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GUEST: I’m increasingly asked these days for the nitty-gritty details on this whale den we call Saudi Arabia. As I approach a talk in Dubai this month on the subject, I decided to run a survey that eschews all freeloaders and minnow low-paying players, targeting only dolphins and whales. Or in other words, it’s a survey […]... →

«Промсвязьбанк» создаст венчурный фонд, средства которого пойдут на финансирование разработки программного обеспечения для банков. Об этом рассказал зампредседателя правления кредитной организации Андрей Леушев, пишет портал TAdviser.... →

China’s largest online provider of on-demand services, Meituan-Dianping, is reportedly raising up to $3 billion in fresh funds, with Tencent expected to throw in $1 billion of it, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Tencent is an existing investor in restaurant-review website Dianping (think of Yelp), which merged with group-buying website Meituan (think […]... →

Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, which now, for the first time ever, has opened up to third-party applications. Apple had “hundreds” of applications live at the time of the TV App Store’s launch, though apparently… Read More... →

Endurance International said on Monday it would buy online marketer Constant Contact in deal valued at about $1.1 billion to expand beyond its traditional Web-hosting business.... →

Audio-streaming and hosting service SoundCloud has launched a brand new standalone app aimed specifically at creators. With SoundCloud Pulse for Android, DJs, podcasters, and other online broadcasters can access a dedicated portal to manage their account and community, letting them respond to comments, view stats such as how many times a track has been played […]... →

Reminder: The U.K. government is preparing to publish a draft bill aiming to strengthen and shore up the intelligence and security agencies’ capabilities in the digital era. The proposed legislation, called the Investigatory Powers Bill, is expected to be published on Wednesday… Read More... →

Электронная библиотека с собранием главных идей из книг Smart Reading совместно с агентством RTA разработала расширение для браузеров Smart Reminder с таймером, ограничивающим время использования соцсети Facebook. При запуске плагина и входе в социальную сеть в нижней части экрана появляется таймер с обратным отсчетом. Если человеку в течение трех суток удается использовать Facebook не более пяти минут каждый день, сервис дарит месячную подписку на библиотеку Smart Reading.... →

VB INSIGHT: Web personalization is different from other marketing channels, according to a new study by Andrew Jones for VB Insight. In Jones’ most recent study, he explains that the majority of your web visitors — 95-98 percent for B2C and 57-90 percent for B2B — are anonymous. That means you can’t rely on the kind of rich profile […]... →

It’s not just the impending 2016 political theater or our own paranoid imaginings. Silicon Valley really has been buzzing more about the role of government policy in business innovation, and the crescendo will persist long after our next POTUS is decided. Read More... →

On-demand home service provider Handy has raised $50 million for its Series C round of funding led by Fidelity Management and Research Company. The company says that this new investment will help solidify its position as a market leader in the home services space across the United States and the United Kingdom. Other investors in this […]... →

Imagine you’re a squishy cube. Imagine you need to climb a hill. How do you do it? With your tongue(s), of course. Researchers at CSAIL at MIT have created a little cube robot that can propel itself around by swiping at surfaces with metal tongues. The tongues turn around an axis and stick out briefly, jettisoning the robot into space for a moment as it rolls over obstacles. While the… Read More... →

Global Marketing News - 2nd November 2015 Global growth slows for leading social platforms Both Twitter and Line have seen big slowdowns in their user numbers. The micro-blogging site Twitter now has 307 million monthly active users, an increase of just 3 million users on the previous quarter. This amounts to a year-on-year increase of just 8%,... →

В 2014 году сооснователь и генеральный директор Oracle Ларри Эллисон покинул свой пост и занял в компании должность директора по технологиям. Обозреватель vc.ru изучил историю крупнейшего производителя программного обеспечения — преодоление кризисов, агрессивные поглощения и дебаты основателя с Биллом Гейтсом.... →

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When Megan Gaiser was named CEO of Her Interactive in 1999, she didn’t consider herself a business person. She had risen to her position on the creative side of film and games. And she used that as a strength, to manage her company in a different and more human way. She found that managing During […]... →

В Qiwi объясняют потерю терминалов действиями Центрального Банка России (недавно ЦБ внезапно™ обнаружил, что 92% бизнеса платежных терминалов — обнал).... →

There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups, but others seem to be cleaning up in their wake. Handy — a platform for on-demand housekeeping and other services like furniture delivery and assembly via an app that connects tradespeople with customers — is announcing today that it has raised $50 million in new funding… Read More... →

Торговая площадка eBay предоставила возможность всем российским магазинам продавать товары через ее сайт. Для этого компания запустила сервис eBaymag, рассказали vc.ru в eBay.... →

Pandora is expanding into podcasting. This morning the music streaming company announced an exclusive partnership with the popular podcast Serial. Starting November 24, Pandora will have all of Serial season one available for streaming. Unfortunately for fans, there’s still no word on when season two will emerge. Serial is a spin-off of the radio program This American Life that chronicles a […]... →