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Проект Buy Nothing (англ. «Ничего не покупай») — редкая история успеха цифрового сообщества на Facebook, которое процветает за пределами интернета. Он был основан в 2013 году и развивался органически, в первую очередь за счет закрытых групп в Facebook, а во время пандемии его популярность резко выросла. Сейчас сеть охватывает 7 тысяч отдельных сообществ в 44 странах, от группы Чайна-тауна в Нью-Йорке до пригорода Рейкьявика в Исландии. Однако на пути развития проекту придется решить некоторые проблемы.... →

The House committee leading the investigation into the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to four major tech companies Thursday. Jan. 6 select committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) sent letters to YouTube parent company Alphabet, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, Reddit and Twitter demanding for those companies to provide additional […]... →

A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is to mount a multi-billion class action for breach of competition law against Facebook/Meta on the basis that it abused its dominance of social networking in the UK for several years. If successful, the action would see Facebook having to pay out $3.1 billion (£2.3 […]... →

In a tight labor market, so-called vertical labor marketplaces that zoom in on one industry, like nursing or hospitality, are drawing funding. Trusted Health, a healthcare staffing platform, raised $149 million in funding in November, for example. Seasoned, a hiring platform for restaurant workers, closed on nearly $19 million at roughly the same time. Investors […]... →

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Офлайн-ритейл с каждым годом увереннее использует передовые IT-решения, позволяющие эффективно решать бизнес-задачи и улучшать базовые экономические показатели. Кроме того, зачастую они удобны как для персонала, так и для покупателей. Однако не все разработки одинаково полезны. Часть представляют собой слишком дорогие «аттракционы», интересные с точки зрения PR, но абсолютно бессмысленные и даже вредные экономически. Исполнительный директор компании «Цифровые технологии ритейла» Михаил Ланцов разобрал попул... →

The creator of one of the earliest and most enduringly iconic virtual worlds is returning to his roots. Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale will rejoin the company he founded in 1999 as a strategic advisor after High Fidelity, the spatial audio company Rosedale co-founded in 2013, invested in Second Life’s developer Linden Lab. The deal […]... →

From my point of view as an angel investor and former entrepreneur, here are five essential factors I look for when considering my next investment.... →

Россия заняла 82 место в рейтинге стран для второго гражданства. По одному из критериев оценки – безопасности, Россия встала в ряд с Пакистаном и Зимбабве. Лидером рейтинга стали Швейцария и Дания.... →

Simply put, Big Tech benefits from stealing IP. The legal costs and potential damages, if ever issued after years of litigation, are paltry by comparison.... →

Quick blog here to update you on some pretty important movements in the market. Today, in a nasty day for stocks generally, shares of software and cloud companies took a pounding. In numerical terms, the Nasdaq Composite lost 2.51%, per CNBC data. That’s a very bad day for a huge, critical category of publicly traded […]... →

Against a backdrop of a pandemic that has shredded supply chains and gym memberships alike, it was mildly surreal to see professional-grade gym machine company SportsArt launch a rowing machine that can pump energy back into the grid. Like a wind turbine or a solar panel, except powered by pecs, deltoids and trapeziuses. The rower […]... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Fortnite is back on iOS — well, kind of. Through Nvidia’s streaming game service GeForce Now, mobile users on iOS and Android will be able to play a touch-control version of Fortnite through cloud gaming. Players can now register to join the closed beta test for Fortnite’s new mobile work-around — you don’t need to […]... →

That the venture capital market is incredibly exuberant at the moment is not news. Data from 2021 paints the picture of a startup fundraising game at peak velocity, with more capital, unicorns and nine-figure deals than ever. And let me tell you, some venture capitalists are tired of it. PitchBook has a post up detailing […]... →

GoFundMe announced today that it will acquire Classy, a nonprofit fundraising software company. This is an all equity deal, though the company did not disclose the financials. Anyone can make a GoFundMe, from a local food pantry to a community member in need. But Classy is more specialized, working directly with nonprofits. Since its 2010 […]... →

Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service’s users via a recent email. Last April, the company formerly known as Facebook confirmed it was testing a new dating service called Sparked, which was developed by its in-house incubator, the NPE […]... →

Halsey Minor has lived many lives. One of the founders of CNET, Minor entered tech media at a time when the closest thing most of us had to the web was a spider spinning cobwebs on an old NES. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Minor worked for Merrill Lynch during the rise of the internet in […]... →

Even in the era of the virtual event, it tends to take me a few days to recover from the whirlwind of CES. Frontloading the year’s big hardware news is a bit less than ideal, but perhaps the changing nature of the big tech event will bring adjustments to the news cycle, as well. For […]... →

Компания стала четвёртой после Tesla, Toyota и Volkswagen.... →