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President Obama’s recent extraction of a pledge from Chinese leader Xi Jinping that neither government would conduct or continue economic espionage in cyberspace, while important, still comes up far short of addressing the significant and growing global concerns about the potential for a 9/11-style cyberattack on critical financial sectors. Now more than ever, dramatically increased… Read More... →

Причиной смерти 70-летнего Пэта Фэллона предположительно стал инсульт... →

When Nicole was aged 17 and her mother was sent to prison for white collar crimes, she met a man on Facebook who offered to take care of her.... →

Facebook is bringing Instant Articles, which launched back in May on iPhone but is limited to the U.S. and western Europe, to Android devices in India as of Monday, according to comments given to Mint by two Facebook executives. Instant Articles enables faster loading of articles for selected publishers within Facebook news feeds, as well as high-resolution photos that […]... →

Apple has confirmed that it will open its first retail store in Southeast Asia, located in Singapore, as the U.S. phone maker begins to increase its efforts in the region’s fast-growing smartphone market. Read More... →

At the recent Frankfurt Auto Show, Ford Motor Co unveiled a new feature that lets drivers pre-set their car to go at or just above the speed limit. In-car cameras and software read and react to road signs, speeding the car up or slowing it down.... →

As a driver of technical innovation for a software company, a huge part of my job depends on forecasting how current tech trends will play out, merge, dissipate or expand. Here are some of my predictions of what the world will look like in 2020. Read More... →

Welcome to the second edition of POCIT! Consider this: 87 percent of VC-backed founders are white and 83 percent of the founding teams of those startups are all white, according to a 2010 CB Insights report. This week, we’re taking a look at some stellar Latina entrepreneurs in tech. Who do you want to see highlighted next week? Keep sending me your nominations and suggestions at… Read More... →

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up from its $8.3 million effort closed last year. It’s a meaningful milestone for O’Donnell, who got his start in venture capital as an analyst at Union Square Ventures and later worked as a… Read More... →

As terror attacks put France into a national state of emergency on Friday, AirBnB, Facebook, Google, Skype, Twitter and Uber launched into disaster response mode. AirBnB contacted all hosts in Paris asking if they could take in those stranded in the city. Facebook let users alert their friends they were safe. Google offered free calls to Paris via Hangouts, as did Skype, Verizon and Sprint. Read More... →

There are many visions of what our hyper-connected future might look like. We’re packaged countless variants on the shiny-techie-future vision theme every day as marketing departments lay it on thick to try to put gloss on their latest product and restless grease on the wheels of consumption… Read More... →

Posted by Trevor-KleinI'm thrilled to announce the next in Moz's series of beginner's guides: The Beginner's Guide to Content Marketing. Content marketing is a field full of challenges. Creating content that provides great value to your audience what we've come to call 10x content is difficult enough, but content marketers also regularly encounter skeptical employers and clients, diminutive budgets, and you guessed it a noted lack of time to get it all done. You're not alone. You're fighting the good fight,... →

STEM education and the maker movement have flooded our nation’s schools, making project-based learning much easier to mark off of the instructional “must do” checklist toward meeting new criterion and readying students for a career. Our school districts are feeling the pressure to be innovative and find new ways to engage students with technology while adhering to the… Read More... →

Freedom is critical to the economic engine of Silicon Valley, but laws are not often written to preserve it. A federal decision in October let consumers unlock cell phones, tinker with their tablets and hack into some aspects of their connected vehicles’ software — as long as they don’t break other laws. Unfortunately, this decision has to be renewed every three years, through… Read More... →

GUEST: High performance sports teams know that to win consistently, you have to be willing to do what it takes to recruit the best players. Giancarlo Stanton recently made headlines when the Miami Marlins baseball team awarded him a $352 million contract — the largest gross deal ever in North American sports. Although this particular deal turned heads due to […]... →

The company announced that it has fundraised 1 million yen (about $815,000) from Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of Salesforce.com, as well as from Incubate Fund.... →

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GUEST: To marketers, social media and other forms of consumer data represent new struggles. To turn these struggles into viable strategies, marketers need fresh and innovative approaches — but they should also follow the example set over 70 years ago by a World War II-era mathematician. In 1943, near the time World War II momentum shifted […]... →

Редакция vc.ru публикует выборочные отрывки публикации в издании Motherboard журналиста Меган Нил, которая изучила данные о ранжировании списков друзей в Facebook, пообщавшись с представителями соцсети и проведя ряд экспериментов.... →

GUEST: As anyone in Silicon Valley knows, engineering jobs are in high demand, but we’re going through a serious skills shortage. K-12 classroom technology education hasn’t kept up with the demand for qualified engineers, programmers and designers. Code.org, a consortium of big tech firms including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, last month made its case for reform […]... →