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Российский фонд Frontier Ventures вложился в сингапурский стартап Chope (The Chope Group), который позволяет бронировать столики в ресторанах. Эти вложения стали первой сделкой фонда в странах юго-восточной Азии. Общий объем раунда С составил $8 млн. В сделке приняли участие фонды DSG Consumer Partners, NSI Ventures, F&H Fund Management, а также компания Singapore Press Holdings и частный инвестор Джон Ву (John Wu). Остальные подробности сделки не раскрываются. Ранее компания привлекла $3,5 млн.  Стартап на... →

Facebook will now take into account the subject matter of videos you activated sound for and those that you watched in full screen mode or in high definition.... →

For its tenth birthday, Google Earth has added two new ways to explore the world: Voyager, which offers 3D city views, and Earth View, a library of Earth's most beautiful places.... →

It’s the eve of Apple Music, which launches tomorrow, and all through the house, not a creature was withholding their content, not even a Taylor Swift. Also, Force Touch is basically a lock for iPhone 6/6 Plus S this fall, according to a new report from Bloomberg that says production on devices with the tech has begun. Apple Music arrives with iOS 8.4 at 8 AM PT tomorrow, and despite… Read More... →

25 июня проект российского агентства Young&Rubicam Moscow «Одно лицо» по поиску родителей для детей-сирот получил Золотого и Серебряного Львов в Каннах в номинации Creative Data.За три дня промовидео посмотрели более 380 тысяч человек, за две недели веб-сайт фонда посетили 688 тысяч пользователей, а количество заявок на усыновление возросло на 500%.... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is the founder and CEO of Small Business Trends, an award-winning online publication, which offers breaking news and advice for small business owners. She is a former corporate attorney that left that corporate life and founded her own company in 2003. She is considered an authoritative voice on small business issues and has been noted and quoted in respected publications (such as the Wall Street Journal ).... →

GUEST: Brands like Kellogg's and Unilever are skeptical over Google's claims of 91 percent viewability rate in YouTube, reportedly prompting some to withdraw spend until more transparency is provided.... →

Following last week’s eavesdropping reports, WikiLeaks shared new documents with Libération and Mediapart. This time, the new documents reveal that the NSA was spying on France’s best performing companies for economic intelligence purposes. Between 2004 and 2012, French Economy Ministers François Baroin and Pierre Moscovici were also taped by the NSA, as well as staff members.… Read More... →

Livecoding.tv, a startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help coders learn from their peers in real time. The way Livecoding works is pretty simple. Developers stream live video of themselves coding, and users watching can ask questions or give feedback. Since launching a beta in February, Livecoding has seen 40,000 people sign up across 162 countries. Users… Read More... →

Digital privacy is on the ropes, and public cynicism is running high. But there are glimmers of innovation in what could be a new phase for Big Data: empowering the customer. Read More... →

We've heard references eluding to the idea that Facebook was favoring native video uploads vs. third-party video embeds. Here's what we found out. The post Videos on Facebook: Native vs YouTube. Which Wins? by @brentcsutoras appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Music discovery platform Shazam is today rolling out a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to on the service. The news comes just ahead of Apple Music’s worldwide debut tomorrow, which will introduce streaming music, radio and other features, including a social network… Read More... →

Bloomberg is out with new numbers from Slice Intelligence showing that after an initial spike in orders the Apple Watch is now selling less than Fitbit fitness trackers. Slice gathers data from e-mailed sales receipts to monitor how well devices are selling in the U.S. Before the 2014 holidays, none of the well-known wearable devices […]... →

Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product’s image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work. The companies confirmed the transaction with TechCrunch, but each declined to name the terms of the agreement. The excision of a slice of opex from Bing… Read More... →

Do you have pet peeves about human interactions? What types of behavior absolutely drive you nuts? You could hate when someone doesn't say "thank you" when you hold a door open for him or become extremely irritated when someone chews gum too loudly. Editors are humans with pet peeves, as well, so if you'd like an editor to review " and possibly publish " your writing, there are certain actions you should avoid. In this 32-minute episode of Editor-in-Chief,... →

Today we're announcing the release of AdWords API v201506. Here are the highlights: Location extensions within a geographic area is now configurable through the API, which in previous versions was a read-only feature . LocationGroups provides a feedId that is now required when specifying a LocationExtensionOperand in the matching function. Updates to reporting. Gmail Sponsored Promotion stats are now available in reporting. We've added new columns to existing reports,... →

A picture is worth a thousand words The post Choosing the Right Images for Your Ads- July 14 Webcast appeared first on Search Engine Land. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.... →

French Minister of State for the digital economy Axelle Lemaire announced a new entrepreneur visa package called the French Tech Ticket. With this package, foreign entrepreneurs could get a work visa, a $28,000 grant (€25,000) for each team member, free office space in an incubator in Paris as well as an English-speaking administrative advisor. Announced at La French Touch Conference and… Read More... →

Фонд объявил об открытии офиса в Сан-Франциско... →

Diversity is a problem even Silicon Valley cannot solve — something Tracy Chou plainly highlighted in 2013 when she set up a database to help quantify the Valley’s diversity issue with the hopes of bringing to light just how few women engineers there are at top tech firms. Now, in 2015, companies inside and out of the Valley are striving to solve this issue and we’re… Read More... →