Less than a day after it agreed to put $2 billion into Southeast Asia’s Grab alongside Didi, now SoftBank is being linked with an investment in Uber, the U.S. firm that rivals those two aforementioned ride-sharing companies. A Wall Street Journal report claims SoftBank has been … | Continue reading
Governments wanting to spy on the people they’re meant to serve is hardly new – but China is taking things to a whole new level by injecting itself into citizens’ phones. Based on articles from Radio Free Asia, Mashable reported last week that authorities in the autonomous region … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. DASH/USD DASH looked slightly bullish during the day on Monday, as we broke above the $202 level. The market looks likely to test the $210 level where it will face a significant amount of resistance. Short-term pullback shou … | Continue reading
Die Budapester Verkehrsbetriebe Budapesti Közlekedési Központ (BKK) haben sich offenbar schwer mit einem modernen Ticket-System übernommen: Ihr von T-Systems Ungarn entwickeltes System für Web-Tickets schickt Nutzern auf Anfrage... | Continue reading
Millenials are voracious consumers of news. One UK survey shows that half of those aged 18 to 35 prefer to get their current affairs fix from a newspaper or magazine. A separate Associated Press survey shows that two-thirds of those aged 18 to 34 regularly consume news online. So … | Continue reading
While we hope that all of our events are sell out situations, some come close to the wire. If it’s last minute and you still have seats to sell, here are a few sure-fire ways to get them sold. It all seemed to be going so well. The early-bird pricing showed promise. You lined up … | Continue reading
MediaConch in action! Issue #3 This is the third in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kieran O’Leary has an intership with the Irish Film Archive within the Irish Film Institute, mostly working on code, workflows, metadata, digitisatio … | Continue reading
The operators of a bitcoin hedge fund have launched a $5 million fund for investing in cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings.Source | Continue reading
Microsoft’s popular Paint app isn’t being killed off just yet. A confusing Microsoft support article, published recently, revealed that the company is marking MSPaint.exe as “deprecated” in the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. That means Paint will “not be in active deve … | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. ETH/USD Ethereum has done very little during the session on Monday, so looks like for consolidation is probably to be had. The $240 level above continues to offer resistance, so if we can break above there, the market is lik … | Continue reading
Wenn Microsoft im Herbst 2017 das Windows 10 Fall Creators Update zum Download freigibt, findet eine 32-jährige Geschichte ihr Ende: MS Paint, treue Malgenossin, beschränktes Pixelexploratorium und Feuer unter dem Hintern der Faulheit wird... | Continue reading
Hello and welcome to News BTC’s Market Outlook July 25. BTC/USD Bitcoin initially fell against the US dollar and early Monday trading, but turned around to show signs of resiliency yet again. It appears that we are currently consolidating, but the market looks very likely to cont … | Continue reading
The internet lost its collective mind when news began doing the rounds yesterday about Microsoft killing off its beloved Paint app after 32 years. If you’re nostalgic about the doodling app that enthralled a couple of generations of Windows fans, you’ll be glad to know it’s not a … | Continue reading
CHECK24 Vergleichsportal GmbH: München (ots) - - Brandenburger geben acht Prozent mehr pro Pauschalreise aus als der Durchschnitt - Urlauber verreisen im Schnitt neun Tage - Mehr als die Hälfte der Pauschalreisenden wählt Viersternehotels Das meistgebuchte ... | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price remained below the $230-236 resistance area and failed to gain traction against the US Dollar. Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line with current resistance near $228 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX) is still intact. The price … | Continue reading
eMarketer expects 50.2 million people in Japan will use Line at least once per month this year, a 10.3% increase from 2016. | Continue reading
Millennials are being hacked—by each other. Older users are less likely to view their partner's texts and emails without permission. | Continue reading
Singapore’s Grab secured $2.5 billion in new funds from China’s ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing and Japanese telecom SoftBank, among others, as the company continues to gain ground on rivals Uber and Go-Jek in Southeast Asia’s on-demand transportation sector. | Continue reading
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eMarketer forecasts 42.3 million people in Russia will use VK Messenger at least monthly this year, a 13.8% increase from 2016. Moreover, the pace of growth for VK's platform will top that of mobile messaging overall in Russia between 2017 and 2021. | Continue reading
Donald Trump continued his ongoing tour of cherished American institutions on Monday night, delivering yet another jarringly partisan speech to an apolitical audience—this one, comprised of tens of thousands still too young to vote.During the campaign, his performance at the Al S … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price could be due for an upside break from this short-term consolidation pattern, which looks like a bullish flag on long-term time frames.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 07/25/2017 – Is That a Bullish Flag? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Key Highlights Dash price surged higher and broke a major resistance at $165 and $180 versus the US Dollar. There is a bullish trend line forming with support at $195 on the hourly chart of DASH/USD (data feed from Poloniex). The price is currently correcting lower, but remains s … | Continue reading
Arizona Republican John McCain will return to the Senate on Tuesday in time to participate in a procedural vote that could decide the future of the Affordable Care Act. In a statement released Monday night, McCain’s office said he “looks forward to returning to the United States … | Continue reading
KKR is buying WebMD for $2.8 billion, Didi and SoftBank invest $2 billion into Grab, Daimler and Bosch create a driverless parking garage and the next Microsoft HoloLens gets an AI chip. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
It is important to do a website analysis because it helps the webmasters and site owners to grow the business. It will be easier to identify which keywords are working and which aren’t. It also helps the business owner understand from where the traffic volume is coming as well as … | Continue reading
Surat lamaran kerja menjadi salah satu persyaratan yang harus dipenuhi ketika Anda ingin mendapatkan pekerjaan di sebuah perusahaan. Tentu Anda sudah paham bahwa surat lamaran kerja ini menjadi persyaratan yang cukup krusial. Oleh karena itu, membuat dan menulis surat lamaran ker … | Continue reading
None of us can choose how we are remembered. Most of us are not remembered at all. Senator John McCain knows that he will be remembered. He faces a choice about how his remarkable career will be noted in its autumnal phase.McCain will of course be remembered most of all for his s … | Continue reading
Grabr, an SF-based platform with a convenient way for people to buy international goods, has secured a $2.6M funding round led by SignalFire. FF Angel (Founders Fund’s early stage investment vehicle), Global Founders Capital and multiple angel investors including Diana Moldavsky … | Continue reading
I’ve found myself getting back into virtual reality recently after my wife, Stephanie, asked me if she could play the launch game Audioshield. She remembered having a good time punching the notes from some of her favorite songs out of the air, but Stephanie stopped playing after … | Continue reading
Margaret Bradley is audibly jazzed when describing the significance of impact investing in the Philadelphia region. “My whole professional life is about this,” said the director of investment partnerships and lead for social impact investments at Ben Franklin Technology Partners … | Continue reading
Your Mac is not safe. Well, at least not as safe as you think it is. That's the big takeaway following the detailed investigation of a particularly insidious strain of Apple-focused malware that has potentially been around for up to a decade — all the while broadcasting video and … | Continue reading
Android has an emoji problem.No, it's not those weird blobs (RIP), but something that's been nearly as tricky to fix. Because of Android handset makers' inconsistent updates, not only do many Android users not get new software updates in a timely manner, they don't get new emoji … | Continue reading
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In PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, getting kills isn’t important. The only thing that matters is getting that “winner winner chicken dinner” notification after you are the last person standing, and one player was able to accomplish that by hiding inside of jeeps through the majori … | Continue reading
One of the most hated features of the 2017 internet — autoplay videos — may soon be coming to anyone (i.e. nearly everyone) who uses Google to search. At least that's the look of things based on a new test Google has been rolling out in recent days that puts autoplay videos in th … | Continue reading
“Phelps vs. Shark” had viewers on the edge of their seat. The promos featured the five-time Olympian taking to the water to put it all on the line against a great white. And then Discovery pulled the rug out from under them. The Discovery Channel had the race hyped as one for the … | Continue reading
Jared Kushner — prince of the United States and future savior of the Middle East — wants you to know that not all computer crazies worked to help his father-in-law during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Kush sat before investigators in Congress on Monday to talk about his mee … | Continue reading
It’s been nine months since AT&T announced a deal to buy Time Warner — the media company that owns HBO and Warner Bros. — for more than $80 billion, and it’s starting to look like regulatory review of the deal is moving toward a conclusion and eventual approval.Bloomberg reported … | Continue reading
Roomba was the futuristic cleaning bot each of our 12-year-old selves once dreamed of. Today it’s a commodity in a space full of cheaper and (arguably) just-as-good competitors. Luckily for iRobot (Roomba’s parent company), its future is less about the dirt on your floor, and mor … | Continue reading
Drones have taken the world by storm since they went mainstream a few years ago. They’re dramatically cheaper to buy and far easier to use than any other type of powered aircraft, making them increasingly popular in the world of aerial photography. Just last year, the FAA loosene … | Continue reading
Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine 4, is showing off its brand-new real-time rendering technology, and with it the future of game and animation development. The company is set to unleash two real-time production videos next week at SIGGRAPH, a computer graphics event. Y … | Continue reading
MS Paint’s future is uncertain—but that doesn’t mean you’re losing the ability to capture, edit, save, and share screenshots.That's because there's been a better screen-capture solution hiding in Windows for 15 years.SEE ALSO: Microsoft Paint is getting evicted from WindowsAllow … | Continue reading
Cars and trucks will eventually adjust to their surroundings in ways you can’t even imagine yet. When cities implement a car traffic control center, autonomous vehicles adjust their speed automatically to eradicate congestion even miles up the road based on real-time driving patt … | Continue reading
I gotta give it up to Apple for pairing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Siri — yes, the iPhone's digital assistant — for its latest TV commercial. "The Rock x Siri: Dominate the Day" is funny and entertaining and just so ridiculous that it works. Bravo, Apple. Really, Bravo.SEE AL … | Continue reading
What We’re Following‘I Did Not Collude With Russia’: That’s what the president’s son-in-law told the Senate Intelligence Committee, and repeated in a statement to the press today. Jared Kushner’s prepared remarks to the committee described attempts from the Russian side to contac … | Continue reading
At least 26 people were killed and more than 50 others wounded in a Monday car bombing in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore. The Pakistani Taliban has since claimed responsibility for the attack, confirming reports that the explosion was caused by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle … | Continue reading
The 20th annual Independent Games Festival is now accepting submissions from indie developers until October 2. Finalists will be chosen in early January 2018 and will earn space on the Game Developers Conference floor to demo their games. They’ll also get a chance to win prizes s … | Continue reading