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When Microsoft has a technology it likes, it loves to bring it to all of its platforms and services. Right now, its Cortana personal assistant is clearly one of these technologies. Microsoft today announced that Cortana is coming to more desktops in the enterprise. The company is integrating the service into Power BI, its business intelligence tool that, it’s worth noting, already had… Read More... →

Following record Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales, Cyber Monday also set a new record in 2015: $3.07 billion, up 16 percent over last year. Furthermore, 26 percent of sales ($799 million) were made on mobile devices. The latest numbers come from Adobe, which today released the final totals for Cyber Monday (Adobe says $3.07 […]... →

Watch out, Pinterest, you’ve got new competition. Google has now rolled out a new feature on its search engine that offers users an easy way to save to save images they find to collections they can reference at a later time. The search giant suggests you could use the feature for saving things like hairstyle examples to show your stylist, or snowman ideas to have some winter fun. Yep… Read More... →

November looks to be an auspicious month for power investor firm Tiger Global. The New York hedge fund raised $2.5 billion for new deals back in November 2014, and now, after a spending spree that has seen it put over $1 billion into over 50 companies in 2015 alone, a regulatory filing shows that the firm reloaded with a further $2.5 billion in capital on November 30. Read More... →

The Google Cultural Institute is making room for the performing arts. First established in 2011, the Google Cultural Institute is an online home for works of art from hundreds of institutions, and with today’s launch of a new Performing Arts exhibition, its collection is becoming even broader. There are new 360-degree performance recordings — YouTube […]... →

Creativity software giant Adobe has launched its first ever video-editing app for Android. First introduced for iOS last October, Adobe Premiere Clip is free to use, and is essentially a stripped down version of Adobe’s full-bodied video-editing software. While Android has historically lacked many of the flagship apps that were available on iOS, that largely […]... →

At long last, Storehouse is giving Android users some love. The photo narrative app, which was founded as an iPad-only experience in 2013, began shifting to develop an even more mobile platform when it added support for the iPhone early last year. Still, Android users have been waiting to try out the app which was the winner of an Apple Design Award and the 2014 Crunchie for Best… Read More... →

Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp appears to have started deliberately blocking links to rival messaging app Telegram so users can’t share clickable Telegram-associated URLs in their chats. The URLs just appear as unlinked text. Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live on-demand webinar. Register here for free.  We’re living in an on-demand world. You can watch any show online, schedule any car ride, or order any take-out with a push of an app. As the public’s demand for instant gratification grows, we’re seeing new and pre-existing companies rise up to answer the […]... →

Good Eggs, an online service that allows you to order food from local farms, has brought on a new CEO — Bentley Hall, who previously held senior roles at Plum Organics, Clif Bar and Johnson & Johnson. The company’s existing CEO Rob Spiro (pictured above with Hall) will become chairman. He said he’ll remain “very active” in the company, and suggested… Read More... →

Microsoft выпустила рекламный ролик, в котором сотрудники производителя ПО и молодежный хор стоят на Пятой авеню в Нью-Йорке и поют песню Let There be Peace on Earth. В один момент из магазина Apple выходят работники бренда, и сотрудники разных компаний обнимаются.... →

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Microsoft уволила 30 сотрудников проекта очков виртуальной реальности Hololens, которые работали в израильском подразделении компании, ещё 30 человек были переведены внутри организации. Об этом сообщает Business Insider, ссылаясь на местное издание Ynet.... →

Бывшие американские журналисты, которые основали собственные венчурные фонды... →

Apple has a Mac App Store problem. Popular vector-based design app Sketch is leaving the App Store in order to move back to a direct-selling model. The developer announced the move on its official blog this morning. This isn’t the first time developers are complaining about the state of the App Store on the Mac. Read More... →

BlackBerry today released the first software update for its BlackBerry Priv, the company’s first Android device. This is a maintenance release (it’s about 475MB in size), meaning it’s part of the company’s “monthly security update strategy. If you purchased your Priv directly from the company (through ShopBlackBerry), you can update today, but if you purchased […]... →

30 ноября 2015 года. WhatsApp запретила части своих пользователей копировать сообщения, в которых содержатся ссылки на мессенджер Telegram. Об этом сообщил основатель Telegram Павел Дуров. Обновлено 1 декабря 2015 года. Издание Android Police сообщило об обнаружении в коде WhatsApp фильтра, настроенного на отключение ссылок на Telegram. Обновлено 1 декабря 2015 года [2]. В Telegram сообщили о блокировке страницы сервиса на Facebook (WhatsApp принадлежит соцсети).... →

Spotify is the world’s top streaming music service in terms of active users, downloads and revenue, according to a new music-focused report out this morning from App Annie. However, while Spotify bested last year’s top streaming music app Pandora Radio from a global standpoint, Pandora is still strong in the U.S. where it remains the number one streaming service by active users… Read More... →

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Mitchell Harper left Bigcommerce in February and, while he remains an active board member, he decided to take the leap and work on new projects. Australian Harper launched ‘startup studio’ Capital H Labs in October, and his first new company is PeopleSpark, a startup that he hopes will improve communication between people running companies and their employees. Read More... →