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Владелец сети «Связной» Олег Малис готов обменять бренд Explay на долю в компании-производителе смартфонов Fly. Об этом пишут «Ведомости» со ссылкой на два источника, близких к «Связному», и еще один, связанный с британской Meridian Group, которая владеет Fly.... →

The Dell-EMC deal has had so many moving pieces since it was announced in October, it’s hard to tell the players without a score card. This morning, Pivotal, which is jointly owned by EMC and VMware (and General Electric) announced it was buying CloudCredo, a Cloud Foundry service provider based in the UK. The deal also includes stayUp, a log analysis company partly owned by… Read More... →

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I recently had an interesting conversation with someone who argued against the viability of artificial intelligence startups, given the tremendous budgets and development resources large tech companies like IBM are committing to develop broader platforms — the premise being that these platforms will fill each niche application startups try to carve out. I’d like to argue against… Read More... →

Meet Alive, a Swiss army knife for live photos on the iPhone 6s. There are many live photo editing apps out there, but this one is particularly well designed. Alive lets you turn your live photos into gifs, make animated collages with multiple live photos and clean up your live photo library. But the best part is that it’s my favorite way to view live photos on my phone. Read More... →

Administrate, the Scottish startup that offers a Sofware-as-a-Service for training providers, has raised a $2.5 million funding round. So far, so routine. But the company is also talking up a recent HR “innovation”: Its entire staff have moved to a four-day week, with no loss in productivity, apparently. Read More... →

Институт уже инвестировал в них 20 млн рублей, а Rusbase узнал, в обмен на какие доли... →

Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll) is looking to raise $50 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission. That’s only natural for the startup, which is increasingly competing with the well-funded — and cash burning — Zenefits. So far, the company has raised about $22.2 million of its funding round, according to that filing. It looks like General… Read More... →

The Stratos Card is about to jump in the deadpool. The company behind the universal credit card is shutting down, TechCrunch has confirmed from several sources. Founded in 2012 by Thiago Olson and Chris Bartenstein, the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based startup raised $6.63 million over three rounds of financing with the most recent being a $5.8M Venture round in October of 2014. We hear they ran out… Read More... →

China may be the world’s largest app market when it comes to downloads, but new data indicates that those download numbers aren’t translating into loyal users who return to apps on regular basis. According to a report released this morning from eMarketer, citing data from Alibaba-owned analytics platform Umeng, the majority of mobile applications launched in China struggle to… Read More... →

ANALYSIS: Struggling handset manufacturer BlackBerry released its third-quarter earnings results on Friday, and pundits largely chalked this up as a big win. Losses, at three cents a share, were milder than the analyst-anticipated 14-cent drop. It was an eagerly awaited update, revealing sales numbers for BlackBerry’s buzz-generating Priv smartphone — the company’s first to run Google’s […]... →

Несколько российских пользователей Uber обнаружили, что с их счетов в декабре списывались средства за поездки, которых они не совершали. В частности, некоторые путешествия были зарегистрированы в странах, в которых пользователи не находились в это время.... →

InfoWatch якобы искал $30 млн в обмен на долю до 20% в компании, но: «переговоры приостановились, не договорились об условиях».... →

Glass printing is, as you can imagine, a pretty heady process. It requires a lot of heat and a lot of luck and a general acceptance that your print will look awful simply because the glass will cool unevenly. Once you get over all of those things, however, you’re read to rock and roll. Researchers at Virginia Tech and the Rhode Island School of Design have created a system and lab for… Read More... →

SPONSORED: An increasing number of smaller companies are offering streaming content (for viewers worldwide or regionally) and software/tools for those who want to stream to the masses, with seemingly new ones starting up every month.... →

Обозреватель vc.ru изучила истории основателей Github, Youtube, Twitter, GoPro, Microsoft, и вспомнила неудачные проекты, которыми они занимались до того, как создали известные компании.... →

Chinese tech trends are distinctly different to North America’s but today, in a move that bears parallels to WeChat-only companies, popular messaging app Kik acquired the small company behind one of the most successful apps (bots) on the Kik service. Read More... →

Стартапов с крупными инвестициями из Кремниевой долины... →

Google has had a long history working with webmasters and while we don’t always agree with what they say (for various reasons), our community certainly appreciates this cooperation. Here are most active Google employees who work a lot to talk back to us: Spread the word about this infographic: John Mueller Where to find: Twitter @johnmu Google Plus +JohnMueller Google Webmaster Central Help John Mueller is a Webmaster Trends Analyst... [Read More...] The post Google Employees Who Actually Reply to Help Webs... →

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