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Sean Parker, the tech billionaire, best known for his leading roles at Napster and Facebook has donated more than $600 million to the Sean N. Parker Foundation to date. But up to now he’s been tight-lipped with the press about those contributions. Parker formally announced the existence of his charitable operation today, but he’s been an active donor for the last ten years,… Read More... →

Лев Хасис рассказал, сколько банк тратит на IT, как конкурировать с Google, правильно "спамить" клиентов и планирует ли банк увеличивать долю в «Яндекс.Деньгах» (не планирует).... →

Акционеры Biglion говорят, что могут пойти в суд.... →

Рекламное агентство победило в номинации «Media Lions» с кампанией Post-it «Баннер, который заставит вас полюбить баннеры»... →

Основатель группы компаний «Амедиа» Александр Акопов выходит из состава её акционеров и покидает пост президента, сообщает газета «Ведомости» со ссылкой на представителя организации и самого Акопова. Его акции перейдут бизнесмену Леонарду Блаватнику, официальные документы об уходе Акопова пока оформляются.... →

Команда коворкинга #tceh организовала встречу с главой AliExpress и Alibaba в России Марком Завадским.Единственный представитель китайского гиганта в России рассказал, как ему удалось получить работу в Alibaba, поделился деталями работы AliExpress в России и объяснил, стоит ли учить китайский язык вместо английского.... →

DuckDuckGo сообщил, что число поступающих от пользователей поисковых запросов достигло 10 млн в день. 22 июня 2015 года поисковая система получила 10 218 617 запросов. По мнению представителей компании, росту аудитории способствовал фокус поисковика на приватности пользовательских данных. «Мы горды тем, что помогаем такому большому количеству людей вернуть свою конфиденциальность», - отметил основатель компании Габриэль Вайнберг (Gabriel Weinberg). Диаграмма ниже демонстрирует рост числа поис... →

Microsoft is at it again, having fun with face recognition technology. The company has updated its TwinsOrNot app so that you can now find a picture of someone famous with Microsoft’s Bing image search and then compare it to a picture you upload of yourself. The app then tries to figure out if you and […]... →

Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — система учёта посетителей Envoy, которая привлекла $15 млн инвестиций от фонда Andreessen Horowitz.... →

Samsung has royally screwed up.... →

EXCLUSIVE: Turns out people like to actually talk to a human before making purchase. The problem? Being able to track revenue attribution to that phone call. That's what DialogTech aims to address.... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Box and legacy tech vendor IBM today announced a major new partnership. Box will get analytics from Watson, security features, and enterprise content management as a result of the deal. Box customers can get support from IBM’s Global Business Services division. IBM’s Verse and Connections software will gain Box […]... →

IBM is going Levie. This evening, Box and IBM announced a partnership that will see their technologies integrated, and their cloud products commingled. As part of the arrangement, Box will also offer its customers the ability to store their data on IBM’s cloud, which will have — I checked with the firm — 46 data centers around the world by the end of the year. The deal has… Read More... →

The need for speed.... →

DuckDuckGo is celebrating that fact that, for the first time ever, the privacy-focused search engine has exceeded more than 10 million searches per day. The post DuckDuckGo Exceeds 10 Million Searches Per Day by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

The WhatsApp app for Windows Phone today received a major update: Now you can make free voice calls with it. That feature arrived on Android in March and on iOS in April. The new version of the app also lets you send audio files — if you’re running Windows Phone 8.1 or a later release. […]... →

Instagram announced that it has added new search functionality to its iOS and Android apps that will allow users to find photos by location, discover real-time trending searches, and more. The post Instagram Now Lets You Search By Location, Explore Real-Time Trends, + More by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Google clearly wants people to have a human connection to its forthcoming self-driving cars. The tech giant today announced Paint the Town, a contest that will have artists send designs to be displayed on prototypes, Google’s website, and a community event next month in Mountain View, Calif. Google will choose 10 winning designs to be […]... →

VB INSIGHT: Last year about a third of mobile developers and publishers said they were cheated when acquiring new app users. This year, that number has jumped to almost two thirds. Clearly, many more developers are now paying good money for bad users. Last year VB published one of our first-ever research reports (yes, we do that now) on the hot topic […]... →

GUEST: IBM’s and Cisco’s recent acquisitions of Blue Box and Piston Cloud Computing, respectively, just top the list of big names closing deals that position OpenStack as the coming standard for cloud solutions. Although the smaller OpenStack-based cloud companies now being acquired had the edge on nimble, early-stage innovation in the early years of the open-source […]... →