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Mumbai-based music-streaming service Saavn announced Thursday that former Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin has joined as an investor and strategic advisor. The news comes less than three months after the company announced $100 million in fresh funding. At the time, it said it was adding one million new users per month, with 14 million in total. As of today, that […]... →

Google today launched Google Keep for iOS. You can download the new app now directly from Apple’s App Store. It’s a little surprising it took Google this long to debut an iOS app. Google Keep first launched way back in March 2013 for Android and the web. Google even brought Google Keep to Android Wear […]... →

Oculus has an amazing virtual-reality controller solution, but it won’t ship with the consumer version. Oculus’s Touch controllers won’t ship until the second quarter of 2016, according to the company’s presentation at Oculus Connect today. That is an entire quarter after the Rift goes on sale in Q1 2016. The company spent a long time talking […]... →

If you’ve noticed Google doing a better job of understanding what you say using speech recognition on your smartphone lately, you’re not crazy. Google’s voice search has indeed become more accurate, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, the tech company announced today. “Today, we’re happy to announce we built even better neural network acoustic models […]... →

Prepare to grab LinkedIn tips and information on this episode of The Missing Link that even host Sean Jackson and Mica Gadhia didn't expect! Three of our Certified Content Marketers (Louisa Chan, Carin Kilby Clark, and Megan Williams) take the time to share surprising information at every bend in this nonstop episode. Did you know that you can have different profile pages for each language you're fluent in? Through these real-life stories,... →

Microsoft today launched a new standalone app for scheduling meetings called Invite. Available only for iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada for now, you can download Invite now directly from Apple’s App Store. Here is how it works. First you suggest times that work for you, and then invite attendees to vote. You can […]... →

Yes, you can place blocks in virtual reality. Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition is going to support Oculus Rift, we learned today at Oculus Connect in Los Angeles. Founder Palmer Luckey of Oculus VR announced that Microsoft will bring its block-building phenomenon will support the head-mounted display when it launches in Q1 of 2016. This is a […]... →

Во втором квартале 2015 года Apple поставила в Россию 12 тысяч Apple Watch, подсчитали аналитики компании IDC. Это позволило компании стать крупнейшим поставщиком «умных» часов на российском рынке, пишет РБК.... →

VB INSIGHT: Adobe is a strong and active player in the marketing tech landscape. We’ve studied their solutions in market across marketing clouds, mobile analytics and acquisition tools, and marketing automation tools at VB Insight. Frankly, with so many digital marketing solutions across so many areas — audience targeting, campaign management, social media, etc. — the company […]... →

Posted by Ha_im Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays and Johan Schalkwyk - Google Speech Team Back in 2012, we announced that Google voice search had taken a new turn by adopting Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as the core technology used to model the sounds of a language. These replaced the 30-year old standard in the industry: the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). DNNs were better able to assess which sound a user is producing at every instant in time,... →

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At half the price of its last mobile VR headset, the new $99 Oculus-made Samsung Gear VR is cheap enough to make virtual reality mainstream. It works with the whole 2015 line of Samsung Smartphones including the Note 5, S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge+. Compared to the $199 previous Gear VR that only worked with the last Samsung Note, this headset will be a lot more accessible. We’ll have… Read More... →

Главный архитектор облачного сервиса Box и бывший главный архитектор Yahoo Николас Закас опубликовал в своём личном блоге заметку о том, как он обычно проводит интервью с соискателями. Автор отмечает, что у него есть один любимый вопрос, который помогает выяснить о кандидате самое важное.... →

If you’re planning on buying or receiving a new iPhone 6s tomorrow, you will be asked to upgrade the operating system on the device immediately. Apple has released a special version of iOS 9.0.1 that’s specifically aimed at the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. The OS version was pushed out to the public yesterday, […]... →

Samsung is expanding its support for virtual reality. Gear VR will launch as a consumer product this November for $99. It will support all Samsung’s 2015 smartphones, and the company worked with Oculus to make sleeker and slimmer. This will make the device the first consumer VR product to go on sale. It will work […]... →

Facebook is expanding the capabilities of its Mentions app to now let journalists keep track of what people are saying about their articles — even if they’re not mentioned by name. In order to accomplish this, media professionals need to implement an author tag on their website that connects to their Facebook profile or page. […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Friday, September 25 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.  Silicon Valley is at the center of the perfect storm of robotics. It’s at the center of the talent, the investment and the research, the center of the software and hardware industries — all key […]... →

No matter where you are this Saturday, you can have a front row seat at the 2015 Global Citizen Festival to catch performances by Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran and Coldplay, live on YouTube , unleashed by T-Mobile. Tune in at youtube.com/globalcitizen/live to join YouTube creators MatthewSantoro , and Mitch Moffit and Greg Brown from AsapSCIENCE , who'll bring you the latest from the event and take you backstage for all the behind-the-scenes action.... →

Amino, a startup that’s built 41 different mobile community apps (so far), is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a little more than a year ago, when it raised a $1.65 million seed round. Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson told me that the idea was to reinvent the traditional online forum with a smartphone-optimized experience… Read More... →

In this new age of so-called tech “unicorns” and their eye-popping valuations, it’s important to remember that not all revenue is created equal. Indeed, recent volatility in the stock market has lots of industry watchers cautioning startups to concern themselves less with achieving unicorn status and more on building customer and employee satisfaction. Read More... →