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Трейдер из Японии, известный в сети под никнеймом CIS, за одни сутки заработал на обвале азиатских фондовых рынков $34 млн. Как пишет издание Bloomberg, обратившее внимание на успешного игрока на бирже, пока большинство участников рынков теряли миллионы, CIS не читал финансовых новостей и продолжал торговать, полагаясь исключительно на собственную методику анализа курсов и интуицию.... →

HTC’s much-anticipated VR headset, created in partnership with games firm Valve, just had its launch delayed until the first quarter of next year, but that isn’t stopping the Taiwanese firm from forging relationship with content companies in the virtual reality space. Read More... →

While hip hop may have ‘too many mc’s and not enough mics’, in tech, there are too many startups and not enough seasoned technologists. Over the last seven years, hopeful entrepreneurs have flooded the market, looking to cut their teeth in the hopes of building the next billion-dollar business. Read More... →

Apple has pulled Japan’s top-selling mobile game from its Japanese app store, according to local media reports Saturday (link in Japanese). Developer Mixi claimed earlier this month that its blockbuster title Monster Strike was making $4.2 million every day ($378 million from April 1 through June 30), while spending very little on marketing. That translates to about $175,000 […]... →

One of the magical innovations of the Web 2.0 era was when the bigger social platforms opened their doors to third-party app developers. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter widely touted ,and profited from, the concept of allowing consumers to plug their social graph into other applications. We saw the meteoric rise of games, apps and business tools that leverage the ability to quickly insert… Read More... →

We’ve seen Twitter freakouts before, but this is one for the books. The creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson, took to Twitter early Saturday with all sorts of torments and searching questions about his current life, and his former life as the creator and owner of one of the most important games in history, the Lego-like block-building […]... →

Apple is expected to announce its next iPhones at a press event in San Francisco September 9th. The rumors of what the new phones will look like and act like have been flying for months, and VentureBeat’s own sources have given us some reliable insights on the devices. The new phones — likely called the iPhone […]... →

Elon Musk has warned us about robots taking over. He’s even donated money to make sure that it doesn’t happen. However, it sure does seem like Tesla relies on robots quite a bit, even if they’re not being primed to turn the company into Skynet. At one point Musk referred to AI in robots “summoning the demons.” He still says it’s inevitable. Musk posted a… Read More... →

By Allison Martell and Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) – The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the […]... →

Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac has acquired some newly leaked photos that show the new camera and screen of the next iPhones — likely called the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. The new phones will be introduced at Apple’s fall event on September 9. The photo below shows a larger front-facing camera on the new (black) […]... →

GUEST: Tech giant Facebook recently announced plans to bring Internet access to areas where many people have never touched a computer before — using solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles as Wi-Fi hot spots. The potential of these uniquely mobile hot spots is huge: Drones might be about to open the global economy to billions of individuals living […]... →

Sony has released an update to fix various bugs that interrupt the gameplay of Until Dawn. These bug fixes could be critical, since Until Dawn is a highly replayable interactive horror game where you try to save as many characters trapped at a mountain lodge, until dawn. Gamers have complained about some problems from the […]... →

Confirming rumors, ArenaNet announced today that the Guild Wars 2 core online game is going to be available for free, starting today. At the same time, ArenaNet is preparing a paid expansion pack, Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, for launch on October 23. The Seattle-based company announced the changes at the PAX Prime event in […]... →

What does it take to build a billion-dollar SaaS enterprise-software company? We gave a 30,000-foot answer to this complex — and fascinating — question in a recent TechCrunch post, The SaaS Adventure. To recap: We’ve observed seven key phases in most SaaS companies’ go-to-market success. We dubbed this journey the “SaaS Adventure,” which is broadly how we… Read More... →

Сооснователь компании Creara Advertising Николай Шестаков опубликовал в Facebook фото автомобиля, принадлежащего бизнес-консультанту Вячеславу Семенчуку, известному также как «стартап-хирург». На снимке внедорожник предпринимателя был припаркован так, что полностью перекрывал небольшой тротуар во дворе. Шестакова возмутил тот факт, что его бабушка, живущая в соседнем подъезде, должна обходить машину Семенчука, которую автор записи назвал «брендированным корытом». Фото спровоцировало бурную дискуссию в соцсе... →

GUEST: As the founder of a growing startup, one of the most common questions I get asked whenever the topic of competitors comes up is, “Can’t you just buy some of these companies out?” From the very beginning of the dot-com boom, the idea of raising money, acquiring another company, or going public has always been […]... →

“Transportation tech is not only changing how we get from A to B, it’s fundamentally altering the underlying infrastructure of our cities.” Read More... →

Apple apparently didn’t like its new music service’s poster boy, Drake, appearing on a rival music service. The music service Tidal was set up to stream Lil Wayne’s Lil Weezyana Festival in New Orleans Friday night, but a problem occurred when Drake made a surprise appearance at the end. The video feed at Tidal was suddenly cut before […]... →

The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 28, 2015. A surprise guest in the chat center, benevolent Zuckership, and the psychosocial benefits of dogs. Alternate title: Save the Robots. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Gené Teare, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More... →

GUEST: Since SparkLabs Global Ventures launched 20 months ago, we have made 50 investments across five continents. We have six partners, based in Silicon Valley, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Singapore, and London, which gives us a unique viewpoint on what is trending in terms of technology and innovation across the globe. Last year, we began an annual […]... →