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When it comes to working with journalists, so many people are, frankly, idiots. I have seen reporters yank stories because founders are assholes, play unfairly, or have PR firms that use ridiculous pressure tactics when they have already committed to a story. There is so much bad behavior that I thought that it might be […]... →

Startup growth comes from many places, but one option is through “earned media” — stories and mentions in the press. Earned media is great, because the channel is nominally free, and it can often get many more of the right eyeballs than advertising. Minus some sleazy behavior in the journalism world, you should never have […]... →

Squarespace is announcing its first acquisition today, a 13-year-old company called Acuity that allows businesses to manage their online appointments. Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena noted that the company has been expanding beyond website building already — he said he now wants to provide tools around online presence (i.e., building a website), commerce and marketing. To […]... →

У Елены Корниловой нет профильного образования — её дипломы оказались подделкой.... →

Стартап выходца из СССР и бывшего инженера Google Дмитрия Шапиро GoMeta привлект $6 млн инвестиций и запустил платформу для разработки приложений Koji. Об этом Rusbase рассказал Шапиро.... →

Group Nine Media has hired Brian Lee to as its first executive vice president of commerce. Lee held a similar role at Maker Studios before its acquisition by Disney, and he also founded the New York-based accelerator SKIG. Group Nine — which was created by the merger of Thrillist, NowThis Media, The Dodo and Discovery-owned […]... →

The RealReal has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares in a round that could value the luxury consignment shop at $1.06 billion.... →

Warehouse automation is all the rage in robotics these days. No surprise then, that another emerging player just got a healthy slice of venture funding. Massachusetts-based Locus Robotics this week announced that it’s secured a $26 million Series C. The round, led by Zebra Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, brings the startup’s total funding up […]... →

Wing Aviation, the drone-based delivery startup born out of Google's X labs, has received the first FAA certification in the country for commercial carriage of goods. It might not be long before you're getting your burritos sent par avion.... →

К выходу Mortal Kombat 11 мы решили освежить вашу память о вселенной этой игровой серии — кто все эти герои и ради чего они сражаются друг с другом?... →

The Chinese government has been using a private company jointly owned by a U.S. investment firm and its Chinese counterpart to expand its surveillance and telecommunications capabilities using American technology, The Wall Street Journal reports. At the center of the Journal’s reporting is a company called Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat). It’s a satellite operating company […]... →

Компания DeviceLock – российский производитель систем борьбы с утечками данных, проанализировала 3,5 млрд скомпрометированных пар логин-пароль, входивших в 7 коллекций общим объемом 975 Гб, опубликованных хакерами с начала 2019 года. В рамках исследования были выделены наиболее частотные пароли в различных сегментах. В частности, в десятку самых популярных паролей по-прежнему входят: 123456, 123456789, qwerty, password, 12345, […] Сообщение 123456, qwerty и password по-прежнему возглавляют топ самых распро... →

Два сбоя произошли в начале апреля с разницей в два дня.... →

Издание «РБК-Стиль» сняло с публикации статью о Елене Корниловой, которая позиционировала себя как блогер-биохимик. Комиссия РАН по противодействию фальсификации научных исследований выяснила, что у Корниловой на самом деле нет профильного образования.... →

Tim Cook thinks people should get off their iPhones and decrease their engagement with apps. The Apple CEO, speaking at the TIME 100 Summit today, was discussing the addictive nature of our mobile devices and Apple’s role in the matter when he made these comments. He said the company hadn’t intended for people to be […]... →

Facebook has quietly removed three far right networks that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior intended to spread politically divisive content in Spain ahead of a general election in the country which takes place on Sunday. The networks had a total reach of almost 1.7M followers and had generated close to 7.4M interactions in the […]... →

Less than a month after rebranding as Canoo, the startup electric vehicle company formerly known as Evelozcity is on the hunt for $200 million in new capital. The startup, which is backed by a clutch of private individuals and family offices hailing from China, Germany, and Taiwan, is hoping to line up the new capital […]... →

Waymo, the self-driving vehicle technology startup under Alphabet, is setting up shop in a Detroit factory on American Axle & Manufacturing’s campus. Waymo said Tuesday it will partner with American Axle & Manufacturing to repurpose the existing facility, which was most recently used as a sequencing center for a local parts supplier. The goal is […]... →

Сбербанк назвал причину двух сбоев в работе банкоматов и интернет-сервисов, которые произошли в апреле. По словам зампреда правления Станислава Кузнецова, их вызвали ошибки подрядчика, пишут «Ведомости».... →

It’s one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it’s another to then have to actually have to leave your home, brace the elements and return those things that just didn’t work out (or work at all). Typically, that means a run to your local FedEx or UPS store. For the […]... →