(Reuters) — The European Union is set to extend some security rules currently only applicable to telecom operators to web services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Apple Inc’s FaceTime, according to a draft proposal seen by Reuters. The European Commission, the EU executive, will unve … | Continue reading
Several funds, PACs, and Democratic organizations supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign have been given a combined donation of $20 million from Asana and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna. in a post titled “Compelled to Act”, Moskovitz expla … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is pulling back from its recent breakout but the nearby inflection points could hold as support.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/09/2016 – Break and Retest? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Across all major markets in Latin America, smartphone shipments declined in Q2 2016 compared to Q2 2015. In Brazil and Mexico, shipments were down about 12%, meaning declines of millions of units. | Continue reading
Research suggests many CMOs are still unclear about the quantitative effect of social media on their business. This uncertainty surrounding social media is encouraging more investment in marketing analytics as they try to understand the channel’s impact on their organizatio … | Continue reading
Holiday shopping will soon be in full swing. According to August research, more than half of US internet users feel that loyalty programs will affect whether they shop at a big-box store or not for the holidays. | Continue reading
Diversity and inclusiveness have become major issues in the advertising industry in recent years, both for audiences and within its own ranks. eMarketer spoke to God-is Rivera, associate director of social media at digital marketing and advertising agency VML, about how brands ap … | Continue reading
Younger digital video viewers in Malaysia watched more videos than their older counterparts in March 2016, but viewers watched almost the same number of ads regardless of age. | Continue reading
The reach of the internet has more than doubled in Turkey between 2008 and 2016, according to data released in August. And according to research from 2015, smartphones are now the most common internet access device in the country. | Continue reading
The more than 700,000 users of small business accounting software Xero will soon have a Facebook Messenger bot to access their business data and hire financial professionals. Plans for Slack and Apple iOS bots were also announced today. The bot is codenamed Hey Xero and will make … | Continue reading
Airbnb fights discrimination on its platform with policy changes, Oculus short movie ‘Henry’ wins an Emmy, Twitter adds Read Receipts for Direct Messages, Google buys Apigee for $625 million, and Pokemon Go hit $500 million in revenue. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
When you share your content on social networks like Facebook, GooglePlus, Instagram and Twitter you need to do a lot more than just dropping a link and title of a blog if you want more engagement on your posts. For optimal results you need to optimize your posts for each platform … | Continue reading
Back in August, Google said non-Project Fi Nexus phones would also get the Wi-Fi Assistant feature soon, and they weren't lying. | Continue reading
VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks all the important and interesting news related to the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We include news stories by VentureBeat staff, guest arti … | Continue reading
There was one slide in Tim Cook’s keynote that probably made the watch industry potentates choke on their oysters St Jacques. It was a simply a clear comparison between Apple Watch sales and sales of traditional watch brands, both high and low. And it wasn’t good. At the bottom o … | Continue reading
BlackBerry is offering more BB apps to more Android devices: most phones running Android 5.0 Lollipop or higher, to be more specific. | Continue reading
The UMi Plus is a smartphone with great high-end qualities, but a price that will undercut most of its competitors. | Continue reading
Upon Apple's announcement of the iPhone 7 and its wireless AirPods, consumers took to social media to express their confusion about the wireless headphones. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Iphone, Iphone 7, Airpods, and Apple | Continue reading
If you were impressed when carmakers started testing self-driving vehicles on freeways, wait until you get a load of what Volvo has up its sleeves.Volvo Trucks announced Thursday that starting this fall and over the next year and a half it will be testing self-driving versions of … | Continue reading
In response to reports of explosive battery malfunctions in Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, the Federal Aviation Administration has issued a statement advising airplane passengers not to use, or even pack the smartphones during air travel. "In light of recent incidents and concerns rais … | Continue reading
The way we thought of apps in 2008 is how we’ll view artificial intelligence five years from now; 2016 will look like the AI stone age. Although apps have created completely new behaviors, especially in the fintech space with mobile banking and shared payments, the app economy, u … | Continue reading
Banks shouldn’t offer customers a bot to access their account for a few more years, Forrester advised in a new report. The report from the consulting firm titled “Bots Aren’t Ready To Be Bankers,” suggests banks focus on readying their backend and wait 2-3 years for bots and arti … | Continue reading
An exploding phone is by no means a good thing, but if it has to explode, it’s hard to think of a worse place for it to do so than on a plane. Well, not that hard, but it’s definitely a bad one. In wake of the occasional combusting Galaxy Note 7 and the its subsequent recall, the … | Continue reading
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a statement “strongly advising” airline passengers from using or charging their Samsung Galaxy Note7 device while in-flight. The advisory comes as Samsung deals with reported cases of exploding batteries in its latest phone. The stat … | Continue reading
If it’s a cheap tablet you’re after, then Amazon has a deal it’d love to sell you with the latest iteration of the Fire HD 8. | Continue reading
An Atlas V rocket just successfully launched NASA’s OSIRIS-REx vehicle into space from Cape Canaveral, Florida, initiating the spacecraft’s journey to grab a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth. The probe’s expedition isn’t exactly a short one, though. It will take … | Continue reading
The second weekend of September is nearly upon us, and tradition says we must now gather around the collective browser window to show our devotion to Apple's annual iPhone refresh. This time, we'll be saying goodbye to more than just $650 — with the purchase of an iPhone 7 or iPh … | Continue reading
It's called Redirect Method, and it will steer users searching for pro-terror content toward content that shows the ugly side of terrorism. | Continue reading
With more than 6,000 applicants from over 100 countries competing, the first international beauty contest judged entirely by artificial intelligence just came to an end. The results are a bit disheartening. The team of judges, a five robot panel, attempted to pick winners from th … | Continue reading
Most startups toil away in stealth mode on new products with an Apple-esque fear of news leaking before its time. Peak Design decided to go to the other extreme, building a company in full view of its audience — and in the face of its competitors. Eschewing traditional investors … | Continue reading
Upon announcing the huge recall of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, Samsung reported that there are currently no known injuries due to the exploding battery risk that led to sales being halted worldwide. But it's starting to sound like there've been some very close calls. In just th … | Continue reading
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of 1.2 million pounds of thrust provided by an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will journey to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu and return an asteroid sample back to Earth. This will be NA … | Continue reading
Apple's new $159 wireless AirPod earbuds attracted instant backlash after their announcement with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus and Apple Watch Series 2 at the company's big fall event on Wednesday.Even though the wireless earbuds come with a carrying/charging case, the chances of losi … | Continue reading
PlayStation 4 Pro made its big debut yesterday, and Sony is selling it as a 4K gaming box. But most of the games the company showed were not rendering a native 4K image. Instead, you were probably seeing something closer to 1440p or 1800p. That’s quite a lot less detail than 2160 … | Continue reading
Coupa, a company that offers cloud services for managing invoices, expenses, inventory, and procurement, today filed preliminary paperwork to go public, revealing plans to raise $75 million. The company intends to trade on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol COUP. Unlike ot … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Coupa Software Incorporated ("Coupa") today announced that it has publicly filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The... | Continue reading
A former Air Force general and Department of Homeland Security official has been appointed as the first federal chief information security officer, the White House announced today.Gregory Touhill will take charge of cybersecurity across the federal government, planning and implem … | Continue reading
GUEST: Chatbots are the new cool kids in the mobile world right now. Ever since Facebook announced its Messenger Platform in April, bots seem to have been designated the current ‘it’ technology. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared them the new apps, and the “next big thing.” So … | Continue reading
The LG V20 is on its way to the US market with an array of impressive cameras and Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. But where will you be able to buy it? | Continue reading
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Eighty million people in the US struggle with bad breath—many of them don’t even know that they do, but the people around them are likely all too aware. Last year at CES, Breathometer teased a connected device called Mint that measures a users breath and gives them some tips on h … | Continue reading
It may not seem it, but coming up with an idea for your startup is probably the easiest part of launching your own company. As one industry insider told me, there are a million ways to screw up that idea through poor execution, and many, many lose their way. Yet a precious few fi … | Continue reading
Reports claim that point of sale startup Revel Systems is in early acquisition negotiations with IBM, and while both Revel and IBM declined to comment when we asked about it, a deal that the startup announced today could provide an interesting clue for why a company like Big Blue … | Continue reading
A Google Solve for X team focused on drones, Project Wing, today announced a plan to commence aerial burrito delivery, in partnership with Chipotle, on the campus of Virgina Tech next week.Project Wing’s mission it to make fully autonomous, or self-flying drones, that can deliver … | Continue reading
Buying cool is the best way for big companies to stay cool. Snapchat rightly believes in itself, and now it’s getting bankers to bet on that vision without selling its precious equity. Snapchat has secured a line of credit led by Morgan Stanley, potentially with other banks parti … | Continue reading
Everyone has a different preference for how to watch Disrupt, so we’re giving you tons of options. Here’s what’s on deck for the show. How to live stream Disrupt SF 2016 TechCrunch.com – The entire show will be live streamed to TechCrunch.com. The video feed will be featured on t … | Continue reading