Tokyo-based BizReach, the Japanese company providing an online talent search platform under the same name, announced today that it has fundraised about 3.73 billion yen (about $32.9 million) in the second funding round. This round was led by YJ Capital, the investment arm of Yaho … | Continue reading
In 2016, eMarketer estimates, digital ad spending will make up 35.8% of total media ad spending in the US, just 1 percentage point below the share for TV. That 1 percentage point adds up to about $1.78 billion, but a new eMarketer report explores how digital is catching up. | Continue reading
While the internet of things (IoT) is changing the automotive industry, most young US internet users still prefer a traditional car to a self-driving vehicle, according to October 2015 research. | Continue reading
Smartphone penetration in France has steadily grown quarter by quarter over the past two years. In Q4 2013, 64.1% of internet users in France were smartphone users; in Q4 2014, that figure rose to 66.0%; and in Q4 2015 69.2% of internet users were also smartphone users. | Continue reading
Internet usage is higher in China among men than among women, according to our latest forecast of internet usage around the world. And, in turn, men outnumber women in the digital population of the country. | Continue reading
Mothers may be in the driver's seat when it comes to making household purchases, but that doesn’t mean fathers aren’t taking part in the decision-making. For brand messaging to resonate with the modern dad, marketing and advertising content should reflect his expa … | Continue reading
Uber’s developer team has unveiled a Ride Request “widget”. The on-demand private car service introduced today a widget — essentially an SDK — that directly brings the Uber service right into third-party apps, eliminating any deep-linking. Although it’ll be available worldwide, t … | Continue reading
Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor 2 seems like it's a thing that's happening as the title was leaked via a stuntwoman's curriculum vitae.As discovered by NerdLeaks, the actress listed her role as "stunt/acting" for the yet-to-be-announced title and noted Blur as the employer. Blur S … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been trending higher recently, moving above a rising channel on its 1-hour time frame. Price is now testing the channel support near $410 and a bounce could take it back to the top at $430. Technical indicators are suggesting that fu … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price managed to trade higher once again after a minor dip, but failed to clear the $11.80 resistance area. There were a couple of attempts to break the stated level, but the bears managed to defend it successfully. There is a bullish trend line formed on … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The Justice Department this week withdrew a similar … | Continue reading
When it comes to writing social media posts it’s important to make them engaging, entertaining and interactive to enhance audience participation and interaction. The following is a guide on how to craft ridiculously engaging social media updates that will help increase your follo … | Continue reading
Microsoft's largest event of the year is about to get underway.The company's annual Build developer conference kicks off Wednesday in San Francisco and we're looking forward to two jam-packed keynotes with updates around Hololens, Windows and Microsoft's A.I. efforts, as well as … | Continue reading
Ignore Snapchat at your own peril. It’s a lot more than sexts and ephemeral photos. Today’s Chat 2.0 update makes Snapchat a competitor to your phone itself. What started as an app for horny high school kids has blossomed into the most vibrant communication platform on the market … | Continue reading
The NCAA has decided to broadcast the most important part of this year's college basketball tournament, the Final Four, in virtual reality, for the first timePresented as a partnership between the NCAA, CBS and Oculus, the live stream event will be produced by VR production house … | Continue reading
If you're planning on hailing an UberX in Sydney or Melbourne in Australia this week, your ride could get a little boost thanks to free Wi-Fi and a super-fast mobile charger.In partnership with Australian telecommunications company Optus, Uber will soon trial 4G Wi-Fi in 100 Uber … | Continue reading
Virtual reality is out. It exists. You can buy at least one of the major headsets. Unfortunately, the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive are nowhere near the holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but you can simulate being in that simulator. The Vive, which HTC built with Steam … | Continue reading
Our team has been active as investors in the Internet of Things and hardware space over the past two years. We’ve read pitches from hundreds of companies, met with dozens, read hundreds of research reports and spoken with various experts. We’ve invested in six IoT/hardware compan … | Continue reading
Airbnb has begun rolling out a new feature giving some hosts the ability to add others to help manage their listings. Called Associated Hosts, it’ll be available to a “small percentage of global hosts,” although the company declined to specify what criteria was used to select the … | Continue reading
Apple's battle with the FBI in San Bernardino may be over, but the iPhone wars continueEven after the FBI gave up on getting a judge to compel Apple to hack the San Bernardino shooter's work-issued iPhone, the tech company is still bogged down in orders to assist authorities in u … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Extreme Gear ever since spotting it for the first time back in late January, but today is the day that Zero Games' Extreme Gear: Demolition Arena [Free] has finally arrived in the App Store. If you haven't been following along, Extreme Gear is … | 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
On-demand streaming music is inevitable, so Spotify is taking whatever fuel it can get to win the race against Apple. Whoever can sign up customers faster to consume their data and network effect could earn money off them for a long, long time. So it makes sense that Spotify woul … | Continue reading
Just north of London, one of the world's most unusual aircraft is taking shape. Hybrid Air Vehicles is trying to bring gas-filled blimps back into style with the launch of its Airlander 10. When will we see blimps flying commercially? As early as the end of the decade, reports Ro … | Continue reading
Newly unsealed National Hockey League emails show executives including commissioner Gary Bettman, discussing the link between fighting, concussions and "personal tragedies," following the deaths of three NHL enforcers. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that they are rolling out full minute video support on their popular social media app. | Continue reading
The NCAA has announced that the Final Four and National Championship will be broadcast in live VR to owners of the Samsung Gear VR. | Continue reading
Noodlecake Games and Jan Ilavsky's Hyperbolic Magnetism are set to release Chameleon Run next week on April 14th for iOS. The gang got to see it at GDC, but now you'll get to play this color-switching runner for yourself real soon. You'll be switching colors to land on the proper … | Continue reading
Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have teamed up with over 80 CEOs, as well as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC to add their signatures to a letter calling for the repeal of House Bill 2. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign identified some … | Continue reading
Not content to simply announce the long awaited-arrival of the Oculus Rift to consumers, company founder Palmer Luckey and Facebook (the parent company of Oculus) founder Mark Zuckerberg both engaged in unusually direct presentations to the public this week.See also: Oculus Rift … | Continue reading
Sony is set to debut Ultra, its new streaming service, on April 4. But if you’re planning to binge-watch 4K movies on Ultra, you might want to prepare your wallet. Sony has announced it will charge customers $30 a movie to stream in 4K on Ultra. According to Buzzfeed, its initial … | Continue reading
Snapchat Chat 2.0 is a hot-swapping, multimedia approach that is sure to confuse the hell out of anyone older than thirty, but the younger crowd will probably love it. | Continue reading
Pinterest is making moves to keep more people and brands on the site. The company introduced on Tuesday a new feature called How-to Pins, allowing companies to create and share pins with DIY instructions.The feature, which is a new take on its existing Rich Pins feature for brand … | Continue reading
The CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Google, Dropbox, and Tumblr joined more than 80 other company executives in urging Pat McCrory, the governor of North Carolina, to repeal a law that allows for discrimination against LGBT people. In the letter sent today, the CEOs write that the … | Continue reading
If you've been patiently waiting to see and hear more about Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Legends CCG, I'm afraid you'll have to wait at least a bit longer. According to Pete Hines, VP of marketing at Bethesda, they are getting closer to talking about it and showing the game, but … | Continue reading
There is new research out this week that will shake up old notions about how business-to-business brands should be using social media. A report by intelligence platform TrackMaven shows LinkedIn isn’t the most effective platform to drive engagement — but you might be surprised to … | Continue reading
There is still life in the unicorn funding world. The swath of negative articles in the past six months about the coming demise of unicorns apparently didn’t keep investors from joining the bandwagon. Even funds like Fidelity, which saw major mark-downs in its portfolio, made one … | Continue reading
The $120 Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro is almost identical to its non-professional forerunner save for the addition of a fingerprint sensor. | Continue reading
“Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective,” says Peter Drucker. The subject of The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done is how we can manage our self for effectiveness. Half of the battle in managing ourselves is abo … | Continue reading
If screaming at your TV screen and flicking virtual basketballs on Facebook Messenger aren’t enough excitement for this March Madness, you can take it to the next level this weekend with the addition of virtual reality. The NCAA has announced that the upcoming Final Four games wi … | Continue reading
You can’t time travel to a future when Oculus has already delivered your headset, but you have some other options available — if your bank account is healthy. The consumer version of the Rift that started arriving yesterday to people who backed the original crowdfunding campaign … | Continue reading
J.J. Abrams is riding high after the success of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and is getting ready for his next producing gig.TheWrap reports that Selma's David Oyelowo and Concussion's Gugu Mbatha-Raw have been tapped to costar in sci-fi thriller God Particle. Abrams' Bad Robot will prod … | Continue reading
Actress Patty Duke has died at age 69. Known for playing Helen Keller in a Broadway production of "The Miracle Worker," she later reprised the role in a film version of the play, winning an Academy award for best supporting actress. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Museums offer a space to admire, critique and reflect on the work of artists past and present, but sometimes we forget about the joys of art and history amidst the ease of social media satiation. So museums are bringing it all to you on Twitter, Vine and Periscope for Museum Week … | Continue reading
The NCAA has announced that this weekend's Final Four and National Championship games will be live-streamed in virtual reality. Fans who own a Samsung Gear VR will be able to watch each game from a courtside perspective for free by downloading the NCAA March Madness Live app in t … | Continue reading
CFTC's J Christopher Giancarlo said today that he believes his agency should reexamine existing rules for distributed ledger technology. | Continue reading
A finance executive fell victim to a phishing scam that saw the Los Angeles-based maker of children’s toys wire a cool $3 million to Chinese hackers. Expertly timed during a period of corporate change, the email hit the inbox of the unnamed executive and requested a new vendor pa … | Continue reading