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Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать резюме специалистов, желающих работать в стартапах и ИТ-компаниях (выходят по понедельникам), а также вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников (выходят по четвергам).... →

(By Masaru Ikeda, The Bridge) – Tokyo-based startup ZoooG recently released an iOS beta version of their new social network app for sharing your voice called Voice. This release comes after the launch of the Android beta version last month, and the company will now be moving forward with marketing expansion throughout Japan, China, and […]... →

GUEST: Working in technology isn’t easy, especially for those of us who have lived through the peak of the 1999 bubble and subsequent crash. But that was nothing compared to a nightshift at Texas Roadhouse, the national steakhouse chain. When I joined NoWait in 2013 as CEO, the founders suggested I work a couple of hosting shifts […]... →

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Another month, another billion for Uber… The ride-hailing business is reportedly raising yet again — planning to raise close to $1 billion in new investment according to the NYT citing “people close to the matter”, with investors looking at a valuation of between $60 billion and $70 billion for the six-year-old startup. Read More... →

Walgreens won’t be going forward with any plans to open up more Theranos Wellness Centers until it can “understand the truth,” behind recent questioning of the blood work startup’s technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. Walgreens and Theranos announced a partnership in September 2013, allowing Theranos to offer its lab testing services at Walgreens… Read More... →

We’ve heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and Horton’s, is acqui-hiring the team from Brewster — the service that lets you unify address books from disparate apps into a cohesive whole. Founder Steve Greenwood and his team… Read More... →

Основатель интернет-издания  «Цукерберг позвонит» Андрей Загоруйко ушел из проекта. Об этом он написал на своей странице в Facebook. По словам Андрея Загоруйко, в последнее время он отвечал за коммерческую часть проекта. Он отошел от операционного управления коммерческим отделом и передал все дела совладельцу издания Владиславу Цыплухину. Чем Андрей Загоруйко  будет заниматься дальше не сообщается. «Весной 2014 года мы объединили усилия с Vladislav Tsyplukhin и командой Tjournal.ru, разделили обязанности и ... →

Turing Pharmaceuticals, a months-old biotech startup that is largely financed by its 32-year-old founder and CEO Martin Shkreli, sparked widespread outrage last month. The reason: shortly after paying $55 million for a 62-year-old drug called Daraprim that’s prescribed for toxoplasmosis and other types of infections, Turing repriced the drug from $13.50 per pill to a stunning $750… Read More... →

Doorman, a company tackling the problem of missed deliveries by allowing consumers to schedule their own deliveries as late as midnight, has now gone live in Chicago and is preparing to soon launch in New York. The expansion comes on the heels of Doorman’s seed funding round from earlier this summer, which saw the company adding $1.5 million to its coffers in order to grow its business.… Read More... →

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Another big change for DataSift — the UK startup that applies analytics to social network data firehoses to surface trends, which had a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Halstead, who founded the company in 2010, is stepping down as CEO. Halstead will be replaced by Tim Barker, DataSift’s chief product officer. In a blog post announcing the move,… Read More... →

Частные инвесторы Роман Гусельников и Евгений Кривощеков вложили 350 тысяч рублей в компанию Endurance, которая разрабатывает лазеры, граверы, роботизированные платформы для бизнеса и дома. Об этом Firrma сообщили в компании. Также, по словам основателя стартапа Георгия Фомичева, в проект планируют вложиться Дмитрий Спрысков, Владислав Лурье и еще один инвестор, имя которого не раскрывается. Ожидается, что сумма инвестиций составит 500 тысяч рублей. Endurance планирует закрыть pre-seed раунд объемом 1-1,5 м... →

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Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис «ВКМетр», который позволяет получить расширенную статистику сообщества во «ВКонтакте». Передаём микрофон.... →

Quizzes! Lists! Quizlists! Okay, I made the last one up. My point is, it seems like publishers are always trying something new to keep visitors clicking and reading. But if you don’t have a giant pile of cash from investors, it can be tough to keep up. Hence the launch of a new product called Boombox was created by a Lehi, Utah-based startup called Movement Ventures (note: not actually… Read More... →

Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets. Thanks a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have to print out a PDF or (shudder) wait for someone to put your physical tickets in the mail. Instead, the tickets will be delivered through the app, giving you a mobile barcode that will be scanned when you reach the… Read More... →

One day, things in the tech startup world are ticking along nicely. The next, investor Bill Gurley is calling private valuations “fake,” billion-dollar companies are losing their sheen, and venture capitalists are allegedly getting cursed out for passing on startups. For those us based in the Bay Area, it’s hard to know what in the world is going on. You can probably… Read More... →

Happy Thursday, dear readers. Once again I come to you with news about TechCrunch Radio, our weekly radio show on Sirius XM where John Biggs and I discuss everything new in the world of tech. But that’s not all! Each week on the show, we hold a TC Radio Pitch-off, where five companies get exactly 60 seconds to pitch their startup to a panel of judges, including a guest VC. After a… Read More... →

Евгения Ткаченко из «Леруа Мерлен» комментирует стартапы... →