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Two years after acquiring Braintree, PayPal has gone from peer-to-peer digital wallet to full service payments business. Today Braintree announced that it is on track to process $50 billion in total authorized transaction volume in 2015. For context, when it was acquired by PayPal in 2013, Braintree processed $12 billion. Its newly released figure is also significantly more […]... →

As Apple Pay continues its expansion to more retailers and payment providers (most recently, it appears, in-store at Best Buy), and Stripe continues its expansion march, another one of the big competitors in the payments space is today publishing numbers that underscores how it’s growing, too. PayPal division Braintree, which the payments company acquired in September 2013 for $800… Read More... →

Если верить газете "Ведомости", в обозримом будущем все сайты московских департаментов, управ, префектур, проектов и так далее поглотит единый портал mos.ru. Сейчас существует больше 200 типовых порталов, и на их содержание каждый год тратят в общей сложности 32 миллиона рублей. Сначала запустят новый mos.ru - на его разработку ушло больше 40 миллионов, вложились в дальнейшую экономию за счет сокращения всех остальных сайтов.... →

Редактор издания Fusion Кашмир Хилл написала заметку о том, как она собирала отзывы и поддельных клиентов для своего несуществующего бизнеса по организации караоке-вечеринок Freackin' Awesome Karaoke Express. По словам журналистки, ей хотелось понять, как работает рынок отзывов, и можно ли за небольшие деньги построить для бренда хорошую репутацию в интернете.... →

Coruna Branding разработала новую марку гелей для стирки... →

Гендиректор KupiVIP ответил на вопросы читателей Roem.ru.... →

Global Marketing News - 17th September 2015 Google guilty of abusing dominance in Russia The Russian anti-monopoly regulator has found Google guilty of "abusing its dominant market position" in the Russian mobile market. In February of this year, the search engine Yandex asked the regulator to investigate Google over whether its Android operating system was unfairly blocking other search engines on Android phones.... →

It knows when you’ve been sleeping, it knows when you’re awake, it knows when your kids spilled Rice Krispies next to the couch and covered the spill with the dog. The new Roomba 980 is a round robotic vacuum with a new twist. While previous models got around by bumping into things and coming to the edge of stairs, the new 980 uses a low-res video camera to “map”… Read More... →

How can any company compete with iPad when it comes to being the preferred tablet for children, thanks to the App Store’s large selection of educational apps and age-appropriate games? Amazon’s strategy, to date, has to make a more affordable tablet for the young ones, complete with kid-friendly software pre-installed, while also eliminating parents’ concerns over… Read More... →

In a frenzy of hardware updates, Amazon unveiled the latest iteration of its flagship Fire HD tablets. The new tablets, far more likable than Amazon’s misguided Fire Phone, feature a few new things: a 7.7mm-thin body, a higher quality screen, more storage space, better batter life, and a faster processor. With this release, Amazon has targeted Apple’s position as the default family […]... →

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. BlaBlaCar smashes France’s VC record with $200M round, $1.6B valuation BlaBlaCar, the Paris-based ride-sharing service, announced today an astonishing funding round of $200 million. The amount blew past reports last week that the funding […]... →

Издательство ARTCOM консолидирует активы в новой компании, в которой экс-владелец Forbes больше не является собственником.... →

Twitter объявил, что персональный дайджест твитов Highlights теперь смогут получать пользователи сервиса во всём мире. Функционал по-прежнему доступен лишь владельцам Android-устройств. Highlights представляет собой сводку интересных твитов, доступную на 35 языках. Эта функция была запущена в приложении Twitter для Android в апреле 2015 года, и до сих пор воспользоваться ею могли только англоязычные пользователи. Today we're rolling out Highlights on Android globally — delivering the most interesting cont... →

Amazon has announced a number of interesting improvements to their Fire HD and tablet line today, improvements that bump the processor speed and tweak the styling of the Fire HD 8- and 10.1-inch line and drops the price of the original Fire to $49 (or a six-pack for $250). The Fire HD tablets have long had high-resolution screens and solid processors. Now, however, the company has moved… Read More... →

Актер снялся в новой рекламной кампании сотового ритейлера... →

A few months ago, I wondered out loud if Twitter was missing the boat by not charging for its custom emojis. I mean, brands want to spend money on ads, I bet they’re salivating over having their own custom emoji. Wonder no more. Coke has gotten its own custom emoji (previously called hashflags), the company shared with me. Until now, Twitter has only introduced these custom emojis for… Read More... →

Just two months ago, I wrote about seed funding for GitLab, a startup that provides open-source software for managing source code repositories. Today the startup is back at it, announcing a new $4 million series A round. All of the new money came from previous investor Khosla Ventures. “They’re really on a roll!” as a […]... →

Fundera, the online credit marketplace that helps small business secure loans started by GroupMe cofounder Jared Hecht, has today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from existing investors including QED Investors, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital. Alongside the funding, SGE’s Scott Feldman and… Read More... →

GitLab, the open source Git-based collaboration platform for developers, today announced that it has raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures. The YC-backed company, which offers both a free community edition, a free SaaS version and a paid enterprise edition of its service, says it will use the additional funding to accelerate growth and expand its global operations. Read More... →

С помощью нового сервиса пользователи смогут получить персональный дайджест самых интересных твитов на 35 языках ... →