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Vida, a live coaching app with a focus on health and wellness is in collaboration with drug manufacturer AstraZeneca to create a new program for heart attack patients called Day-by-Day. Like many live coaching platforms, including Rise and Nudge, Vida pairs users with a coach to help them reach their goals. Most of the coaching is for weight loss. However, the app also focuses on overall… Read More... →

Mobile shopping startup Wish — fresh off a $500 million round of funding — has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Locket, a startup that makes lockscreen apps for Android handsets: an eponymous app that serves tailored news to your lockscreen; and lockscreen messaging app ScreenPop. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but a source close to the deal says that… Read More... →

Mobile shopping startup Wish — fresh off a $500 million round of funding — has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Locket, a startup that makes lockscreen apps for Android handsets: an eponymous app that serves tailored news to your lockscreen; and lockscreen messaging app ScreenPop. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. A source estimates the price… Read More... →

U.S. users of Twitter and Facebook are increasingly getting external news via the two services, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center. “The share of Americans for whom Twitter and Facebook serve as a source of news is continuing to rise. This rise comes primarily from more current users encountering news there rather than large increases in the user base overall,”… Read More... →

Wish, a mobile commerce company that recently appears to have raised $500 million at a reported $3 billion valuation, has acquired Locket.... →

Чистая прибыль ООО «Эппл Рус», через которую Apple официально поставляет свои устройства в Россию, в 2014 году составила 1,3 млрд рублей, сообщает «Интерфакс». Год назад этот показатель был в 16 раз меньше — на уровне 81,7 млн рублей.... →

Google случайно раскрыла подробную информацию о 75 процентах всех обработанных компанией запросов по так называемому «праву на забвение» в ЕС. Об этом 14 июля сообщает британская газета The Guardian, обнаружившая данные в исходном коде архивных страниц поисковика.... →

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ВКонтакте запускает фотоприложение, конкурента Instagram. На данный момент оно находится на премодерации в AppStore. О планах социальной сети запустить фотоприложение в конце мая рассказал ведущий дизайнер компании Павел Шумаков. А о том, что оно уже находится на премодерации, сообщает РБК со ссылкой на свои источники. Интересно, что ВКонтакте пока не размещает приложение в Google Play, хотя он и рассматривает запросы быстрее, чем AppStore. Тем не менее, если все пройдет удачно, примерно через пять рабочи... →

I’m trying hard to stay awake amid news that another new-fangled mattress startup has secured funding. This time it’s the turn of Leesa, which has raised $9 million from private equity firm TitleCard Capital, giving the young company a post-money valuation of $45 million, and off the back of $30 million in projected sales in its first year. Read More... →

Google Search Console will be sending out fewer messages to site owners over the coming weeks. The post Google Search Console to Send Fewer Messages to Site Owners by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Новое приложение соцсети проходит премодерацию сервиса Apple... →

Today handmade marketplace Etsy released its first ever transparency report, revealing the closure of over 162,000 accounts last year that didn’t comply with Etsy’s standards. The company has faced criticism from its community members in recent years for allowing the sale of manufactured goods. When Etsy first introduced the policy change, community members felt that allowing manufactured items would […]... →

В Mail.ru решили, что будет интересно попробовать поработать с молодым стартапом..... →

Читатель TJ, исполнительный директор «Татар-информ» Максим Толчинский опубликовал заметку с размышлениями о том, почему «умные» часы не добились массовой популярности — по его мнению, причина не только в технологическом несовершенстве, но и в устоявшихся привычках пользователей, которые почти невозможно изменить.... →

Consumers want more personalized messages… but also increased data privacy. Those seemingly paradoxical findings come from Gigya’s 2015 State of Consumer Privacy & Personalization report, published today. The two trends are not new, yet continue to be at odds with one another: personalization requires customer insight, while increased data privacy would seek to limit the […]... →

DataCamp wants to teach data science skills to a generation of people, and it got a million in seed money to continue developing its online data-science learning platform. The round was led by Chris Lynch at Accomplice, an early stage venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company had raised $300,000 in seed money previously DataCamp is not unlike coding bootcamps such… Read More... →

Google today introduced a number of new products around Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons in an effort to challenge Apple’s iBeacon ecosystem. These new products include a new open beacon format, tools and APIs for building apps and services on top of beacons, and a new developer-centric service for managing and monitoring large beacon deployments. It’s no secret that Google… Read More... →

Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding, design and business bootcamps from General Assembly, Bloc, Kaplan’s Dev Bootcamp and Metis. The company, which raised $275 million this past spring, is branching out from its initial market in online retail. They were originally financing purchases at the point-of-sale online with… Read More... →

You'll be able to play Plants vs. Zombies and Real Racing 2 on X1 set-top boxes.... →