BARCELONA — You might be able to buy a smartphone with a slightly curvy screen — both LG and Samsung have one — but now a UK company called FlexEnable is working to deliver screens that are much more curvy, and fully flexible.The company's booth at Mobile World Congress in Barcel … | Continue reading
While a large part of the mobile industry swirls around the streets of Barcelona, IBM is playing host at its own big InterConnect event in Las Vegas, where it unveiled a rush of deals that underscore another major aspect of the growth of mobile: the rise of cloud services. Today, … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that when Disney announced plans this past summer to build Star Wars-themed expansions in both Disneyland and the Disney World Resorts, The Force Unleashed was still a giant question mark looming over the future of the brand. Last night, with the critical su … | Continue reading
To most entrepreneurs, the road to venture capital financing is littered with criticism and rejection. Ranging from “limited traction” to “that’s a hard space,” VCs have an entire vocabulary of terms to pass on investments — and can sometimes even forgo that vocabulary with the “ … | Continue reading
We are one week closer to the introduction of Standard and Wild in Hearthstone [Free], and everyone is looking to the future. Similarly to last week's news, this week's were also on the thin side since everyone is either talking about the upcoming format changes or silently waiti … | Continue reading
YouTube is searching for its next group of stars, 360 to be precise, as part of its NextUp initiative. YouTube NextUp aims to help budding vloggers up their game by offering exposure, mentorship and financial backing. Since its launch in 2011, NextUp has helped launch the careers … | Continue reading
IBM today announced new services available from its public cloud, thanks to deeper partnerships with Apple, GitHub, and VMware. IBM is also launching a new cloud service called Bluemix OpenWhisk that represents an answer to Lambda event-driven computing service from public cloud … | Continue reading
To enable Swift for enterprise solutions, IBM is making a Swift Package Catalog and runtime available in the cloud for deployment with Bluemix. Though both are still in preview mode, IBM is hoping it s increasingly deep toolkit for Swift will make deploying apps via the could sim … | Continue reading
Bakery brand Warburtons has announced a new partnership with running not-for-profit organisation Parkrun, in a bid to help more young people get active. | Continue reading
Jeb Bush pulled out of the Republican race Saturday night after finishing fourth in South Carolina with just 7.8 percent of the primary vote behind Trump, Rubio and Cruz and it appears George W.’s loser brother has quickly become too lame even to prank. JebBush.com was never owne … | Continue reading
Birmingham, Alabama-born jazz musician Herman Sonny Blount stood out quite a bit from the other Southern, African-American musicians who immigrated to Chicago in the middle of the 20th century. Then again, any saxophonist claiming he was a robed mystic born on Saturn would probab … | Continue reading
Von Airbus wurde ein neues Patent beantragt, das eine flexiblere Sitzbelegung in Passagierflugzeugen ermöglichen soll. Statt Einzelsitzen gibt es hier nämlich eine Art Sitzbank. Klingt anachronistisch, wäre aber vor allem für k... | Continue reading
Morgan Freeman is lending his voice to popular GPS driving app Waze, meaning those in the U.S. can be given directions by the soothing, dulcet tones of the legendary Hollywood actor. Freeman joins other big-name stars who have added their voice to the navigation app in the past, … | Continue reading
Ok, so this is where things stand. The bitcoin price took us out of our predefined range momentarily a little earlier on today, and according to the intraday strategy we described this morning, put us long in the markets. However, before the charts could form another candle, pric … | Continue reading
Verizon, the No.1 U.S. wireless service provider, said it would buy Carl Icahn-owned XO Communications' fiber-optic network business for about $1.8 billion. | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has held above yesterday’s corrective low. Little upside progress shows the market is now taking a break and perhaps reconsidering the trend. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive … | Continue reading
Foursquare announced a new product today that should help brick-and-mortar advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The company has already been expanding the ad side of the business, for example launching new ad targeting product last year and recently bringing … | Continue reading
When we last left Georgia Tech Professor Gil Weinberg he was building robotic friends who could bop and sing along to your favorite tunes. Now he has created a wearable robotic arm that adds a third hand to a drummer’s arsenal. “It responds to human gestures and the music it hear … | Continue reading
Arlington, VA – (Marketwired – February 22, 2016) –BTCS Inc. (OTCQB: BTCS) (“BTCS” or the “Company”), a blockchain technology focused company which secures the blockchain through its transaction verification services business, management demonstrates their commitment to execute o … | Continue reading
The Internet of Things has infected another formerly benign product that we use every day: shoes. Iofit, a company that was recently spun out of Samsung's new startup accelerator, is here at Mobile World Congress to show off their soon-to-be-crowdfunded smart fitness sneakers.Whi … | Continue reading
Do commercial airplane concepts peek into the future of air travel, or are they just a way for aircraft designers to make current jet designs look relatively comfortable?Without an answer to that question, we're left guessing if some concepts will ever make it to reality (and hop … | Continue reading
Amazon revealed this morning that it's raising its free shipping minimum to $49 for non-Prime members. That's a $14 bump up from the previous minimum of $35 it set when it last raised prices in 2013. Customers looking to buy $25 worth of books will still get free shipping, though … | Continue reading
You, task switcher, have a lot of things going on in your head. Look, there’s that e-mail you need to send to your manager whizzing by, just missing a collision with the conference call you need to organize for the end of the week. We’re not even going to take a look at that big … | Continue reading
Brian Armstrong, CEO of bitcoin services provider Coinbase, has rejected a new proposal to change to end the scaling debate. | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Some big names updated this past week, along with a nice selection of smaller fan-favorites. Of course, you can keep an eye out for updates yourself u … | Continue reading
A reported 20 million people interrupted their work day to watch the Yeezy fashion show — and nobody complained.For all the technical issues in the lead-up to The Life of Pablo release, Kanye West and his advisors were brilliant to host the biggest listening party / fashion revea … | Continue reading
Forscher der Universitäten in Berkeley und Stanford haben ein Schweißband entwickelt, das den Schweiß des Athleten mit Hilfe von Sensoren analysieren kann. Der Gehalt von Glukose, Kalium und Laktat können so gemessen werden.... | Continue reading
Adobe Lightroom is probably the most popular image processing program for professional photographers, but now the company wants to be your camera too – if you own an Android phone anyway. Adobe Lightroom 2.0 for Android adds a full-fledged camera interface with a standard set of … | Continue reading
Lightroom for Android is getting a big update today that adds in features like split toning and haze removal that were added to iOS last year. The real purpose of this update is bringing Lightroom's Android app up to date with its iOS app — Adobe say that for the most part, every … | Continue reading
Advertising - Fraud is an increasingly large problem in advertising, but marketers can (and should) be more proactive in solving it. These two approaches can help. | Continue reading
Sales - You as a marketer can take these five steps to address today's sales-force performance and productivity challenges and get the most out of your sales team right away. | Continue reading
Expand your lead gen strategy toolbox with email signature marketing. Here are five ways to get started. | Continue reading
In a world where you’re constantly bombarded by people, social media, and endless advertisements, sometimes your only escape is the few moments you have alone driving in your car. If you want to add a little extra zen to your driving, now you can request the soothing sounds of Mo … | Continue reading
Mobile ad technology provider Marfeel wants to make Google’s AMP technology painless for publishers, so it made an out-of-the-box solution for building and maintaining mobile Web pages. With AMP, publishers are expected to keep a separate HTML page available. Those pages must als … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of our review, I'll be streaming 90 minutes of Far Cry Primal at 3:30pm.The game starts off pretty slow and it takes quite a few hours to unlock some of protagonist Takkar's cooler skills, but I played through a big chunk of the game over the weekend and have man … | Continue reading
Sony is looking to leverage blockchain and its secure properties by developing a blockchain-based technology that establishes secure open sharing of academic proficiency and progress records through encrypted transmission. Sony Global Education (Sony GE), a company with the visio … | Continue reading
Volvo will natively integrate Spotify into its cars, beginning with the XC90, S90, and V90 this spring, the Swedish automaker announced during Mobile World Congress. Volvo says it worked closely with the streaming service to build the app, which includes handwriting recognition, … | Continue reading
Virgin Galactic is getting back into the space race after revealing its new VSS Unity spaceship, which will soon be ferrying people beyond the earth’s atmosphere. After the failure of its predecessor, the VSS Unity will undergo rigorous testing this year before any humans are abo … | Continue reading
I’m all for appreciating our clients. At MMG, we created a special holiday with just that intention in mind called Who Loves Ya Baby Day. It’s not just about being grateful. It’s good business. One of my business idols is Walt Disney. When someone is hired by the Disney organizat … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Lumia 950 was bland, uninspired, plasticky, and looked like any other low-end Lumia that Microsoft has been churning out over the past year. The problem was that it wasn’t low-end Lumia, and for its $650 price tag we expected a lot more. Microsoft might not be putting … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by FlashChat.Everyone knows why company group chats are great. Here are TNW we love our Slack channels. General announcements, LOL and discussing the ever-important “Who’s making drinks this Friday?” convos. But sometimes, you want an app that allows … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced a deal to bundle its Android apps on Cyanogen OS last year. The deal includes deep integration of Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant, allowing it to replace Google Now functionality. We’ve heard a lot about this partnership, but Cyanogen is now demonstratin … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — Remember the FLIR One thermal camera that attached to your phone, giving it thermal vision capabilities? A new rugged phone from Cat has a similar camera built in. The company showed off a prototype of the device a day ahead of Mobile World Congress on Sunday, and tho … | Continue reading
Jide, the company behind the desktop-optimized fork of Android called Remix OS, has announced that the platform is being updated to support a whole range of old hardware, as well as bringing new features and squashing bugs. While last month’s announcement brought an alpha version … | Continue reading
Jason Fried doesn’t do alarm clocks. Hasn’t done for years and years. He lives about three miles from Basecamp’s Washington Boulevard, Chicago address and says that he doesn’t need any help in waking up in time for work. There’s isn’t a clock beside his bed to confirm the time, w … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Anthony Davis dropped a NBA season-high 59 points on the Detroit Pistons HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Anthony Davis served up a reminder Sunday of why so many NBA pundits and observers pegged this season as his opportunity to take his game to the next level. His 59-point, 20-r … | Continue reading
Ashley Carroll and Arjun Sethi never thought they’d be working as venture capitalists. Yet in the last year, both have landed at Social Capital, a 4.5-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based firm that incubates and invests in companies in healthcare, education, financial services, mobile … | Continue reading