As noted in yesterday’s analysis, we got a big move over the weekend – one that served to offer up fresh highs in the bitcoin price on Sunday. More often than not, successive to a large move like this, action in the bitcoin price will lay relatively flat for 24 hours, as markets … | Continue reading
Boom Technolog, ein Startup aus den USA, hat sich der Entwicklung von Ultraschallflugzeugen verschrieben. Die waren immer unrentabel und nach dem dramatischen Absturz der Concorde auch nicht mehr im kommerziellen Betrieb, auch wenn der Traum des sc... | Continue reading
What if Alan Wake's pulpy main character and shlocky story were a 1980s LucasArts adventure game?Remedy's cult classic fits the genre perfectly, as demonstrated in an authentic-feeling 2D take which has popped up on YouTube.Titled Alan Lake, the game is a loving parody of the ori … | Continue reading
Umbo CV has raised a $2.8 million seed round for its security cameras, which use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity and prevent crimes before they happen. The Taipei- and San Francisco-based startup’s funding was led by AppWorks Ventures, with participation f … | Continue reading
Samsung has officially launched Samsung Pay in China. The South Korean company has partnered with state-backed China UnionPay for the launch — the association that controls all card payments in the country, and that worked with Apple to launch Apple Pay there last month. As the w … | Continue reading
We all know Jason Statham for the muscular, perpetually frowning characters that he plays in action movies. From April 1, no foolin’, we’ll also know him as the star of LG’s promo campaign for the launch of the G5. And it looks like a doozy. | Continue reading
Japan’s Rakuten is joining e-commerce giants Amazon and Alibaba with a foray into drones. The Tokyo-based company, Japan’s largest e-commerce firm, revealed this week that it has invested in a done maker and it revealed plans to begin field trials in a unlucky place… the golf cou … | Continue reading
We usually think of bacteria, molds, and fungi as unwelcome visitors in the kitchen, but in restaurants worldwide, chefs--famous and acclaimed ones at that--are using microbes to create new flavors, reveals Nature Microbiology.Arielle Johnson, author of the article and a chemist … | Continue reading
Es scheint einen großen Markt für das iPhone SE zu geben. Auch wenn das Interesse – ergo die Verkaufszahlen – von Land zu Land sehr unterschiedlich sein dürften: Für China hat CNBC Zahlen zu den Vorbestellungen gesa... | Continue reading
The organisers of Secret Garden Party are to host a space-themed water fight at a secret London location on 1 May. | Continue reading
Crown was named the winner of Excel London's coveted Great Agency Bake Off 2016 competition last Wednesday (23 March). | Continue reading
First time out I was a clumsy ritualist, able to conjure gravity wells and teleport dashes without a clue regarding how to really use them. I staggered around the forest as I tried to get my bearings. I picked a bad fight with a blonde wolf and I befriended a cat. I was known to … | Continue reading
Samsung Browser has recently been updated to version 4.0, and today the Google Play Store page adds a long list of supported handsets. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE — Samsung has announced a spate of mobile payments services in Asia, with the most fanfare given to its tap-to-pay Samsung Pay service opening in China. At the same time, Singaporeans will get a more limited — but certainly crucial part of the mobile payment picture — d … | Continue reading
Schon in der zweiten April-Woche will BQ mit der Auslieferung der Ubuntu-Variante des Aquaris M10 beginnen. Das Tablet, das im Rahmen des MWC im Februar angekündigt worden war, erscheint in zwei Varianten: mit 720p- oder einem 1080p-Display. D... | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of “ransomware” virus used by hackers for extortion. “We need your help!” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a confidential “Fl … | Continue reading
After announcing plans to expand its mobile payment service to Australia, Brazil and Singapore earlier this year, Samsung has launched Samsung Pay in its largest market yet: China. The tech giant is working with UnionPay to bring its service to users of Samsung phones in China. I … | Continue reading
Invnt has appointed Matt Schrader as its managing director of strategic accounts, reporting into Scott Cullather, the agency's global managing partner. | Continue reading
In my experience, LinkedIn is one of the most underutilized social media channels. It’s not just a resume channel, but it doesn’t work like other popular social media channels like Facebook. LinkedIn tailors to a very specific audience. If you’re wondering, “what social media cha … | Continue reading
Samsung has brought its mobile payment service to China, thanks to a partnership with the local bank card organization China UnionPay (CUP). While this is a milestone for the electronics manufacturer, it comes at a time when the payment space has become more crowded in the countr … | Continue reading
Following the withdrawal of a court order for Apple to help crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone after the FBI said it had managed to unlock it on its own, the company has issued a statement, which reads as follows: From the beginning, we objected to the FBI’s demand that Ap … | Continue reading
Key Points Bitcoin price continued to move higher against the US Dollar, and my buy dips idea highlighted in yesterday’s post worked perfectly. The price cleared a bearish trend line formed on the hourly chart (data feed from Bitstamp), and looks set for more gains. The price alm … | Continue reading
Apparently, the Un-carrier is looking to introduce some new Simple Choice plans that offer data-only and come with no voice minute allotment. | Continue reading
Samsung Pay is now available in China, about six weeks after competitor Apple Pay launched there. Read More | Continue reading
Tokyo-based App-CM, the Japanese startup developing in-line video ads platform for smartphones, today announced that it has secured about $140 million yen (about $1.2 million) from Yeahmobi and several angel investors in a series A round. Yeahmobi is one of the world’s largest ad … | Continue reading
We constantly hear there are more seed and early stage funds now than ever before and more angels willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. Until recently this explosion in the early stage funding environment really was a concern. Still, some firms, and the … | Continue reading
Digital ad spending in Latin America is set to reach new heights this year, according to our latest forecast for ad spending around the world. In Mexico, for example, digital will account for nearly a quarter of total media ad spending this year. | Continue reading
Client-side marketers in Southeast Asia are dissatisfied with their current marketing efforts. A perceived lack of agency capabilities in the areas of PR, creative and digital, as well as gaps in media audience measurement, are reported as key shortcomings. | Continue reading
Programmatic advertising, an automated method of buying, selling or fulfilling advertising, already accounts for more than half of US digital display ad spending. Rapid growth and adoption of programmatic advertising in areas such as video and mobile are trends in their own right … | Continue reading
Internet users often claim not to like ad targeting, yet also say they like clicking on ads for products and services they need. College students, for example, say those are the most attractive social media ads to click on. | Continue reading
The retailers that see the most success on Facebook have better interaction rates than the leaders of any other industry, according to 2015 research. But the average retailer with a Facebook presence is doing notably worse—and worse than other verticals. | Continue reading
The tablet population in Central and Eastern Europe will reach nearly 80 million this year, eMarketer estimates, as the markets in Turkey, the Czech Republic and Russia continue growing at double-digit rates. | Continue reading
Key Highlights I highlighted that $11.00 represents a major resistance area for Ethereum price, but the bulls managed to break it. The price also moved above the upper bearish trend line of the descending channel pattern formed on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/US … | Continue reading
Although Nintendo proper is just now dipping their toe into the mobile market with Miitomo, the Pokemon Company has been around for a while now. At first, they were only producing Apps that more or less only existed to promote the brand, like the Pokedex or Pokemon TV, but last y … | Continue reading
The basic specs and price of Tesla's budget electric vehicle offering, the Model 3, have yet to be released, but that hasn't stopped one eager man from lining up for the chance to put his name down to buy one.Australian man Andreas Stephens claimed first place in line at Sydney's … | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift has been a long time coming. After delays upon delays, customers finally started receiving their Rift consumer units today, and Oculus will continue working to fulfill pre-orders of their virtual reality headset which is currently back-ordered until July. I’ve spe … | Continue reading
The Philippines is getting a new “Thrilla in Manila” — its first major gaming studio. Ubisoft unveils its new Ubisoft Philippines studio today. It’s base is Santa Rosa Laguna, a suburb that’s 24 miles south of Manila. It’s an outgrowth of the French publisher’s operation in Singa … | Continue reading
People like thought leaders. To be a thought leader in your industry you must connect to your audiences with ideas that are thought-provoking and innovative. Your company must continuously strive to broaden your connections and brand, both within your industry and outside of it. | Continue reading
We’re pretty much expecting Tesla Model 3 enthusiasm to build to a fever pitch over the coming week. Thursday, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk will reveal the design of the $35,000, 200-mile electric car that the company plans to use to vault itself into sales of hundreds of thousands … | Continue reading
The dispute between the FBI and Apple over an iPhone connected to the San Bernardino terrorist shootings came to an unexpected end earlier today, as the FBI revealed it had managed to break into the phone without Apple's assistance. Details of how exactly it achieved this remain … | Continue reading
I received an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset today, and the set-up was quite easy. That’s a good omen as the age of VR kicks off with the launch today of the Oculus Rift on the Windows PC. It helped that I had an Oculus-ready PC, or a PC with a high-end 3D graphics chip […] | Continue reading
If you really don't use the "phone" part of your phone any more, T-Mobile may have something in store for you. TmoNews reports that the carrier will launch a range of plans called Simple Choice Data Only on March 30; the plans include unlimited texting but don't come with any voi … | Continue reading
Today, a $2.3 million private-public partnership called the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) is releasing its first major report, in collaboration with Village Capital, a seed-stage accelerator that operates development programs for early-stage entrepreneurs around t … | Continue reading
The Russian Finance Ministry has long taken a determined hardline stance against bitcoin and other digital currencies, deemed by the regulator as... | Continue reading
One of the biggest charges levied against unicorn science startup Theranos is that its ground-breaking technology — which supposedly requires a fractional amount of blood — is neither reliable nor accurate compared to traditional blood tests. And in the first independent study pu … | Continue reading
Join us for discussion on Pokemon Go, LA, Hollywood, AMOLED displays and the new iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7. Enjoy AA Podcast 056. | Continue reading
The DTCC has announced it will test a distributed ledger solution for managing repurchase (repo) agreements. | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? You can still tap into the insights shared recently by VB analyst Jon Cifuentes and guest panelist Realtor.com CMO Nate Johnson as they show how to how to break through the inbox instead of getting banished to email purgatory. Access the webinar on demand r … | Continue reading