Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

Thumzap — presuming it can get decent traction with online sellers and app developers — is a pretty neat idea. The U.S.-registered startup, with R&D out of Tel Aviv, has developed a payments platform that reduces the friction for teens, who might not otherwise have a means of paying, to shop online. Read More... →

Expensify, the fintech startup that offers an online platform for businesses to track and manage employee expenses, is expanding its operations with the launch of its first office outside the U.S. The new hub is located in London, where Expensify will focus on growing its operations across the U.K. and out into Europe. Expensify tells […]... →

Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired SwiftKey — a startup based out of London that makes keyboard apps for Android and iOS devices and is already installed and used on some 300 million devices. The terms of the deal are not being disclosed but sources close to the deal tell us it’s $250 million in cash. The news of the upcoming sale was first broken by the FT last… Read More... →

Инди-игра, собравшая на Kickstarter более $4 тысяч, не выйдет из-за конфликта основателей стартапа... →

Эксперты составили рейтинг самых амбициозных российских стартапов... →

Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — проект Unlockd, который предоставляет пользователям смартфонов скидку на сотовую связь в обмен на просмотр рекламных баннеров.... →

Самый дорогой в мире стартап обновил логотип и айдентику... →

Microsoft is understood to be acquiring London-based Swiftkey, the startup which employed artificial intelligence to create a ground-breaking predictive smartphone keyboard, according to sources. The Financial Times is reporting that the deal is “around $250m”. TechCrunch understands the figure is just under that amount. The companies are understood to have been in talks for a… Read More... →

“No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.” It’s the DryBar promise and has made the beauty chain one of the largest blowout bars in the U.S. But an L.A.-based startup called Treat hopes to tackle DryBar where it believes it is weakest – more blowouts for the same price. Think of it as a sort of ClassPass for getting your hair done. Treat hooks customers up with an unlimited… Read More... →

Pinterest. Instagram, Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 million in total funding. If a picture is worth… Read More... →

Алексей Поликарпов, бывший коммерческий директор компании «Тематические медиа» (издания «Хабрахабр», «Мегамозг») инвестировал в сервис по доставке еды «Нужен ужин». Как сообщил Firrma Алексей Поликарпов, сделка состоялась в январе 2016 года и составила 2 млн рублей. Доля инвестора в стартапе не раскрывается по соглашению сторон. Известно, что по итогам сделки Алексей Поликарпов назначен коммерческим директором сервиса, а также его исполнительным директором по совместительству. Осенью 2015 года стартап привл... →

Глава департамента транспорта Максим Ликсутов, заявил, правительство Москвы может подать в суд на сервис вызова такси Uber. Об этом он сообщил в интервью «Газете.ру». По словам Максима Ликсутова, Uber должен подписать соглашение с департаментом транспорта Москвы и выполнить ряд требований, среди которых обязательство работать только с легальными таксистами, которые имеют разрешение на таксомоторную деятельность. Кроме того, сервис должен передавать департаменту данные по движению их автомобилей такси по гор... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — проект «Дисциплина», который позволяет собирать данные о работе сотрудников и представлять их в цифрах и графиках. Передаем микрофон.... →

Launching out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class today is a company I interviewed way back in 2013 in Startup Alley. Incredibly, Instabug startup started building the app during the turmoil in Egypt back in 2012 and made it out of the chaos of the Egyptian revolution to make it to, and through, YC. That’s True Grit. Today, they’re going out of beta and are launching their… Read More... →

Jukely, a monthly concert subscription service, says it’s breaking records and not the vinyl kind. Though it didn’t want to say how many members are currently on the platform, founder Bora Celik did say it would soon be able to get a crowd to fill New York’s Madison Square Garden (capacity for the concert venue is 18,200, for reference). That growth also means adding in… Read More... →

Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were entrepreneurs. It was a nice, small dinner talking about startups and the French tech ecosystem. Read More... →

Betaworks, the New York startup incubator behind Gif search engine Giphy and the relaunch of Digg, debuted a quirky, text message-only weather service called Poncho back in 2013. Nearly three years later, the service has generated a following across the U.S. based on simplicity and witty weather commentary alone. Now, Poncho is making things a […]... →

No longer having to commit 20 years to service, interested technologists can put in a year of their time working in the public sector rather than spending a year traveling the world. Anyone who has come into government has been able to make change happen and that is an incredible asset to bring back to the startup ecosystem. Read More... →

Tattoo culture is by now very well established and of course with it has come ways of expressing that culture online. Thus, Tattoodo has styled itself as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related.” In English, that means it publishes content, has community and a marketplace. The Copenhagen-based startup has now raised $2.5 million from a number of high-profile… Read More... →

Международный проект «Российской газеты» Russia Beyond The Headlines (RBTH) опубликовал топ-50 российских стартапов за 2015 год с потенциалом развития на международных рынках. Цель проекта – информировать иностранных инвесторов и потребителей о потенциале и сервисах российских технологических компаний. В рейтинге принимали участие как компании, которые хотели бы выйти или уже выходят на иностранные рынки, так и стартапы с российским участием за рубежом.  Стартапы, представленные в рейтинге, прошли отбор по ... →