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| 19.08.2024 | Will Apple Create Its Own Search Engine After Google Deal Ends? Here's Why It's Unlikely to Happen | By Joseph Henry
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| 04.08.2024 | Gen AI’s awkward adolescence: The rocky path to maturity | Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More
Is it possible that the generative AI revolution will never mature beyond its current state? That seems to be the... |
| 11.02.2024 | Мобильная разработка за неделю #525 (5 — 11 февраля) | В новом дайджесте разбираемся со SwiftData и кодом доставки пиццы, изучаем в будущее swift-testing и мастерстве программирования, обманываем на технических собеседованиях с помощью ChatGPT, определяем самые скачиваемые и зарабатывающие прил... |
| 08.01.2024 | This week in data: Why metrics don’t matter | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
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| 17.11.2023 | Generative AI gets the Microsoft treatment, supercomputers get the AI treatment – and Sam Altman gets the boot from OpenAI
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| 30.08.2023 | 'Data leverage' and the Harry Potter test: How much is a single book worth to a giant AI model? | AI 'Data leverage' and the Harry Potter test: How much is a single book worth to a giant AI model?
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| 09.05.2023 | TikTok’s parent ByteDance eyes a new chapter in book publishing | After aggressively promoting its new lifestyle social media platform Lemon8 in the U.S., ByteDance appears to be brewing another content app for its biggest overseas market.
Lemon Inc., a subsidiary of ByteDance, has submitted a trademark a... |
| 24.12.2022 | 55+ рассылок для продакт-менеджеров и UX дизайнеров | В домене управления продуктами существуют сотни рассылок. Проблема в том, как из этого многообразия выбрать что-то релевантное. В этой статье я собрал список наиболее актуальных новостных рассылок, чтобы вам было легче находить хороший конт... |
| 24.12.2022 | 55+ рассылок для продакт-менеджеров и UX дизайнеров | В домене управления продуктами существуют сотни рассылок. Проблема в том, как из этого многообразия выбрать что-то релевантное. В этой статье я собрал список наиболее актуальных новостных рассылок, чтобы вам было легче находить хороший конт... |
| 30.11.2022 | Amazon thought Alexa would be the next iPhone. Turns out it's a 'glorified clock radio.' | Amazon's Alexa was Jeff Bezos' pet project; now it's a target for the company's cost-cutting.
Insider reported the Amazon division that built Alexa is on track to lose $10 billion this year.
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| 28.10.2022 | Что такое web3? Похоже на очередной кризис самоопределения родом из Кремниевой долины | ИТ-индустрия на всех парах мчится к созданию новой вехи, так называемой третьей стадии развития интернета. Но это еще не точно.
Несмотря на то, что web3 еще толком не существует, он уже успел всколыхнуть умы большого числа людей.
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| 05.04.2022 | Netflix’s stock dive offers developer and software lessons for any business | Image: NDABCREATIVITY/Adobe Stock
It’s become such a truism to declare, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has, that “every company is a software company” that it’s easy to forget software, while essential, isn’t all most companies will do. Or ... |
| 31.03.2022 | Why The Snippet Tax In The EU Copyright Directive Is Pointless And Doomed To Fail | The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market contains two spectacularly bad ideas. One is the upload filter of Article 17, which will wreak havoc not just on creativity in the EU, but also on freedom of speech there, as algori... |
| 13.02.2022 | FSW 32: Personal renewal, future of communication, technology policy, SM² accelerator, air pollution and economy, and more | In this edition:
On Personal Renewal, Open Broadcasting, Future of Communication, and Building Purposeful Brands: Jane Alam Romel
DBID is a Good Idea but All Policies Involve Trade-offs
Pickaboo Experiments with 3 Hours Delivery in Dhaka
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| 28.01.2022 | Settle: A reimagined CFO suite for brands of the future | This past year was more like a decade in ecommerce. For consumers, the pandemic necessitated new buying patterns overnight. For brands, the story was even more complicated. Merchants were forced to reimagine a fully virtual customer experie... |
| 10.12.2021 | Weekly Wrap #78: Global VCs pounce down under | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 05.11.2021 | The VC model has been perfected… and is now obsolete | The sage thinker Benedict Evans notably observed: “A technology often produces its best results just when it’s ready to be replaced – it’s the best it’s ever been, but it’s also the best it could ever be.” Right at the point of obsolescence... |
| 20.09.2021 | Consumer-focused VC firm Heartcore raises $250m in new funds | It’s not a bad time to be a consumer-focused VC firm in Europe.
On-demand food delivery is spicier than ever, consumer fintechs and insurtechs are raising huge rounds, ‘future food’ startups are cropping up all over the continent, healthtec... |
| 03.09.2021 | SaaS adoption is happening faster and slower than you think | Image: putilich, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Buried at the bottom of a recent article on digital transformation, machine learning and mainframes by analyst Benedict Evans is a great phrase: “gradually, then suddenly.” Evans borrowed the phrase... |
| 27.08.2021 | Apple has changed its App Store rules, and Apple’s critics aren’t satisfied | Apple, under fire from developers and regulators about the way it runs its powerful App Store, is changing some of its rules, via a proposed lawsuit settlement.
Is that a big deal or a nothingburger?
Depends on who you ask. Apple says it’s ... |
| 12.08.2021 | How Moderna uses cloud and data wrangling to conquer COVID-19 | Image: iStock/gopixa
“Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.” That’s a bold statement by Will Douglas Heaven, senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review, and is quite likely correct. Despite dozens upon... |
| 19.05.2021 | How the COVID-19 pandemic made e-commerce boom | Image: iStock/Tevarak
When it comes to innovation, there might not be a hotter sector right now than retail. Retail is the area that tops the O’Reilly charts in AI maturity, something retailers have had to experiment with as the COVID-19 pa... |
| 30.04.2021 | Weekly Wrap #46: Cowgorithms, Cloud Cash Cows and Crypto Crimes | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 05.04.2021 | There’s More to Inflation Than the Money Supply | In a prior column, I argued it’s a myth that America is headed towards catastrophic hyperinflation. I got a lot of angry messages on Twitter about this, and nearly all of them (that weren’t obscene) cited quantitative easing (QE), where cen... |
| 19.03.2021 | Weekly Wrap #40: Flourishing platform ecosystems, Neto acquired and a Kiwicorn is born | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 05.03.2021 | Digital transformation hit overdrive for retailers and restaurants in 2020 | Image: Tirachard, Getty Images/iStockphoto
Though some things have been tedious and slow during the COVID Era, the future happened really fast. Specifically, the future of how we buy things.
As Benedict Evans, an analyst (and former Andrees... |
| 26.02.2021 | Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments | David Teten Contributor
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| 19.02.2021 | Weekly Wrap #36: Aussie tech holding its own | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 27.11.2020 | Weekly Wrap #30: Hungry Caterpillars, Psychedelics and Powerful Poo | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 21.10.2020 | Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue | Acapela, a new startup co-founded by Dubsmash founder Roland Grenke, is breaking cover today in a bid to re-imagine online meetings for remote teams.
Hoping to put an end to video meeting fatigue, the product is described as an “asynchronou... |
| 17.10.2020 | Recognizing data points that signal trends for the future of business post-pandemic | Planning for a post-COVID-19 future and creating a robust enterprise strategy require both strategic scenario planning and the ability to recognize what scenario planners call “news from the future” — data points that tell you whether the w... |
| 17.10.2020 | Recognizing data points that signal trends for the future of business post-pandemic | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Planning for a post-COVID-19 future and creating ... |
| 12.10.2020 | Octopus Ventures to focus more on consumer startups | This year supermarket staff have been rebranded as ‘essential workers,’ online grocery shopping has doubled and everyone has realised (if they hadn’t already) that being able to order stuff from your sofa is a very excellent thing indeed.
L... |
| 25.09.2020 | Weekly Wrap #21: Embracing the online revolution, podcast movies and in-home drones | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 22.08.2020 | This Week in Apps: Apple’s antitrust war, TikTok ban, alt app ecosystems | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $12... |
| 21.08.2020 | Weekly Wrap #16: Playing Hardball | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 19.08.2020 | Why e-commerce startups aren’t raising more funding during this historic boom | After yesterday’s look into the somewhat lackluster pace of investment into e-commerce-focused startups this year, a few VCs sent in notes that added useful context. So this morning let’s discuss why the pace of e-commerce startup fundraisi... |
| 31.07.2020 | Weekly Wrap #13: Regulators and World Firsts | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 25.07.2020 | Big Tech: Time For A ‘New Platform Deal’? | For most of us, the COVID-19 crisis has been truly awful. But for Big Tech, it’s actually been ... [+] pretty good, if markets are anything to go byShutterstock |
| 03.07.2020 | Weekly Wrap #9: Shocks, Stocks & Shops | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
What. A. Year.
Oh, wait! We’re only half way through.
Twitter @TwitterGood news and bad news: 2020 is half... |
| 12.06.2020 | Weekly Wrap #6: Productivity Gains and Cults | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
This week we dive into the growing trend of tech-fuelled productivity.
Productive capital gains
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| 09.06.2020 | How to make online events less terrible | Image: VectorMine, Getty Images/iStockphoto Must-read CXO coverage
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| 19.05.2020 | Former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans joins EF as venture partner | Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has appointed former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans as a venture partner.
A well-... |
| 10.05.2020 | Коронавирус: роль доверия | В нашей прошлой истории мы открыли цикл историй о том, какие изменения готовит пандемия и связанный с ней кризис для глобальной экономики и России. В течение ближайших недель, а возможно и месяцев, мы будем говорить о том, как меняются разн... |
| 03.02.2020 | Tech in 2020: Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants | Our friend Benedict Evans posted his annual “macro trends” deck this weekend.
You can also download the PDF here.
In the deck, Benedict poses the question “what is the next S-Curve?”
And while he doesn’t exactly answer that question, these ... |
| 21.01.2020 | Gartner: 2020 device shipments to grow 0.9% to 2.16B thanks to 5G, before 2 further years of decline | The analysts at Gartner have published their annual global device forecast, and while 2020 looks like it may be partly sunny, get ready for more showers and poor weather ahead. The analysts predict that a bump from new 5G technology will le... |
| 25.10.2019 | Google And Facebook Didn't Kill Newspapers: The Internet Did | There is an infamous chart in media circles. It shows newspaper advertising revenue steadily rising until about the year 2000. A few years later, it drops off a cliff. Superimposed on this chart is the exponential growth of Google and Faceb... |
| 08.08.2019 | На какие рассылки стоит подписаться? | Чтобы даже рука не поднялась нажать на «Спам».
Недавно понял, что почта — единственный информационный канал, на который я всё ещё могу влиять. В лентах соцсетей мешают алгоритмы, в телеграме — переписки, а в почте, если отфильтровать спам, ... |
| 24.05.2019 | Чёртова дюжина фактов о стартапах | Перечень занимательных статистических фактов — по мотивам записей из Telegram-канала Groks.
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| 10.05.2019 | The Second Order Consequences Of The Uber, Lyft And Beyond Meat IPO's | With the IPO's of Uber & Beyond Meat, an entirely new wave of young startups may soon be attacking a... [+] wide range of "non-tech" industries. Credit: Getty Getty |
| 11.09.2018 | The Ultimate Guide to the Best Business Newsletters | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
I recently asked Term Sheet readers for their recommendations on the best business newsletters — and they did not disappoint.
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| 20.07.2018 | the exsight ventures thesis | We’re often asked, “why ophthalmology”? We enthusiastically respond with some variation of an answer that includes a combination of our deep domain expertise, market insights, technological breakthroughs and attractive investment returns. T... |
| 27.03.2018 | Museums are the best place to find innovation in AR | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Museums have proven to be some of the most exciting testing grounds for augmented reality. The cultural sector is taking major leaps to... |
| 27.03.2018 | Museums are the best place to find innovation in AR | Museums have proven to be some of the most exciting testing grounds for augmented reality. The cultural sector is taking major leaps towards embracing new technology, which is coming as a great benefit to those of us who enjoy traveling and... |
| 12.12.2017 | Units of Time are the New Currency | Today we’re seeing that a moat—a barrier that protects a company from low-cost competitors or new, disruptive technology—isn’t enough to build a lasting business.
A moat simply buys a company time to figure out the next great business. Jus... |
| 25.07.2017 | Играем по-крупному: ключевые принципы портфельной стратегии венчурного фонда | Финансовый аналитик Алекс Грэм о типичной стратегии венчурных инвесторов и о том, почему не стоит бояться неудачных сделок.
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| 19.07.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: July 20, 2017 | News About Our Portfolio Companies
· Littlstar: The Dunkirk VR experience
· Magiccube’s CTO and Founder, Nancy Zayed, featured on Huffington Post
· Vango’s helpful insights into the online art market
· Greenhouse named to top 100 hottes... |
| 20.04.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: April 17, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| 06.01.2017 | Facebook says people sent 63 billion WhatsApp messages on New Year’s Eve | Facebook-owned WhatsApp today announced that people sent 63 billion messages on New Year’s Eve, setting a new record for the app that lets people have chats and make voice and video calls.
Within those 63 billion messages, there were 7.9 bi... |
| 06.01.2017 | Facebook says people sent 63 billion WhatsApp messages on New Year’s Eve | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp today announced that people sent 63 billion messages on New Year’s Eve, setting a new record for the app that l... |
| 20.12.2016 | Google Home Paves the Way for More B2C and B2B Adoption | Google Home Paves the Way for More B2C and B2B Adoption
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An Shortened Version of this article originally appeared in VentureBeat.
The recent Google Home launch has focused people’s attention once... |
| 08.12.2016 | Google Home paves the way for more B2C and B2B adoption | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The recent Google Home launch has focused people’... |
| 24.10.2016 | 3 ways Benedict Evans thinks Alexa is better than Siri | When it comes to intelligent assistants, you have a lot of options today that didn’t exist a year or two ago. It’s not just Siri, now there’s Alexa, Google Assistant, and someday Viv (recently acquired by Samsung). But which is best and in ... |
| 11.10.2016 | What it will take for everyone to start using chatbots | 2016 was the year of the bots. But then the hype outpaced the progress of conversational bots in the market.
Despite the hiccups, conversational bots and messaging platforms still have the promise to be a major way users access digital serv... |
| 07.09.2016 | Sajid Rahman: Remember These Five Things When Building A Startup | Building a startup is a very difficult thing to do. In a recent blog post, Ben Evans (I highly recommend to follow his blog post) wrote - “If you take a normal, mature company to zero in a few years, you probably screwed up, but if a startu... |
| 02.09.2016 | Check out Nairabot, an exchange rate “mallam” that lives in Facebook Messenger | Yesterday, I read this post by Jason Njoku titled Zuck and the rise of the bots. TL;DR? He believes in the “Rise of the Planet of the Bots”. Nigeria is the most mobilised country in the world today, and A LOT of our communication happens vi... |
| 01.09.2016 | Are chatbots an evolution or a revolution? | Chatbots are a hot topic in tech — positioned at the intersection of many macro tech trends like the rise of artificial intelligence, messaging apps surpassing social apps in users, and enterprises struggling with customer acquisition and e... |
| 25.08.2016 | Is Android malware more popular than Google’s own app? | How can I compare the popularity of Google’s recently launched Duo video chat app to Android malware apps that many consider not to be a thing? That’s preposterous, heresy even. But I’m just going to show how much our perception is altered ... |
| 20.07.2016 | iOS torches Android when it comes to developer profits | Even though Android handsets cumulatively account for a majority share of the smartphone market, Apple’s iOS ecosystem remains vastly more profitable for developers relative to Google Play. According to research data recently tabulated by A... |
| 25.05.2016 | Why bots won’t replace apps anytime soon | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| 28.01.2016 | The App Ecosystem’s New Status Quo | Zeev Farbman Contributor
Zeev Farbman is co-founder and CEO of Lightricks.
Americans spent more time using smartphone and tablet applications in 2014 than they did mobile and desktop web combined. With nearly four billion smartphones projec... |
| 20.12.2015 | Contextual Runtimes | Benedict Evans is such a great analyst and his insight into the web>mobile transition has been consistently prescient and helpful to investors, including USV and me personally.
A couple days ago, he penned “16 mobile thesis” which is a m... |
| 23.09.2015 | The Internet’s Vanishing Point? | Tom Goodwin Contributor
Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast.
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| 25.08.2015 | Internet for All | Since its birth in the labs of ARPANET half a century back, Internet has risen to create a truly global communication system connecting people across the world. The last two decades has seen users rising from forty million to around 3 billi... |
| 20.08.2015 | Search App Vurb Adds Messaging To Become The U.S. WeChat | WeChat dominates China with its messaging hub that lets you shop, call a taxi, and pay bills — all from one app. Now, mobile search startup Vurb wants to bring the monolithic app style to the United States with the help of Tencent, WeChat’s... |
| 29.07.2015 | Why I’m not ready to switch from Mac to Windows 10 | I’ve been using a Mac laptop almost every day for the past decade. For as long as I’ve been in a position to choose a computer for myself, the Mac has seemed like the best choice. But because Microsoft has been making such a big push to her... |
| 28.07.2015 | Will you upgrade to Windows 10? | Microsoft officially launches its newest operating system tomorrow. OEMs like Acer, Lenovo, and Dell are shipping computers loaded with Windows 10, while some of you can claim free upgrades now. But will you? We want to know, as perhaps do ... |
| 01.06.2015 | There Are No More Easy Answers In Mobile App Development | Pity the mobile developer.
For years she was told to “build an app for that.” But then questions were raised about whether to focus on Web or native. And now, according to Intercom’s Paul Adams, you shouldn’t be thinking about a mobile-firs... |
| 06.05.2015 | Are We Already Rebundling Mobile? | Hard to believe that it was only a year ago that the clear trend, led by Facebook’s Messenger App, and Foursquare’s Swarm App, was towards unbundling experiences on mobile and building single purpose, highly focused applications. |
| 24.04.2015 | WhatsApp Calling On iOS Is Convenient But The Quality Won’t Blow You Away | WhatsApp’s new voice calling feature for iOS is decent quality and easy to use, but the experience doesn’t beat dedicated VoIP apps for clarity. At this point, at least.
That’s our early take on the free calls feature that the Facebook-owne... |
| 22.04.2015 | Facebook’s secret plan to kill Google — and become the second trillion-dollar company in the process | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook is out to kill Google. There, I said it. You probably think I’m crazy, but there are a bunch of macro-trends coming together, ... |
| 22.04.2015 | Facebook’s secret plan to kill Google — and become the second trillion-dollar company in the process | Facebook is out to kill Google. There, I said it. You probably think I’m crazy, but there are a bunch of macro-trends coming together, as well as several moves that Facebook got right. that support this. But first, a disclaimer: I’m the cof... |
| 21.04.2015 | Notifications Are The Next Platform | Anish Acharya Contributor
Editor’s note: Anish Acharya is the co-founder and CEO of Snowball.
As the world moves from web to mobile, we’ve been thinking deeply about how people will discover mobile products and services and how we will find... |
| 06.04.2015 | Bharti Airtel Fuels Net Neutrality Fire In India With Free Access To Partner Apps | The net neutrality debate has been stirred up in India once again today after details of a new program from operator Bharti Airtel became public. Medianama broke news of Airtel Zero, a soon-to-launch initiative that will grant consumers fre... |
| 25.03.2015 | Facebook’s Messenger Platform Preserves WhatsApp’s Clarity Of Purpose | We demystified it last month, but Facebook’s $18 billion acquisition of WhatsApp should begin to make more sense to people today after the company announced that its Messenger service will become a platform for third parties — as TechCrunch... |
| 19.03.2015 | Facebook Plans To Turn Messenger Into A Platform | Next week at its F8 developer conference, Facebook will announce new ways for third parties to offer experiences through its Messenger app, according to multiple sources. Facebook hopes to make Messenger more useful, after seeing Asia’s cha... |
| 17.03.2015 | Facebook Introduces Free Friend-To-Friend Payments Through Messages | When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill, Facebook doesn’t want you to have to open another app like PayPal or Venmo to send them money. So today it unveiled a new payments feature for Facebook Messenger that le... |
| 08.03.2015 | Back To Android | When we got back from our sabbatical in Europe last fall, I got an iPhone. I’ve been using it for roughly six months. I have enjoyed wrapping my head around the iPhone and the iPhone ecosystem. I’ve learned a bunch. And now I’m heading back... |
| 26.02.2015 | Vurb Is Crazy Enough To Fight Google | Google Search was not built for mobile. It’s all about lists of web pages, but the small screen is ruled by apps. That’s why if Google launched today, it might look a lot like Vurb…which did launch today.
Vurb is a mobile search engine that... |
| 19.02.2015 | A Year Later, $19 Billion For WhatsApp Doesn’t Sound So Crazy | Messaging is the center of mobile. Snapchat is raising at around a $20 billion valuation. And no one cares who owns apps. On February 19, 2014, we didn’t know any of these things for sure. So when Facebook announced it would pay $19 billion... |
| 11.02.2015 | Bubble talk: 15 reasons it’s not 2000 all over again | Gaurav Jain is a Principal at Founder Collective, an early stage VC firm based in Cambridge and NYC that has made investments in 150 companies including Uber, Buzzfeed, and Makerbot. He cofounded Polar and was an early Product Manager for A... |
| 21.01.2015 | IBM The World’s Largest Cloud? Not Even Close | Sometimes an untruth is so breathtaking in its audacity that you have to at least admire the chutzpah that gave it birth. Take, for example, IBM’s claim that it now does $7 billion in “cloud revenue,” making it the world’s “largest cloud pr... |
| 19.01.2015 | SoftBank Emerges As The Biggest Challenger To Uber | If you live in the U.S., the chances are that your definition of the biggest rival to Uber is Lyft. The ride-sharing service operates in many of the same U.S. cities as Uber, and the two have a keen rivalry, which includes some less-than-et... |
| 13.01.2015 | Messaging services are killing SMS | 50 percent more messages are now sent using WhatsApp when compared to texts, threatening to kill off SMS communications entirely. CEO of the mobile messaging app Jan Koum announced record results last week, demonstrating the platform’s cont... |
| 11.01.2015 | Tech in 2015: Get ready for a Jetsons world | As the calendar flipped to 2015, the trend of mobile tech also turned eight years old. Though that might seem mature in today’s age of rapid technological advancement, we forget that the PC was the primary consumer device for 26 years (1981... |
| 11.01.2015 | Tech in 2015: Get ready for a Jetsons world | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
As the calendar flipped to 2015, the trend of mobile tech also turned eight years old. Though that might seem mature in today’s age of ... |
| 05.01.2015 | Asking Questions vs Positing Answers | Both Benedict Evans and I wrote posts about the year we are now in, 2015, as we enter it.
Here is mine
Here is Ben’s
My approach was to take a swing at some predictions. They generated a ton of conversation and are still generating it. It s... |
| 02.01.2015 | Here’s How Chat Apps Are Becoming As Important As Social Media For Brands | A number of top pundits are predicting that messaging apps will become ‘the new social media’ in 2015, and here’s some evidence to support that theory from Line, the chat app from Japan with over 500 million registered users and 170 million... |
| 22.12.2014 | Smart Calendar Tempo Adds iOS 8 Widget And End Of Day Notifications, Plans Android App In 2015 | Tempo, the smart calendar for iOS borne from the same organization as Siri, has become the latest app to take advantage of features in iOS 8 as it aims to become your phone-based personal assistant.
The free app now includes a smart widget ... |
| 17.12.2014 | What's Next | I am always thinking about what is next and I feel like I’m spending even more time this year thinking about this. All of us at USV seem to be pondering this question a lot right now.
I came across this nice post by Ben Thompson in which he... |