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Gogoprint is a new company based in Thailand that wants to bring the benefits of the Internet to the printing industry in Southeast Asia. Read More... →

Tattoo culture has pretty much gone mainstream. Tattooing is the sixth fastest growing market in the retail industry with about 30% of Americans getting them now. Thus Tattoodo started out as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related,” with content, community and a marketplace. Think Pinterest for Tattoos, almost. Back in February we reported that the… Read More... →

Posted by Laura.Lippay[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] (header image photo by H.L.W. from the Blind Photographers Flickr Group.) Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 39 million people are blind. 285 million are visually impaired. 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — have some form of disability. Disabilities can come in many shapes and forms: physical, cognitive, visual, hearing. How does someone who is blind check their email? How does someone who can’t hear decipher any of the tens... →

Orion Health is a New Zealand-founded (now global) provider of technology products developed for the health sector. Orion’s founder and CEO, Ian McCrae, argues that current approaches to patient information are akin to the Victorian era, when a surgeon’s blood-stained uniform was a source of great pride because it showed medical expertise. In McCrae’s view, today’s… Read More... →

An accelerator called HAX held its eighth Demo Day for hardware startups in San Francisco yesterday. Best known for bringing companies in its portfolio to Shenzhen, China for about 15 weeks to get to know everything they can about manufacturing there, Hax is funded by SOS Ventures. The firm spins out accelerators to focus on different problems or technologies about every two years and is also… Read More... →

The HAX hardware accelerator held its 8th Demo Day in San Francisco yesterday. While all fifteen companies in the latest batch hold promise, and encompass some very wild ambitions, these three stood out thanks to creative applications of advanced tech to sometimes overlooked, but truly massive potential markets. Rovenso Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Rovenso is adapting technology created… Read More... →

Another year, another Google I/O Keynote slammed with back-to-back announcements. Miss our liveblog earlier? Don’t have time to catch up on every last bit of news? Don’t sweat it: we’ve compressed the most important bits into bite-sized morsels for lightning fast perusal. Ready? Read More... →

French startup Shift Technology just raised a $10 million Series A round from Accel, with existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris Capital also participating. Shift Technology uses big data and machine learning to detect patterns of fraudulent insurance claims. This way, insurance companies can save money. Read More... →

More evidence of European VC stocking up before a potential LP winter. This time it’s the turn of e.ventures, which has closed a new $150 million early-stage fund to invest in European startups. Read More... →

Ещё одной причиной увольнения ключевых редакторов из РБК стала иллюстрация к материалу про офшоры — на снимке был Путин, хотя его фамилии нет в "Панамском досье" .... →

Google announced its new messaging app Allo at its I/O developers conference today, and it looks pretty cool. It’s a feature-rich interface with graphics and doodles, and it works with Google Assistant to make suggestions and schedule plans. Allo even has an option for users to send their messages using end-to-end encryption, a security feature that has become increasingly popular and is… Read More... →

As Google announced at its I/O developer conference today, the company recently started building its own specialized chips to expedite the machine learning algorithms. These so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are custom-built chips that Google has now been using in its own data centers for almost a year, as Google’s senior VP for its technical infrastructure Urs Holzle noted in a… Read More... →

Many tech companies in Silicon Valley like to blame the lack of diversity on what they call the pipeline. Their argument is that there are simply not enough qualified female and/or underrepresented minorities qualified to fill these high-tech roles. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has effectively called bullshit on that. Of the people graduating from top engineering programs,… Read More... →

Like a number of other bits and bobs announced at Google I/O thus far, there are still some important questions left unanswered about the Mi Box, but here’s what we do know about Xiaomi’s forthcoming set top box. It’s sleek, it’s small, and it’s apparently won the Chinese phone maker a couple of design awards already. The Mi Box is powered by Android TV 6.0,… Read More... →

18 мая 2016 года состоялось открытие ежегодной конференции для разработчиков Google I/O. На мероприятии руководители корпорации представили несколько новых продуктов и технологий, полезных и для пользователей, и для специалистов из ИТ-индустрии.Редакция vc.ru собрала мнения российских разработчиков о нововведениях от Google.... →

Disrupt NY 2016 was full of fascinating panels on everything from dating apps to cybersecurity. Weren’t able to catch every second? The TechCrunch social media team has compiled the best of the best from the event. Enjoy! Read More... →

Tesla — with a significant chunk contributed by Elon Musk — is selling around $2 billion worth of stock in an equity offering in order to accelerate production of the Model 3, according to a regulatory filing filed today. The company is selling 6.8 million shares in the stock offering, which at its current price of around $205 amounts to roughly $1.4 billion. Musk’s is… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

As the co-founder of a “142-proof” software development agency in the Silicon Valley catering to pre- and post-money companies, I’ve observed quite a bit of variance when it comes to the development process. The capabilities range wildly, from hack-and-slash “oh shit commits” all the way to buttoned-down tests and infrastructure that makes us all giddy when we see it. Read More... →

What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naivete here. Read More... →