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Like WiFi before it, could wireless charging be the next value-add for coffee shops and other public venues? One startup banking on that being the case is London-headquartered Chargifi, which is building out a wireless charging network. Read More... →

Body Labs, the company that turns your picture into a true-to-life 3D body scan, is announcing the close of an $8 million round of Series A funding led by Intel Capital, with participation from FirstMark Capital, Max-Planck-Innovation GmbH, Osage University Partners, and Catalus Capital. Body Labs technology is able to garner a fully realistic 3D body scan, complete with wrinkles and back… Read More... →

Intel Capital is announcing today that it has invested $22 million in 11 startups, and the world’s biggest chip maker is on track to invest more than $500 million in technology companies this year. Intel invests to advance its own strategic interests, but it pours so much money into the tech ecosystem on a global basis […]... →

What if a fitness app could show you the way your body changes week to week using a 3D body scan? That’s the sort of mobile app that Body Labs CEO Bill O’Farrell is hoping to inspire through an API that gives developers access to a growing arsenal of body scans. To build out that API, his company just […]... →

Intel Capital, the venture arm of the tech giant, today announced $22 million in new investments across 10 startups. The news was delivered at the company’s annual global summit, where it also said that it would invest half a billion dollars in total this year. This is both a rise and fall of sorts. As a point of comparison, during the same event last year, Intel announced $67 million… Read More... →

Location-pinpointing platform what3words has closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round led by Intel Capital. It brings the total raised by the U.K. startup, which was only founded back in July 2013, to $5 million, after it topped up its initial $500,000 seed with a further $1 million last year. Read More... →

Last year Uniplaces, startup founded back in 2012 which runs an online booking platform focused on student accommodation, pulled in £2.2 million ($3.5 million) in Series A funding led by Octopus Investments. Today it’s announced that it has raised a $24 million Series A funding led by Atomico. The startups, launched in 2012 by three ex-university classmates, aims to be a trusted,… Read More... →

A Bitcoin symbol is getting added to a future version of Unicode, a global standard for text on the Web. U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN was just accepted at #UTC145, to be included in a future version of the standard → https://t.co/B9hWLds9HK @kenshirriff — Ken Lunde (小林剣) (@ken_lunde) November 3, 2015 The announcement comes as the digital currency […]... →

Content marketing startup SnapApp has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The Boston-based company offers online tools for building calculators, quizzes, infographics, interactive videos and other types of interactive content. Marketers, particularly marketers trying to sell to other business, can then use that content to connect with potential customers. “Interactive content is… Read More... →

В последнее время холакратия является предметом обширных дискуссий в бизнес-сообществе — одни компании считают ее наиболее применимой для организации рабочих процессов, другие видят в ней хаос и беспорядок. Редакция vc.ru решила разобраться, насколько она подходит рекламному бизнесу, изучив мнения зарубежных экспертов и пообщавшись с российскими специалистами.... →

Основатель и генеральный директор музыкального сервиса Next Music Алладин Счастливый написал для рубрики Growth Hacks колонку о том, как использовать Amazon в качестве маркетингового канала для привлечения пользователей.... →

То, что обещал Яндекс, произошло: средняя цена клика в Директе снизилась и компенсировала упразднение скидок... →

Sling TV, Dish’s streaming live TV service that offers a variety of cable TV channels, including ESPN, is now available on Google’s Chromecast. The forthcoming addition of Sling TV support was first announced in September, when Google unveiled its updated Chromecast dongles which changed the design from a stick to a round and colorful disk in order to accommodate the… Read More... →

Google добавила в почтовое приложение Inbox функцию Smart Reply, которая будет генерировать автоматические ответы на входящие письма. Функция будет доступна пользователям вместе с обновлением Inbox с этой недели, сказано в сообщении компании.... →

Какие фонды инвестируют в российские биостартапы: обзор рынка... →

В случае продолжения падения продаж компания откажется от производства смартфонов... →

Руководитель центра онлайн-обучения «Нетология-групп» Максим Спиридонов объявил о закрытии аналитической программы «Рунет сегодня», посвященную важнейшим событиям российского и мирового интернета. Об этом он написал у себя в Facebook. Программа «Рунет сегодня» более 3,5 лет выходила в эфире радиостанции «Столица FM» (ранее «Финам FM»), а также в виде подкаста. В сентябре 2014 года вещание было приостановлено. Затем, в мае 2015 программа начала выходить в видеоформате на канале Нетология-ТВ. О «Рунете сегод... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Invoice2go gets $15M to compete more directly with Square and PayPal Since 2002, Invoice2go has provided small businesses with one tool—a simple way to create an invoice and send it to clients. Now, with […]... →

A few months ago, CoreOS launched the preview of Tectonic, a container platform based on the Google-incubated Kubernetes container management and orchestration tool. Starting today, CoreOS considers Tectonic to be out of beta. As CoreOS CEO and co-founder Alex Polvi told me, the team worked with hundreds of customers during the beta and found (and fixed) all kinds of issues. Now, however, the… Read More... →

Издание Business Insider изучило отзывы сотрудников Apple об ИТ-гиганте на корпоративном сервисе Glassdoor и узнало, какие вопросы они услышали на собеседовании. Редакция выбрала 33 самых интересных из них.... →