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When Facebook announced M—an A.I.-powered personal assistant that lives inside Messenger—it fired a massive shell across Google’s bow. Indeed, if Facebook can successfully scale M to its entire audience (and WhatsApp’s, as well), this new product represents a direct assault on search and AdWords—the lifeblood of Google’s business. To understand how a… Read More... →

Xiaomi reported it sold 2.8 million of its Mi Band activity tracker in the first quarter of 2015; in the same time period for 2014 (first quarter), they sold exactly 0. Newer reports have stated that the Mi Band has sold more than 6 million units for 2015. Analysts estimate this represents 25 percent of all similar devices sold this year. So what does this mean? Wearable fitness tracking is… Read More... →

Growth is up and to the right for Airbnb. Nearly 17 million people worldwide booked their guest stays with the peer-to-peer lodging platform this summer, according to a new travel report. That’s a whopping 353x’s surge in the last five years – and a far cry from the three guests Airbnb hosted before officially launching in the summer of 2008. Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and… Read More... →

Posted by Steve_RaysonThis summer BuzzSumo teamed up with Moz to analyze the shares and links of over 1m articles. We wanted to look at the correlation of shares and links, to understand the content that gets both shares and links, and to identify the formats that get relatively more shares or links. What we found is that the majority of content published on the internet is simply ignored when it comes to shares and links. The data suggests most content is simply not worthy of sharing or linking, and also t... →

Павел Фаге, руководивший запуском Uber в России и других странах, рассказал на своей странице в Facebook, что покинул компанию два месяца назад и присоединился к команде тревел-сервиса «Островок.ру», основанного его братом Сергеем Фаге.... →

Twelve years after filing for U.S. residency, I finally took the oath of citizenship in a quaint suburban theater, having spent seven of those prime entrepreneurship years mired in the Green Card queue. This wait damages the entrepreneurship spirit and, worse, impacts career prospects, thereby crimping the economy. Our immigration system hinders entrepreneurship, innovation and productivity. Read More... →

betaworks has been around for almost ten years now, standing as a leading example of how a startup studio should run. Years ago, I asked betaworks founder John Borthwick how he would define betaworks. He had trouble coming up terminology he was comfortable with — after all, betaworks is part seed-fund, part umbrella corporation, and though he would hate for me to say so, part… Read More... →

BENGALURU, INDIA (Supantha Mukherjee and Abhirup Roy, Reuters) – The top three global PC makers would be able to raise market share in the next few years through consolidation amid shrinking sales of personal computers, Dell Inc Chief Executive Michael Dell said on Monday. Lenovo Group Ltd tops global PC shipment ranking with a 20.3 […]... →

Сегодня проходит онлайн "SEO МАРАФОН 2015". Доклад руководителя MegaIndex Николая Хиврина запланирован на 15:00. Тема доклада: "BigData в SEO" Сайт конференции: http://seo.nadobolshe.ru/... →

Диана Молдавская, новый партнер 500 startups, приведет фонд в Россию, Восточную Европу и Израиль.... →

Amazon is reportedly looking to launch a $50 tablet. The device will feature a 6-inch screen and go on sale in time for the holiday shopping season, according to “people familiar with the matter” cited by The Wall Street Journal. It’s not a huge stretch to see Amazon slashing the price of its tablets even […]... →

С 7 по 11 сентября в Москве проходят бесплатные курсы «Яндекса» для брендов по digital-маркетингу, доступные в онлайн-трансляции, а по окончании — в записи.VC поговорил с представителями компании, которые участвуют в организации курса — директором по маркетингу сервисов «Яндекса» Андреем Себрантом, руководителем группы маркетинговых и рекламных проектов Даниилом Колесниковом и руководителем отдела сейлз-маркетинга Еленой Завьяловой — о целях создания школы, главных пробелах в знаниях специалистов по продвиж... →

Larry and Sergey and Eric are burners. So are Zuck, and Dustin Moskovitz, and the Winklevii; so are Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Shervin Pishevar. Every year thousands of techies flock to ephemeral Black Rock City, Nevada’s 10th largest urban area during the week it exists. That’s why so many imagine Burning Man as a kind of summer camp for the tech industry. They could hardly be… Read More... →

As investors, our job is to find the visionaries that dream up the future and partner with them to help make that dream a reality. In agriculture, with the latest advancements in technology, we half imagined small harvesting robots, skyscraper vertical farms in every city and sensor-studded fields overseen by drones. Read More... →

Крыловский районный суд Краснодарского края потребовал заблокировать сайт Pornhub на территории России как содержащий информацию, причиняющую вред здоровью и развитию детей. Об этом сообщает «Лента.Ру» со ссылкой на решение суда.... →

If job openings are any indication, it looks like tech companies aren’t just blowing smoke when they talk about wanting to improve diversity. Airbnb, Asana, Autodesk and Dropbox, for example, are currently seeking to hire heads of diversity. In what Airbnb calls “a big job,” the company is looking for a head of diversity and belonging “who is creative enough to… Read More... →

Is $35 for a Raspberry Pi too rich for you blood? Do you prefer using sparsely-supported but cheap single board computers? Are you willing to ignore the obviously goofy name “Orange Pi?” Then have we got something for you. The Orange Pi PC is a new single board machine that is ostensibly compatible with the Raspberry Pi OS images and can also run standard Linux and Android. It has a… Read More... →

SportSetter, a Finnish fitness marketplace startup we covered back in April 2014, has pulled in a $1 million seed round, which it will be using to expand its availability from Finland and New York into the U.K. market, as well as build out its app reach from iOS to Android. Read More... →

Сильными конкурентами Apple в этой сфере являются Google и Microsoft... →

Disrupt SF is only a few weeks away now and our agenda is shaping up nicely. Among the speakers at this year’s event are CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn. CloudFlare, which offers both content distribution and security tools for web sites, is near and dear to our hearts because the company launched as a Disrupt Battlefield company almost exactly five years ago.… Read More... →