Apple is making the case that Apple Pay has bigger and broader adoption than it’s getting credit for. Jennifer Bailey, who leads Apple Pay, spoke today at the Code Commerce conference in San Fransisco and said that in the span of just two years Apple has managed to move from four … | Continue reading
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Cavaliers starting shooting guard J.R. Smith will miss at least one game -- and probably more -- with a hyperextended left knee. | Continue reading
Apple Music is continuing to pick up subscribers at a strong pace, as the company confirms to Billboard that the streaming service has crossed the milestone of 20 million paying subscribers. Apple said it had 17 million subscribers three months ago, 13 million in April, and 11 mi … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is stuck in consolidation on its short-term time frames but could be poised for a breakout soon.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 12/07/2016 – Short-Term Consolidation Breakout appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
The Google Duo video chat app is rolling out an update to version 5.0, which is supposed to include some major video improvements. | Continue reading
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring ... because they were all staring at their phones tracking Santa's location on Google. SEE ALSO: Expectations vs. reality at the office Christmas partyFor 12 years now, an entire generation o … | Continue reading
Today, HTC hosted a demo day event in San Francisco highlighting 20 of the startups that have made their way through the company’s Vive X virtual reality accelerator program. Vive X is dedicated to accelerating the virtual reality industry as a whole, something that is undoubtedl … | Continue reading
There’s Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, but there’s also Google+. Launched in 2011, Google+ remains as an effective social media platform for brands and businesses alike. Increase your online presence and learn how to maximize this marketing tool below. | Continue reading
Apple just revealed the most downloaded apps of 2016 and the top spot should come as little surprise to those who have been paying attention: Snapchat.As if we needed more proof that Evan Spiegel's app was having its best year ever, Snapchat beat out Facebook, Instagram and Poké … | Continue reading
Apple just updated the App Store to include all of their end of year picks, which you can check out here. The most noteworthy of all the nods is the Game of the Year awards which were split across their three gaming platforms: iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. There's also loads of "Be … | Continue reading
Pandora just offered an early look at its upcoming on-demand streaming service called Pandora Premium, and it looks like it'll be focusing on personalization to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded space.SEE ALSO: The 16 biggest tech stories of 2016Pandora had previous … | Continue reading
Pandora, the online streaming music service, has announced a new subscription plan that will launch in early 2017 to compete with Spotify. | Continue reading
You’re going to have a difficult time doing the running man in VR if you live outside of the United States. Virtuix is canceling Omni preorders for customers who live outside of the U.S., according to a note it sent to backers of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The Omni is … | Continue reading
Ben Martin is the new head of digital content in Western Australia for one of Australia’s largest media companies, Seven West Media. He just completed a Churchill Fellowship that took him around the world, where he visited the newsrooms and operations of The New York Times, The W … | Continue reading
The chat war for business customers just got hotter as Facebook announced today that it has launched a platform for Facebook Workplace, a product with many of the same features as Facebook but for internal company communication. Businesses will now be able to pull into Facebook W … | Continue reading
GUEST: I invest in early-stage VR startups via my fund, Presence Capital, so I may be biased on the topic of pricing these startups. But I’ll try to remain neutral here and act as if I was a founder fundraising for my own startup. I’m all-in on VR and AR and believe these technol … | Continue reading
Professional services firm Deloitte invested in its first blockchain startup today, revealing it is backing SETL.Source | Continue reading
Google has announced File-by-File patching, which could allow for some Android apps to cut their update file sizes by 65 percent on average, or even more. | Continue reading
Google today said that it has started using a new method for delivering app updates through Google Play. The good news is it takes up a lot less data on mobile devices, which can be short on space. The bad news: It’s a complex process that can take longer, especially on older dev … | Continue reading
So-called fake news has real consequences and everyone in the U.S. keeps learning that the hard way. Not just executives at social networks like Facebook, Reddit and Twitter. Or disgruntled and brilliant Weather Channel meteorologists. Driven by misinformation masquerading as new … | Continue reading
Reddit has just completed a major redo of its scoring algorithm aimed at cracking down on bots and vote brigades while also showing just how big the site has gotten. Read More | Continue reading
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has an ambitious plan for a marketplace where customers could order anything from coffee to toilet paper and have it within minutes. The drone-delivery service was slated for a 2017 launch after getting the go-ahead from the FAA to begin testing … | Continue reading
Just over a year after acquiring the scraps of Rdio, Pandora has revealed Premium, its take on an on-demand music streaming service, designed to compete against the likes of Spotify and Apple Music. Just like every other $10-a-month music streaming service, Pandora Premium will o … | Continue reading
Halbrick Studios is probably one of the best mobile game developers with games like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride in its portfolio. Now, it has decided to go a different direction and is currently developing a CCG called Mythic. Halbrick is trying to make Mythic strategically c … | Continue reading
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If you're on Twitter, you may have noticed people tweeting some pretty questionable emoji at Google.It all started after Google announced a new feature Tuesday that allows users to tweet emoji to the @Google handle in exchange for search results.SEE ALSO: Plenty of GIF and emoji … | Continue reading
When you’re doing something new, it’s easy to screw it up. That’s a big deal when that something is surgery because some cuts are irreversible. When you screw up a surgery simulator, however, that’s something you can fix. And Bossa Studios plans to do exactly that. Surgeon Simul … | Continue reading
New leaks hint that the rumored major update for Pokémon Go, which could add 100 new creatures to the AR game, may go live this week. | Continue reading
If you were thinking of getting your kid a little doll or robot that they can talk to — and, critically, that responds — you should probably hold off for a few years. A complaint to the FTC filed by consumer watchdog groups highlights ongoing privacy and security concerns with th … | Continue reading
FIFA Mobile Soccer [Free] is quite popular - for reasons I understand but wish I didn't - and has a pretty big player base. However, not all is rosy in the world of FIFA Mobile Soccer because apparently a number of users is having their guest accounts reset. When you start the ga … | Continue reading
This collection of content strategy tools and resources will help your team efficiently and effectively create or improve your 2017 content strategy. | Continue reading
An algorithmic feed. Live video. A seemingly unquenchable thirst to copy Snapchat. Sound like an app you know? You'd be forgiven for thinking the answer was Facebook, though, it's not. Instagram's the app you're looking for, and it's been steadily moving closer to Facebook (which … | Continue reading
If you’d told someone 20 years ago we’d one day have a man that makes $15 million a year playing video games and making dick jokes, you would have been laughed out of the room. In 2016, this isn’t just a reality, it just doesn’t seem like a stretch anymore. In Forbes second annua … | Continue reading
Reddit is adjusting its voting system to make a post’s score more accurately reflect its popularity, according to a post by founding engineer Christopher Slowe. The company has been removing what Slowe (aka KeyserSosa) calls “outdated, unnecessary” rules that mask post scores, an … | Continue reading
NASA plans to launch a completely new type of Earth science mission, aimed at measuring two important aspects of our planet’s health: greenhouse gases and vegetation. The mission calls for a satellite known as the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory, or GeoCARB, which will pro … | Continue reading
Well, it looks like this week is the Pokemon GO [Free] week. We've already talked about the apparent Starbucks-Pokemon GO promotion, and now Sprint has announced that tomorrow at 8:30AM PST it will hold a joint press conference with Niantic to discuss some news related to the mob … | Continue reading
Der beliebte Streaming-Service SoundCloud krempelt sein Geschäftsmodell um. Bzw.: Legt sich nach Jahren ein Geschäftsmodell zu und hofft, dass möglichst viele Kunden mitziehen.SoundCloud Go heißt das neue Angebot. Im Frühjahr... | Continue reading
It’s hard to believe that a patent hearing would be so popular, but the line to get into Hearing Room A at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Alexandria, Virginia, this morning stretched into a crowd of almost 100 people. The first to arrive, at 5:45AM ET, was … | Continue reading
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program has allowed undocumented immigrants like Jirayut Latthivongskorn to attend medical school for the first time. Now his future is in question, as president-elect Donald Trump has pledged to “immediately terminate” the pro … | Continue reading
The European Central Bank is weighing the use of distributed ledger tech in partnership with Japan’s central bank.Source | Continue reading
Google’s parent company Alphabet has ambitions to open an online marketplace where customers could place orders on food, coffee, and other goods to be delivered by drone, according to The Wall Street Journal. Alphabet’s X division, the “moonshot factory” where the company’s most … | Continue reading
If you’ve already gone through all of the to stick a microphone and speaker on your hybrid smartwatch, you might as well make the most of the thing. Martian’s taking advantage of the opportunity with the addition of Amazon Alexa functionality to its mVoice wearable. Honestly, as … | Continue reading
This portable tripod for your smartphone fits in your wallet and actually looks cool instead of making you seem like... you know... a selfie stick person. | Continue reading
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Just when the Rockets thought the long-running soap opera had ended when they matched Brooklyn’s offer sheet, restricted free agent Donatas Motiejunas did not report for a physical Tuesday and now | Continue reading
All you need to figure out what this upcoming game is all about is the title: Redneck Rush. Yes, this is an endless runner - or endless racer as the developers describe it - that has you racing down procedurally-generated country roads dodging all kinds of obstacles as you try to … | Continue reading
Verizon has ended the Galaxy Beta Program for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, which means no more Nougat beta updates will be released. | Continue reading
Punch Club [$4.99] made quite a splash when it came out partly because of how well it captured a long-gone era (sorry guys, the 80s are ancient history now) while still managing to modernize the tycoon-genre gameplay. We liked it quite a bit in our review, and I personally really … | Continue reading