The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) is planning to launch a blockchain-powered private market aimed at helping smaller firms obtain financing.The post Hong Kong Stock Exchange to Launch Blockchain-Powered Market in 2018 appeared first on CoinDesk.Source | Continue reading
When news of Donald Trump Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer broke, his father was surprisingly quiet. As his son’s explanation for the meeting crumbled, repeatedly, the president made little public comment, leaving it to his lawyers and White House press staff to say … | Continue reading
Amazon is expanding what Fire TV users can do with their Echo devices. Starting today, you'll be able to control your Fire TV from your Amazon Echo device. The company announced that it's officially rolling out the ability to pair Echo devices with Fire TVs, so users can tell Ale … | Continue reading
Google is making Image Search much more intuitive and convenient to navigate through. The internet giant announced it is rolling out an update that adds designated badges at the bottom of each image it shows in search. Badges will indicate what further information you can find if … | Continue reading
This year could arguably have been one of Apple’s most difficult heading into September. As we approach the company’s earnings report this afternoon, Apple has had to reconcile a deluge of rumors around a new new iPhone with the need to continue to sell phones and keep its engin … | Continue reading
CBS’ streaming service for cord cutters, CBS All Access, is rounding out its programming lineup by adding live, anchored new coverage and original reporting to its subscription service by way of CBSN. The 24/7 news channel will initially be offered to CBS All Access subscribers … | Continue reading
A Tokyo-based artistic design studio called we+ has developed a clock that is actually a human face. It follows time with its eyes and mouth and is meant to represent the heavy burden that time has on human life. Read more...More about Art, Technology, Design, Japan, and Studio | Continue reading
Game developers are turning to outside vendors for backend services, but there is always a danger they could get locked into one with bad results. So Heroic Labs is announcing the formal launch of its Nakama 1.0 open-source real-time game servers to help with this. The San Franci … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based startup Juvo wants to help mobile users in emerging markets to improve their financial standing by combining data and identity to provide micro-loans. It’s an ambitious goal, and to help achieve it, the company has raised $40 million in funding led by NEA and … | Continue reading
For a generation of students, "summer's over" is about to become the most annoying phrase ever.But it's true: the fall 2017 semester is about to begin, and it's time to once again make sure you have the right laptop, the best headphones, and other essentials. Whether it's simply … | Continue reading
To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impo … | Continue reading
Schon jetzt hat Motorola die beiden stärkeren G5S und G5S Plus offiziell gemacht. Und die Preise fallen geringer aus, als wir erwartet haben, denn es sollen nur 249 bzw. 299 Euro sein. Beide sind schon ab September in Deutschland erhältlich.Das... | Continue reading
Google has launched a new feature for image search called badges that will categorize the content behind selected images. For example, if a picture is pulled from a recipe or from a video, the badge will identify it as such.The new feature, which is available on the mobile web an … | Continue reading
Lenovo's beefed-up version of the Moto E4, the Moto E4 Plus, will be available on Verizon starting August 3rd, but it's also coming unlocked simultaneously to Best Buy, Amazon, and a couple other online retailers. Then, on August 11th, it will hit Sprint and Ting, then finally Re … | Continue reading
Social media listening is one of the most important b2b trends that businesses, especially the ecommerce space, has seen in recent years. The practice of monitoring the customer voice via social for complaints, praise and feedback is an incredibly effective...read more | Continue reading
Social media listening is one of the most important b2b trends that businesses, especially the ecommerce space, has seen in recent years. The practice of monitoring the customer voice via social for complaints, praise and feedback is an incredibly effective...read moreThe post Ho … | Continue reading
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Whether you’ve got a home filled with priceless art, or you just want to make sure your puppy isn’t chewing your gym shoes to pieces while you’re at work, home security is a soun … | Continue reading
Sawyer, a two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup that aims to become the OpenTable of children’s activities, has raised $6 million in new funding led by Advance Venture Partners. Others who contributed to the round include Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, 3311 Ventures, Female Founder … | Continue reading
'LifePrint' is a travel-sized printer that allows you to print augmented reality photos that can be played back as video through your phone's screen. Read more...More about Harry Potter, Augmented Reality, Real Time, Printer, and Printers | Continue reading
Spanish-language cable company Hemisphere Media has launched a streaming service today in conjunction with Lionsgate’s film division, according to a press release.This is the third streaming service Lionsgate has collaborated on in a little over a year, following Kevin Hart’s Lau … | Continue reading
The split of the bitcoin blockchain has begun.The post Bitcoin Is Forking, but Bitcoin Cash Hasn't Been Created Yet appeared first on CoinDesk.Source | Continue reading
LG is set to debut a new device — likely its V30 flagship phone — on August 31st, a day before the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin. Up until today, we had no idea of what to expect from the phone, apart from a rumored switch to OLED displays from LCD. Yesterday, tho … | Continue reading
Last year, MIT and Stanford debuted a new type of robot that could crawl over the surface of your clothing with the use of magnets. Now, it appears to have gone high fashion. It’s no longer a “rovable,” it’s Project Kino (kinetic wearables).The small robots now house an array of … | Continue reading
Last week Arduino AG, the holding company for the open source Arduino project, announced that CEO Federico Musto stepped down, to be replaced with Mr. Massimo Banzi as new Chairman and CTO of Arduino and Dr. Fabio Violante as CEO. The move comes after the maker community found t … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Skybox™ Security, a global leader in cybersecurity management, today announced a 62 percent increase in sales in the first half of 2017 and 59 percent increase in product transactions compared to the same period last year (January... | Continue reading
Plume Labs has been working on air pollution for a while. In addition to its mobile app and air quality device, the startup is launching a paid API called Plume.io so that anybody can add air quality to their own service. Think about it as Dark Sky’s API, but for air quality. Pl … | Continue reading
Sony Pictures is taking a majority stake in the distribution response for smash-hit anime series ‘Dragon Ball Z’ and others. The company announced today that it is making an undisclosed investment in Japan’s Funimation Productions in a deal that values it at the $150 million mar … | Continue reading
Upgrading computers is an expensive hassle. Microsoft wants to make it less so if you’re buying on of its Surface PCs. The company today introduced a new Surface Plus program that lets you pay off your computer in 24-month installments with zero percent interest if paid off in ti … | Continue reading
Russian fintech firm Blackmoon is launching an ethereum platform for managing tokenized funds. | Continue reading
Motorola has added two more smartphones to its G5 line: the G5S and G5S Plus. The two new devices feature bigger displays, better cameras, and more powerful processors than the original G5s, which were released back in March.The Moto G5S features a 5.2-inch 1080p display, a 1.4GH … | Continue reading
A few months ago, we hired an independent security research firm to conduct an audit on the encryption specification used by Standard Notes. In building out our product, we spent a lot of time making sure our encryption is as strong and fool-proof as possible. While it's easy for … | Continue reading
A day after Pinterest rolled out an update that put its visual search feature in the front-and-center of its app, Google announced it, too, is giving its visual search engine an upgrade. The company is today updating Image Search with a new feature that aims to connect web users … | Continue reading
If there's a modern definition of hero, airplane pilots should definitely be included. SEE ALSO: Footage shows plane's impressive emergency landing on a highwayTake Alexander Akopov, the Ukrainian captain whose Cyprus-bound aircraft carrying 127 people was battered by a epic hail … | Continue reading
Uber just got itself another potential thorn in its side in Southeast Asia, where its closest rival Grab just raised $2 billion in fresh capital, after an unlikely source announced plans to enter Thailand’s ride-hailing space. Line, the Japanese company best known for its messag … | Continue reading
When it rains, it pours. Hours after serial leaker Evan Blass gave us our first glimpse into the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8, the brand-name mobile reporter is back with yet another exclusive photo showing the upcoming flagship. Earlier today, Blass took to Twitter to share a pictu … | Continue reading
Merge is announcing that the Merge Cube is debuting exclusively this week in Walmart stores across the U.S. The Merge Cube is a holographic toy that allows users to physically hold and interact with 3D objects using augmented reality (AR) technology. The Merge Cube costs only $1 … | Continue reading
To write for a content agency, you must write well, provide strong work samples, think strategically about client goals, and be a good communicator. | Continue reading
Here is how brand activism is helping companies in 2017 and how you can add it to your marketing strategy and make a difference. | Continue reading
Vor ein paar Tagen hatte Apple versehentlich eine HomePod Firmware veröffentlicht, in der sich eine Menge Hinweise auf kommende iPhones fanden. Mehr sogar noch, als man bislang dachte, denn zum einen wird ein iPhone mit einer 1125 x 2436 Auflösung... | Continue reading
Battery case-maker Mophie has a new charger that can power a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPad, or iPhone. The company is announcing today the availability of its Mophie Powerstation USB-C XXL, with a 19,500 mAh battery that holds enough charge to fully power a MacBook. The charger come … | Continue reading
Charging on the go just got a lot easier. Mophie just introduced a new battery that's powerful enough to charge a MacBook, marking the first time the company's made a battery that can provide on-the-go power for a laptop.SEE ALSO: Researchers create a 'battery-free' mobile phoneT … | Continue reading
You can argue for long-form content 'til you're blue in the face. You're still wrong. In 1647, the Jesuit Baltazar Gracián expl... | Continue reading
The Vancouver house is conceived as a pavilion in a park: a loose arrangement of simple, bold elements that float in a park-like atmosphere. | Continue reading
You may eventually be able to inspect food at the supermarket just by tapping it with your phone. The NFC Forum — the group behind the short-range wireless standard — said today that it has partnered with the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association to help develop sma … | Continue reading
Microsoft is launching a new Surface Plus program in the US today, helping spread the cost of a new devices over two years. Surface Plus acts like a cellphone contract, with a 24-month payment plan at zero percent APR for the first two years and 19.99 percent APR thereafter. Micr … | Continue reading
EIT Digital is proud to see the EIT Digital Accelerator being ranked among the Top 20 Global Accelerators in the annual Gust report that was released today. The EIT Digital Accelerator focusses on late stage startups (scaleups) and has been ranked...Worldwide top 20 accelerators … | Continue reading
There will be the usual slew of numbers tossed around when Apple discloses its earnings today as analysts slice and dice every data point for clues about the health of the world’s most valuable company. But there might be only one piece of information that really matters: When ca … | Continue reading
Today’s fragmented digital landscape makes it harder than ever for businesses to connect with the right customer at the right time, much less distribute the right information. As a result, many companies have developed a fragmented digital marketing strategy. Their short-term str … | Continue reading