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Народные #РосКомРозыски дают Роскомнадзору дополнительную популярность в массах, но едва ли очень сильно помогают бороться с оборотом наркотиков.... →

Dropbox today announced that it will now support security keys. Security keys are physical USB dongles from companies like YubiCo that allow you to bypass the traditional app- and text message-based two-factor authentication schemes with their six-digit codes by simply plugging the key into your computer. The advantage of these keys is that they make it almost impossible for a hacker to… Read More... →

Dropbox today announced that it has started to allow users to log in while using USB keys as a universal second factor (U2F) of authentication. U2F, a protocol promoted by the FIDO Alliance, isn’t the most trendy form of secure authentication for consumer web services. What’s far more common is two-factor authentication that you can […]... →

Dear readers, I’m writing to inform you that the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in NYC is in less than a week, and tickets are selling out fast. I don’t want you to miss out. You don’t want you to miss out. So let’s not tarry. The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is a very special event, hosted by yours truly, that gives 10 new startups from the New York ecosystem an opportunity to… Read More... →

Apartment rental company RentMethod has been acquired by Airbnb and will be shutting down at the end of August. Customers that used RentMethod are being encouraged to port over their data to other solutions, to which the company will provide a list in the future. Founded in 2012, RentMethod billed itself as making it easier for […]... →

Jerod Morris, our VP of Rainmaker.FM, shares some lessons from what may be our most ambitious content initiative ever. It should always make you nervous when Copyblogger's founder and CEO, Brian Clark, tosses an idea around. His ideas have a way of turning into "unyielding freight trains" of business energy. In this case, it's the Rainmaker.FM digital marketing channel " the network of shows that includes Confessions of a Pink-Haired Marketer.... →

Intel just released a mid-year report diversity report, highlighting the progress its made in its effort to improve diversity over the next five years. Earlier this year, Intel announced its $300 million commitment to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich set a goal that, by 2020, Intel’s U.S. workforce would be representative of the talent available. In order… Read More... →

Multiple recent leaks have indicated that Apple is working on a major new version of the iPad mini. You can expect a more powerful, thinner iPad mini, and it will let you take advantage of all the latest features in iOS 9. Read More... →

Periscope may have just hit the impressive milestone of 10 million registered users after just four months, but what it wants you to focus on is the sheer volume of video content that its users are streaming: nearly 40 years of watch time  every day from its iOS and Android apps. The lifetime of content, which amounts to just over 350 thousand hours of video streamed per day, doesn’t… Read More... →

The job of the online copywriter is to attract attention, stoke interest, create desire, and incite action. AIDA. Attracting attention used to mainly involve stopping the reader dead in his tracks. A good headline will do that. Before the web " in the world of print " advertisers bought space in magazines and newspapers. Naturally, promoting an ad in spaces with high volumes of traffic would increase the number of times eyeballs saw the ad. This meant the front page,... →

Microsoft today announced the availability of a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile for Windows Insiders. This new update, Build 10512, mostly fixes bugs and makes minor improvements — but there’s nevertheless some excitement involved, too, given that Windows 10 is finally available to everyone. Screenshots of this new Windows 10 Mobile build have […]... →

PokItDok, the API provider for the healthcare industry, has today announced the close of a $34 million Series B. The company, launched back in 2011, provides software framework for things like payment processing, eligibility checks from insurance companies, referrals, claims submissions, online scheduling, patient identity management and provider search. In other words, any mobile or web… Read More... →

Pure Storage, a company that sells all-flash storage hardware for companies to deploy in their data centers, today filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, kicking off the process to go public. The company is looking to raise $300 million in the IPO and start trading on the stock market under […]... →

Western developers publishing mobile games in China may wind up with revenue shares that could be as low as 20 percent — or even 10 percent. That’s the grim reality of taking your game to the world’s biggest mobile gaming market, based on panel discussions at the Casual Connect game conference in San Francisco. By […]... →

The magic number is no longer 140. Twitter has officially lifted its 140-character limit on direct messages. Users will begin seeing this change today across Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and Twitter for Mac. All others should have this capability within the next few weeks. In June, Twitter first revealed that it would no longer be […]... →

While it might seem that the disruption du jour is all anybody is ordering these days — making innovation, growth and new value seem like insurmountable things — businesses should focus on where they can find value most quickly. Three common challenges plague companies today: non-consumption, organizational friction and market failure. However, such unexpected failures provide… Read More... →

They warned us back in June that this day was coming. I was in denial. Surely, Twitter wouldn’t. Couldn’t. Welp, they have. Get ready for people to drop a book into your DMs, because starting today Twitter has officially dropped the 140-character limit in direct messages. The brevity that we’ve enjoyed for so so long, that natural cutting off point…gone. Poof. Your… Read More... →

The Canadian biometrics company Nymi, working with TD Bank Group and MasterCard, says it’s completed the first wearable credit card transaction authenticated by the user’s heartbeat. Nymi’s dedicated payments authentication wristband executes a payment when held up to a point of sale terminal that accepts MasterCard. The band contains an NXP Near Field Communication (NFC) chip […]... →

Mobile messaging firm Kik is upping its focus on music after launching a new service to connect fans of top artists and bands via its popular chat app. Read More... →

VB EVENT: Sid Patel is an interesting character. Head of data science at Twitter (the TellApart division: TellApart was recently acquired by Twitter), Sid held senior analytics posts at DemandTec (acquired by IBM) before becoming chief science officer at Freshplum (acquired by TellApart). You could say that he’s an acquired talent. But Patel’s interest in analytics and data has a […]... →