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
It’s time for the virtual reality showdown you’ve all been waiting for: the Oculus Rift vs. the Virtual Boy. Sure, 20 years of technological advancements separate the two — and many consider the Virtual Boy to be one of worst products that Nintendo has ever made — but GamesBeat … | Continue reading
In 1979, Brian Eno gave a lecture at the inaugural New Music America Festival in New York on a very Brian Eno-ish topic. Titled “The Recording Studio as a Compositional Tool,” it is most definitely worth a listen or a read. In the lecture, Eno discusses the ever-evolving relation … | Continue reading
Some of my favorite mobile games are ones that can be played with one hand in quick sessions. After all, if you have your phone always with you, then why not fill any empty gaps by playing a game? I love deeper experiences as well, but the ones I keep coming back to are the | Continue reading
The ‘Mars’ speaker by crazybaby is a futuristic speaker that would look right at home in a Sci-Fi movie. The cylindrical base acts as both a control unit and a subwoofer, while the top looks like a flying saucer and levitates two to three inches above the base while providing 360 … | Continue reading
If the pre-launch campaign for the Huawei P9 were a cruise ship, you’d probably want to pass on tickets because this thing has been as leaky as the Titanic. | Continue reading
Virtual reality is a strange place where anything can happen, and this has led Valve to come up with a fun way to acclimate people to the new technology. Valve, the company that operates the Steam digital-distribution platform for PC games, has updated its SteamVR software that p … | Continue reading
What do you call it when you have an app that lets your friends take a photo of you, using your own phone? It’s not a selfie… It’s not a portrait… Let’s call it a someone elsie. Shootlr today launched an iOS and Android app that is attempting to take this brave new frontier of ph … | Continue reading
Buyer's remorse be gone! Tesla will now upgrade your Tesla P90D with "Insane" acceleration mode up to "Ludicrous" for just $10,000*.SEE ALSO: The MX-5 RF is a surprising showstopper from MazdaOn the Tesla Gear website, current owners of P90D (Performance 90 kilo-Watt-hour dual-mo … | Continue reading
Good news for those of y'all who need a game where you smash stuff with a giant spiked ball behind your car: Flail Rider arrives on March 31st. The game, inspired by a Ludum Dare project by developer Catpancake and published by BulkyPix, has you trying to wreck up one of three di … | Continue reading
The LG G5 looks nearly physically identical to its big brother, but compromises have been made in regards to some of its components. | Continue reading
What's better than a brand-new Pontiac Trans Am? A brand-new Trans Am signed by Burt Reynolds, of course.SEE ALSO: Lincoln Navigator Concept SUV: Like a sailboat on four wheelsThankfully, that's what Trans Am Depot will do — a Floridian company keen to continue the legacy of Gene … | Continue reading
Super Mario World is one of the most beloved games ever made, and that has led to fans breaking the game open in order to figure out how they can change it and manipulate it. And now someone has taken this to an extreme new high. YouTube personality SethBling has uploaded a new v … | Continue reading
Even though we're still six months away from the next iPhone (which will probably be called the iPhone 7), rumors are already starting to appear about the next iPhone. You know, the one that won't be out until 2017.I love a good Apple rumor as much as the next person, but this is … | Continue reading
After weeks of back and forth, it appears that the FBI vs Apple saga ends today, at least in the federal courtroom that started it all. The US Government officially said that it has gained access to San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c and is now asking the court … | Continue reading
The FBI has unlocked Farook’s iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shooting using an alternative method that didn’t involve Apple. Given this new development, the Department of Justice is dropping the case. The government has been evasive about this alternative method, but it … | Continue reading
A YouTuber called SethBling just combined Super Mario World and Flappy Bird. Why? We don’t know. But it’s how that’s truly amazing. Before you roll your eyes thinking it’s a simple mock-up or sprite switch, it turns out the process is way more involved than you might expect: Seth … | Continue reading
After years of build up and pre-release developer kits, the first deliveries of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset started arriving this morning. Join us as we take our first steps into this crazy new future we’re in, won’t you? Read More | Continue reading
The U.S. government today officially said it has gotten into San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c and it is now asking the court to vacate the court’s original order to compel Apple to help the government unlock the phone. The government has issued a proposed ord … | Continue reading
Deadpool, in a development few could have seen coming, is now the top-earning R-rated movie in cinema history. The unlikely hit, starring Ryan Reynolds as the "Merc with a Mouth," has so far earned $746 million dollars globally, putting it ahead of 2003's The Matrix Reloaded, whi … | Continue reading