In the latest episode of "Behind the Numbers," eMarketer's Monica Peart and Debra Aho Williamson talk about social media users, and which format and player will dominate the space. | Continue reading
eMarketer estimates 494.3 million people in China will use WeChat at least once per month this year, far more than any other messaging app. | Continue reading
Power forward Jonas Jerebko has reached a two-year, $8.2M deal with the Utah Jazz, according to ESPN. | Continue reading
With a whopping $200m raised (at current btc and eth prices) Tezos breaks all Initial Coin Offering records to date. That’s saying something given over $1 billion dollars has gone into ICOs (Kickstarters on steroids) in 2017. Exuberance, of the irrational variety, perhaps–but th … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Dash price after a monster decline towards $150 versus the US Dollar found support and started a recovery. There was a break above a major bearish trend line with resistance at $178 on the hourly chart of DASH/USD (data feed from Poloniex). The price is currently t … | Continue reading
Glossier, the direct-to-consumer beauty startup that’s raised $34.4 million in funding so far, will kick off its international expansion this month. Read More | Continue reading
That Google app we heard about last month for backing up all the files on your desktop is finally out now for both Mac and PC. Backup and Sync will automatically upload all the files and folders you choose on your computer to your Google Drive or Google Photos cloud storage (the … | Continue reading
Welcome to another week of new iOS games! This week's most notable release is Street Fighter IV Champion Edition, especially after being delayed from its planned release last week. Well, it finally arrived, and we liked it a lot in our review. Bottom line: If you liked the old St … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One tests a full-scale version, Vizio is suing LeEco for breach of contract, MIT envisions 3D without the glasses and Microsoft has a plan to challenge DeepMind. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Unlike the the TV era of the past several decades, the era of YouTube is defined by competition massive. Competition for views, likes, subscriptions, shares among an army of YouTubers who are uploading over 300 hours of video onto YouTube every minute of every day. To stand out, … | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS -- John Black, who led the Los Angeles Lakers’ Public Relations Department for more than 27 years, has been named the recipient of the Brian McIntyre Trophy as the 2017 Splaver/McHugh | Continue reading
David Wildstein, a former ally and high school classmate of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, was sentenced to three years of probation on Wednesday for his involvement in a 2013 political scheme to shut down lanes on the George Washington Bridge, later dubbed “Bridgegate.” Wil … | Continue reading
Here’s this week’s newsletter: Summer is upon us, and startup activity is keeping pace with the rising temperatures. Startups across the U.S. raised $21.78 billion over 1,958 deals in the three months ending June 20 — that’s a $5 billion jump from Q1, according to Pitchbook-NVCA … | Continue reading
Microsoft is trying to prove its artificial intelligence can do more than guess your age or win at Pac-Man. On Wednesday, the company released Seeing AI, a "talking camera" app for iOS meant to help the visually impaired navigate their surroundings.SEE ALSO: Microsoft squeezed A … | Continue reading
Apple today announced a deal offering free Beats headphones (up to $300) for any student purchasing a qualifying Mac or iPad. The deal, which is said to be for college students only, never actually asks for an ID or even if you’re a student — at least during my iPad purchase at A … | Continue reading
In a world without Net Neutrality, we'll likely be seeing a lot more annoying loading animations around the web. These buffering icons are what you see when an app or video is loading, before you actually view it. And without net neutrality, internet service providers can make so … | Continue reading
America’s second largest carrier has finally ditched the old GoPhone brand for something a bit more self-explanatory: AT&T PREPAID. | Continue reading
LG's V-series and Europe never really had the chance to mingle in the past. However, LG is said to be launching the V30 in European markets this year. | Continue reading
Torrey Craig's 27 points off the bench propelled the 23-seeded Denver Nuggets to an 87-81 win over the 10-seeded Houston Rockets in Las Vegas Summer League playoff action Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center. | Continue reading
It’s easy to start an AI company. All you need is an idea and some funding, right? Not so fast, say two experts who are known for building well-known conversational UI platforms. It’s a difficult and time-consuming process, one that requires extraordinary effort. And it is a high … | Continue reading
Millions of Verizon customers have had their records exposed, ZDNet reported earlier today. Verizon confirmed that 6 million records were compromised by Nice Systems, a Verizon partner that facilitates customer service calls. The records, which held logs from residential customer … | Continue reading
A photograph taken by a monkey in Indonesia is at the center of a copyright case that could spell the future for works created by non-human authors. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit on behalf of the monkey in question, Naruto, who took a selfie w … | Continue reading
The New Orleans Pelicans defeated the Atlanta Hawks, 105-95, in the first round of the Las Vegas Summer League playoffs at Cox Pavilion on Wednesday. | Continue reading
Motorola sent out official invites for its #hellomotoworld event later in July, and the company has all but confirmed a certain phone will be there. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: i2B Capital (www.i2bcap.com), a provider of direct financing to niche-market financial entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce the closing of an $8 million structured term loan to National Surety Underwriters, Inc. (NSU), previously known... | Continue reading
Lyft has spent a lot of time building tools that help it simulate the results of machine learning algorithms, and the company plans to make them available more broadly in the near future. The company’s simulators are a key part of the Lyft’s machine learning development process, … | Continue reading
Hear ye! Hear ye! Be warned: Do not look upon his visage without proper leave, supplicant! Ok, it's not that bad, but we've just learned that part of Mark Zuckerberg's tour of the unvarnished, down home parts of the American landscape includes a set of very cringey rules, and we … | Continue reading
Every two years Suntop Media ranks the top 50 management thought leaders and bestows the Thinkers50 Global Ranking of Management Thinkers. The ranking relies on nominations and voting from the community, meaning that the public decides who is selected. NOMINATIONS … Continue read … | Continue reading
LG has just sent out save the dates to the press, pretty much confirming that the LG V30 is debuting on Thursday, August 31 at IFA 2017 in Berlin. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Axum Graphics has been named winner of the AI hackathon at MB 2017. The team’s project uses computer vision to match human mouth movement to a digital avatar as part of its Auteurist solution that makes 3D and VR storytelling possible for people without technical knowl … | Continue reading
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When evaluating how AI can help a business, execs should figure out when computers can beat humans, according to Charlie Cole, the chief digital officer at Tumi. “If you think about the nexus of how you can pragmatically use artificial intelligence in a practical way, you have to … | Continue reading
Just because everyone's against you doesn't mean it has to look that way. That appears to be the thinking of FreedomWorks, a conservative advocacy group behind the dubiously titled Unlock The Internet — a campaign urging average citizens to take internet reform into their own han … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingComey’s Replacement: At his confirmation hearing today, Christopher Wray, President Trump’s nominee for FBI director, assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that he’d maintain his independence from the administration. Wray is a former federal prosecutor and se … | Continue reading
In case you have ever wondered how Instacart works, know this: There are thousands of “personal shoppers” who physically go to a store and pick out your groceries. In some cases, that’s all they do — up to 29 hours per week. They might not actually deliver the groceries (that’s a … | Continue reading
As promised last month, Google has today launched its new “Backup and Sync from Google” tool, which aims to help users more easily backup the files and photos on their computer. The utility is meant to replace the older Google Photos desktop app, as well as the Google Drive clie … | Continue reading
While questions about Russia attracted more initial scrutiny at his Senate confirmation hearing today, Trump’s proposed James Comey replacement Chris Wray did offer a few clues on his ideas about the digital privacy of American citizens. On encryption: “There’s a balance that ha … | Continue reading
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At least 17 people were killed and 21 others wounded in a series of suicide bombings on Tuesday night in Borno state, Nigeria, the Borno police commissioner confirmed Wednesday. The bombings took place around 10 p.m. local time near the northeast city of Maiduguri and were orches … | Continue reading
Professor Nick Bostrom doesn’t need a crystal ball to predict the future; he’s got an institute for that. He’s the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford University. The institute works with researchers and tech companies like Google’s Deep Mind, an … | Continue reading
Recently-launched publishing platform Verst released a big update today, with new features like a homepage builder, new pricing and support for subscription paywalls. CEO AJ Frank told us that his team’s goal was to create a blogging platform with optimization and analytics alre … | Continue reading
Identifier: COS-EINET-2017-3-04Pillar: More favourable conditions for business creation and growthOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Amazon's Prime Day may be over, but you can still save big on one of Motorola's best budget-friendly smartphones. | Continue reading
Hyperloop One, one of the leading startups working to bring the next-gen hyperloop transportation system from concept to reality, just shared footage of its first full-scale test in a vacuum environment. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk had a 'promising' conversation about tunnels with Los An … | Continue reading
A French court today ruled that Google is not liable for $1.3 billion in back taxes, passing judgement on a suit filed last year. The courts stated the company didn’t have a “permanent establishment” in France to justify the large amount of money. The company’s legal revenue-shif … | Continue reading
Transportation is a huge category. Just some of the players include automakers and motorcycle manufacturers and trucking firms and logistics companies and dealership groups and repair shop chains and truck rental companies and car leasing companies and telematics companies and e … | Continue reading
Google today announced the latest updates to its Google Container Engine, its service for running Kubernetes-based software containers in its cloud. Like with previous releases, this update brings the Container Engine, or GKE, as Google calls it (where the ‘K’ stands for Kuberne … | Continue reading
Software testing company Applitools has raised $8 million for its technology that uses computer vision to recognize changes to websites or mobile apps like typos, missing icons, or other content. Developers using Applitools can catch mistakes or spot variations between version hi … | Continue reading