Key Highlights ETH price is currently testing an important support near $278-276 against the US Dollar. There is a new declining channel pattern with support near $276 forming on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). There is also a bullish trend line with support … | Continue reading
Apple has confirmed security researcher Andrea Barisani’s slightly worrying discovery that, unlike previous versions, the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth toggles in iOS 11’s Control Center don’t actually turn those respective antennae off. Instead, those buttons simply disconnect your iPhone … | Continue reading
Rumors have been circulating in recent days that Google has been lining up a bid for HTC — either the entire company, or just its mobile devices unit. Today, Google officially showed its hand: certain HTC employees, including many who are working on Pixel smartphones, will join t … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ripple price failed to gain pace and is currently trading below the $0.1900 level against the US Dollar. Yesterday’s highlighted major bearish trend line with current resistance at $0.1900 on the hourly chart of XRP/USD (data source from Kraken) is still active. Th … | Continue reading
It’s no longer news to say that Google and Facebook dominate the US digital ad market. But this year that supremacy is exceeding expectations, according to eMarketer’s latest digital ad spending forecast. | Continue reading
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In the latest episode of eMarketer's "Behind the Numbers" podcast, we consider the state of pay TV, changing viewing behaviors, and implications for marketers. | Continue reading
Snapchat has not made much headway as a platform of choice among influencers, according to one study. But the company’s recent moves may increase its appeal to these taste-makers. | Continue reading
Apple launched iOS 11 today, and this means that anyone with an iPhone or iPad that supports the new software can now jump into augmented reality. And we’re not talking about the pseudo-AR of Pokémon Go — this means, to paraphrase Obi-Wan Kenobi, games and apps which take the fir … | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin cash price after making a short-term top around $550 started a correction against the US Dollar. One of the two bullish trend lines with support near $495 and $470 on the hourly chart of BCH/USD (data feed from Kraken) was broken. The price is now approaching t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is slowly crawling higher and could make its way up to the next short-term resistance levels from here.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/21/2017 – A Bit of a Snoozefest appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Along with an avalanche of every kind of augmented reality game and app that you can think of alongside the release of iOS 11 and its ARKit functionality this week, we also have our typical weekly selection of regular old non-augmented reality games. One of the biggest releases o … | Continue reading
A successful marketing team relies on data, and Facebook provides a wealth of information to companies about their audiences. | Continue reading
The deal, which moves the team behind the Pixel and Pixel XL over from HTC to Google, is expected to close by early 2018. | Continue reading
HTC and Google have just made official a $1.1 billion agreement whereby a substantial proportion of HTC’s smartphone design and engineering team will move to work for Google. While the specific details of the deal have not yet been disclosed, one question has been answered preemp … | Continue reading
Nest releases a new alarm system, the Nest Secure, SpaceX files trademark for name of internet service and Waymo wants $2.6 billion for allegedly stolen trade secret. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Following its reveal at Tuesday's Sony Press Conference, Square Enix afforded us a first look proper at Left Alive, the third-person survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe. Producer Shinji Hashimoto, game director Toshifumi Nabeshima and character artist Yoji Shinkawa … | Continue reading
The rumors are (mostly) true: Google is buying a part of HTC to beef up its hardware business.Google announced the agreement late Wednesday. Senior Vice President of Hardware Rock Osterloh wrote in a blog post that a "team of HTC talent" would join Google's hardware team, along w … | Continue reading
It’s happening, folks. Following reports from as late as yesterday, HTC has announced that Google is acquiring talent from the Taiwanese phone maker to further its product development efforts, in a $1.1 billion deal. Many of the the employees from HTC who are joining Google have … | Continue reading
Google and HTC have entered into an agreement where certain HTC employees will join Google. As part of the transaction, HTC will receive $1.1B USD in cash from Google. Google will also receive non-exclusive license for HTC’s intellectual property. HTC says many of the employees w … | Continue reading
Curiously enough, it was none other than Apple that tipped us off that The Witness [$9.99] would be hitting the App Store super soon, and much as I speculated earlier today, "soon" means... Right now. The Witness launched on iOS at $9.99, which is far cheaper than the Steam versi … | Continue reading
Google is making another big buy into smartphone hardware — or at least the people responsible for creating it. The company has just confirmed that it plans to acquire part of HTC’s mobile division team for $1.1 billion. “These future fellow Googlers are amazing folks we’ve alrea … | Continue reading
Snapchat doesn’t technically have a developer platform, but that hasn’t stopped other startups from taking advantage of its new feature for attaching links to your Snaps and Stories. Sarahah was the first, allowing people to ask fellow Snappers for open-ended anonymous feedback. … | Continue reading
San Francisco blockchain startup ChainLink has pulled in $32 million through its presale and initial coin offering, which closed yesterday. The company provides middleware to enable “smart contracts” running on a blockchain to access external data. Smart contracts, or self-execut … | Continue reading
Do you have a marketing strategy that provides the confidence you need to make key decisions regarding this aspect of your business? Are you willing to consider each and every marketing method, even if it initially appears outdated? Most companies understand the importance of cre … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that the high cost of living is making some tech workers think twice about living in the Bay Area. But much of the appeal of living somewhere outside of the Bay Area isn’t about getting a higher paycheck, but rather — as we’ve talked about before in the Heartland T … | Continue reading
On the heels of its $70 million Series C, an expansion to new markets, and a partnership with Blink Fitness, the popular workout subscription service ClassPass is now beginning to experiment with variable pricing. The test was revealed by new ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman, speaking … | Continue reading
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt … | Continue reading
It’s been the talk of the summer in Silicon Valley. CEOs at Uber and SoFi lost their jobs after whistleblowers came forward, alleging sexism and harassment. Powerful venture capitalists, including Dave McClure from 500 Startups lost their jobs after women, including Sarah Kunst, … | Continue reading
Eric Liu (Citizen University)If you happen to be in Redlands, California, on Thursday evening, September 21, I suggest you go by the headquarters of the tech company Esri to hear a talk by my friend Eric Liu, on the practical possibilities for civic engagement in our politically … | Continue reading
With Android, Google has already won the mobile war... at least, when it comes to software. Android is the world's most popular mobile operating system and is installed on 64.76 percent of phones and tablets worldwide, twice the size of iOS, according to NetMarketShare.Google's n … | Continue reading
Finding top talent is much easier for our recruiters at F-Secure in Finland, for a pretty obvious reason. “We have a strong brand in Finland,” Johanna Kurki, F-Secure’s Global Cyber Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding Lead, explained in a new report called Milton Insights IV: … | Continue reading
Alchemist Accelerator, known for its specialty in working with enterprise startups, held its 16th demo day at Microsoft’s offices in Mountain View, California. 18 startups pitched ideas ranging from more traditional marketplaces to frontier aerospace technology. Addressing the p … | Continue reading
Today at Disrupt, 21.co CEO and co-founder Balaji Srinivasan outlined his company’s unusual evolution and announced the launch of a new system for kickstarting the site’s user base by incentivizing people with tokens for doing things like signing up, getting verified and perform … | Continue reading
If your wallet is full of crumpled cash and countless credit cards, then you’ve probably felt like throwing these all out one day. However, what are you supposed to use instead? Cryptocurrency? Well, not a bad idea. However, there are so many traps and pitfalls. Fortunately, the … | Continue reading
Papyrus, the world’s first fully comprehensive and scalable decentralized ecosystem for advertisers, publishers, developers and users built on top of Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts, on Tuesday 19th September announced Bounty program. Papyrus aims to develop a disruptive … | Continue reading
The Hedge Token team will revolutionise the way investors, evangelists and speculators view and interact on crypto markets by creating Indices (like the S&P 500), Crypto Traded Indices™ (Crypto Exchange Traded Funds) and a suite of crypto-derivative hedging instruments – accordin … | Continue reading
The Sloclap studio is pushing out an update to Absolver that will make changes to every aspect of the online melee adventure. This patch is available now, and it also includes six masks that tie into other games from publisher Devovler Digital. This comes as the game has already … | Continue reading
ICOs — or initial coin offerings — are emerging as a route for startups to raise money from a wide pool of investors through cryptocurrency networks. Now, one of the biggest and best-known accelerators in the world is mulling a way to use cryptocurrency networks and the blockcha … | Continue reading
The fintech revolution continues apace, and while many startups are hoping that newer and better tech will help them take business away from traditional banks, today a company has received a large round of funding to help those incumbent institutions better compete.10x Future Te … | Continue reading
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 we sat down with three experts from the esports world to explain why you should start paying attention to the industry. To kick it off, Heather Garozzo, a former competitive Counter Strike player and current Director of Fan Marketing for Team … | Continue reading
GUEST: Technology has become a part of every aspect of our lives, even in the places we least expect. The grocery store has a mobile app. The local bank has a chatbot. Strollers in the mall have touchscreens. The checkout counter is DIY. The parking lot has a security robot. Are … | Continue reading
Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one of the most sought-after e-commerce investors in the country, thanks to bets on compa … | Continue reading
The story goes that, during the Battle of Jericho, God directed seven priests to blast notes from their ram's horns as they circled the city, and the sound from those horns wobbled the walls of Jericho until they crumbled. This, almost certainly, did not happen. But sound has lon … | Continue reading
In a fairly epic new Vanity Fair profile, the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intelligence entity that functions independently from the nation’s spy agencies. Read More | Continue reading
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GUEST: There are 1,110 cryptocurrencies registered on Coinmarketcap.com; nine of them have a market cap of above $1 billion, and 377 have a market cap of above $1 million. This naturally begs questions like “Does the world need all these cryptocurrencies?”, “Will the one with the … | Continue reading