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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.... →

Использовать Analytics только как «счётчик посещаемости» — преступление... →

This week, Tech.eu tracked 17 technology M&A transactions and 63 funding deals (totalling €162 million, or about $182.5 million) in Europe and Israel.Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free weekly newsletter, along with interesting news regarding fledgling European startups, tech investors old and new, a number of good reads […]... →

Агентство заключило договор о стратегическом партнерстве с UM... →

Facebook and Twitter are vying to buy rights to stream conventional TV programming, the New York Post reported on Thursday.... →

ANALYSIS: Instagram and Snapchat don’t have a ton in common, but they are both image-focused social apps, and that alone invites some comparison. They both have filters, too, which means those filters can be compared. Unfortunately for Instagram, it’s not really a contest. On one side, you have Instagram’s basic artsy hipster filters, making things a […]... →

Immigrants make up 13.3 percent of the population in the U.S., which is the highest percentage the country has seen in more than 100 years. Now let’s put this into perspective: Thirty-six percent of all top tech founders in the U.S. are immigrants — almost triple the percentage of immigrants in the country. Many immigrants are pushing innovation in the U.S, aiding the country… Read More... →

A Florida jury sided today with wrestling star Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bolea) in his lawsuit against Gawker. Hogan was awarded $115 million — $55 million for economic injuries and $60 million for emotional distress. That’s even more than the $100 million that Hogan was seeking, and the jury’s scheduled to return Monday to deal with punitive damages on top of that.… Read More... →

(By Anya George Tharakan, Reuters) – Microsoft apologized for hiring dancers dressed as skimpily-clad schoolgirls for its Game Developer Conference (GDC) afterparty in San Francisco on Thursday night, responding to media reports citing attendees’ pictures on Twitter and Instagram. “It has come to my attention that at Xbox-hosted events at GDC this past week, we […]... →

Once upon a time, a photo of something was enough to believe it was real. Sure, you’d have to deal with the occasional Big Foot hoax, but for the most part, those who had the time or talent to create believable fakes were in the minority. Read More... →

When NHTSA announced yesterday that 20 manufacturers had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems as standard equipment on all new cars by 2022, many people noted that plenty of cars you can buy right now have this technology on board. You might think that in 2016, this is expensive equipment available only on luxury cars, but the Honda Civic sedan would beg to differ.… Read More... →

GUEST: Throughout 2015, Bitcoin exchanges, mining, and trading firms in Australia received letters from their bankers. The message was the same; the commercial banks were withdrawing their services. The banks gave little explanation for the move, but these termination of service notices set a dangerous precedent that other countries could follow. “Our members have been unable […]... →

Has Twitter reversed course on plans to increase the character limit on tweets? That’s what you might think when reading the press coverage of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s appearance on The Today Show, but I’m not convinced that there was really a big change of heart. You may recall Re/code’s report in January that Twitter was looking at a “10,000 character limit… Read More... →

Former Apple chief executive John Sculley believes that his old company is doing an excellent job in the debate with the U.S. government over helping it decrypt San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. Sculley laid out his views on the subject in an interview today with VentureBeat. Here’s what he said: I have a […]... →

Wondering what it looks like when AMD and Nvidia video cards are sitting in the same computer, running a program together? Here’s what it looks like — and how it changes performance for the graphics-intensive real-time strategy game, Ashes of the Singularity. In the video above, Oxide Games’ Dan Baker shows how the game runs […]... →

Parking tickets actually earn cities less money than when people pay the meters like they should. The problem is that even new meters that let you pay by phone or credit are such a hassle that people don’t use them and hope they don’t get caught. But Y Combinator startup Meter Feeder has built a way to pay for parking that easier for citizens, cheaper for cities, and works with… Read More... →

Storefront has shut down. The company, which specializes in making it easier for anyone to find and rent short-term retail space, announced on its site that as of March 17, it was no longer in operations. It didn’t provide any specific reason for the sudden closure. Founded in 2012, Storefront was an online marketplace that paired artists, […]... →