VB LIVE: User acquisition cost is skyrocketing, and competition for ad inventory is ramping up. So why do the experts from Walgreens, Rosetta Stone and Insert think you should be spending more, not less? Catch up on our marketing roundtable as we break down the true price of mobi … | Continue reading
Facebook's plan to stop ad blockers has already been foiled. Adblock Plus has found a way to strip ads from Facebook, even when they're served up in Facebook's new ad blocker-proof format. Anyone with a fully updated version of Adblock Plus should once again be able to avoid ads … | Continue reading
This apparently bears repeating: putting resources toward attracting and hiring diverse candidates is useless if you can’t retain them. I’m looking at you, Intel. Intel, which last year made a $300 million commitment to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, released its mid-y … | Continue reading
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform today launched Kinesis Analytics, a new service that makes it easier to analyze real-time streaming data with the help of standard SQL queries. Kinesis Analytics builds on AWS’s Kinesis real-time streaming data platform, which enables develop … | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that Andreas Schönrock and Daniel Artur Schindler wrote an article about ABC_DJ in the Markenartikel magazine (Edition 08/2016). Download the article or order your print copy here, in German language only. | Continue reading
This morning at a customer event in New York City, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced a new load balancing tool, which gives developers much more fine-grained control over how content gets distributed across servers. The AWS Application Load Balancer, as it’s called, provides a way … | Continue reading
At its AWS Summit in New York , public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it’s lowering the cost of snapshots of volumes of data stored in the Elastic Block Store (EBS) service by 47 percent. Developers use snapshots to back up valuable d … | Continue reading
Sports teams and live event venues will soon be able to sell their tickets directly through SeatGeek. The company has focused on resale tickets until now — first by aggregating resale options from other sites, then by launching a marketplace where ticketbuyers can sell or transfe … | Continue reading
SeatGeek is the latest ticketing company to spread its proverbial wings with the launch of a new primary ticketing platform for rightsholders. Founded in 2009, SeatGeek has hitherto served as a marketplace and aggregator for tickets sold elsewhere, and it recently opened up to le … | Continue reading
HP is expanding its Windows-based Stream PC lineup this month with a new 14-inch laptop and a revamp of its older offerings, including the Stream 11 and the x360. HP is branding its whole effort as delivering an "affordable cloud computing experience" that is tailored to how peop … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to add something extra to video livestreaming on the Xbox One, and today’s move will enable this to happen. The company revealed this morning that it has acquired low-latency interactive livestreaming service Beam. Through Beam, viewers can interact and influence … | Continue reading
They’re more than just a big set of transitional lenses for buildings. For one thing, the new glass technology pioneered by a team of scientists at MIT is capable of changing shades much faster that what you’ll find on those ultra-hip eyeglasses. It also covers a broader spectrum … | Continue reading
To promote the new animated film Pete's Dragon, Disney has teamed up with Google to develop an augmented reality experience in which you seek out a virtual dragon hiding near everyday objects. It's called "Dragon Spotting," and it uses Google's Cloud Vision technology to analyze … | Continue reading
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'If only you could talk to these creatures', proclaimed the now infamous Edge review of the original Doom in an endearing and enduring daydream. It's a sentiment that's been mocked ever since, but they may have had a point - and at the very least it's something that's crossed the … | Continue reading
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Twitter can be brutal, especially if you’re not white, cisgendered, and male. For ten years, it has failed to deal with the torrents of abuse that are dished out on the platform, leading to one former employee to describe it in an interview with BuzzFeed as “a honeypot for asshol … | Continue reading
The talent war has begun. Assemble these 11 types of people to position your inbound marketing team for greater success. | Continue reading
Evan Booth, a man with an extensive amount of free time, turned a Keurig coffee machine into a fully operational bionic hand in just over eight days (199 hours, 56 minutes, and 36 seconds to be precise). He also named it Hedberg. It's really quite remarkable; the only materials t … | Continue reading
This week in Walt's column, he reviews the Logitech Create keyboard for the iPad Pro, and finds that is a great alternative to the keyboard made by Apple. This sparks a conversation between Walt and Nilay about expanding the use of a tablet and replacing the laptop.We love your f … | Continue reading
Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service that lets viewers play along with streamers as they watch. Beam’s model takes the mostly passive interaction that streaming fans may be used to from services like Twitch and YouTube, and adds the abil … | Continue reading
Instagram is designed to be a mobile-first experience, so it’s not surprising that new features are secondary to its browser counterpart. For those who want to view the Snapchat-style Instagram Stories in full browser resolution, however, now there’s a Chrome extension to help wi … | Continue reading
I don’t know whether the world is getting meaner, or copywriters are looking for new ways to make the target market listen, but I’m noticing more adverts using a little ‘snarkR… | Continue reading
Google+ is becoming even less prominent in Google's products, this time in Google Play, where the requirement for a Google+ account to write reviews is gone. | Continue reading
CD Projekt Red has confirmed the release date for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition as 30th August. In some territories it will be known a… | Continue reading
Marijuana use is a bit of a tricky subject in the United States. While public opinion on the matter may be shifting toward being more open to legalization — a YouGov poll released earlier this month showed that 55 percent of those surveyed supported legalizing marijuana, with mor … | Continue reading
The proper collective noun to use to describe a group of rats is — according to most dictionaries — a "mischief," a fact that will certainly be useful in describing the latest refreshes to Mad Catz’s RAT line of gaming mice. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Prolific mobile games publisher Crescent Moon Games has announced that their next title Legend of the Skyfish, developed by MGaia Studios, is set to release on August 18th. Now, there's a whole plot and story to the game, but why should this game intrigue you? Well, the protagoni … | Continue reading
Why carry a smartphone and an action camera when you can just carry a smartphone with an action camera built right in it?That's exactly what Kyocera's DuraForce Pro phone is. The military-grade Android phone comes with your standard 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixel selfie … | Continue reading
Google-owned GPS driving app Waze is seeking collaboration with event organizers around the world as it looks to improve traffic congestion through improved communication around major events. Through the Global Event Partner Program, Waze is inviting applications from marathon or … | Continue reading
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, that mobile phones are becoming an increasing concern among those tasked with policing prison populations. Smuggled in cellulars are being linked to all sorts of decidedly less benign contraband, including drugs, guns and like. As the Mini … | Continue reading
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Deep Space Industries — a spaceflight company intent on mining asteroids for resources — announced its plans this week to conduct the first private mission to an asteroid before the end of the decade. For the inaugural trip, the company is developing a spacecraft called Prospecto … | Continue reading
Last Friday, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher from his hideout at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, to talk about the leak of 20,000 emails and 17 minutes of voicemail messages from the embattled DNC (Democratic National Committ … | Continue reading
Sources have told BuzzFeed that Twitter employees quietly filtered tweets with abusive language for a Q&A session with President Obama, and potentially in another session with celebrity Caitlyn Jenner. A "former senior Twitter employee" says that during a May 2015 #AskPOTUS event … | Continue reading
Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner. Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on San Francisco’s Pier 48 for an event best described as the best startup show in the Bay Area.Will you be among them? Read More | Continue reading
What if DJ Khaled alone has the power to introduce Wave Race 64 to a new generation? No, no, no, please don’t leave. I have serious evidence to support my theory!In December of last year, a jet skiing DJ Khaled became lost at sea, a near-tragedy documented on the musician’s Snapc … | Continue reading
Waze, which has been expanding steadily into the enterprise in recent months, is today unveiling a new program aimed at stadiums, marathons and other event organizers, that will allow partners to add road closures to Waze’s map, monitor traffic conditions in real-time, and inform … | Continue reading
Endless Space 2 will initially be released on Steam Early Access this summer, although the exact date is yet to be confirmed.Alongside this announcement, Amplitude Studios also revealed the game's first two factions: the Sophons and the Cravers. Both of these made their debut in … | Continue reading
Security breaches are happening every day, and they’re increasing in severity. Considering this, it’s no wonder companies are hiring white hat hackers at an unstoppable rate. White hat hacking, or the field devoted to battling hackers and data thieves using their own methods – ha … | Continue reading
Es gibt jetzt endlich Details zur Star Trek: Discovery Serie, die Anfang nächsten Jahres auf CBS All Access und Netflix laufen wird. Es soll ca. 10 Jahre vor der Original-Serie losgehen, also ca. zu der Zeit, in der auch der Star Trek Film von... | Continue reading
MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk: Leipzig (ots) - Jedes zehnte Hotel an der deutschen Ostseeküste wirbt mit falschen Hotelsternen. Das ist das Ergebnis eines Tests des MDR-Magazins Umschau. Im Umschau-Test wurden die Sterne von 100 Hotels in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern überprüft. ... | Continue reading
BMW isn’t letting off the gas on its electric vehicle program – the company plans replacements for the i3 and i8 by 2022, according to Automobile Magazine, and a new entrant dubbed Project i20 internally (but likely to be known as the i5 or i6 when it hits streets) on track for 2 … | Continue reading
American imaging pioneer Kodak has launched its new range of Smart LED TVs in India starting at Rs 13,500. | Continue reading
I'm going to cut the preamble here and get straight to the chase: what the hell is going on in this GIF? How did it all happen? Did a troupe of butterflies flap their wings really hard on the other side of the planet, and through the Super Chaos Theory cause this everyman's Cirqu … | Continue reading
Both Snapchat and Instagram are social networks for sharing visual content. Find out which one better suits your brand marketing goals, budget, and time. | Continue reading
Snapchat and Instagram are often compared to each other because they both focus on sharing visual content. Between Instagram’s algorithm feed and Snapchat’s growing popularity, some brands are moving away from Instagram. On the other...read moreThe post Snapchat or Instagram: Whe … | Continue reading
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