group, the company behind shoppable fashion site Who What Wear, has acquired Canadian startup Wantering. Clique’s properties (which also include lifestyle site MyDomaine and beauty site Byrdie) already combine editorial content with shoppable links, but the company is planning a bigger move into commerce, starting with a partnership that will see Target selling Who What… Read More... →

3D Slash, a free 3D design application, is now fully Raspberry Pi-compatible and works on the Pi-Top, an educational minicomputer based on the Raspberry Pi. The program allows students to design 3D objects on the single board computer, a feat unthinkable only a few years ago. By enabling users of the Pi-Top to move objects with the trackpad and interact with the keyboard you basically create… Read More... →

The interrelated trends around miniaturization and portability, wireless communications, power-efficient computing and advanced display technologies have come together to create the smart devices of today. The patriarch of these devices, the smartphone, is 15 years in, and smart-wearables are now poised to drive the next great wave of innovation. This wave is shaped by the technologies that… Read More... →