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SimilarWeb, a website- and app-tracking analytics company, has acquired Quettra, a mobile intelligence startup launched back in 2013 by a former Googler. Founded out of Israel in 2009, SimilarWeb offers tools to developers and publishers, providing key insights about their traffic and that of their competitors. The company has raised $65 million to date, including […]... →

Yet more consolidation is happening in the world of analytics. Today Israeli web analytics and traffic measurement startup SimilarWeb announced that it has acquired Quettra, a provider of mobile analytics and measurement tools founded by Ankit Jain, the former head of search and discovery in the Google Play store. Quettra was a relatively young startup. It only came out of stealth last year… Read More... →

Российский рекламный стартап GetShop.TV привлек инвестиции в обмен на 15% проекта. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании.  Сделка состоялась в сентябре 2015 года. В раунде приняли Игорь Лутц, Константин Синюшин в лице The Unitled Retail Labs, а также члены Venture Club, бизнес-ангелы Александр Бородич, Дмитрий Пучков и Федор Суздалев. Постинвестиционная оценка компании составила примерно $1 млн.  Средства пойдут на доработку продукта и масштабирование продаж, а также на альфа-тестирование технологии покупки из... →

Google’s plan to accelerate the mobile web – also known as the “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” or AMP, for short – now has a launch date. The company said this week that it will begin directing traffic to its sped-up AMP pages in Google Search starting in late February 2016. In addition, Google notes that Pinterest is already testing AMP pages in its mobile… Read More... →

After pricing its IPO at $21, above the expected range of $19 to $20 Australian-based unicorn Atlassian began trading at $27.67 on the Nasdaq today, under the ticker “TEAM.” This gives the company a valuation of $5.8 billion. Atlassian, whose backers include Accel and T. Rowe Price, raised capital at over a $3.3 billion valuation in the private markets. In the wake of companies… Read More... →

Китайская интернет-компания Baidu объявила о начале испытаний на улицах Пекина автомобиля с системой автономного управления. Тестируемое оборудование компания установила на автомобиль BMW 3-ей серии.Редакция vc.ru собрала фотогалерею — как выглядят тестовые образцы самоуправляемых автомобилей компаний со всего мира.... →

Google is making it easier for friends and families to create shared photo albums today. Rolling out for Android, iOS, and the Web, Google Photos now lets groups pool their collective snapshots and videos to create shared compendiums of memories, be it for your gran’s 80th birthday, a graduation, or a drunken night out. It […]... →

Houzz, the popular service for giving you house envy and connecting you with the right home professionals to cure it, is launching an interesting new feature for its iOS users today. The new Sketch feature makes it easier for homeowners to annotate photos on the service to discuss their remodeling ideas with their housemates and professionals. The company also today announced that it now… Read More... →

Thanks to the folks at Beepi, you can now buy a car with nothing more than the iPhone in your hand (well, that and the money in your bank account). Read More... →

PARIS, France — To understand just how much painstaking craftsmanship and thought went into every single aspect of Devialet’s Phantom speaker, all you have to do is watch CEO Quentin Sannié take one apart. Over the course of two hours at the company’s Paris headquarters, Sannié explained the design decisions that went into the Phantom’s […]... →

Посевной раунд был привлечен в августе... →

Last month, Tumblr rolled out instant messaging on the web, iOS and Android to a subset of Tumblr users ahead of a broader launch. Today, the company says that all users will now have access to this feature, which introduces a way to communicate directly with others on the service, in a private, chat-like interface. Originally, the product itself was fairly bare-bones – you could… Read More... →

SPONSORED: Establishing your brand with that uniformity across lots of foreign markets and always providing a secure payment experience can be tricky. How are you going to make sure that a customer from San Francisco has the same quality experience with your brand in Santiago?... →

Since breaking off into its own product, Google Photos has been on a bit of a roll as far as adding new features quickly. One such feature is rolling out today — shared albums. I’ve been playing around with the feature that was originally announced back at Google’s event in September for about a week and it does exactly what you’d expect, share photos in an album… Read More... →

Elastic announced today that it was deepening its relationship with Microsoft by adding its open source and commercial products to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Elastic (which used to be known as ElasticSearch) has been working with Microsoft for some time. It runs search on MSN.com, is embedded in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and also built into the Azure framework. With today’s… Read More... →

We get it. Hackathons are fun. There’s all-you-can-eat pizza, and Red Bull flows freely. For participants, they’re quasi-social opportunities to work on something real with smart, passionate people. For companies and universities, they represent quick, relatively inexpensive ways to encourage collaboration, produce new ideas and generate publicity. But there’s a downside. Read More... →

The adoption of carrier billing got another boost today when Microsoft announced it had partnered with Sprint and San Francisco-based Boku to enable U.S. customers to make purchases from the Windows Store. While Windows phones are still struggling to gain traction, it’s notable that customers will be able to use carrier billing to make purchases […]... →

Американский журнал Forbes опубликовал рейтинг самых успешных миллиардеров в 2015 году. На первом месте оказался основатель интернет-ритейлера Amazon Джефф Безос, состояние которого увеличилось на $29,5 млрд и теперь оценивается в $58,4 млрд.... →

Рекламная сеть AdCamp согласилась передать свою технологию управления размещением объявлений компании Seopult — это стало одним из условий мирного соглашения между организациями. Об этом vc.ru сообщили представители AdCamp.В апреле 2015 года руководство рекламной сети обвинило SeoPult в «недружественном поглощении».... →

Издание Forbes опубликовало материал о стартап-среде Стокгольма — города с населением менее одного миллиона жителей, который является вторым после Кремниевой долины регионом в мире по количеству стартапов-«единорогов» на душу населения. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →