It might be easy to assume that the shorter the video ad, the better the completion rate. But maybe things change when it’s on a social platform. According to Q2 data, video ads that were between 30 and 60 seconds long fared better than those of less than 30 seconds on Face … | Continue reading
About three in four female internet users in Japan say they research things they see on TV at least occasionally via the internet. The youngest women are the ones most likely to do so frequently, and most commonly look up locations like stores, as well as products and services. | Continue reading
After weathering criticism of its initial ad offerings, Snapchat is poised for explosive growth in ad revenues in the coming years, according to eMarketer’s first forecast of ad revenues for the social platform. | Continue reading
Loyalty programs have become an important marketing tool for retailers, and most companies entice shoppers to join these programs by offering rewards. But these incentives may not be enough to keep consumers satisfied and happy that they joined it in the first place. Retailers ma … | Continue reading
Here we are again. At least 790,724 unique email addresses and passwords for the porn site Brazzers have been exposed online, Motherboard reports. The details, provided by the data breach-monitoring site Vigilante.pw apparently came from an accompanying user forum, "Brazzersforum … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price might be in for a pullback opportunity to these inflection points before resuming its climb.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/06/2016 – Potential Pullback Levels appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
This infographic illustrates how much data we contribute and consume as global users every single minute, and how much the population of the internet has grown over the last four years. | Continue reading
“Master the JavaScript Interview” is a series of posts designed to prepare candidates for common questions they are likely to encounter…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
One day away from launching its iPhone 7, Apple has some good news out of Australia.A new report suggests the Apple Watch has captured more than 50 percent of the smartwatch market in the country, followed by the Samsung Gear and Fitbit Blaze.SEE ALSO: Inside Home: Apple’s plan t … | Continue reading
Speech recognition software has gotten really good in the past few years. It’s so good, in fact, that you can actually dictate on your phone faster than you can type out your words. At least one recent study suggests that. Results of the study, published on August 25, show that a … | Continue reading
What does a quality brand publication look like? When you consider how much ‘content’ is spewed onto the buying public, getting it right isn’t that easy. Project of the Year is being announced at the Content Marketing Awards in Cleveland, Ohio, this week. My pet project, Traction … | Continue reading
I’m in a strange place in my Legion adventure. I’m at the max level, but that doesn’t really mean much. I’m still locked out of a lot of the content in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion until I earn some better gear and finish more quests. The work of a death knight is never o … | Continue reading
Like most VCs, we see dozens of deals each week. We’ve developed a funnel that enables us to quickly eliminate those that don’t fit our general investment criteria. The deals that survive this initial process are subjected to greater scrutiny. In the end, we invest in a small per … | Continue reading
After a week using BirkSun’s solar-powered bag exclusively, I can honestly say I’m hooked. Why we don’t have solar panels on all our backpacks is beyond me, but the ability to charge a device without having to worry about first charging an external battery is a godsend — especial … | Continue reading
360-degree videos could be incredible in VR when viewed with no bottlenecks between the camera and headset. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case today. The way video comes to your headset basically means any time you see a panoramic video in VR it isn’t anywhere near the original c … | Continue reading
One of my biggest public speaking fears is that I’ll have a coughing fit while I’m trying to make a point. So watching today’s Hilary Clinton speech, which kicked off with a lot of coughing and water sipping, is gut-wrenching. The incident is also lighter fluid dumped onto the si … | Continue reading
Six years after Intel purchased McAfee antivirus for $7.68 billion, its founder is now in court fighting for the right to use his own name. Bloomberg reports that John McAfee has filed paperwork to sue Intel, who’s attempting to block McAfee from using his name in a new business … | Continue reading
GUEST: Imagine the police arresting a bot and releasing it after months of custody and investigation. This is not a scenario from a futurist’s blog — it actually happened in Switzerland last year. What were the charges against the globe-trotting Swiss bot and its owners? Its name … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is the most exotic Bitcoin Casino and probably the oldest in the Bitcoin gambling industry. It was the first Casino in the Bitcoin to | Continue reading
According to prolific mobile leaker Evan Blass, we should expect to see a shiny new 7-inch tablet from Google by the end of 2016 built by Huawei. | Continue reading
If I’m being honest, I never really thought about the benefits of sticking my iPhone to walls. Now, I can’t imagine not being able to. Reading recipes while cooking, watching YouTube while doing the dishes or just slapping your phone on the wall outside to have a centralized poin … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Apple is nothing if not predictable. Every two years, in early September, it introduces a newly designed iPhone at a meticulously staged event in and around San Francisco. In the in-between years, it also introduces new iPhones, but they are visually indistinct from the … | Continue reading
In a moment that I’m imagining featured at least one stoned executive, Pizza Hut came up with a genius marketing gimmick idea for a dual-purpose pizza box that could keep your food warm (and in one piece) all while moonlighting as a smartphone-powered projector. According to The … | Continue reading
On this week’s episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch’s writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to Emily Calandrelli, our resident space reporter and the host of Xploration Outer Space – season 3 of which premieres this coming Saturday on FOX … | Continue reading
Josef Jammerbund, head of events at the British Fashion Council (BFC) is set to leave his position at the end of the year. | Continue reading
If Disney can’t succeed with a mobile game, then you know that the $36 billion mobile game market is truly difficult. Late last week, the company shut down its Marvel Avengers Alliance and Marvel Avengers Alliance 2 games. The first one was a big hit of the Facebook games era whe … | Continue reading
Google Cardboard is an excellent entrant into the VR gaming world. If you have one laying around, here are a list of the best VR games for Google Cardboard! | Continue reading
GUEST: After a slow start for initial public stock offerings this year, there are some promising signs that the IPO market may come to life in the weeks after Labor Day. Yet even if the IPO pipeline starts flowing again, this year will likely disappoint investors who are yearning … | Continue reading
Olivia Hardy, an intern at FreemanXP, explains what it means to be an associate strategist and why no two days are the same. | Continue reading
Here’s something you might not have been expecting: alongside two new phones, it possible that Google will also announce a new 7-inch Android tablet very soon. According to Evan Blass, it will be released “before the end of the year,” sport 4GB of RAM, and be made by Huawei.There … | Continue reading
As a necessary function of a product launch, startups are myopic — they’re frenzied, they’re broke and they’re not remotely cognizant of the serious public policy hurdles to which they’re racing. That’s the problem. Read More | Continue reading
Disrupt SF starts a week from today. There’s still time to get on board, and here are a few reasons why you might be sad if you don’t. You can still get a ticket here. #1 Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Diane Greene, Reid Hoffman, Sebastian Thrun. If those names got your attentio … | Continue reading
Ask anyone who gets their news from local TV: Pokémon Go is dangerous. You can’t let your kids play that game, because they might get hurt. It’s like stranger-danger, but with adorable creatures to catch. Well, last night a shooting victim in Greshem, Oregon, just outside Portlan … | Continue reading
Armada Collective, a mysterious group of cybercriminals seem to be back again! The group known to disrupt websites by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may have sent emails demanding Bitcoin ransom from website owners. According to reports, many internet user … | Continue reading
Palkovice House is a single-family house designed by Praha-based Qarta Architecture. The house is situated in the periphery of Palkovice. | Continue reading
Located in the port city of Tianjin in northeastern China, Orange Dental Clinic was completed in November 2015 by RIGI Design. | Continue reading
Journey House is a project and extension and renovation completed by Nic Owen Architects in Melbourne's Bayside suburb of Hampton. | Continue reading
Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop of Tokyo designed the Itoman Gyomin Shokudo Restaurant using Ryukyu limestone and coral limestone. | Continue reading
Wish your Apple Watch was constantly making sounds, and had worse battery life? Tickr is an upcoming Apple Watch app that runs constantly in the background and plays the sound of famous mechanical watches. The idea: the ticking and tocking will help sooth you to sleep, reassure y … | Continue reading
A Russian YouTube star has been detained for two months and could face up to five years of prison time, reports the Guardian and many other outlets. His crime? Playing Pokémon Go in a church earlier this month. He was arrested under Article 282 of the Russian Federation Criminal … | Continue reading
The dream of the open Web is dead. In July smartphone apps took up 50 percent of online attention in the USA, more than every other kind of internet access combined. Combine smartphone browsers, all tablet usage, and all desktop usage. Smartphone app usage alone takes up more of … | Continue reading
GUEST: Customer support is one the most resource-intensive departments in a company. Staff spend their day answering queries, on the telephone with customers, communicating with other departments, and much more. It is also a part of the operation that is hard to link to an ROI. A … | Continue reading
Amazon, Apple, Google and Mozilla have all filed an amicus brief to support Microsoft in its battle against the US government over the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The document, also known as a friend-of-the-court brief is designed to act as a legal show of suppo … | Continue reading
In this morning’s analysis, we set up against the action seen over the weekend in the bitcoin price, and looked to get in on any volatility. We noted that the labor day momentum would probably be a little weak based on the volume limiting Labor day, and that this could limit our … | Continue reading
Like a grand old dinosaur that’s being left behind by the evolution of the tech industry, Sony is in desperate recovery mode here at IFA. The company has new phones, a rather nice pair of noise-canceling headphones, the imminent PS VR, and... a truly outlandish combo of music … | Continue reading
Although some are viewing Samsung's recall of the Galaxy Note 7 as an unprecedented move, Samsung actually has a long history with mass recalls. | Continue reading
It appears that Apple is feeling pretty confident that its next-generation iPhone is going to be a huge success as it has reportedly increased orders of the components needed to manufacture the handset by 10 percent. Unfortunately, the exact reason for the surge in demand remains … | Continue reading
In a weekend Op-Ed about ageism in the workplace, The New York Times retells the story of JK Scheinberg — a legendary Apple engineer — being denied a job at a Genius Bar. Scheinberg, an esteemed engineer that helped get Mac OS running on Intel processors, got a little restless af … | Continue reading