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As more consumers shift to using online services for managing their banking, bills, payments, and more, some of our most important personal and financial documents are scattered across a number of websites – sites which don’t always maintain thorough archives of our past statements. A service called FileThis has been working to address this problem by offering a utility that… Read More... →

Forget instant messaging, photo messaging, ephemeral messaging, or any other kind of “messaging” — Israeli startup Yallo is going all-in on the humble telephone call. First launched for Android earlier this year, Yallo is a slick call-recording app for both inbound and outbound calls that works with your existing mobile telephone number. And today it […]... →

CCP Games, creator of Eve Online and a pioneer in virtual reality games, has raised $30 million to continue with VR game development. The funding shows there’s a lot of excitement, even for old game companies like CCP, in augmented and virtual reality, which tech advisor Digi-Capital expects to be a $150 billion industry by […]... →

Soon, you may see a warning in Gmail that tells you that an email has arrived over an unencrypted connection. Gmail already defaults to using HTTPS for the connections between your browser and its servers, but for the longest time, the standard practice for sending email between providers was to leave them unencrypted. If somebody managed to intercept those messages, it was pretty trivial to… Read More... →

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Sisense. Visualizing data has led to world-changing triumphs — from tracking epidemics to pinpointing weather impacts. Today, every company has adopted some form of data visualization to better understand their customers, service, and market. Yet, while both companies and users tend to emphasize data visualizations, they fail to recognize […]... →

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Google Analytics. So much has changed over the last decade! If you think back ten years ago, the most popular smartphone was the Blackberry and a 128 megabyte flash drive cost about $30. Today you can get 250X the storage for half the price. During that time,... →

You’ve probably been watching music videos on YouTube since its inception. The platform has also served as the go-to place for wannabe musicians to be found, but it’s never catered to that specific vertical. The team rolled out YouTube for gaming last month and today it is launching YouTube Music for iOS and Android. The enhanced, paid, experience is free during a 14-day trial.… Read More... →

Eight years ago, Aaron Batalion and three friends created a Facebook app called “Hungry Machine.” It was pretty successful…so successful that it turned into LivingSocial, which was one of the first startups to raise a “magical” billion dollars. I refuse to use the creature’s name to describe this “club.” Along with cofounding the company,… Read More... →

YouTube today launched YouTube Music, a new app designed specifically for discovering music on the video-sharing website. You can download YouTube Music now directly the Google Play store or the App Store YouTube has over 1 billion monthly active users. Thanks to the service, Google has paid out over $3 billion to the record industry […]... →

Дизайнер Тес Мат проанализировал достоинства и недостатки нескольких инструментов для прототипирования приложений и рассказал, когда и какие из них лучше использовать. В рубрике «Интерфейсы» — перевод заметки Мата, подготовленный командой Varhal.... →

Сооснователь фонда Vestor.In Partners Павел Черкашин совместно с компанией GVA LaunchGurus, при участии крупных предпринимателей из России и Европы, запустил фонд GVA Vestor.in. Об этом Firrma рассказал Черкашин. На данный момент фонд находится в процессе формирования. Предполагаемый объем фонда составит $30 млн, которые будут собраны в течение 12 месяцев. При этом Vestor.In Partners останется самостоятельным фондом. GVA Vestor.in будет вкладываться на посевной стадии, а также на стадии A. «Чуть более стади... →

A drone crashed into a giant Ferris wheel on Seattle's waterfront, but there were no reports of injuries or major damage, police said...... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис WIP FIT, который позволяет фитнес-клубам взаимодействовать с клиентами. Передаём микрофон.... →

Oops! A number of users have been reporting error messages and other issues with apps downloaded from the Mac App Store. The warnings prompted them to delete and then re-install their apps, but this was not necessarily correcting the problem, customers found. The issue, as it turned out, was related to Apple’s failure to renew a security certificate. And while Apple quickly addressed… Read More... →

CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products. TechCrunch cares much more for the hardware startups than the big CE players. We want to see the future FitBits and… Read More... →

As text messaging takes over of more and more my communication, I find myself on more and more long, complicated chats where I’m trying to plan and coordinate with multiple people. Now a startup called Cola aims to replace all that back-and-forth with a set of interactive “Cola Bubbles.” For example, let’s say you wanted to message someone and schedule a time to meet up. Read More... →

We live in an exciting time, where the number and variety of connected devices are growing at a rapid pace. People are coming online for the first time, and they're accessing the Web through a mobile device. Having a solid multi-screen strategy will help you prepare for the next wave of mobile web users. By following the simple steps below,... →

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Smaato. As the third quarter of 2015 was winding to a close this past September, you couldn’t throw a rock at a laptop without hitting a story about ad blocking, the purported scourge of modern media and the bane of publishers everywhere. It was and remains a very rational […]... →

Another day, another massive tech conference in Europe. This time we’re in Helsinki for the annual Slush conference, where 15,000 people wander around what appears to be a dark, laser-lit aircraft hanger full of startups stalls, while squinting at a map which has helpfully been printed in 4 Point on a Black background. Aside from those quibbles, Slush is it’s usual mix of… Read More... →

Posted by LokiAstariGood news, everyone: November's Mozscape index is here! And it's arrived earlier than expected.Of late, we've faced some big challenges with the Mozscape index — and that's hurt our customers and our data quality. I'm glad to say that we believe a lot of the troubles are now behind us and that this index, along with those to follow, will provide higher-quality, more relevant, and more useful link data. Here are some details about this index release: 144,950,855,587 (145 billion) URLs 4,6... →