With the exception of China, Russia and a few other countries, Facebook continues to dominate the social network scene in major markets worldwide. The popularity of newer social networks like Instagram is increasing rapidly, but users tend to adopt those platforms in addition to … | Continue reading
Marketers using location data to build and target audience segments should be wary of inaccuracies that can derail their efforts. eMarketer spoke with Steven Rosenblatt, president of foursquare, about the right questions to ask about data accuracy. | Continue reading
Nearly half of millennials used more paperless discounts in Q3 2015 than they had over the previous period of time in 2014. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price appears to be breaking below the short-term channel support and might be due to test the bottom of the larger channel on the 4-hour time frame. Still, a bounce back to the short-term channel resistance might take place, as reversal candl … | Continue reading
Likely eyeing the recent success of shows such as Making a Murderer, The Jinx, and American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson, CBS has ordered its own true crime anthology series. The as-yet unnamed show will be unscripted, and feature a new case every season, starting wit … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price continued to trade down and even broke this week’s low to test the $9.90 area. My idea of selling for the last two times worked perfectly, as the highlighted resistance area near the 100 hourly simple moving average played well. Yesterday’s highlight … | Continue reading
Potential employers are using the web to make instant decision about you based on what they find online. So how do you create the perfect digital first impression? Take a look at this infographic to find out. | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift is one hell of a piece of hardware, but it does have one weird shortcoming: some light leaks in around the nose area. Thankfully, one of the brightest minds in the industry has stepped in with a … well, he’s calling it “a solution.” Sony Worldwide Studios presiden … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is a difficult technology to demonstrate to people, but mixed reality is changing that. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy thing to pull off, though. To promote the launch of Job Simulator and Fantastic Contraption for the HTC Vive VR headset, videographer Kert Gartne … | Continue reading
Seven Wall Street firms including four global banks have announced the successful testing of blockchain technology used for credit default swaps’ trading process in post-trade lifecycle events, a market wherein outstanding contracts amount to in the trillions of dollars. In a new … | Continue reading
Microsoft Garage, the company's experimental app-making outfit, released its Hub Keyboard app on iOS today following an Android release back in February. Hub Keyboard mixes a neat minimal design with some powerful attachment and search buttons on top. For instance, you can dig th … | Continue reading
Market researcher Strategy Analytics said it expects global virtual reality headset revenues will reach $895 million in 2016. About 77 percent of that value will be accounted for by newly launched premium devices from Oculus, HTC and Sony. These three brands however will only acc … | Continue reading
Toronto Raptors forward DeMarre Carroll has returned from right knee surgery after missing 41 games. | Continue reading
HTC announced details of how it will roll out the HTC Vive virtual reality headset to retailers. HTC said that the new VR product — which lets you immerse yourself in a virtual environment — will debut in Microsoft Stores and GameStop locations throughout the U.S. and Canada. Tha … | Continue reading
The official Dark Souls Twitter account has taken a page from the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account and gone bananas with today's meme de jour. We… | Continue reading
Two high-end virtual reality devices have launched, and now we live in a world where we need to figure out how these headsets fit into our lives. And, at least when it comes to the top-of-the-line models, that probably won’t include a lot of in-game advertising. Oculus VR told de … | Continue reading
Bitcoin company itBit has ceased operation in Texas, once thought of as one of the most bitcoin friendly states in the United States. | Continue reading
“Finally” is one of those words that gets overused in tech news stories, but I think it’s fair to say that it’s taken a pretty long time for Reddit to release its first official, native apps for iOS and Android. Until now, the company has made do with Alien Blue, which started ou … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload. This week, we're continuing our little monthly project looking at the history of handheld RPGs. That means that we will not be taking a look at a specific RPG from the App Store's past this time around. Last month, we looked a … | Continue reading
The little known sci-fi first-person stealth adventure Consortium looks to be getting a sequel as the crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up has already breezed past the halfway point of its $300k Fig goal in only a day.If you're like me, you probably hadn't heard of Consortium. L … | Continue reading
Of all the practices implemented to improve code quality, such as unit testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment, daily stand-ups, I find the most important one is doing proper code reviews. Code reviews have a lot of advantages: It’s much easier to spot problems wit … | Continue reading
Amazon today announced that the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Andy Jassy, has finally been promoted to chief executive of that Amazon business unit. AWS is now the market leader of the public cloud business, and Jassy has been the face of it. Now Jassy is getting his very we … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
I've been in love with top-down shooters for decades, and when the iPhone came along it's a genre that proved to translate extremely well to the touchscreen. Feral Fury is an upcoming top-down shooter from two Norwegian developers who were inspired to make an "Isaac-like" dungeon … | Continue reading
Flat video is so last century, and GoPro is pulling out all the stops. Through a series of product launches — most recently the new Omni — the company signals that it has your back in the battle against bi-dimensional consumption of moving pictures. The strategy confirms the obvi … | Continue reading
Toyota's Setsuna concept is more than an all-wood roadster concept. The Japanese automaker claims it's a time machine, too.SEE ALSO: The original Jeep was patented 75 years ago todayNo, that doesn't mean that it can travel through time. I mean, it does, but just like how you and … | Continue reading
Got a grand burning a hole in your pocket? You could get a new laptop — or you could send this tiny, palm-sized satellite to space. That’s what a team of engineers at Arizona State hope, anyway: their “Femtosats” are meant to be as cheap a space-bound platform as has ever been de … | Continue reading
Uber is on the hook for $10 million after settling a California lawsuit over its misleading statements regarding driver background checks. In 2014, the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco sued the ride-hailing company for claiming its background checks were the most thorough … | Continue reading
With everything else quickly joining the connected realm, it’s only a matter of time before your ratty old couch joins the party. Lift-Bit isn’t the only connected furniture in town, although it might be the most unique due to its shape-shifting design. To achieve this, each piec … | Continue reading
Do you use your Android Wear smartwatch as a camera remote for your Android Phone or tablet? If not, follow along this Android customization to see how. | Continue reading
We told you early last month that secondary businesses have been inundated with sellers in recent months, and that’s not expected to change anytime soon. Nary a tech company went public in the first quarter. There’s also the issue of falling valuations, which has both institution … | Continue reading
Turbo's Super Senso, a promising turn-based strategy game that we've previewed before, has picked up an interesting publisher in GungHo. The publisher of Puzzle and Dragons [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puzzle-dragons-english/id563474464?mt=8"] and the upcoming G … | Continue reading
It seems there is still a long road to go before Lyft can settle a dispute with drivers over proper worker classification. As Bloomberg reports, a federal judge rejected the company’s attempt to settle with drivers as being ‘glaringly inadequate.’ All told, Lyft tried to settle w … | Continue reading
How do you begin the process of developing buyer personas for your manufacturing business? These tips will help you get started. | Continue reading
One week into the pre-order process, Tesla Motors says it has received more than 325,000 fully refundable pre-orders for its mass-market Model 3. That's more cars than it has ever produced.SEE ALSO: 7 people who are perfectly happy to wait 2 years for their Tesla Model 3Intriguin … | Continue reading
May is right around the corner, and soon thousands of innovators, investors and entrepreneurs will make their way to Brooklyn for TechCrunch Disrupt. While the main event may be the conference that runs from May 9-11, one of our favorite parts of Disrupt is the Hackathon that tak … | Continue reading
If you login to your Apple developer account today, it may look a little different. It seems Apple has refreshed the page, though it’s not clear if the change affects everyone immediately. The main portion of the screen has an iTunes Connect button as well as a direct link to man … | Continue reading
Mashable founder and CEO Pete Cashmore (pictured above) announced layoffs today in a company-wide email that he also posted on LinkedIn. As part of the cuts, Executive Editor Jim Roberts and Chief Revenue Officer Seth Robin will be leaving the company. Politico reports that the l … | Continue reading
Brave Software responds to a cease-and-desist letter it received from a newspaper association about its ad-blocking software. | Continue reading
The desktop version of Edward Snowden’s favored end-to-end messaging system, Signal, is now available to anyone who wants to check it out. Open Whisper Systems announced the desktop version back in December, but until today it was invite-only. Read More | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Guide to Cat Ownership Source: The Onion Why we like it: If you have a cat, chances are you'll agree with most things being taught here. If you don't, but are about to get one, you'll have a good look into what's to come. This custom feature in The Onion, pr … | Continue reading
Virtual reality tech finally works and consumers are buying into it, but the biggest hurdle now is figuring out shipping logistics. The HTC Vive VR headset is the latest device to suffer delays, and the Taiwanese manufacturing company has taken to its blog to answer some question … | Continue reading
If you enjoyed Lara Croft GO [$4.99] - or even Hitman GO [$4.99] - I think you will enjoy this GDC talk by Antoine Routon of Square Enix Montreal. Routon talks about how Hitman GO came about, and then how they went from there to making Lara Croft GO. He talks about how their init … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger will soon have more bots. According to a leaked slide deck, the company will announce a bot platform for its chat service at next week’s F8 conference. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is seeding APIs to developers that allow them to build bots for Messenger a … | Continue reading
At a game on Tuesday night, the Sacramento Kings held the National Basketball League’s first ever pitch competition. Four local companies (which were already narrowed down from 32 semi-finalists, and about 100 applicants) pitched to the entire stadium, which voted on Twitter for … | Continue reading
Outlook is seeking to set itself up as a kind of app-unifier: a go-to hub that lets you keep track of all the things on your itinerary. | Continue reading
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Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has some questions for Oculus. The U.S. senator sent a letter this morning to Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe to inquire about how his virtual reality company is utilizing and sharing customers’ personal data. While Sen. Franken called VR technology “an excitin … | Continue reading