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Israel has become known for its security startups, and Scalock, a company that wants to secure the burgeoning container space, announced a $4 million Series A round today. The funding was provided by Israel venture capitalists TLV partners, a new fund launched earlier this year by veterans of the Israeli VC scene, Rona Segev and Eitan Bek. The company is run by two security industry… Read More... →

Bitter rivals Facebook and Google today announced a partnership that may feel a bit odd at first glance. WhatsApp for Android is getting Google Drive integration, which lets you back up your chat messages and media content to the cloud. You can download the latest version directly from Google Play, though you might not see […]... →

You did it! You pitched a reporter, and he or she called you for comment. In this episode of PR is Dead, you'll learn best practices for making the most of this exciting opportunity. In this 19-minute episode of PR is Dead, host Doyle Albee discusses: How to answer a reporter's call What you need to think about before sitting down for an interview Some do's and don'ts for doing interviews Click Here to Listen to PR is Dead on iTunes Click Here to Listen on Rainmaker.... →

Streaming has been eating away into digital and CD sales for years, as consumers turn to online services like Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Prime Music, iHeartRadio, and now Apple Music, among others, to listen to their favorite songs and artists. Alongside this shift, it seems that users are becoming less interested in managing their collection of MP3’s, in favor of getting the tracks they… Read More... →

Today at Amazon re:invent, Amazon announced a new service called Amazon Inspector that analyzes your AWS instances and reports back with any security or compliance issues it finds. This provides a valuable service for Amazon customers who may be worried about security, especially those that are new to cloud services. The service does a complete review of your Amazon cloud and reports back… Read More... →

Living in California, like many areas around the world, we’re prone to earthquakes and when one does strike, one of the things that people are prone to doing is tweet about it (c’mon, admit it). But did you know that your tweet is being used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to help track these events? […]... →

Мосгорсуд постановил временно заблокировать страницу онлайн-кинотеатра Megogo с шоу «Суд присяжных. Окончательный вердикт» по просьбе правообладателя, телеканала НТВ, сообщает «Роскомсвобода». Представители сервиса считают, что НТВ ошибочно трактует законодательство.... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced Amazon Inspector, a sort of bot service that looks for and identifies potential security and compliance vulnerabilities. Amazon Inspector is available in preview today. A blog post has more detail on the service. The tool draws on the knowledge that Amazon has built up over 20 years of operation, […]... →

Компания Google представила Accelerated Mobile Pages — сервис по созданию быстро загружающихся в мобильных браузерах новостных статей. Об этом пишет TechCrunch.... →

The first batch of startups in Disney’s startup accelerator produced successes like the bb-8 droid from Sphero and Naritiv, a marketing platform that nabbed a deal with Snapchat. Sphero produced the bb-8 droid in anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars film, The Force Awakens. But it was a fated meeting with Disney CEO Bob Iger that gave the Sphero robotics team an idea to create the… Read More... →

When it comes to the weather, there are no lack of applications to choose from to get your information. But there is very little diversity when it comes to those apps. A new startup, called Sunshine, is looking to change all that. Using information delivered from the barometer sensor in the phone, as well as user-generated reports of local weather, the app is trying to change the way we… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of new database tools to run production databases on its public cloud. There’s now a Database Migration Service that allows companies to easily move databases to AWS that takes 10-15 minutes to set up. The promise here is to run the same databases in the cloud at […]... →

TriggMine представляет собой SaaS-сервис триггерных писем для привлечения, активации и реанимации клиентов в сегменте электронной коммерции... →

Giphy, which launched out of betaworks in 2013 as a search engine for gifs, is evolving into something much bigger. In the last year, we’ve seen Giphy launch a standalone mobile app for creating your own gifs, called GiphyCam. We’ve also seen Giphy partner with tech companies like Facebook and Slack for seamless gif sharing. Meanwhile, Giphy offers original content through… Read More... →

Amazon surprised developers today with the launch of Snowball, a new physical appliance that will allow AWS users to ship huge amounts of data for import into AWS by shipping the device back and forth between their offices and the AWS data centers. The appliance is a bit larger than an old-school desktop case and it can hold up to 50 terabytes of data. It has a Kindle on the side… Read More... →

Today at AWS re:invent, Amazon introduced a new service called Kinesis Firehose to move data streaming from sensors and other locations directly to the cloud. As Andy Jassy, SVP at AWS, pointed out, the company launched Kinesis a few years ago to take this kind of streaming data and build custom applications on top of that to handle the data. Amazon found that was taking customers far too… Read More... →

Новая активность в Wizard.Sape «Контекстная реклама». Автоматизировано! Введение Яндексом всё новых и новых фильтров заставила многих задуматься над тем, чтобы просто «купить» у Яндекса нужных посетителей. Инструмент для этого Яндексом создан давно — это размещение контекстных рекламных объявлений прямо… Читать далее →... →

В Яндекс.Директе появились динамические объявления, которые в настоящий момент находятся в ограниченном бета-тестировании. Динамические объявления помогут упростить работу над рекламными кампаниями с большим количеством однотипных объявлений. Директ проанализирует содержание сайта и автоматически сформирует объявления для показа на поиске Яндекса. При этом система будет генерировать объявления только для страниц с конкретным товаром. Достаточно создать кампанию для динамических объявлений, указать домен с... →

TechCrunch is back on the road again with the upcoming New Orleans Meetup + Pitch-Off, in conjunction with Nola Tech Week, and we’ve finally made selections on which startups will have a chance to hop on stage and pitch. Seven companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges and a ready-and-waiting audience in a fight to win the opportunity to… Read More... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today showed off Amazon Snowball, a 45-pound piece of hardware for storing 50TB of data that can be shipped to AWS to be stored in the cloud. This is a pretty wild thing for AWS to launch, because AWS provides cloud infrastructure and services, not bespoke hardware. It’s what’s distinguished AWS […]... →