A technology initiative backed by the Dubai government has launched a $275m startup investment fund. | Continue reading
With the Olympics well underway, Google is rolling out a new Trends hub to give folks a bit more insight into what people are searching during the global athletics event. The Trends hub will let users view the trends happening around each sport, as well as general search trends l … | Continue reading
Berlin-based online education platform iversity looks to have pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy after securing new investment from Holtzbrinck Digital, the Internet investment arm of the education-focused Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Read More | Continue reading
Fossil’s Q Marshal and Q Wander smartwatches, which it introduced earlier this year, are going to be available for preorder starting on Friday. They’ll be in stores on August 29th. The watches start at $295.Both come with always-on touchscreen displays and are compatible with bot … | Continue reading
Google is conducting a trial run of a new Explore Interests feature and personalized cards for its Google Now virtual assistant. | Continue reading
Die zweite Staffel der Amazon-Fernsehserie "The Man in the High Castle" nach einem Roman von Philip K. Dick hat jetzt einen offiziellen Starttermin: Am 16. Dezember 2016 geht es weiter in der spannenden Geschichte um eine verstörende Zeit, in der... | Continue reading
Rocket blast are loud, bright and, well, anything but subtle. That’s the whole point, really. It takes a heck of a lot of firepower to slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings (I’m told). Of course, such explosiveness is tough to shoot with a s … | Continue reading
Facebook is taking one step backwards, and one step forwards on how it lets users control the ads they see on the platform. First the bad: Facebook will start ignoring your desktop ad blockers. Facebook needs to make money somehow, so this isn’t surprising. To appease you, Facebo … | Continue reading
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-based so-called “talent first” investor that targets technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a six-month program where they form teams and in turn found startups, is building its own U.S. based investment team. Read More | Continue reading
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting the Red Planet for a decade, sending photos back to Earth every month as it goes around. This month's batch contains more than 1,000 photos of Mars' dunes, craters, mountains, ice caps, and other surface features. And the … | Continue reading
Under CEO Tim Cook, who is a well known health buff, Apple has steadily increased its focus on personal health.The Apple Watch, HealthKit, ResearchKit and the announcement of CareKit are all pieces in Apple's health-driven future.A new rumor from Taiwan's Economic Daily News (via … | Continue reading
Neville Spiteri has been dreaming about VR for a long time, and his company Wevr was early with the high-end underwater exploration game, The Blu, for virtual reality fans. Released in episodic form, the Blu and its wonderful imagery of sea creatures helped consumers understand j … | Continue reading
Sharing-economy-powered car rental competitor Turo is taking its battle with the incumbents to places few have dared venture. The company used computer vision to determine the color of all the cars in its inventory and is making it possible to select the car for your next adventu … | Continue reading
Memebox, an e-commerce company specializing in beauty products from Korea, has closed a significant $65.95 million Series C funding round to fuel further expansion. Read More | Continue reading
We've seen more than a few products that offer customers the chance to grow fresh fruit, herbs, and vegetables in their own home with minimal effort, but a device named Grobo from a Canadian startup looks like it might be the most straightforward yet. Its creators describe it as … | Continue reading
Suicide Squad is a fascinating, funny, and above all, frustrating mess of a movie. With a weekend in theaters behind it, it made a temporary mark at the box office, setting a record for biggest August debut with $135 million domestic take ($268 million worldwide). But just like B … | Continue reading
Snapchat just announced Memories, “a new way to save Snaps and stories on Snapchat”. Here's everything you need to know about the feature. | Continue reading
Snapchat just announced Memories, “a new way to save Snaps and stories on Snapchat”. In reality, though, the development is much more than a new way to save Snaps – it’s a notable change in...read moreThe post What’s the Deal with Snapchat Memories? appeared first on Social Media … | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of tech-related movies coming out this summer, but there’s always room for more. Pierce Brosnan plays Mike Regan, the CEO of a non-descript company. When he’s holding a presentation his computer freezes and the temp IT guy, Ed Porter, has to fix it. Like every … | Continue reading
in jeder Disziplin gibt es Könner und Profis. Aber es gibt auch jene Großmeister, bei denen man einfach nie wissen wird, wie sie etwas hinbekommen. Beim Sport sind es Leute wie Lionel Messi oder Steph Curry, beim Arcade sind die Meister weniger... | Continue reading
When a company hires a content marketing agency, the job isn't done. The client must be an active partner. Here's how to be a good content marketing client. | Continue reading
There's a new version of Google Maps for Android, and it might just save you a few bucks in those roaming data charges. From now on, Google Maps will let you switch the app to "Wi-Fi only" mode of operation, which won't download any data unless you're connected to a Wi-Fi network … | Continue reading
It’s the time of year that stargazers have been waiting for: the Perseid meteor shower. On the night of August 11th and the morning of August 12th, hundreds of tiny meteors will dart through Earth’s night sky, putting on a spectacular light show for late-night viewers. And those … | Continue reading
Responsive Web Design Trends: Here are some of the forecasts that can help web designers clarify their expectations. | Continue reading
Fender is a company that is virtually synonymous with the guitar, thanks to its Stratocaster and Telecaster lines. Its ‘axes‘ have long been the favored instruments of musical icons like Hank Marvin, Jimi Hendrix, and PJ Harvey. Now, it’s getting into the app business with Fender … | Continue reading
Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant bundled into Android and Google’s search application, is already adept at bringing you the information you need at the right time, whether that’s traffic alerts, event reminders, sports scores, stock updates, weather, flight info, an … | Continue reading
It must be hard to kick ass, decade after decade. It puts a giant target on your back, after all — you’re the one everyone else is trying to knock down, year after year.In the car world, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG has been that leader for a long time. BMW created the sports seda … | Continue reading
If you’re looking to get into tech, we’ve got a surefire way – earn an Amazon Web Services Developer Certification, courtesy of The Developer’s AWS Mastery Bundle. This four-course training will prep you to ace your certification exam, and you can now pick it up for 85 percent of … | Continue reading
Today, Pingpad, which launched last year as a consumer mobile app, did an about-face, announcing it has built a collaboration tool on top of the popular Slack enterprise communications platform. It shut down the consumer mobile app recently to concentrate on this approach.Ross Ma … | Continue reading
Der Herzogenauracher Sportartikelhersteller Adidas hat mit dem sogenannten Creator Studio eine Kampagne gestartet, bei der designaffine Fans das dritte Trikot für eines der folgenden Top-Teams im internationalen Fußball gestalten können:... | Continue reading
A new update for Pokémon Go was just released, which hopefully fixes one of the most infuriating things about playing the game: quick battery depletion. It also brought a slew of other updates, such as awarding points properly when you throw a “Nice,” “Great,” or “Excellent” ball … | Continue reading
More than a year ago, Starbucks formed a partnership with Lyft that enables the ridesharing giant to reward both drivers and riders. Starting next week, that deal has been expanded — with a focus on making the trip experience even better for passengers. As a result, you’ll be abl … | Continue reading
On demand ride provider Lyft is getting physical – creating actual gift cards with $20 in ride credit that people can buy beginning next week at participating Starbucks stores across the U.S. The cards also come with a $5 Starbucks gift card as a free bonus, and Lyft passengers w … | Continue reading
Game and app developers need to know where to spend their precious user acquisition dollars. So they should be happy to hear that mobile measurement company AppsFlyer has determined which mobile advertising media sources deliver the best results. And, no surprise, Facebook contin … | Continue reading
Social media has grown to become an essential part of content marketing strategies. Learn how to improve brand awareness with Snapchat... | Continue reading
Kepler Communications has raised $5 million in seed funding to create a network of small, easily replaced satellites to create a real-time network through with internet of things (IoT) devices can communicate, essentially building a cellular network in space through which machine … | Continue reading
Facebook is making the HTML of its web ads indistinguishable from organic content so it can slip by adblockers. But in exchange for taking away this option for controlling ads from people, its allowing them to opt-out of ad targeting categories and Custom Audience customer lists … | Continue reading
Our world looks very different from when Steve Jobs held aloft the first iPhone in 2007. Marketers didn’t use technology beyond their website analytics, email marketing and display ads. It’s clear that the era of data-driven marketing is just getting started — and privacy is rapi … | Continue reading
Virtual Reality Los Angeles has been holding seasonal conventions to introduce people to VR for more than four years. Usually the shows have focused on evangelizing on behalf of the technology — touting its transformative potential in gaming, storytelling, and industrial applicat … | Continue reading
Metrics & ROI - Without a doubt, data and analytics have become central to every organization's business strategy. Find out how to enable your marketing organization to successfully use data and analytics to drive ... | Continue reading
Mobile - Use geolocation to identify where a subscriber is located and then deliver personalized content or offers to that user's location. | Continue reading
Content - Unless your blog post is structured in a way that is easy to read, it won't perform to its full potential. Consider using these elements when you structure your blog ... | Continue reading
Aaron Puzey says it started out of boredom. He'd been toiling away on his exercise bike for half an hour a day for years, and things were beginning to get tedious. "I'd been day dreaming for a while about the possibility of using VR to make it a bit more fun," Puzey told The Verg … | Continue reading
British & Irish Sound Archives conference 2016Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Northern Ireland18-19 NovemberCall for papersThe annual British & Irish Sound Archives (BISA) conference will take place this year at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, and we warmly invite pro … | Continue reading
JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes spoke to The Wall Street Journal about his management style, what JetBlue employees should not say when a flight is canceled and adding first class in a company that’s famously egalitarian. Photo: Caitlin Ochs for The Wall Street Journal | Continue reading
1,035 in all – taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been doing its thing for a decade now. Every month, the JPL-managed spacecraft dutifully sends back images of the red planet, alongside a handful of fellow Mars-orbiting space crafts. As Popular Science points out … | Continue reading
A star scientist stands accused of misconduct, but colleagues say he’s being railroaded Continue reading… | Continue reading
Mobile phone brand Alcatel is inviting consumers inside a specially-branded taxi to enjoy a Virtual Reality (VR) experience. | Continue reading