Twitter may be President Donald Trump's favorite tool, but for the average person, its appeal has apparently become a bit lackluster. In three months, Twitter's growth has remained flat, sitting at 328 million monthly active users, the company reported on Thursday as part of its … | Continue reading
I’m excited that the newly updated 6th edition is out in the next few days in the USA and will soon reach other countries around the world. | Continue reading
For more than a month, from the end of May to the middle of July, baseball was without its best player. Mike Trout, the 25-year-old centerfielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, slid into second base one afternoon, tore a ligament in his thumb, and went on the disabled lis … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Sverica Capital Management LLC ("Sverica") today announced the signing of a purchase agreement to sell Offsite Archive Storage and Integrated Services ("OASIS" or "the Company") to Montagu Private Equity. OASIS ... | Continue reading
When Anthony Scaramucci was named White House communications director last week, he had a dual mandate to fix the president’s dysfunctional press shop and end leaks. So far, those two goals are steeply at odds, as Scaramucci’s fierce, sudden attack on White House Chief of Staff R … | Continue reading
The HideOut house eventually became a gallery‐like setting for the family’s parties, fundraisers, and private art collection ... | Continue reading
Data is critical to building great AI — so much so, that researchers in the field compare it to coal during the Industrial Revolution. Those that have it will steam ahead. Those that don’t will be left in the dust. In the current AI boom, it’s obvious who has it: tech giants like … | Continue reading
GoPro möchte noch stärker in der Social-Media-Welt vertreten sein und bohrt seine App auf. Wie man sich vielleicht denken konnte, geht es um "Stories". Bei GoPro bedeutet dies, dass aus den Filmen, die man an einem Tag gedreht hat, kleine... | Continue reading
British ministers added more confusion Thursday about the fate of EU citizens in the U.K. the day after Brexit. It began with an op-ed in the Financial Times by Amber Rudd, the U.K. home secretary, who wrote the country’s goal was to “control migration from the EU while still at … | Continue reading
The provider of a publicly traded bitcoin ETN has been fined by Nasdaq Stockholm for infractions of internal rules and financial regulations.Source | Continue reading
Ever since I read about the crazy wearable pioneers back in the ‘90s and early 2000s, I've wanted a wearable computer of my own. I had two major requirements, however: it had to be a computer, and I had to be able to wear it.Smartphones, for the most part, have supplanted most pe … | Continue reading
Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That title now goes to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Bezos has long been a billionaire, but recent surges in Amazon stock have pushed him to a net worth of over $90 billion. Bill Gates’ is also pegged at $90 billion, but Bezos seems to … | Continue reading
Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: BuzzFeed is making its first smart appliance, the Tasty One Top, available for pre-order. It sounds a little weird for a digital media company to try to sell you a fancy hot plate, but this is part of BuzzFeed Product Labs, which was … | Continue reading
Tricentis, an Austrian enterprise-focused software testing company funded to the tune of more than $170 million, has snapped up Australia-based load-testing platform Flood IO. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded out of Vienna in 2007, Tricentis serves up a range of serv … | Continue reading
There are multiple infographic options for marketers to choose from for engaging audiences. Some infographics are meant to educate audiences while others entertain. Quizzes typically serve the latter purpose. While … | Continue reading
Forget the quizzes, memes, incredible feature journalism, and addicting Facebook videos. BuzzFeed’s latest plan to get you hooked is a Bluetooth-connected hot plate.It’s called the Tasty One Top, and it syncs up with BuzzFeed’s hundreds of stylish recipe videos to help you proper … | Continue reading
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has now surpassed Bill Gates as the world’s richest person. Bloomberg reports that a surge in Amazon’s stock has helped propel Bezos to the top of rich list, ahead of the company’s earnings reports later today. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has held th … | Continue reading
We live in a world of instant gratification: online shopping with same-day delivery; movies that stream on-demand; and smartphone apps that summon everything from groceries to taxis, all with a few taps of our finger. We don’t even like waiting a few extra seconds for a page to l … | Continue reading
In some of his first public remarks since the president of the United States declared him “sleazy,” Adam Schiff denied the allegation, which Donald Trump made via Twitter this week. Trump “chose a poor descriptor because I don’t think that’s people’s impression of me,” the mellow … | Continue reading
Google Play Music and YouTube Red will be merged to create a new streaming service, according to a report from The Verge, which Google then essentially confirmed with a statement indicating that changes are not taking place immediately. The company said users would receive plent … | Continue reading
Mit einem Snapdragon 835 augestattet hat HTC sein erstes Vive Headset geteast, das ohne PC läuft. Allerdings nur für den chinesischen Markt, auf dem laut Aussage von HTC VR gerade explodiert. Wirklich exakte Details zu dem Headset fehlen auch... | Continue reading
I’m reviewing the transcript of Twitter’s second-quarter earnings call — which definitely did not go well, with the stock crashing more than 10% — and it seems like Twitter is beating the drum very hard on its daily active user growth. The company is regularly referring to doubl … | Continue reading
In 2017, for the great majority of people, privacy is on life support. For the great majority of people, ownership is also becoming an obsolete concept, further accelerating the death of privacy – how can you truly have any privacy when everything you have is owned and controlled … | Continue reading
Authorship.com has finally opened its doors for the public by announcing the date for initial coin offering (ICO): 15th August. The much awaited ICO to buy the crypto-currency is a golden opportunity for investors to benefit from the project that is a big step towards fulfilling … | Continue reading
The internet has completely revolutionized how consumers engage with brands and transformed the economics of marketing. Brands have long used the famous purchasing funnel to think about consumer touch points. However, this antiquated metaphor doesn’t tell us much beyond superfici … | Continue reading
Porsche Design's laptop is overpriced and underperforms Continue reading… | Continue reading
We’ve all got a script idea rattling around inside our head. You know, the one that would make a gazillion dollars if Hollywood ever made it. And, of course, if you ever actually wrote it. With their unfamiliar formatting and structure, scripts can seem intimidating for the first … | Continue reading
If you ever miss one of the huge Comic-Cons, it’s always worth checking out the music videos from filmmaking duo Sneaky Zebra. They attended San Diego Comic-Con last week, and put together a catchy video that captures the essence of what attracts people to cosplaying. Sneaky Zebr … | Continue reading
Vodka brand Grey Goose is launching a dining and cocktail experience called 'Le Grand Fizz Brunch Club'. | Continue reading
Working with an SEO company can be hard if you don’t hire the right person for the job. There is a lot that needs to be done in order to boost your ranking. The problem is that the majority of service providers will not do as much as is needed. It is for this reason that you have … | Continue reading
Sometimes combining two companies that compete in the same market provides a quick way to leapfrog your market share. That was likely the thinking behind Mitel’s decision to buy ShoreTel this morning for $430 million. Combining the two companies catapults Mitel to number two in … | Continue reading
Despite changes in technology, there’s still a prevailing perception out there on the internet among the blogging community that companies have direct control over their brands. Their brands depend directly, they tell us, on the decisions marketing departments make on a day-to-da … | Continue reading
REVIEW: Metroidvanias — a genre inspired by non-linear sidescrollers like Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night — have become a favorite project of smaller studios. I love Metroidvanias, so that’s great for me, but I do wonder how much room for innovation could pos … | Continue reading
Advanced Micro Devices is launching its low-end Ryzen 3 processors today as it completes its broadside against Intel in consumer and gaming PCs. Both of the chips use AMD’s Zen cores, which can process 52 percent more instructions per clock than the previous generation. Zen-based … | Continue reading
Megacool is a startup born out of the mobile games studio Dirtybit, and it’s just raised $1.5 million to scale up its GIF-recording integration technology. Alliance Venture, an early-stage venture capital firm from Norway, led the round. The integration enables developers to defi … | Continue reading
GoPro is launching a new feature today called QuikStories that makes it even easier for users to receive automatically edited videos of their footage. It will also make it possible to transfer footage from a GoPro Hero 5 camera to a user’s phone with just one swipe (on iPhone) or … | Continue reading
Nick Woodman believes QuikStories represents the path forward for GoPro. The company’s founder/CEO doesn’t hold back. “You can say this is the biggest thing we’ve done to simplify the experience of sharing video since the invention of the GoPro itself,” he says matter of factly. … | Continue reading
Rent the Runway customers can now be one step closer to actually not having a closet. The company just announced they are launching same-day delivery in NYC, with plans to expand to other markets soon. Customers who order by 12pm will have their order delivered by 5pm, and recei … | Continue reading
New regulations that apply money transmitter laws to cryptocurrency exchanges have gone into effect in the U.S. state of Washington.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While these are obviously two very different applications, the general idea to allow bus … | Continue reading
The creation of Bitcoin Cash will be an interesting social experiment. More specifically, there seems to be a strong support for a token that doesn’t even exist yet. BCC Tokens will be created on August 1st and provide Bitcoin users with “free coins”, so to speak. For the time be … | Continue reading
Running a successful webinar is no walk in the park. Follow this guide on how to do a webinar effectively to make sure yours goes off without a hitch. | Continue reading
Emojis have taken root in the modern consumer's vocabulary, and marketers need to speak the language. These tips can help you leverage emojis' marketing value. | Continue reading
This edition of the Copyblogger Weekly features 37 specific steps you can take to have more fun, create better content, and reach more people. | Continue reading
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It was about 2AM on a Friday morning, and Connor White couldn’t find the baby great white shark he was supposed to be tracking off the Southern California coast. He wasn’t worried about the shark,... | Continue reading
We’re thrilled to announce that Anna Hensel is joining VentureBeat as a reporter today. Her areas of coverage will include news and analysis for our Heartland Tech Channel, which explores the technological and economic divide between Silicon Valley and the rest of America. She is … | Continue reading
In what looks like a potentially useful use of drone technology, Russian scientists at the Moscow Technology Institute have stuck a defibrillator on a drone so it can be remote piloted to a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Read More | Continue reading