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FEATURE: Laurene Powell Jobs has proposed building 15,689-square-foot estate on land her husband, Steve Jobs, acquired in 1984. While the original proposal was submitted almost a year ago, the plans are moving toward approval by the Town of Woodside. The proposal for the land, which Steve Jobs originally bought in 1984, would not just include a sumptuous […]... →

FEATURE: Steve Jobs hated the historic Jackling House that he bought in 1984 so much that he spent a tremendous amount of time and energy in his final years trying to have the Woodside mansion torn down. After a decade of controversy and legal fights with local preservation groups, Jobs won, and the 17,250-square-foot building was demolished in February […]... →

‘Tis the season of giving for game engines. King Digital Entertainment acquired the Defold game engine back in 2014 to make two-dimensional mobile games. It enhanced the engine and published Blossom Blast Saga using Defold. But the European game company, which was acquired recently by Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion, has decided to release the […]... →

GUEST: We’re used to talking about full-stack developers — people who can do front end as well as back end development, understand the layers of both hardware and software, and know how to access (and make accessible) the data and programmatic functions of adjacent software. Laurent Gellert provides a good description of these requirements here. Although […]... →

BEIJING (By Matthew Miller and Paul Carsten, Reuters) – Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met China’s propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan in Beijing on Saturday as part of a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed. The rare meeting, reported by China’s state news agency Xinhua, suggests […]... →

When Car2Go launched its car-sharing service in San Diego about five years ago, its entire fleet was composed of electric cars. It was a move that made San Diego officials smile, as the city is undertaking an ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions. But now Car2Go is withdrawing the fleet of Smart Fortwo Electric Drive […]... →

There is a growing consensus that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon be a reality. The debate today centers not on whether, but how soon, AVs will be commonplace on our roads. But for all the buzz surrounding AVs, many details about what a driverless future will look like remain unclear. Which business models will work best for the commercialization of AVs? Which AV usage models will be… Read More... →

A week ago today, we told you that longtime Sequoia partner Michael Goguen had been slapped with a stomach-turning complaint. At its crux, it accused him of breaching an agreement he’d made to pay $40 million to a woman he’d known for years. Apparently, after paying her $10 million, Goguen concluded that he was within his rights to stop writing her checks. The woman then hired… Read More... →

Издание Business Insider опубликовало подборку карьерных советов от таких успешных людей, как Шерил Сэндберг, Билл Гейтс, Ричард Брэнсон, Арианна Хаффингтон для тех, кому ещё не исполнилось тридцать. Редакция vc.ru приводит перевод материал с сокращениями.... →

GUEST: We’re seeing a lot of gloom and doom in the SaaS space and the techworld in general as valuation multiples have compressed and late-stage funding has become more challenging. However, there still exists tremendous opportunity to build large, valuable companies in the SaaS space. How can an entrepreneur do this? Build a “system of record.” […]... →

ANALYSIS: Uber announced an interesting little nugget this week when it unveiled UberPassport — a new cross-border service that takes travelers from San Diego in southern California into the Mexican city of Tijuana, 20 miles to the south. It’s hardly a difficult or arduous journey to make — it’s one that millions of travelers have made […]... →

This year, the original Diablo turns 20 years old, and its creator talked about the gothic game’s creation during a talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. David Drevik, now at Graybeard Games, was the lead programmer on Diablo, which helped propel action-RPGs into gaming’s mainstream. He also created the original concept. Diablo […]... →

Холдинг выкупил часть акций телеканала у кипрской компании, чтобы уложиться в нормы закона... →

GUEST: Do you sometimes feel there are more gadgets than you can actually use – and that the technology you own has failed to follow through on its life-changing promises? Well you’re not alone. Despite a seemingly endless stream of tech disruption over the past decade, we’ve finally reached a moment when the next big thing […]... →

Donald Trump has called them thugs, professional organizers and supporters of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders.... →

Стриминговый сервис Soundcloud объявил о заключении сделки со звукозаписывающей компанией Sony Music — благодаря соглашению сервис расширит свою музыкальную библиотеку, а исполнители смогут зарабатывать на прослушиваниях. Об этом сообщает Techcrunch.... →

Минкомсвязи России добавило 155 программных продуктов в единый реестр российского ПО. Глава Минкомсвязи России Николай Никифоров подписал соответствующий приказ 18 марта 2016 года. Среди новых продуктов — сервисы под брендом «МойОфис».... →

Курс предназначен для тех, чья работа связана с контентом или предполагает создание презентаций, для тех, кто хочет грамотно выстроить визуальную коммуникацию и для всех, кто идет в ногу со временем и постоянно профессионально совершенствуется. Не секрет, что более 80% всей информации человек воспринимает при помощи зрения. Благодаря этой особенности, визуализированные данные воспринимаются человеком лучше остальных. Поэтому пришло время сделать акцент на визуализацию. Коммуницируйте визуально. Рассказывайт... →

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, ending a nearly six-hour flight, a NASA TV broadcast showed.... →

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