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This week, we kick off an occasional series of interviews with platform builders: the founders and inventors who are creating software platforms upon which others are able to build things. Our guest this week is Jeff Lawson, the founder and CEO of Twilio.... →

A couple of weeks ago, we published a post that pondered what investing pro rata would mean for the Y Combinator. Just one month earlier, the popular accelerator program had filed for what it’s calling its Y Combinator Continuity Fund, which appears to be a growth-stage vehicle that’s rumored to be raising at least $1 billion. I speculated that if Y Combinator used the money… Read More... →

Apple opened the first beta versions of OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 to the public earlier this month.... →

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It took Spotify six years to hit 3 million paying subscribers. It took Pandora eight. For Rhapsody, the least-hyped of the bunch, it took 13. That’s a helluva long time in Internet years. Rhapsody announced the milestone on its blog today, and tied it to a somewhat interesting growth rate: the company’s subscriber base grew 50 percent […]... →

Google is rolling out a new 'Your Timeline' feature for Maps over the coming weeks. The update will map visited locations.... →

Who would you prefer to write for you: somebody with a vanilla personality or someone with an awkward, funny edge to them? Someone who can find the unique angle that will differentiate you from the mob? Rough Draft host Demian Farnworth goes for the awkward edge because, when getting attention and visibility online is so difficult but so important, Demian wants a person to look at what he does and say, "Hey, why don't we position you as, like, the priest of web writing?... →

Федеральная антимонопольная служба (ФАС) возбудила дело против оператора «Мегафон» по признакам нарушения законодательства о рекламе. ФАС подозревает, что компания могла использовать мелкий шрифт, чтобы ввести клиентов в заблуждение.... →

Tile, the small, square-shaped lost item tracker which recently raised an additional $3 million from Khosla Ventures as an extension on its earlier $13 million Series A, had previously indicated that its business model would eventually include a replacement service that allows customers to purchase new Tiles just ahead of the battery wearing out on their old ones. Now, select Tile… Read More... →

Трэвел-компания Aviasales и международная компания по предотвращению и расследованию киберпреступлений и мошенничеств Group-IB запустили совместный проект настоящийбилет.рф, позволяющий проверить подозрительного продавца перед покупкой авиабилетов.... →

ANALYSIS: As many as two-thirds of Netflix users are sharing their passwords and account details with other people, according to research from GlobalWebIndex (GWI).... →

Samsung came in second place with 7.5 percent of the market, the report says, in the three month period ending June 30.... →

Ahead of Twitter’s upcoming developer conference Flight, Twitter’s Answers service — which provides developers with a real-time display of events happening with their apps — is getting a big update that provides developers with a more robust way to track their apps. Previously, it focused on a few moments, such as sign-ups, but Twitter senior director of platform… Read More... →

Global early stage investor DCM Ventures has successfully closed its second, $100 million Android-focused fund that the firm had begun raising late last year. Like its predecessor, the second Android Fund dubbed (creatively) “A-Fund II”, will continue to invest in startups building apps for Google’s mobile operating system. Read More... →

The company is looking for ways to keep users on its service, while also finding the right way to define itself amid leadership turmoil. Courting developers is one strategy.... →

A month ago, Docker and the Linux Foundation announced the Open Container Project at Docker’s developer conference. Now called the Open Container Initiative, the project is seeing rapid growth, as the Linux Foundation’s executive director Jim Zemlin announced at OSCON this morning. Not only have eleven new companies signed up for the project, but as Zemlin announced today, the… Read More... →

Twitter is launching a new version of Answers, its mobile analytics solution, which now allows developers to track specific actions and events in real-time so they’ll know how users are behaving within their app. Called Answers Events, this feature can help analyze which actions are having the most impact and can be tailored to track something […]... →

Microsoft today announced that its Advanced Threat Analytics software for companies’ on-premises data centers is now generally available. The release comes two months after Microsoft came out with a free public preview of the software. Advanced Threat Analytics “helps companies identify advanced persistent threats before they can cause damage,” Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of […]... →

Twitch's video player is getting HTML5 controls. The ultimate goal is to ditch Flash entirely.... →

Always late to party these days, Microsoft is finally joining the fight against revenge porn. The company joins Google, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter in promising to remove links to revenge porn as requested. In a blog post, Microsoft says that it will honor requests to have revenge porn and photos and videos taken out of Bing search […]... →