A syndicated loan exchange trial utilizing blockchain being undertaken by a group of banks alongside startups R3 and Symbiont is moving ahead.Source | Continue reading
If you're doing it right, you probably have a large list of A/B testing ideas in your pipeline. Some good ones (data-backed or result of a careful analysis), some mediocre ideas, some that you don’t know how to evaluate. We can’t test everything at once, and we all have a limited … | Continue reading
If you thought Transformers could only exist in a world as miraculous as one where Megan Fox would fall for a guy like Shia LaBeouf, think again.Letrons, a Turkish startup, put together an awesome video showing off their even more awesome actual Transformer. SEE ALSO: One man's d … | Continue reading
Welcome to episode 21 of VB Engage, or, as we like to say — VB Engage 021 — because we are going to have hundreds of these things. So you’re just going to have to deal with it. In this episode, we talk to the cofounder of Hipmunk, Adam Goldstein, just days before the company’s [… … | Continue reading
Remember ThingMaker? Mattel’s $300 3D printer that would let kids print out their own toys? Its ship date – which was supposed to be this month – just got pushed back another year, according to a report from Engadget. The toy maker says it needs the extra time to “enhance the dig … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: SuperSuit wants to modernize the old game of laser tag with a wearable harness that you can use to play shooting games outdoors. The startup is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign today to raise money for its launch. The game is another way to get kids away fr … | Continue reading
Kleiner Nachklapp zur Photokina: Die chinesische Firma Venus Optics hat ein Makro-Objektiv mit einem bemerkenswerten Formfaktor vorgestellt: Das Modell Laowa 24mm f/14 Relay 2x Macro kommt im extrem gestreckten Design, sprich: einem absurd lang anmutenden... | Continue reading
Beyond development hell. Michel Ancel, creator of the Rayman franchise over at publisher Ubisoft, posted a picture today on his Instagram that looks like concept art for a Beyond Good & Evil game, as spotted on NeoGaf. Beyond Good & Evil was a cult favorite action-adventure game … | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Miami moves on from Bosh | Wall, Beal downplay rift | Spurs missing their ‘In-Tim-idator’ | Losing Middleton stymies Bucks No. 1: Miami moves on from Bosh — Pat Riley, Miami Heat president, went so far as to mention Magic Johnson‘s stunning HIV diagnosis. That … | Continue reading
It was only a matter of time before the same forces that brought competition to the taxi industry turned their attention to the bus business. And now, what Uber and Lyft have done for ride-sharing inside cities and towns across America, startups like Skedaddle want to do for ride … | Continue reading
Amazon has picked up three of its new pilots to series. The Tick, I Love Dick, and Jean-Claude Van Johnson will all get a first season on Amazon Prime Video, Deadline reports. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Samsung has acquired an exclusive license for ORNL's superhydrophobic film technology, which forces water to bounce off the display. | Continue reading
When my boss, Drew Neisser, asked me to review his book he requested I pay specific attention to my position as a young marketer fresh out of university. For me, The CMOs Periodic Table was...read moreThe post Book Review: ‘The CMO’s Periodic Table’ Reveals the True Elements of M … | Continue reading
Drew Neisser's marketing book "The CMO’s Periodic Table" is a gold mine of information and inspiration for both young marketers and seasoned execs. | Continue reading
There's a certain attraction to time travel stories. Sometimes, they're about comparing the present to the past, particularly by sticking a fish out of their water. Other times, they're used as a way to think about the future and the promise it holds. Most of them really come dow … | Continue reading
Throughout high school and college, I worked in bakeries and cafes. When I moved to the city, I was like, There's just no way I'm going to be able survive doing this kind of work, so I started applying for customer service positions. I applied at this new online delivery company … | Continue reading
If you’re worried about oral health problems, you may need a Mint. Not the chewable kind, but a new gadget from Breathometer that senses your breath and tells you if you are at risk for any oral diseases. Breathometer’s Mint is a small plastic device that you breathe into. It syn … | Continue reading
Mac owners, here’s an effective way to give your computer an upgrade. Grab the Award-Winning Mac Bundle, which features 13 highly-rated apps designed for Mac. For a limited time, you can pay what you want, courtesy of TNW Deals. You’ll get access to a collection of powerful apps … | Continue reading
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called on HP to restore customer’s ability to use third-party ink cartridges in its Office Jet printers. It is also urging consumers to sign a petition, which as of this posts’s publication, has nearly 7,500 signatures. In an open letter to … | Continue reading
Our version of the good, the bad, and the ugly...infographic edition! What makes good infographics? Bad infographics? And ugly infographics to avoid... | Continue reading
Bot Metrics, an San Francisco-based company that specializes in — you got it.. — metrics and analyze of chat bots has landed funding to help developers and early bot enthusiasts get a better understanding of their services and users. Read More | Continue reading
Social Media - Instagram Stories or Snapchat? Marketers now have another option for a social platform for limited-time photos and videos. So, which one will work best for your marketing? | Continue reading
Search Engine Marketing - Marketers need to focus on some of the potentially radical changes in SEO and social media that lurk in our near future. | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - If you develop a new offering, will customers buy it? That's the perennial challenge for today's companies, and it's increasing as pressures to innovate first and fast intensify. | Continue reading
Digital transformation has officially become a ubiquitous term that describes any company’s investment in digital infrastructure regardless of ultimate vision and intention. But, unless digital transformation takes a technology-second and a customer/employee first approach, inves … | Continue reading
The Galaxy On8 will go on sale in India starting October 2, exclusively on Flipkart as their annual Big Billion Day sales celebrations. | Continue reading
The Financial Conduct Authority, citing an investigation by the City of London Police, has issued an official warning, urging users to be wary of trading with the altcoin, OneCoin. In an official warning published yesterday, the Financial Conduct Authority in London has sought to … | Continue reading
Auf der Webseite Venture Beat wurde ein Presse-Render des demnächst erscheinenden Google Pixel veröffentlicht. Das Pixel wird neben einem Pixel XL erscheinen und soll die bisherige Reihe Nexus ersetzen. Unter anderem soll das Android-Smartphone... | Continue reading
The smart home has come a long way in the two-plus years since the original Wink Hub was launched as a spinoff of New York-based hardware crowdsourcer, Quirky. Among other things, a number of major players like Amazon, Google and Apple have stepped up their attempts to provide a … | Continue reading
Are you redesigning your new website? Don’t forget to redirect your pages? Find out how to properly set up 301 redirects and make search engines happy. | Continue reading
Horizon, a $499 combination dash / action camera from a startup called Waylens, is a decidedly niche product. People who want a high-quality mobile camera will probably be better off with something that has an ecosystem behind it, like a GoPro or a Sony Action Cam, for example. B … | Continue reading
Say goodbye to the annoyance of searching for outlets to charge your devices. The Avantree PowerHouse 4-Port Fast USB Charging Station lets you power up to four devices at once in record time — and without taking up much space. For a limited time, you can pick up this handy devic … | Continue reading
Pretty soon, the moment of truth will arrive for all of us as technology reveals everything about our bodies. Australian startup mPort is taking a step in that direction with the announcement that the health club chain LA Fitness will use its 3D body measurement scanners at its g … | Continue reading
Google has officially joined the 18+ club as today the tech giant is celebrating 18 years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin initially founded the company back on September 27, 1998. Still, it seems the internet titan isn’t entirely sure about the exact date it was formed. That’s r … | Continue reading
A music industry veteran and the CEO of Translation, Steve Stoute, is joining the board of directors of Genius, which provides song lyrics and meanings, while also being an online knowledge project. Genius’ current board of directors includes Stoute, co-founders Tom Lehman and Il … | Continue reading
Elite Dangerous has nerfed the heat weapons introduced in the game's latest expansion after players got together to show developer Frontier they were too powerful.It wasn't long after heat weapons were introduced with the Engineers expansion back in May that players complained th … | Continue reading
Voice searches are now part of our daily internet habits: Google Now, Siri, Alexa and Cortana are engaged in a four-way battle for the hearts and voices of customers everywhere, and at some point you have to wonder – how is this going to affect my business? | Continue reading
Do you know that your network can also help to enhance the visibility of your blog? Check out the different and personally implemented excellent ways to promote the blog through networking. | Continue reading
Amazon continues to roll-out its free same-day delivery offering for Prime subscribers, adding Toronto and Vancouver to the list of cities where it’s available. The free same-day option applies to items labeled as eligible via the ‘Prime FREE Same-Day’ tag located next to the pri … | Continue reading
While there are many ways to optimize the website, there are few ideal tips that can go a long way in enhancing the website’s UX. | Continue reading
In this article, we'll describe an experiment we ran during the Summer : we used Repost, our content distribution tool, to automate the social distribution | Continue reading
Chinese phonemaker Xiaomi has unveiled its new Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus handsets, successors to this year's Mi 5. The devices offer mostly expected updates, including an improved camera and faster processor, but there is one particularly interesting touch — a new ultrasonic fingerpri … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is giving a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress today, with an hour-long talk titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species.” The talk kicks off at 2:30 PM ET, and we’ll be covering it to bring you all the details of Musk’s plans to get humans to … | Continue reading
Othman Laraki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened to contain data on his genome being sequenced — and Laraki wanted to take a look at the data. Tha … | Continue reading
In London fand kürzlich der Prudential Ride statt. Ein Fahrradrennen, aber auch Festival rund ums Thema Fahrrad. Der Reifenhersteller Continental hat sich dazu etwas Spezielles überlegt. Statt auf Höchstgeschwindigkeiten zu setzen, wurde... | Continue reading
Spin Transfer Technologies (STT) is announcing today it has developed a new kind of magnetic memory chip to take on the mainstay memory chips that dominate the multibillion-dollar industry today. Fremont, Calif.-based STT has created magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) c … | Continue reading
Connecting people to brain activity and eye tracking machines to determine how they react to stimulus is an interesting way to determine how people feel about certain topics. At AdWeek New York today, MediaBrix — an in-app mobile video advertising platform for brands — announced … | Continue reading
Creating compelling content can be challenging, especially keeping it original and interesting. Consider these elements to keep 'em coming back for more. | Continue reading