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Australian financial tech company Tyro Payments plans to challenge the country’s leading retail banks after scoring AUD $100 million (about $72 million) in funding from Tiger Global, TDM Asset Management, and Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. Read More... →

BlackBerry has confirmed that it is exiting Pakistan entirely in response to the national government’s continued demand to monitor user data on the Canadian company’s service. Read More... →

По итогам третьего квартала 2015 года сеть салонов связи МТС стала крупнейшей в России — она увеличилась до 4695 точек (из них 1550 работают по договору франшизы). Таким образом компания обошла «Евросеть», долгое время считавшуюся лидером на российском рынке, сообщают «Ведомости».... →

The number of women in tech is increasing, according to the latest edition of Propel’s Digital Salary & Industry Insights report. Female responders to the sixth edition of the report doubled to 22% compared to last year, illustrating that tech has become more inclusive according to Melina Jacovou, CEO & founder of Propel. “Tech is […]... →

Руководители Москвы и Петербурга просят не вводить ГОСТ... →

Oddup is an 18-month-old startup out of Hong Kong that offers its own startup rating system based on factors it says are designed to determine its risk. Websites like Mattermark, CB Insights, and Funderbeam offer similar rating systems on their platforms, but Oddup founder James Giancotti told VentureBeat that they don’t go into the kind of depth that […]... →

Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — сервис Currenseek, который помогает путешественникам найти обменник с лучшим курсом в городе.... →

Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

Оператор запустил рекламную кампанию в поддержку обновленного позиционирования b2b-сегмента... →

Ограничения за сбитый самолет коснутся торговли, чартерных авиаперевозок и рынка труда... →

ZenRooms, a hotel booking platform for price-conscious travelers, is the newest startup from Rocket Internet. Like other Rocket Internet companies, ZenRooms replicates a proven business model—in this case, OYO’s—in new marketplaces. Like India-based OYO (which received a $100 million investment from SoftBank this summer) ZenRooms works with budget hotels to create a network… Read More... →

Google об особенностях работы аналитического сервиса Brand Lift... →

A product that might completely change the way we have fun outdoors has come onto the scene.... →

Классик советского кинематографа скончался на 89-ом году... →

Posted by karl62We came across a case study on YouMoz with an interesting experiment to find out if traffic and rankings of blog posts could be increased by just changing their publishing dates. Specifically, the author tested to see...If you update a blog post's date, will it receive a boost in the search engine results pages (SERPs)? Can you fake freshness? Do you have to make changes to the content? If there is a boost present, how long does it last? Our experiment: overviewWe set up a test of our own te... →

What costs $500 million USD and can churn out up to 1 million cattle embryos a year? A new livestock cloning facility in north China...... →

Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, among others — on Monday announced the launch of Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Gates says the new multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative “will […]... →

The founders of Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to solve climate change. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have launched the Breakthrough Energy Coalition with Bill Gates to invest in zero-carbon energy technology around the world. The organization’s membership roster includes some of the most prolific names in technology, including Richard… Read More... →

(Via The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Coconala, previously known as WelSelf, offers an online platform under the same name where you can buy and sell knowledge, skills and, experience from users who are willing to teach. The company announced on Tuesday that it has fundraised a total of 540 million yen (about $4.4 million) from Jafco, […]... →

City leaders in Chicago on Sunday announced expansion of the police department’s body-worn camera program in the wake of a murder charge filed last week against an officer for shooting a black teenager to death.... →