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BlackBerry CEO John Chen says his company may exit the handset business if it’s not profitable in a year. BlackBerry has been moving its focus toward security and device management software for the enterprise, but has held fast to it’s not-so-popular phones. That said, Chen is quick to say that he believes that U.S. consumers […]... →

Sometimes you just don’t know what to search for. Maybe you’re trying to identify a landmark or find out some details about a cool-looking restaurant. Rather than search the web with endlessly vague keywords stacked on top of each other, PHIND is hoping you just open up your camera app. PHIND enables users to search just by snapping a pic of a physical location. After users do so… Read More... →

Adtech and martech have been getting closer and closer. Now a new integration between retargeting leader AdRoll and marketing cloud vendor Marketo is showing why. 30 percent incremental lift, that’s why. According to mobile intelligence provider App Annie, AdRoll’s new integration with Marketo resulted in a major uptick in conversions in its advertising. The company has […]... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced several additions to its Lambda event-driven computing service. Perhaps most importantly, AWS is adding support for the Python programming language. Previously Lambda had Node.js and Java support. Other enhancements include support for AWS’ Virtual Private Cloud service, as well as custom retry logic, scheduled functions. But that’s not all. […]... →

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Cheetah Mobile. The mobile industry isn’t the same as it was years before. Everyone and their grandma carries a mobile device to better suit their daily needs, such as finding directions to a just-opened bar, ordering food delivery for that night’s dinner, searching for deals on the latest fashion […]... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced new high-performing x1 instances — virtual slices of physical servers — carrying up to 2TB of RAM and much smaller t2.nano instances. The former will arrive in the first half of next year, and the latter will become available later this year. The x1’s use Intel Haswell processors with […]... →

Amazon today announced a massive new instance type for its AWS EC2 compute service. The new X1 instances will feature 2 terabytes of memory. That’s a huge increase from what was previously EC2’s largest instance type, which “only” featured 200 gigabytes of memory. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels noted in today’s keynote, this will make it easier for AWS users to do… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of Kinesis Analytics, a new service to do time-series analytics over data that’s streaming in. The tool lets developers execute pre-built SQL statements as well as run their own custom queries. The service, which works with Kinesis Streams and the new Kinesis Firehose, will become available next […]... →

As some noticed when Roku this week announced its upgraded 4K-ready streaming media player, the Roku 4, the product packaging featured a highly-anticipated addition to Roku’s channel lineup: HBO NOW. The premium network’s over-the-top offering has been one glaring omission from an otherwise robust lineup of programming options on Roku’s platform, which today includes more… Read More... →

Google обновил поисковое приложение для iOS до версии 9.0. В числе основных нововведений – поддержка анимированных GIF-изображений в результатах поиска картинок (Image Search). Проигрывание будет начато после нажатия на выбранный файл. Кроме того, теперь пользователи приложения также смогут добавить фото или отзыв к местным заведениям, а при поиске адреса получить результат на карте прямо внутри приложения. Напомним, что в июне Facebook внедрил поддержку анимированных GIF-изображений в новостной ленте.... →

Сервис для поиска, продажи и сдачи жилья в аренду «Яндекс.Недвижимость» убрал возможность перехода на сайты партнеров, размещающих объявления в Москве, Петербурге, Московской и Ленинградской областях. Теперь объекты вторичного рынка можно посмотреть только на странице сервиса, сообщили vc.ru представители компании.... →

Дэвид Снэддон, Google, и Дирк Хенке, Criteo, рассказали, почему нельзя игнорировать мобильных пользователей... →

Команды, которые по итогам хакатонов станут участниками конкурса Imagine Cup, будут приняты в преакселератор ФРИИ... →

After nearly two years, Sony is slashing the price of its latest gaming console by $50 just in time for the holidays. The PlayStation 4 now costs $349 in the U.S. In November. The console already received a price cut in Japan to 35,000 yen (approximately $290). European gamers should expect a price cut pretty soon as well. Read More... →

GPS device maker TomTom has moved beyond turn-by-turn directions into smart watches and embedded car software that could be used for self-driving vehicles. The portable mapping device maker announced in September the release of 24,000 km (roughly 15,000 miles) of highly automated driving (HAD) maps covering Germany’s entire highway network. HAD maps are a highly accurate type of 3D… Read More... →

SwiftKey has launched a new experimental version of its popular mobile keyboard app, one that could significantly improve the accuracy of predictive typing. The SwiftKey Neural Alpha app is an Android-only affair for now and, as its name suggests, it’s still an early stage product so may be prone to bugs. But it’s for this […]... →

Mino Games had a rare hit in the Mino Monsters free-to-play mobile game with 7 million downloads and $10 million in revenue to date. And that’s why it has been able raise new funding and move on to Mino Monsters 2: Evolution. The San Francisco company is announcing it has raised $2.2 million in funding […]... →

If you’ve watched the trailers for the soon-to-be-released movie “Steve Jobs,” you might remember hearing snatches of a heated conversation between Steve Wozniak and Jobs. Now Universal Pictures has released a clip showing the full exchange, as Wozniak (played by Seth Rogen) demands to know what Jobs (Michael Fassbender) has done to earn his reputation as a genius. Read More... →

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The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is disrupting New Orleans tonight, which means there is no better time for you to register for tickets than right now. What is a TC Meetup + Pitch-off, you ask? Excellent question! More than a handful of ore-selected companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of esteemed judges. Those judges will hold a quick Q&A after… Read More... →