App development agency Rocketship today announced Callblock, an app for iOS 10 that will let you block calls from telemarketers. The launch comes a day before Apple holds an event in San Francisco where it’s expected to unveil new iPhones and announce plans tor roll out iOS 10 to … | Continue reading
Fyusion has unveiled its platform for creating augmented reality content using mobile devices. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. And San Francisco-based Fyusion is using computer vision and machine-learning t … | Continue reading
The European on-demand delivery fall out continues. This time it’s the turn of France’s Tok Tok Tok, a Postmates-styled same-hour delivery company, which sent an email to customers earlier today announcing that it was shutting down and that the startup’s tech platform has been ac … | Continue reading
Joseph Fu is part of a team at Cisco building Spark, an enterprise messenger app that seeks to overtake the likes of Yammer, Skype, Hipchat, and eventually, to dethrone Slack from its early leadership position. In less than two years, Slack has gone from a little-known gaming ch … | Continue reading
Last January, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced it had filed permits with Kings County in California to build "the world's first passenger-ready Hyperloop system." But the company never completed its planning application, according to a recent feature story in … | Continue reading
In recent months, Apple has quietly touted the powers of Siri as the perfect digital assistant to help you navigate iOS. However, a tweet on Tuesday, from an official Star Trek-related account, indicates that Siri might soon also get a dose of well-known science fiction. Specific … | Continue reading
Amazon announced an update to Fire TV and its smaller companion, the Fire TV Stick, which will bring expanded Alexa-powered voice search to both devices, as well as a way to receive personalized recommendations from top streaming sites, like Netflix and HBO. The company notes tha … | Continue reading
You’re reading this instead of working, aren’t you? You’re undermining the economy, get back to work. At least, that’s what Princeton professor Alan Blinder suspects. While trying to work out why productivity in the U.S. economy has stagnated since the great recession, despite an … | Continue reading
Xiaomi will make its Mi Box available to US consumers before the end of the year — and possibly as soon as October — according to a report from TechCrunch. Back in May at Google I/O, Xiaomi showed off the latest version of its Mi Box, a 4K set-top box that runs on Android TV. The … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Trainline acquired Captain Train for quite a bit of money. Now, Trainline is trying to unify its train ticket booking system. First, Captain Train is now called Trainline, just like its parent company.The logo, the app and the website are now all called Trainli … | Continue reading
In what can only be thought of as thoughtful timing, Sony is expected to announce two new PlayStation 4’s tomorrow, after the Apple event. Sony’s event starts at 3pm EST and is expected to feature the announcement of both the PS4 ‘Neo’ and ‘Slim.’ The Slim shouldn’t offer much as … | Continue reading
The battle over noncompetes is a modern-day rendition of an age-old trope: the big corporation versus the little employee; Goliath versus David. The only difference? In the fable, Goliath was brutish and slow, and everyone knew he was the bad guy. Today, Goliath is smart and back … | Continue reading
On this episode of Copyblogger FM, Sonia addresses three challenges that pop up often for creative professionals and content marketers. | Continue reading
In this chapter, we will discuss white hat SEO vs. Black Hat SEO as well as discuss some gray hat techniques that will benefit your rankings. | Continue reading
Amazon is rolling out new features to its streaming boxes — the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick — via an “over-the-air software update,” the company announced today, introducing expanded voice search across a number of Fire TV apps, new Alexa features, and recommended shows and movies … | Continue reading
We have an all-star team of designers at TNW, working hard to make sure our website always looks exceptionally fresh. One of our recent additions to the team is Ashley Evans, and even without knowing it you have definitely come across his work already. He has single-handedly prod … | Continue reading
Instagram photo maps, which displayed the pictures you had taken according to where you had taken them, are going away. The company confirmed to Mashable today that it has begun removing the maps from the service. "Photo Map was not widely used, so we've decided to remove the fea … | Continue reading
So the markets have now drawn to a close out of Europe, and it’s time to take our second look of the day at the bitcoin price. In this morning’s analysis, we focused on action over the last few days, and noted that the bullish run in price may be sustainable, and that we should … … | Continue reading
1Password Teams is getting new Pro features that let you better manage users, and is extending its discount program to encourage more of us to use it. Administrators could always create groups, but 1Password is taking it beyond the static ‘Administrators, Owners or Team Members’ … | Continue reading
Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species; they’re now considered "vulnerable" to extinction. The new designation was announced over the weekend by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an environmental organization that keeps track of the conservation … | Continue reading
For those about to simulate rock, we salute you. Rock band AC/DC has one of the most rock ‘n’ roll pinball tables ever, and Stern — the designer of the machine — is bringing the group’s game into virtual reality. The AC/DC table will join a number of other classics in The Stern P … | Continue reading
The biggest name in Latin America's securities exchange trade is gearing up to explore blockchain. | Continue reading
A brand guide outlines the visual language your content team needs to speak. Learn more about why that’s important. | Continue reading
Lenovo officially announced its Yoga Book last week at IFA, and while yes, we’re all thirsting for a chance to play with it, we still have a big question: why doesn’t it run Chrome OS? The device, which is part tablet, part 2-in-1, will ship running either Android Marshmallow or … | Continue reading
Eight-year-old Ruby Kavanagh is a world-class junior golfer, and according to her newly updated Instagram profile, a self-proclaimed drone-killer. The young golfer was practicing her drive swing when she hit the ball directly at a $1,299 Yuneec Typhoon H hexacopter drone.At first … | Continue reading
Last week, Instagram finally introduced compatibility for one of its most-requested features — the option to zoom in on photographs and videos — on both Android and iOS, and now it’s rolling out another update that brings what I believe to be an even more useful feature. Upon ins … | Continue reading
DJI’s next drone looks like it will probably be the foldable DJI Mavic, according to new image leaks that build on a previous trademark application DJI filed for the product name. The leaked photos diverge from DJI’s existing photographic drones by employing a folding farm design … | Continue reading
If there is one threat to Google Search, it’s that the majority of content created today lives inside social apps like Instagram and Snapchat and can’t easily be indexed to show in search results. And, even when Google does manage to pull in a piece of content from a social netwo … | Continue reading
Job searches are often done under the radar and out of the view of your current boss. A new startup wants to make your career search a bit more public, often at the detriment of current employment. The startup, Joberate, scrapes publicly available information from millions of soc … | Continue reading
Content marketing is both art and science. To have success, it's important to make sure you don't get carried away with art at the expense of the science. | Continue reading
With machine learning tools, you will be able to easily adapt your content strategy to your audience’s shifting engagement behaviours. | Continue reading
Last summer, researchers discovered a serious problem at the core of Android. There was a flaw in the way Android handled media, potentially allowing remote code execution before a malicious file had even been opened.Android’s security team patched the initial bug within weeks, b … | Continue reading
This week on VB Engage, we chat mobile engagement with Jonathan Abrams, the founder of content curation tool Nuzzel. He is also the former CEO of one of the first web 2.0 social networking sites, Friendster! You remember Friendster, right? And if you missed last week, Stewart and … | Continue reading
Another of the world’s grand tech exhibitions is now in the books, with Berlin hosting what might have been its most varied and intriguing IFA in years. Like other shows, this one had its oddities, such as LG’s fridge running Windows 10, but what stood out to me was the practical … | Continue reading
NASA is preparing its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for a historic seven-year journey. Its mission is to land on a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, gather a sample of its surface and return to Earth by 2023. That asteroid could have the key to understanding more about the history of our so … | Continue reading
This episode of Hack the Entrepreneur features Vincent Dignan, an entrepreneur and guerrilla marketer who helps grow early-stage companies. | Continue reading
Want to learn how to create your own Android apps but you don't know where to begin? We sat down with an Android dev teacher to find out how easy it is. | Continue reading
Apple Music subscribers can now get a discount — so long as they pay for the service annually. A new $99 gift card gets you 12 months of Apple Music, which amounts to $8.25 per month. If you choose to pay monthly, it’s still $9.99. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s essentially … | Continue reading
The Game Awards show is coming December 1 in Los Angeles, and not only does it bring an Oscars-like treatment to the industry, it also comes with a flurry of announcements for new games. You may ask why we care about The Game Awards, which media personality Geoff Keighley hosts, … | Continue reading
Would you buy an Apple car? How about a Google one? Half of Americans would consider it, even though neither company is currently selling any vehicles. That’s according to a TECHnalysis Research survey, which sampled 1,000 US residents who currently own a car and plan on buying a … | Continue reading
All this investment in content begs the question for many organizations … are we getting a return? In other words, what is the content ROI we're earning? | Continue reading
I’ve just finished watching Entrepreneur First‘s sixth cohort’s Demo Day Demo in London. The event, held at Facebook’s UK HQ, saw 21 newly outed startups pitch their wares on stage to investors, press and other actors in the European tech scene. Read More | Continue reading
Samsung likes to include everything but the kitchen sink in its products, but the latest patent might take it to a new level. A patent from the company suggests it could be working on a device that runs both Android and Windows Phone at the same time. By ‘at the same time,’ I don … | Continue reading
Ernst & Young has selected six blockchain startups for its first distributed ledger startup challenge. | Continue reading
The French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant 11 years ago has died, according to the Associated Press. Isabelle Dinoire received a new nose, mouth, and chin during a 15-hour groundbreaking procedure in 2005, after her pet Labrador mauled her face while … | Continue reading
China implemented tough new regulations this summer for mobile games, but that isn’t expected to dramatically slow the market. Market researcher Niko Partners predicts the Chinese domestic mobile game market to reach $8.3 billion in 2017. That revenue figure will amount to 31 per … | Continue reading
Yelp, the default review system for restaurants all around the world, now has its own bug bounty program. Interested hackers can make up to $15,000 per finding, and Yelp says it will pay a minimum of $100 for every accepted report. It’s not just Yelp’s main page, either. The bug … | Continue reading