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Hello, again.  It’s your Disrupt Hackmasters, Reshma and Jeffery. We’ve got the inside scoop on the upcoming workshops and judges, and we’re passing the information on to you. First, our API workshops, because knowing is half the battle. The other 99 percent is perspiration. 2:00pm Twilio w/ Matt Makai, Developer Evangelist Ready to use the Twilio API in your hackathon… Read More... →

Uber would not be a reliable service if it didn’t implement surge pricing. Well, at least that’s what Uber is suggesting in its recent case study on surge pricing. Surge pricing is an increase of fare that kicks in when there’s a high demand of Uber ride requests, but not a lot of drivers on the road. “We found that, without surge pricing, Uber is not really Uber… Read More... →

In the midst of the chaos of the Dreamforce conference floor, we interviewed Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe at the company’s booth today. We discussed Apttus’ rapid growth and how he has dealt with the challenges of growing so quickly. Earlier this month, the company landed $108 million in funding. This comes after $41 million raised in February and brings the total investment to… Read More... →

Yahoo today announced the availability of the Yahoo Mail app for Windows 10. It’s available now in the Windows Store. “The app brings you brand-new ways to effortlessly access mail and get notified of new messages,” Yahoo director of product management Josh Jacobson wrote in a blog post on the news. “In addition, the wide […]... →

Tara Gentile is a very smart entrepreneur who's just published a short, affordable book on one of Brian Clark's favorite topics " listening. It's a critical skill for developing products and services. Once Brian got into the product and software game, he started with an audience, rather than the product or service. This gave Brian a group of real people to listen to and learn from, even as they learned from him. Whether or not you start with building your own audience,... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of a technology preview of a tool that developers can use to convert Windows Phone Silverlight 8.x apps to apps to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. UWP is a big deal because it can allow apps to run on any device running Windows 10, from a Raspberry Pi to a […]... →

On-demand delivery/courier service Postmates has just undergone a major expansion. Today it announced that it’s in 10 new cities, bringing the total number of markets to 40. Cities that are now on-line include Baltimore, Palm Springs, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City, Kanasa City, Columbus, and Jersey City. As a treat to its new users […]... →

With the BBC facing increasing criticism over its publicly-funded model in its native U.K., the broadcasting giant today revealed plans to boost the coffers of its commercial “BBC Worldwide” arm by launching a new video-streaming service in the U.S. Speaking at the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention in England today, BBC Director-General Tony Hall said […]... →

At about 11:04 a.m. PST today (2:04 p.m. EST), Facebook went down. We also couldn’t reach Instagram and Facebook Messenger for a few minutes, but those services were quickly restored. We have contacted Facebook for more information and will update you if we learn the cause of the outage. Update at 11:09 a.m.: For some […]... →

PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTC Markets: FPVD), which sells HD body camera systems and accessories for law enforcement, announced that the LE10 on the body camera has been chosen over several other manufactures in a 30 day test...... →

Now that we can see that the custom emojis on Twitter are an ad unit, there’s a few more interesting things to point out about the campaign with Coke. It appears that the company has leveraged stars of its acquired video platform, Vine, with a lot of them tweeting/vining to their vast number of followers about it. The campaign, while a bit murky, seems to be an attempt to break a… Read More... →

Facebook is joining the 100 Percent Viewability Club. Today, the social networking giant announced a new ad buying option where advertisers only pay for ads that are actually seen. The digital ad industry is beset by a major viewability problem. Google has estimated that slightly more than half of all ads are not viewable by […]... →

Sean Jackson and Jon Loomer go head-to-head in an epic battle between Facebook and LinkedIn. Who wins? You decide ' Ladies and Gentlemen, in one corner, we have Jon Loomer with Facebook and its 1.5-billion users. But Sean Jackson is not intimidated with LinkedIn and its 380-million users in the other corner. Which is better for your business? Which statistics make sense to use? The Missing Link team did their homework , using many different resources ,... →

«Семиотик» разрабатывает углеводные микрочипы (гликочипы) для анализа крови... →

We’re just a week away from TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015, and the TechCrunch video team has a packed schedule: broadcasting interviews, updates and all sorts of other great startup action live from the exhibit hall floor. Disrupt TV kicked off at Disrupt NY back in May, and we got such positive feedback we’re doing it again in San Francisco. Eh, we can sleep when we’re dead. Read More... →

Google выбрал в главные соперники "Яндекс", хотя проигрывает свою аудиторию проектам Mail.ru Group.... →

Платёжная система Qiwi снова начнёт принимать платежи в пользу «Яндекс.Денег» после перерыва, длившегося более четырёх лет. Об этом в кулуарах Казанского форума инновационных финансовых технологий сообщил журналистам генеральный директор и акционер Qiwi Сергей Солонин, передаёт ТАСС.... →

One of the better features in this week’s newly released version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9, is the ability for users to block ads on mobile websites, along with other content that can slow down browsing and eat away at mobile data plans. And while somewhat of a geekier feature to implement – users have to download apps then head into… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Wednesday, September 30 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Let’s say you’ve navigated early stage growth, the company’s looking bullet-proof inside and out, and your sites are set on going public. Well, you better start thinking like a public company now in terms of […]... →

Американская компания Oscar Mayer, выпускающая продукты из мяса, разработала дейтинговое приложение Sizzl специально для людей, которые любят бекон.... →