When you find yourself in the middle of the Nevada desert, on a 100-degree day, you wonder: who in the world would build something here?Elon Musk, of course.And so I’m here in the city of Sparks, outside of Reno, because of Musk’s dream — his "Master Plan" for Tesla, to be specif … | Continue reading
Minecraft for Windows 10 will be adding support for the Oculus Rift VR headset in the "next few weeks." Microsoft and Mojang announced the news on the one-year anniversary of Minecraft’s release on Windows 10, confirming that it will be a free update. Windows isn’t the first plat … | Continue reading
Aspiring developers, rejoice! There’s no longer a need to scour the web for piecemeal tutorials on your desired programming training, thanks to The Hot and In-Demand Programming Bundle, a four-course introduction to key tools and languages necessary for opening the doors to your … | Continue reading
Sense has created an interactive experience for Hasbro's Transformers as part of a UK tour this summer. | Continue reading
Consider it a testament to the power of mobile that developers still want to make and release games for it, despite the challenges of selling on it. After all, when games are customary a third of their price on other platforms, it's no wonder that games are rarely announced first … | Continue reading
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), aka the Hyperloop company not currently embroiled in executive drama, announced today that it’s going to help build a train. Not a Hyperloop, mind you, but a conventional rail-based train – with a few tech twists.HTT’s upcoming project … | Continue reading
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General Management - Bots are transforming how businesses are interacting with and advertising to their customers. Here's a look at what bots can do for your brand. | Continue reading
Mobile - We've all heard the misconception that communicating over text via mobile decreases the personal touch. But, quite to the contrary, it's actually an effective, engaging way to connect when you're ... | Continue reading
Remember last week when late night host Stephen Colbert brought back the character of Stephen Colbert, the star of Comedy Central’s faux-conservative talk show The Colbert Report? Apparently Comedy Central’s lawyers do. During last night’s episode of the real Stephen Colbert’s cu … | Continue reading
OK, I get it: Regulation isn’t the most exciting subject in the world. But when red tape threatens our enjoyment of the digital services we’ve all grown to love, it may be a sign that we need to find better ways to ensure that consumers are well served and that competition is hea … | Continue reading
Emoji are getting closer and closer to becoming the language of the internet. LA-based art gallery, Cantor Fine Art, has been creating and sharing custom emoji based on various artists. Their Instagram features their emojified portraits referring to their personal style and artwo … | Continue reading
Illumina is one of the leading companies when it comes to DNA sequencing. And today, the company is announcing that Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is joining the board of directors. Read More | Continue reading
Nvidia’s had a year so far. Both its GTX 1080 and 1070 graphics cards brought the gamers to the yard and then it announced its impressive Titan X. It’s been a good year. Continuing that streak, the company announced two new professional GPUs this week: the P6000 and P5000. The P6 … | Continue reading
The Galaxy Note 7 is a few short weeks away but should you wait for it? Want to know how it compares to the S7 Edge? Find out in this new leak! | Continue reading
Everyone else has stickers, so why not Twitter? Making good on its promises last month that it would soon be launching a new way for users to decorate the photos they’re sharing across its network, Twitter has officially rolled out stickers, the company announced. With the launch … | Continue reading
According to the date but perhaps not the sky it's summer - so there's a summer sale on the PlayStation Store. It's under way now and there are some eye-catching bargains.You may still find cheaper prices in actual shops but these tags can't be far off. (Incidentally, our parent … | Continue reading
Oh, Snapchat: You're a growing channel, you have a lot of useful, real-time content, and you excel at reaching younger, up-and-coming professionals – but sometimes you just aren't easy for a business to use. | Continue reading
While a Mac is generally an all-inclusive computing experience, many people enjoy the features of Windows software, or find useful options in connecting to a peripheral Windows system. Instead of spending a chunk of money on a Windows license of using a virtual machine, simply pi … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go features four Pokémon which - up until now - were thought to only be obtainable in certain regions.Taurus can be caught in the wild in North America, for example, while Mr. Mime can be caught in Europe.Farfetch'd can be grabbed in Japan, while Kangaskhan can be capture … | Continue reading
Usually when you are among friends and make a joke there’s an opportunity to say ‘just kidding’ if they don’t get that you are joking. Online that’s harder. Last week, after watching the Pokémon Go phenomena explode we read reports of employers prohibiting their employees from pl … | Continue reading
You’re an analyst or business person who needs to constantly monitor important topics relevant to your sector and constantly switching between multiple apps, news sources, social media and platforms to do that. It’s pretty daunting and time-consuming. You also need to collaborate … | Continue reading
In this opinion piece, lawyer Stephen Palley argues a recent court decision that found bitcoin isn't money is unlikely to set precedent. | Continue reading
Jaunt, one of the bigger names in virtual reality filmmaking right now, has partnered with the e-sports league ESL to film a series of short 360-degree documentaries about its biggest tournaments. The first of those documentaries is called CLG: Win Everythin’ (typo intentional) a … | Continue reading
Oracle will acquire NetSuite for about $9.3 billion, or $109 per share in an all-cash deal, the companies announced Thursday. Both Oracle and NetSuite’s cloud service offerings aimed at enterprise customers will continue to operate and “coexist in the marketplace forever,” accord … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 won't be officially unveiled until August 2, but that didn't stop Samsung Korea from releasing the first ad for the device. The ad never really shows what the phone looks like, but it does hint at several new features, including water resistance, which wou … | Continue reading
Got a bright idea for a company, but need a co-founder? You’re about to start walking down a really complicated path, fraught with dangers behind every turn. Until very recently, there were two companies to help you along: CoFoundersLab and FounderDating. Until the former acquire … | Continue reading
Media Alert Contact Liz King – liz@lizkingevents.com Aaron Kaufman – aaron@fifthelementgroup.com Dahlia El Gazzar – dahlia@dahliaplus.com 28 July 2016 — Yesterday morning, via various outlets, a he… | Continue reading
Aaron Kaufman from Fifth Element Group Aaron Kaufman, CSEP works hard – and with extreme passion! As the President of Fifth Element Group, it is safe to say that Aaron is a rising international res… | Continue reading
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced today that it will build an “innovation train” for Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in Europe. The train will not be a super-fast hyperloop, in which pods are propelled through aluminum tubes at speeds of … | Continue reading
"Does the internet dream of itself?" is the logline for director Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. It's actually a collection of documentary vignettes exploring the history, power, purpose, and future of technology in the internet ag … | Continue reading
Read what one business learned—the hard way—about creating engaging, effective live chat customer support. | Continue reading
Today is the last day to get your tickets to Digital Commerce Summit, happening October 13-14, 2016, in Denver, CO. The last day unless you want to pay much more, that is. We’ve got great speakers, including Rand Fishkin, Tara Gentile, Jeff Walker, Laura Roeder of Edgar, Kevan Le … | Continue reading
Customer Behavior - How do consumers feel about seeing emojis in marketing messages? Do their feelings toward emojis change depending on the type of message in which the emojis are included? | Continue reading
From time-to-time here at TechCrunch, we see companies tackling problems or painpoints in a way that makes you wonder why it wasn’t done long ago. Seatfrog from Australia is one that gives me that feeling. Read More | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertainment begeht dieses Jahr seines 25stes Firmenjubiläum und da die Unternehmenslaune angesichts des neusten Blockbusters ziemlich gut sein dürfte, setzt man sich fröhlich selbst ein Denkmal in Form einer stattlichen Bronze-Skulptur,... | Continue reading
A letter to the FTC co-authored by executives from Consumer Reports, the Ralph Nader-founded Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Auto Safety, as well as a former NHTSA Administrator, asks that the federal regulator investigate Mercedes-Benz on the grounds a new TV ad overst … | Continue reading
Deborah Anderson-Bialis, the cofounder of pregnancy-focused tech startup FertilityIQ, is coming to Disrupt SF. After spending three years and over $70,000 to get pregnant, Anderson-Bialis and her partner Jake Bilas cofounded FertilityIQ, a centralized place for people to get revi … | Continue reading
“I remember everything,” Jason Bourne says in voiceover at the beginning of his latest movie. After three films in a row focused on Bourne (Matt Damon) trying to recover the memories of how he became an amnesiac CIA assassin (not counting 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, in which Bourne … | Continue reading
China's Taikang Life Insurance has bought a 13.5% stake in Sotheby's, becoming the largest shareholder of the New York-based auction company. Photo: ZUMA PRESS | Continue reading
Samsung is expected to launch the new Galaxy Tab S3 at IFA 2016 and both variants could be these two unannounced tablets that paid a visit to the FCC. | Continue reading
You might know what a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is. But if you’re like many people out there, you probably don’t use one. You should though. And when you finish this blog post, you’ll know why. A VPN is a private network established over the internet. That might sound compl … | Continue reading
Everyone’s already talking about Millennials. Congratulations! But what about their younger siblings? Get ready for the new generation of digital natives charging into the marketplace. In fact, the next generation is already here. Born in the late 1990s through the mid 2010s, we’ … | Continue reading
Michael Brenner, CEO of Marketing Insider Group, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss how paid promotion can energize your brand's content marketing campaign and grow your audience. | Continue reading
Mobile marketing automation (MMA) is how big businesses improve monetization, engage deeper with customers, and get you to come back, time and time again. We know the space well. We surveyed developers with over 900 million monthly average users to find the best mobile marketing … | Continue reading
I recently read a book called The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. There are a bunch of chapters in it. One of the chapters was about how in the future we won't really own much of anything, but we'll have access to everything. We'll just ask our apartment for what we want in the mornin … | Continue reading
Shopping via bots is nothing new, but Kip wants to make it as easy as entering a few emoji. The problem is, emojis aren’t very specific, and bots are pretty dumb. To start, Kip (already available for Slack) asks a few questions to try and get to know you better, but it’s not clea … | Continue reading