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Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella today unveiled a new integration of its Cortana Analytics Suite into Salesforce, bringing natural-language voice search, predictive analytics, and dashboards. Microsoft has developed the integration in partnership with independent startup Alpine Metrics. Nadella attempted to use the new integration onstage during a demo by opening up the Cortana personal digital […]... →

Apple has reportedly acquired the San Francisco-based mapping data visualization company Mapsense. The deal was struck earlier this month, says a report by Re/code, siting several unnamed sources. Mapsense makes tools for analyzing and visualizing location data, assets that Apple can use to keep pace with Google in mobile mapping technology. Mapping and geo-location startups are hot right […]... →

A new startup promises to help mobile developers spend their ad dollars more effectively, and it has raised $3.5 million in funding Zenmarketing.io was founded by Sizhao Yang and Abhi Kumar, both former Zynga employees — Yang joined Zynga through the acquisition of MyMiniLife, which provided the foundation for the company’s hit Farmville franchise. (His MyMiniLife co-founders… Read More... →

Didi Kuadi, Uber’s dominant Chinese rival, announced a deal with ridesharing startup Lyft today that will allow the two services to share riders across continents. The apps from Lyft and Didi will hail rides for visitors in each other’s country. Each service will take payments from its own users, but Lyft will hail a Didi car for U.S. visitors in China and Didi will pull up a… Read More... →

In the time leading up to starting her next company, LearnUp co-founder Alexis Ringwald spent six months at unemployment centers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area trying to learn exactly what was holding job seekers back amid the recession. One of the things she saw was a mismatch between the kinds of customer service and entry-level skills employers wanted to see with new and untested… Read More... →

Создатель сайта для будущих студентов College Inside View Адам Зернер опубликовал в своём блоге за Medium заметку о том, почему ему не удалось превратить свою задумку в полноценный проект. В материале автор разбирает свои ошибки и размышляет, как их можно было бы избежать.... →

Y Combinator, one of the most prestigious and well-known startup accelerators in Silicon Valley, is piloting a new program called “Open Office Hours.” The aim is to connect with founders from underserved communities and give them direct access to YC partners either in-person or via Skype, depending on where the founders are based. YC’s office hours effort is led Michael… Read More... →

There are plenty of subscription services out there that will hit you with a box of various wine bottles, but none offer subscription tastings by the glass. Until Vinebox. The new startup has just launched to offer subscription wine by the glass for $35/month, with each box containing three separate tasting vials of wine that are measured to the standard 100ml cup. These wines come from… Read More... →

Инвестиционный менеджер ФРИИ Илья Королев написал для Firrma колонку о том, почему венчурному инвестированию нужно учится. В мире растёт популяция бизнес-ангелов. Тенденция вложений частного капитала в технологические стартапы на ранних стадиях понемногу дошла и до России. Особенно это ощущается в кризис, когда люди находятся в поисках активов с высокой динамикой роста.  Красивые истории о 1000-кратных мультипликаторах в этих условиях немного туманят разум. Попробую коротко описать несколько ключевых тезисо... →

Startups fail. In fact, startups often fail. Anyone who has spent any time in the startup and venture capital ecosystem will tell you that failure is the most pervasive characteristic of the ecosystem. There is no shame in that. If building a great business from a startup was easy, everyone would be an entrepreneur. If identifying a startup that would return 10x on capital was easy, everyone… Read More... →

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Some big moves ahead for Hyperloop, the LA-based futuristic tubular transportation startup backed by Elon Musk, with high ambitions to rethink high-speed transportation services. The company has appointed a new CEO — Rob Lloyd, who had been president at Cisco — and also added another familiar name to its list of advisors. Emily While, formerly COO of Snapchat and an ex-Facebook… Read More... →

Mobile video startup Vungle is launching a new private, programmatic marketplace for ads, which it’s calling Vungle Premium. CEO Zain Jaffer said that the company has already addressed a number of the issues facing brand advertisers on mobile, but it hasn’t tackled “the fact that app charts change on a daily basis, which is a huge problem if you have to make buying decisions… Read More... →

Spanish restaurant booking startup Restalo, which is very similar to the much larger Open Table, has acquired local competitor Restaurantes.com to consolidate its leading position in Spain. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, though I’m hearing from sources that the acquisition price sits in the “mid single million euro” range, so up to €5 million. If that it… Read More... →

A new music startup has launched with one key raison d’être at its core: to help you learn to play piano. A product of Microsoft Ventures’ Berlin accelerator, Skoove is a personalised music tuition platform that promises “the world’s first truly interactive online piano lessons.” Launching this week in public beta, Skoove is geared towards […]... →

As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding. Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Canada that provides apps and other services for managing and selling inventory across both online and offline shopfronts, has picked up $61 million, money… Read More... →

Iron.io, a startup with “task processing” software that can automatically do computational work in parallel or according to a specific schedule, is announcing today an $8 million round of funding. The startup was founded back in 2010, but things have become more interesting in the past year with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services […]... →

Генеральный директор облачного сервиса для управления торговлей «МойСклад» Аскар Рахимбердиев написал для vc.ru колонку, в которой выделил пять причин запустить собственный стартап в кризис — подкрепив их примерами из собственной практики и историями других проектов, открывшихся во времена экономического спада.... →

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