Need help getting past the finish line and closing more deals? Check out these 8 sales closing techniques and pick your favorite one. | Continue reading
This is the first step to take to become a writer. You’ll also strengthen skills that pair well with content marketing. | Continue reading
That fitness tracker you got for Christmas promises to make you healthier — but it doesn’t promise weight loss. And now it looks like there’s a good reason why: people in a weight-loss study who used fitness trackers dropped about five pounds less than those who didn’t, according … | Continue reading
Recently we had the unique opportunity to do something few people in the world have ever done – go for a ride on a “robot bus.” A self-driving bus has taken to the open road in Helsinki as a test project, and it’s not far from the F-Secure headquarters. Harri Santamala of Metropo … | Continue reading
This post provides an overview of four sessions attended by members of the PR 20/20 team and key lessons learned. | Continue reading
Project AirGig seeks to beam wireless signals near the path of power lines, making your Internet access synonymous to electricity, assuming the project goes through. | Continue reading
Netflix is looking to shift its content mix even further towards original TV and movies, with a goal of achieving a 50 percent mix between its own programming and stuff licensed for its use by outside studios. The 50-50 target was revealed by Netflix CFO David Wells at the Goldma … | Continue reading
Supercell made a rare move today as it invested $7.8 million in Finnish game developer Frogmind, maker of the Badland series. It’s a small amount of cash, but Helsinki-based Supercell has plenty of money to put to work, if it wishes. Supercell has two of the hottest games on Eart … | Continue reading
Congressional Republicans have recently taken a new hostage in their never-ending stream of threats to shut down the government. This time, their target is the transfer of control of usually unseen clerical functions that keep the internet working. Somehow this arcane transition … | Continue reading
I don’t often replay games. Unlike movies or episodes of TV, games tend to be incredibly long, often stretching across dozens of hours. With new games available weekly, I rarely make time to give an “old” game a second try. I will, however, make an exception if a game has one par … | Continue reading
Mozilla’s Firefox 49 is now available to fans of the open source browser, introducing better tab management and offline page viewing. | Continue reading
Protests erupted on the streets of Charlotte, N.C. late Tuesday after a 43-year-old black male was shot and killed by police officers. | Continue reading
YouTuber CrowbCat hat ein hochgradig amüsantes Glitch-Filmchen aus absurden Bugs der Beta-Version des kommenden Ego-Shooters Battlefield 1 zusammengeschnitten, das den Ersten Weltkrieg zwar nicht weniger brutal aber deutlich surrealer erscheinen... | Continue reading
September 21, 2016, Delhi, India – Coinsecure, the Indian Bitcoin company announces a new partnership with OKLink to offer blockchain technology powered remittance services in India. The newly launched OKLink is part of OKCoin’s initiative to provide digital assets and blockchain … | Continue reading
Remember all those beautiful photos taken on the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus that Apple showed during its September keynote? Turns out, the company has many more photos and videos it uses for showcase purposes in Apple Stores — and now you can download them all. One clever Red … | Continue reading
The relation between Bitcoin and online dating has always seemed a bit off to people. Butt hat isn’t keeping companies from trying to explore the cryptocurrency payment option. HePays is a new social platform which seems to target singles who want to go out on a date. They also a … | Continue reading
Gemini Trading, the bitcoin and ethereum exchange founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is set to host its first bitcoin auction.Source | Continue reading
Billy Parisi, Influencer and Content Creator, joins the Influence Pros Podcast to discuss platform integration, direct relationships with brands, and the importance of giving your posts time. | Continue reading
Gametime is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding for its business of making it easy for sports fans to buy last-minute sports event tickets. The funding shows that the category of the “economy of now” or the “moments economy” is still hot. Investors include Evolution M … | Continue reading
Last week, Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor pissed off thousands of local porn lovers when it blocked the entire country from accessing two of the world’s biggest adult websites, Pornhub and YouPorn. Rooted in two separate court rulings, the state-owned agency blacklisted the … | Continue reading
Gametime has raised $20 million in venture funding for an app that allows people to find and buy tickets to a nearby concert or sporting event at the last minute, and even up to a half-hour after a game begins.Evolution Media Partners led Gametime’s Series B round, joined by GV, … | Continue reading
T-Mobile claims Verizon has lost its coverage advantage, and that the company now offers the fastest and broadest 4G LTE network in the US. | Continue reading
Can Google bring peace to the web with machine learning? Jigsaw, a subsidiary of parent company Alphabet is certainly trying, building open source AI tools designed to filter out abusive language. A new feature from Wired describes how the software has been trained on some 17 mil … | Continue reading
Remember the story about the self-lacing Nike shoes? It all started in 1989, when Marty McFly got his hands on some sneakers from the future. They were first auctioned off as replicas without self-lacing functionality in 2011. Then Michael J. Fox got the first pair, and they soun … | Continue reading
A new survey has found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of asset managers expect to using blockchain technology within the next five years. Source | Continue reading
Pay-per-mile car insurance service Metromile revealed that it has raised a whopping $191.5 million over a number of rounds dating back to 2014. The San Francisco-based startup says it closed a hitherto unannounced $38.4 million Series C round back in late 2014 and closed a $103.1 … | Continue reading
Charging backpacks are increasingly common, and that tells you a lot about how we’re always wired and on the run. TYLT is introducing its Energi Pro Power Backback that it bills as the world’s fastest multi-device charging backpack. It is also launching an Indiegogo campaign to f … | Continue reading
It’s a sales world these days. CRM rules everything around me (and my colleagues) seemingly every day; with a new financing, launch, or app that’s designed to make the life of the busy sales executive a little bit more convenient. And the latest tool to step into the breach sits … | Continue reading
The automotive industry is in flux with the rise of self-driving and electric cars, and the concept of car ownership altogether being thrown into question. With this, the car insurance industry is changing, too, and now, an on-demand car insurance startup has raised a large round … | Continue reading
Troops, a bot that lets you speak with your Salesforce data announced the end of a $7 million, announced the end of its funding round today, and that the bot is now available to the public. Until today, Troops had been a private beta testing with about 350 companies. Troops gives … | Continue reading
Natural materials like wood, leather, and the face of George Clooney age gracefully. They weather, whereas artificial materials like plastic tend to deteriorate. Plastic is an interesting word in the English language. Strictly speaking, it describes a synthetic material. Informal … | Continue reading
Sachen gibt's: LuDela soll die erste smart Kerze überhaupt darstellen und angesichts der Feature-Fortschritte gegenüber der simplen USB-Kerze hat diese Behauptung sogar eine gewisse Berechtigung. Trotzdem ist es natürlich absurd, die... | Continue reading
We pit the latest offerings from Apple and Samsung against each other, in this quick look at the Apple iPhone 7 / 7 Plus vs Samsung Galaxy Note 7. | Continue reading
We're hiring for our new office. We're about to open our first office in Portugal. We're hiring for roles in engineering, design, project management, sales and event management. You'll find more on our job's board.The post We’re hiring in Portugal appeared first on Web Summit Blo … | Continue reading
DailyRounds, a service for doctors that combines elements of a social network and a medical journal, has landed undisclosed funding led by venture capital giant Accel. Beenos, Powerhouse Ventures and Aksua Holdings are participated in the deal, which follows a $500,000 seed round … | Continue reading
Organizations outsource projects to offshore locations where they can have access to world-class professionals, at a reduced price and save time. Offshore outsourcing involves hiring any external provider or organization for a specific task or business activities. As per Duke Uni … | Continue reading
What's driving the growth of so many B2B events? NYU economist Dan Altman told event producers convened at last week's CEIR Predict ... | Continue reading
Does a stellar SAT score and a perfect GPA mean that you’re the right candidate for the job? Not necessarily, according to Rebecca Kantar, founder of Imbellus. She believes her team has a new method for assessing the characteristics that will help you succeed in business. And Upf … | Continue reading
The new insurance company, Lemonade, is finally able to take the covers off of its radical (and pretty freaking cool) insurance plans. The company has received its initial license in New York as the first step in its plan to roll out nationwide. Its launch is a challenge to tradi … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Supercell has acquired a 51 percent stake in fellow Finnish mobile game developer Frogmind, the creator of the Badland series of mobile games. Supercell paid 7 million euros, or $7.8 million, for its stake. Frogmind cofounder Johannes Vuorinen described the deal as a l … | Continue reading
Whether you are a small business, start-up or a solopreneur – social media can bring you followers and leads but you need a social media marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Google has integrated its cutting edge search technology into Google Drive, so finding specific documents should be easier and faster than ever before. | Continue reading
Audi plant angeblich unter dem Namen Audi Metro ein batteriebetriebenes City-SUV, das sich vom Design her am eingestellten Audi A2 orientiert. Das neue Elektrovehikel soll 2019 zu einem Einsteigerpreis von nur 25.000 Euro auf den Markt kommen, berichtet... | Continue reading
The Lenovo Yoga Book sees the best of both worlds collide, as this 2-in-1 tablet starts shipping on October 17, 2016. | Continue reading
D.light, a for-profit social enterprise that sells solar-powered products, has raised $22.5 million in funding to push its wares into more off-grid communities around the world. Founded in 2006, D.light manufactures and distributes a range of solar lighting products, including th … | Continue reading
Fourteen years is a long time to be a startup, but long-time travel social network WAYN has finally cashed in its chips and sold to (almost equally old) online travel pioneer Lastminute.com Group. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, so take that to mean what you wil … | Continue reading
It is always positive to see blockchain companies being labeled as a “top fintech company”. A new list of 50 top fintech businesses, released by KPMG, mentions OnChain. This particular company offers enterprise-grade multisignature Bitcoin wallet API services. An innovative solut … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: The common customer relationship manager, or CRM, has been the bane of most salespeople’s lives since its inception. And traditional CRM solutions are increasingly out of place in today’s mobile, social environment. Today, Nimble is launching a major overhaul of its so … | Continue reading