Over 80% of consumers worldwide said they have stopped doing business with a company following a bad customer experience, but there are a number of ways to avoid such problems. Among the top two are more options for online customer help, and faster service. | Continue reading
Mobile advertising and programmatic trading are advancing hand in hand across Western Europe’s main markets. This trend is especially clear in Germany, where programmatic outlays will make up 50% of all mobile display ad spending in 2016. | Continue reading
As video advertising continues to grow across the board, marketers and agencies are increasingly focusing on social venues such as Facebook, Snapchat and Periscope—the last of which launched a video ad platform in Q2 2016. | Continue reading
Thanks in part to the strong growth of retail mcommerce, eMarketer expects holiday season retail ecommerce sales to grow faster in 2016 than they have since 2011, and to account for more than 10% of all holiday season retail sales in the US for the first time ever. | Continue reading
At Monday's presidential debate, Hillary Clinton defends herself against Donald Trump's criticism that she doesn't have the stamina for the job, and says, "This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs." Photo: Getty | Continue reading
We know it can be hard to find the one that meets your needs. People definitely like options, and Roku has just come up with 5 of them. | Continue reading
Bitcoin price looks ready to resume its climb as the ascending channel support is still holding.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/27/2016 – Bullish Momentum Returning? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Getting tons of shares as a “normal” person requires a three-step process: building a foundation of strong relationships, writing/producing amazing content, and promoting it effectively. Here's how you do it. | Continue reading
The following is an unedited transcript of Donald Trump talking about "the cyber" at the first 2016 presidential debate. Try to comprehend it at your own risk. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Treasure hunters and explorers David Lang and Eric Stackpole are creating what they call the world's first low-cost underwater drone.Back in 2012, Eric told David about gold lost inside an underwater cave in California that was just begging to be found. So, naturally, the two set … | Continue reading
What a terrible night to have an anniversary. Castlevania, the series of gothic-themed action games, is now 30 years old. The original Castlevania came out for the Nintendo Entertainment System (more specifically, the Japanese Famicom Disk System) on September 26, 1986. The 2D si … | Continue reading
Was Russia really behind the DNC hack, or was it the work of a freelance teenage hacker confined to his bed by morbid obesity? Republican nominee Donald Trump raised the question at tonight's presidential debate, as the candidates approached the topic of cybersecurity.After Secre … | Continue reading
Ridiculous name aside, the Pixi 4 Plus Power has one big trick up its sleeve: a 5000 mAh battery. | Continue reading
In the opening moments of the presidential debate, some of the first flashpoints came over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s push for clean energy and clean technology in her economic development plan. While both presidential challengers, Secretary Clinton and Donald Tr … | Continue reading
Donald Trump thinks that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive." That’s what it says in an easily discoverable November 2012 tweet, which remains posted in his feed. You might think otherwise, given a s … | Continue reading
Creating development silos, is a practice I have seen in many different teams. What I’m talking about is having developers specialize in parts of the domain, i.e. one developer handles all the code related to invoicing, another one does everything around order management, etc. It … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is one online Bitcoin Casino far different from what you are used to finding. Dragon’s Tale is a Role-play Gambling adventure where the players roam around in a virtual world filled with fantastic islands exploring, gambling and completing quests. In this amazing vi … | Continue reading
Did you hear? Wireless audio is the future — at least to Apple. And to that end, Sonos, perhaps the best wireless speakers available, are now available in the Apple Store alongside speakers from B&O, Logitech, and Apple’s Beats. Apple already sells several wireless speakers but t … | Continue reading
Oculus seed investor Greg Castle was there for the birth of the company that rapidly accelerated virtual reality’s sudden resurgence. Now, he’s announcing an investment fund to focus on companies that can offer improvements in VR, AR, self-directed vehicles and robotics, as well … | Continue reading
I have used my free time this summer revisiting a childhood passion: fishing. My father loved to fish. He would take me to Central Park’s Ramble and Lake with a hook and lure. I would inevitably catch something very small, put it in a cup and hope it would survive overnight to sh … | Continue reading
A video purporting to reveal the secret headphone jack in the iPhone 7 has over 10 million views on YouTube. To get to the hidden headphone jack, according to the video, you’ll need to drill into the bottom of the phone while placing it snugly into a vice. Obviously, this is wher … | Continue reading
In an exciting bit of pre-debate frisson, journalists covering the presidential debate at Hofstra University are now Tweet they have to pay $200 for Wi-Fi access on site and, more importantly, the ones who have paid now have no Internet at all. Aaaaaaaaand the $200 Wi-Fi Hofstra … | Continue reading
Joshua Vergara, Joe Hindy and David Imel get to know each other, talk ZTE Axon 7, iPhone 7 and Google Allo - enjoy AA Podcast 081! | Continue reading
My first cell phone was a Sanyo. But only because I couldn’t afford a Motorola. I wanted a StarTAC. All the cool kids had a StarTAC. My Sanyo said loud and clear I was not a cool kid. Sometime later, I spent around $650 to be one of the first people to get the RAZR. People didn’t … | Continue reading
HemaApp was developed by scientists to detect anemia, a common condition that often goes undiagnosed. Using the camera and flash to estimate hemoglobin concentrations, it is highly preferable to drawing blood. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Medical, Techonology, Science A … | Continue reading
Producer Allen Bain recently launched a new production company called Bainframe, which he set up to focus on adapting some of science fiction’s classic novels. Earlier today, news broke on Deadline that the company had optioned one of the best hard science-fiction novels of the p … | Continue reading
The upcoming RTS Cavalry Charge does away with fancy visuals, base building, and economy systems and, instead, focuses on battle formations and tactics. Each unit has its own AI, and you get to put all those units together in a variety of formations. Then, you throw your troops a … | Continue reading
We've stumbled across what looks like an official image of the Google Pixel, revealing a stripped-down and plain-seeming device. | Continue reading
Everybody loves robots, and everybody loves platformers. Right? Well, at least I do, and when you combine both robots and platformers together, it gets me pretty excited. That's the case with Maxim the Robot, an upcoming mobile platformer from FrozenBots Studio. Maxim the Robot f … | Continue reading
GUEST: The retail industry is inundated with buzzwords that describe the best way to engage with consumers — such as omnichannel marketing, customer journey, and a 360-degree view — to provide a more personalized and optimized experience. All of these buzzwords point to a common … | Continue reading
Tonight’s presidential debate is the first featuring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Both will be dodging issues and trading barbs while putting on a real master class in how to shift the narrative to, well, whatever the hell they want. I’m not sure who will win, but you can be … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
Beth Hayden discusses the potential danger of conversational language in your sales copy. Find out why you should cut slang and nonsense words. | Continue reading
Hollywood has found a new game studio to team up with. Firewatch developer Campo Santo is working with film production company Good Universe on adapting the adventure game into a movie. That is the first project Good Universe and Campo Santo will work on together, according to Th … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Labor is suing Palantir Technologies, the software and data analysis company contracted by the federal government, for alleged racial discrimination against Asian people in its hiring and selection processes. The aim of the lawsuit is to put an end to Palan … | Continue reading
As the advertising technology world comes together in New York for AdWeek, and in the wake of #GamerGate and Twitter’s seemingly permanent problem with online harassment, an advertising study reinforces the scope of the problem. A new study on “femvertising” released today — disc … | Continue reading
This story originally published during the Nintendo 64’s 20th anniversary of its Japanese launch. September 26, 1996 was when it came out in the U.S., so we’re highlighting this piece to help celebrate. Happy birthday, Nintendo 64! Nintendo’s third home console released in Japan … | Continue reading
DarkSky, the popular iPhone and Android weather app with dazzling graphics and hyper-specific forecasts, has made a transition onto your desktop. The company launched DarkSky.net earlier this month in an effort to bring its design philosophy and forecasting prowess to a broader a … | Continue reading
More than 45,000 developers are now using the Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday, making it one of the most popular ways to create a bot thus far. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows bots and machine learning to be made not only for Skype but also for … | Continue reading
Word initially leaked that Lenovo was laying off several hundred Motorola employees, but the official response reveals the number is greater. | Continue reading
We're just one week away from the unveiling of Google's newest smartphones and VentureBeat has got its hands on a clear image of one of the gadgets. Supposedly called the Pixel, the device is said to replace Google's Nexus line with two different sized devices and fresh brand nam … | Continue reading
The Philadelphia 76ers became the first American professional sports franchise to own an esports team with the purchase of pro gaming outfits Dignitas and Apex. If this isn’t proof positive that online pro gaming is big business, I don’t know what is. Read More | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood, Hollywood and math. Yes, math, or if you prefer, maths. Helping students with basic arithmetic, as well solving basic quadratic and cubic equations in one variable with movie star flair is the aim of a bot making its debut on this week’s top bot list. Here a … | Continue reading
Do you have bad links weighing your site down from ranking in Google? Get rid of them fast. Chapter 5. Guide to link building. | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note7 nightmare just won't end.After an official recall of its Note7 phone with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the banning of the faulty devices on flights by the Federal Aviation Administration, Samsung finally started shipping loads and … | Continue reading
Late last year, Lenovo announced some massive layoffs following a quarter of bad financial news. The company let 3,200 employees go, as decline in PC demand, increased smartphone competition and currency fluctuations apparently created something of a perfect storm. The company is … | Continue reading
Donald Trump is taking one final jab at Hillary Clinton before tonight's debate, via Snapchat.On Monday, the Republican candidate's campaign launched a nationwide custom Snapchat filter that refers to his opponent as "Crooked Hillary." SEE ALSO: Insult after insult: All of Trump' … | Continue reading
It’s not exactly a secret anymore that Google will be announcing a slew of new gadgets next week at its hardware event on October 4. VentureBeat can confirm that the world will indeed be introduced to a Google Pixel (pictured above) and a Google Pixel XL. Rumors that Google is la … | Continue reading