It might not all be free snacks and massages at Google headquarters.A lawsuit filed by an anonymous product manager Tuesday alleges the Silicon Valley search company is violating California labor laws with its stringent confidentiality policies that include a "spying program," ac … | Continue reading
eMarketer’s scan of the key developments of the day, plus data to make sense of it all. Today’s topics: EU, Facebook beef; Uber’s losses; Thailand hackers strike again; Amazon sells out of personal assistants; and more. | Continue reading
Cyber security firm White Ops uncovered what it claimed is the largest digital ad fraud ever, a complex scheme coordinated by Russian hackers that faked video ad views on publishers including ESPN.com, CNN.com, Yahoo.com and thousands of other domains. | Continue reading
This week Indian media picked up on a copyright complaint filed by PayPal against homegrown digital payment service Paytm based on logo similarities. PayPal's move may be too late to do much to stop Paytm's growth, which has benefitted both from demonetization and the ben … | Continue reading
It looks like retailers are chasing themselves down the rabbit hole in the race to entice consumers. More than half of this year's holiday online orders to date were made with some sort of promotion thrown in. | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence had a breakthrough year in 2016, not only with machine learning, but with public awareness as well. And most marketers believe consumers are ready for the technology. | Continue reading
Smartphones are now central to the lives of most UK residents. More consumers are buying via mobile, interacting with outdoor ads via smartphones, asking digital assistants such as Siri for advice, and receiving location-based ads or personalized mails on their handheld devices. | Continue reading
While external factors like ad blocking continue to vex publishers throughout Europe, recent polling found the leading challenges publishers in Germany faced in regard to content monetization in the mobile realm centered on their own creativity. | Continue reading
France is set to become the first country to trial regular mail deliveries via drone by its national postal service. The initial phase will involve items sent to tech companies, not residential customers, along a short route in Provence. | Continue reading
If you think Amazon is America's favorite mall, the data backs you up. Eight in 10 US Amazon shoppers purchase something from the ecommerce giant at least once a month. | Continue reading
The past year has been a big one for social media marketing, thanks to the continued growth of influencers’ presence on social channels and the debut of new features such as Facebook Live. As marketers find their stride with these tools, 2017 will likely be a big year as we … | Continue reading
The U.S. Navy deploys a few drone boats, First Round’s annual holiday video gets released, 7-Eleven and Flirtey get us closer to drone delivery and cyclists don’t like Uber’s self-driving cars. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Bitcoin price seems to be set for one more push higher before the end of the year as it successfully took out the $800 barrier.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 12/21/2016 – $800 Level Breached, Where to Next? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
By being an early adopter of these marketing trends now, you’ll be one step ahead of your competitors who are likely still struggling with the changes that happened in 2016. | Continue reading
After months of hinting, Blizzard finally revealed which member of Overwatch’s colorful cast of characters counts themselves a member of the LGBTQ community. The much-anticipated reveal came in a seasonal digital comic centered around Tracer, the spritely Londoner with gravity-de … | Continue reading
Are your wireless Apple AirPods already falling out of your ears? Are you trying to commit to Apple's glorious proprietary future, but keep having to fork out for single earbuds to hear the other half of your music? You could go back to the horrible drudgery of wired headphones, … | Continue reading
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GUEST: Picture the commute of the future: You live in Palo Alto, Calif., but work 350 miles away in Los Angeles. After your morning latte, you click on a smartphone app to summon your digital chauffeur. An autonomous car shows up at your front door three minutes later to drive yo … | Continue reading
The BLU Life Max is the latest unlocked Android smartphone from the Florida-based company. It's now on sale at Amazon for $118.87. | Continue reading
BMW has already staked its claim in the self-driving production timeline, with plans to release an autonomous electric car by 2021. To help meet that goal, the carmaker is opening a dedicated facility aimed at developing connected and automated driving tech in Unterschleissheim, … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – BlackBerry, helped by its higher-margin software business, reported better-than-expected adjusted earnings and raised its full-year growth forecast on Tuesday, though concerns about overall revenue growth reversed early share gains. BlackBerry Chief Executive John Che … | Continue reading
In light of the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, Turkey further tightened its already restrictive limits on certain forms of Internet use. The most recent censorship thrust followed the revelation that the state now blocks Tor within its borders. Turkey appears … | Continue reading
Apple’s renewed commitment to refurbished mobile products now extends to its smartwatch line. Starting today, you can buy discounted Apple Watch devices straight from the company’s website. The cheapest model, a refurbished Apple Watch Series 1 in a 38mm rose gold aluminum case, … | Continue reading
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hitting theaters last week, we have that galaxy far, far away on our brains, and that led us to suss out the top 10 best games from that franchise during our weekly GamesBeat Decides podcast on Monday. You can see how we came to our conclusion by … | Continue reading
T-Mobile is now rolling out an update for its version of Google's Nexus 9 tablet that upgrades the OS to Android 7.1.1 Nougat. | Continue reading
The White House has issued a sequel to its October report on how the U.S. should approach artificial intelligence and its effects on various groups and institutions. Today’s report focuses on the potential economic effects of AI, and while it’s far from a dark outlook, it does wa … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices have broken past $800 for the first time since February 2014, setting a fresh 34-month high.Source | Continue reading
President Barack Obama just made millions of acres of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans off limits to oil and gas drilling. It’s a move that will protect critical habitats for marine life. And it will be challenging for the next administration to undo. It will be challenging for the … | Continue reading
Agency Drp has recruited Mark Nicholls to the role of creative director, with a remit covering live events and exhibitions. | Continue reading
Uber is going to meet up with California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and the state’s Attorney General’s office on Wednesday afternoon, as first reported by San Francisco Business Times and confirmed by TechCrunch via the DMV. The meeting’s specific purpose wasn’t shared, but i … | Continue reading
GUEST: Much as they are today, people were enthralled by artificial intelligence in 1973 — the year Michael Crichton released the film Westworld. The film became MGM’s biggest box office hit of the year, yet launched the same year as the first AI winter: a massive event of deplet … | Continue reading
Brianna Wu, a game developer who stood up for women facing harassment in the game industry, has decided to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. She hasn’t officially announced she will run yet, but she posted the picture below on her Facebook page earlier today. And she con … | Continue reading
While we might not spot Santa on his sleigh this year, we'll know exactly where he is at any given moment.This Christmas Eve, starry-eyed kids can follow Kris Kringle's every stop by asking Amazon's Alexa to find him. SEE ALSO: This $30,000 ugly Christmas sweater is for fancy peo … | Continue reading
A Google product manager has filed a lawsuit against the company for its confidentiality policies on the grounds they violate California labor laws, according to a report from The Information. The suit, filed today in California Superior Court in San Francisco, alleges that Googl … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is a phrase on everyone’s lips, but when you think about it, it’s rather hard to define, isn’t it? Turns out people have been trying for a long time, and it has as much to do with how we define thinking as what a computer can actually do. Read More | Continue reading
The Google Store is offering customers in the US free expedited shipping for orders that are made before December 21 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. | Continue reading
Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies. While the report doesn’t explicitly rule out encryption legislation, it lands firmly on the side of encryption policy critics, argu … | Continue reading
Apple today began selling certified refurbished Apple Watch wearable devices through its website. Series 1 and 2 models are available, although the online store does not currently have any of the original 2015 Apple Watch models in stock. (Hat tip to MacRumors for reporting the n … | Continue reading
Upon Salvador Dali's death in 1989, the world was reminded of his unique ability to render "the unreal world with such extreme realism that its truth and validity could no longer be questioned."The art critic responsible for that description, the late James Thrall Soby, could not … | Continue reading
Tribune Media Company announced today that it has agreed to sell Gracenote (which provides metadata around TV, music and other media) to Nielsen. Gracenote says it has provides the data 12 million movie and TV listings and more than 200 million music tracks. It was first acquired … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-JTI-IMI2-2016-10-two-stagePillar: Societal ChallengesPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
At 2 ½ my placeholder image plugin was showing signs of age and side-project neglect. I decided to make it a priority to get Day Player back in working order. In doing so, I would also need to educate myself on the latest in Sketch Plugin development. I didn't know it when I star … | Continue reading
There are more plug-in vehicles available now than there were a decade ago, and the sales of those vehicles is growing. Sales of electric vehicles are up about a third this year over last year, and November 2016 marked 14 consecutive months of record-setting EV sales in the US.An … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s first gaming app for iPhones is megapopular, but it is also annoying some iOS gamers because it ignores the free-to-play business model. Super Mario Run is free to download (review), but it requires a $10 purchase to unlock all of its content, and that has led to score … | Continue reading
Don't let your game ideas go to waste! Even if you're a total programming noob, today you can start building games for as little as $1. | Continue reading
James Slavet says he has been trying to recruit entrepreneur Josh McFarland for eight years. That’s just two years after Slavet joined the early-stage venture firm Greylock Partners as a partner in 2006. Apparently, Slavet’s charm offensive is finally paying off. The firm is anno … | Continue reading
In summer, Symantec, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies, closed its giant acquisition of Blue Coat Systems in August, ushering in a new regime under incoming CEO Greg Clark. He hasn’t wasted much time in disparaging upstarts in the market, either, including the we … | Continue reading
Search, Google’s crown jewel, and humanity’s way of finding the world’s information, has big problems. These problems threaten the internet as we know it; if they’re allowed to continue developing, unchecked, the consequences will be far-reaching and severe. Collectively, these t … | Continue reading