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Viber, the messaging app with 600 million+ users acquired last year by Japan’s Rakuten for $900 million, is today making an acquisition of its own, specifically aimed at building out its new games business. It is paying $9 million for Nextpeer, a social gaming startup based in Israel that offers games developers an SDK to incorporate social gaming features into their apps. Rakuten… Read More... →

Интернет-активы Мамута, якобы, возглавил молодой финансовый специалист, знакомый предпринимателю по работе вне интернета.... →

Венчурный фонд Life.SREDA отобрал восемь финтех-стартапов для участия в акселерационной программе InspirAsia. Список проектов: Softpay (Вьетнам) – решение mPOS, которое позволяет предприятиям и частным лицам принимать к оплате кредитные карты (Visa, MasterCard, JCB, AmEx, China UnionPay), дебетовые карты, банковские карты, карты лояльности и все другие виды карточных платежей. Mobikon (Сингапур) – маркетинговая платформа для привлечения клиентов в рестораны.  Rev (Малайзия) – сингапурская компания, специали... →

PRESS RELEASE: (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon today announced Amazon Launchpad, a new program that makes it easy for startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. The program offers...... →

Kareo, a startup that provides small medical practices the tools they need to run their business, has pulled in $55 million in funding to accelerate expansion in doctors’ offices across the country. Montreux Equity Partners, a late-stage health tech fund, led the round, with participation from Silver Lake Partners as well as all previous investors including Greenspring Associates… Read More... →

Etsy, the popular online marketplace for handmade items, is updating its search to help consumers find what they’re looking for, by categorizing search results into recognizable buckets. That means that when customers search for ‘jewelry,’ for example, they’ll now be presented with a list of top categories like rings, bracelets, necklaces, anklets, and earrings. The […]... →

Amazon is launching a new marketplace specifically geared at startups, called Launchpad. The Everything Store is partnering with Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Indiegogo to source and vet startups for its new site. Each startup will get a product page where it can upload a product video and information about the startup. Startups on Launchpad will also be able to […]... →

Starting today, developers who use Google’s Compute Engine infrastructure as a service platform will be able to bring their own security keys to the service. Google argues that using these customer-supplied encryption keys, which are now in public beta, give its users more control over their data security. By default, Google encrypts all of the data on its service with an AES-256 bit… Read More... →

Google today announced that its cloud-infrastructure service, Google Compute Engine, now permits users to encrypt data with their own keys. The feature, officially named Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, is available for free in beta in Canada, France, Germany, Japan Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. “You create and hold the keys, you determine when data […]... →

VideoBlocks, a subscription service and marketplace for stock video footage, is giving universities and students a chance to try it out for a semester before they pay for it. The company is also offering a $10,000 to two universities for research in how the availability of digital content — like the kind available through VideoBlocks — affects how students learn in digital… Read More... →

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Издание Sostav.ru со ссылкой на TNS Russia опубликовало список крупнейших рекламодателей в России по итогам первого полугодия 2015 года.Традиционный лидер по объемам затрат на рекламу, производитель потребительских товаров Procter & Gamble, оказался на третьей строке. Его потеснила фармкомпания Novartis, занимавшая в прошлом году четвертое место.... →

Back in 2011, Google introduced dynamic search ads, a way for Google to automatically generated ads based on which pages they discover on your web site. Now, Google announced they are expanding this globally and that they have rebuilt the feature from the ground up...... →

Пространство «Биоключ» приглашает команды, занятые разработкой био- и смежных технологий и сервисов... →

Запуск нового продукта планируется на осень 2015 года.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — система E-Contenta, которая позволяет составлять персональные рекомендации для пользователей медиасервисов. Передаём микрофон.... →

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Google's Gary Illyes shared on Twitter that although Google currently uses mostly desktop factors for mobile rankings, it doesn't mean Google is dumb and only trusts what the desktop web site says...... →

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