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17:00 01.08.2015

A Conversation With Michael Lopp, Pinterest’s Head Of Engineering

About a year ago, Michael Lopp joined Pinterest as the company’s head of engineering — filling in the leadership of the engineering side next to co-founder Evan Sharp and CEO Ben Silbermann. Much of his role, since joining, has been to help teams at Pinterest, which consist of units of engineers, designers and product managers, mesh and work well together. Lopp comes from both… Read More... →

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16:00 01.08.2015

Vapor No More: Ethereum Has Launched

Thursday was, I think, a historic day–though whether it becomes a memorable milestone like the launch of the Altair 8800, or an obscure footnote à la CP/M, remains to be seen. Thursday was the day that the Ethereum Project finally launched, after much sound and fury, including raising ~US$10 million (in Bitcoin.) It’s a fascinating, wildly ambitious project, and it is vaporware… Read More... →

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16:00 01.08.2015

Robots won’t fully catch on until they can see and touch like we do

GUEST: What holds machines back the most today has nothing to do with brainpower, but their inability to interact with the physical world in an even remotely human manner.... →

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14:55 01.08.2015

Twitter позволит узнать биографию пользователей по их аватарам

Это можно будет сделать, просто наведя курсор на фото пользователя... →

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14:53 01.08.2015

Письмо в редакцию: Где искать идеи для долгосрочных стартапов

Генеральный директор компании «Пакс Текум» Юлия Бровкина прислала в редакцию письмо, в котором рассказала про свой подход к отслеживанию новейших технологий, оценке их практического применения и влияния на определенные сферы деятельности, создающие пространство для новых рыночных ниш.... →

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14:09 01.08.2015

Треть россиян никогда не пользовалась интернетом

Об этом стало известно из результатов опроса, проведенного ФОМ (Фонд Общественное Мнение) среди 1,5 тыс. граждан России возрастом от 18 лет и старше в 53 субъектах страны... →

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12:25 01.08.2015

Facebook запустил инструмент проверки безопасности аккаунтов пользователей

Новый функционал уже доступен в веб-версии сервиса, а скоро будет запущен и на мобильных устройствах... →

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04:00 01.08.2015

Why Homejoy Failed … And The Future Of The On-Demand Economy

On the heels of Homejoy’s failure, the fundamental “on-demand marketplace” model has come into question by investors, the media and even consumers. That questioning is very relevant, as there has been an overload of VC money that has been injected in the on-demand service platform space over the past few years ($4 billion-plus in 2014). Read More... →

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03:00 01.08.2015

Setting The Right Valuation For A Competitive Series A Round

Founders are often puzzled by how VCs derive valuations for competitive Series A rounds. A competitive Series A round is an equity round where a company generally raises greater than $5 million led by a top-quartile venture capital firm. During these Series A rounds, it is not uncommon for founders to receive multiple term sheets from lead investors at different valuations, and to feel… Read More... →

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03:00 01.08.2015

3 reasons natural-language tech has more potential than you think

GUEST: With the announcement of funding for AI-driven DigitalGenius last month, artificial intelligence, and particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP), have been making headlines recently. Customer service powered by NLP? Computers conversing with humans and actually guiding them through the sales funnel? It all sounds a little futuristic and scary, right? But the fact is, many of […]... →

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02:20 01.08.2015

Why Polyvore’s Jess Lee Sold To Yahoo

Yahoo bought Polyvore in what we’ve heard could be a $60 million deal today. Both Polyvore and Yahoo were mum on those details, but Polyvore co-founder Jess Lee did tell TechCrunch her company will continue to do the same thing as it’s been doing before – now on a larger scale and with more resources from the tech giant run by Marissa Meyer. “We also think there’s… Read More... →

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02:00 01.08.2015

It’s time for marketers to adapt to vertical videos

GUEST: Vertical videos. Chances are that you’ve missed out on this ongoing debate over whether or not to incorporate vertical videos into marketing efforts, but with Snapchat ramping up its promotion of the format, it seems the haters are on the way out. Numerous publications have speculated that other big-name platforms will soon implement vertical video […]... →

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02:00 01.08.2015

FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar Will Talk About The AgTech Revolution At Disrupt SF 2015

The World Bank says that farmers need to produce 50% more food to feed the 9 billion people who will inhabit the earth by 2050. While farmers are facing higher demand, they’re actually being given fewer resources to work with thanks to a growing water crisis and the availability of arable land. Join us at SF Disrupt 2015 as FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar walks us through tech’s… Read More... →

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01:55 01.08.2015

Boston’s best CMO fired from HubSpot: allegedly tried to obtain Dan Lyons’ tell-all book

Two months ago we surveyed over 2,000 Boston marketers for our CMO-only conference in Boston, looking for the best local chief marketing office. HubSpot’s Mike Volpe won hands down. This week, however, he was fired for allegedly having tried to obtain a copy of former employee Dan Lyons’ upcoming tell-all book about his two years with […]... →

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01:30 01.08.2015

Here’s The Latest Batch Of 500 Startups Companies

500 Startups has unveiled its fourteenth batch of companies going through its accelerator. While Y Combinator is starting to roll out its own class in an upcoming Demo Day, a new one from 500 Startups is emerging — and increasingly, so is the race to be the earliest to invest in companies. Of course, that means that accelerators like 500 Startups — which has a portfolio of more… Read More... →

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01:10 01.08.2015

CrunchWeek: Twitter Soap Opera, Uber Valuation, and Ouya Gets Bought

It’s time for CrunchWeek again! What a week it was. The Twitter soap opera continues with earnings, no new CEO, hashtags and more. Uber keeps raising money until we lose count. Ouya gets put out of its misery bought. As Alex would say: It’s Friday, it’s CrunchWeek, it’s time to throw down and talk some smack. Read More... →

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01:10 01.08.2015

Y Combinator-backed ShotPut helps fulfill product orders at a price that works for startups

Did you know that there are nearly 90,000 successfully funded projects on Kickstarter? Each of these projects has reached out to the public, raised the capital they needed, and achieved their dreams — well almost. The next thing that each of these companies will have to do is make sure the promised product gets shipped […]... →

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01:00 01.08.2015

Doing Good Tech Versus Doing Good With Tech

The FDA is currently considering clinical trials for a drug that would delay aging. The idea of extending human longevity is a controversial one, with some arguing for immortality and others arguing that a lifespan into the mid-70s is perfectly adequate. So is the drug good or bad? As an investor in science and technology, this is a non-trivial question for me. Read More... →

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01:00 01.08.2015

Why the Ashley Madison hack could pose a national security risk

GUEST: We all know cyber security is a hot issue these days. A new hack or cyber security threat seems to make headlines each week. The most recent news on this front, of course, is that hackers have accessed 50 million user accounts of Avid Life Media, the owner of cheating service Ashley Madison and dating […]... →

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00:40 01.08.2015

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

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. Uber reportedly raises $1B at a $51B valuation from investors including Microsoft Uber has raised a new $1 billion funding round, which pushes the company’s valuation to $51 billion. The new investment money comes […]... →

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