Despite a precipitous fall in its second weekend performance at the US box office, Warcraft has now become the most successful video game film ever.The movie bought in just $6.5 million in American theaters this past weekend (a fall of 73 percent compared to its $24 million openi … | Continue reading
The days of the 30-second restriction for videos on Twitter are over, Twitter announced on Tuesday alongside other coming changes to videos on the platform.SEE ALSO: Twitter's best tweets during this past weekTwitter users can now tweet videos up to 140 seconds long, matching the … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced a new standalone analytics app aiming to better serve its celebrity and power/marketing users, and — it surely hopes — eke out more activity on its platform in the process by making its highest profile users more effective tweeters. Read More | Continue reading
You can now share your live videos on Tumblr. The company has added publishing and discovery support for the increasingly prolific video format on its blogging platform, which means that you can now post your videos from YouTube, YouNow, Kanvas, and Upclose to your site. Android … | Continue reading
It’s the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. Time to load up with some cool apps and games to ward off the heat! | Continue reading
Tumblr this morning announced support for live video on its service, confirming our report from yesterday that such a move was in the works. The feature will allow Tumblr users to live stream video directly to their followers’ Dashboards, and will also send out push notifications … | Continue reading
People are often surprised when they hear that I earned my master of business administration degree, or MBA, as a side-hobby while I was a tenured professor at MIT. Even MIT’s human resources department was perplexed that I’d want to apply for the employee benefit to partially su … | Continue reading
Right on cue after yesterday’s ‘rumors’ Tumblr is launching live video. The surprising bit is how it all actually works. Instead of wasting time and money on its own live-streaming technology, Tumblr is simply integrating existing live video solutions. To start, the platform is l … | Continue reading
Tumblr is getting into live-streaming — but don't worry, it isn't launching yet another live-streaming platform. Instead, Tumblr will integrate with existing platforms, starting with YouTube, YouNow, Kanvas, and Upclose. Beginning today, you'll be able to share a live stream from … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe that there's only one episode left in season six of Game of Thrones, mainly because I have no memory of what my life was like before this season began. What did I do on Sundays? What did I think about for many, many hours at work? How did I steer conversation … | Continue reading
This is The Harper Spin, a weekly column from seasoned auto critic Jason H. Harper. He’s raced at Le Mans, crushed a car in a 50-ton tank, and now, he’s bringing his unique style to The Verge.Never underestimate humanity’s drive to pursue idiotic endeavors. Like that first guy wh … | Continue reading
If you have any nostalgia at all for interactive fiction, Hadean Lands is certainly worth your time and money. | Continue reading
Neue Fernseher haben viele praktische Funktionen. Sie können ins Internet oder aber das Smartphone kann als Fernbedienung benutzt werden. Dieses Feature nutzt eine türkische Frau aus, als ihr Ehemann sie aus dem Wohnzimmer wegschickt, als die... | Continue reading
Microsoft has launched its first mobile app for SharePoint, its suite of enterprise-focused team collaboration and content management tools. Microsoft is touting the new app as the “intranet in your pocket,” serving up easy access to SharePoint sites in the cloud or on company se … | Continue reading
An iOS app that claimed it could help people locate refugees lost at sea has been pulled from Apple's App Store following reports that it didn't actually work, The Guardian reports. The app, called I Sea, said it showed users real-time satellite footage of the Mediterranean Sea s … | Continue reading
This morning the Federal Aviation Administration unveiled "Part 107," a new set of rules to govern the use of drones by commercial operators. Before today any for-profit entity flying a drone — from real estate agents to farmers to photographers — had to have a pilot's license. T … | Continue reading
You can buy an unlocked BlackBerry Priv on eBay right now for just $299.99, less than half its retail price through carriers. | Continue reading
Back in April we gave away some codes for Paragon, Epic's new MOBA-shooter-thing. They were rather well received, so we're doing it again: we have another 1,000 Early Access keys available for nothing, which you can claim using the widget below. Each of these keys grants you acce … | Continue reading
Remember Rosie from the Jetsons? That’s what Fetch Robotics is building, but instead of dealing with housekeeping and Elroy, the robots are designed for warehouses and e-commerce fulfillment centers. The company was founded in 2014 and has since raised $23 million and started shi … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year again where I consider giving up all video game activities on my laptop due to it being too damn hot to touch. I bought one of those laptop cooling pads one year with some built-in fans, but that didn’t really work. The only real way to keep a CPU cool is s … | Continue reading
Adding digital media to your content marketing strategy can be an overwhelming task. CopyPress discusses the common digital media mistakes we see often.. | Continue reading
Career Management - Presentations are about much more than words said. They're about word choice, delivery, body language, hand gestures, and much more. So how do the presentation skills of Donald Trump and ... | Continue reading
When your BMW i3's battery finally conks out, you can use it at home as an energy storage system.SEE ALSO: Porsche employee calls Tesla's Ludicrous mode a 'facade,' report saysElectric vehicles' lithium-ion battery packs have a finite lifespan. However, just because a battery can … | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - More brands are jumping on the IoT bandwagon to create wearables that track data. But those products need to do more than focus on Internet connectivity; they should also be ... | Continue reading
CoSchedule's Social Campaigns feature makes it easy to organize and execute winning social media campaigns. Read how it can improve your workflow now. | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - Marketing is now data-driven, and if you're not informing marketing campaigns with data-derived insights, you will fall behind your competitors. Which is why CMOs and marketing teams need to collaborate ... | Continue reading
With the acquisition of most of Supercell, China’s Tencent will have an estimated 13 percent of the global $99 billion game business in 2016, according to market researcher Newzoo. Tencent, which also has a large social media business, is already the largest game company in reven … | Continue reading
Sprachcaffe Reisen GmbH: Frankfurt am Main (ots) - Mit Argentinien, Brasilien, Chile und Uruguay weitet Sprachcaffe Reisen sein Angebot auf Südamerika aus und bedient damit aufstrebende Trenddestinationen der kommenden Jahre. Bislang hatte sich das Unternehmen vor allem als ... | Continue reading
There's DLC, and then there's this DLC. Hadean Lands is an interactive fiction game done in the old adventure game style. There are no graphics. You si… | Continue reading
San Jose-based Fenox Venture Capital is launching a series of pitch competitions called the Startup World Cup, with a $1 million investment prize, in an effort to identify top entrepreneurial talent in 11 international markets according to the firm’s CEO and General Partner Aniz … | Continue reading
Investing in Customer Experience has not just become important for companies, but in fact has become quite necessary. | Continue reading
Instagram today hit 500 million monthly active users, of which 300 use it daily. That's up from 400 million in September. | Continue reading
Last year Red Hat, which has been mostly known for selling Linux in the enterprise became the first $2 billion open source company. Now it wants to be the first to $5 billion, but it might not be just Linux that gets it there. A couple of years ago Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst reco … | Continue reading
By Ben Leibowitz, Special to NBA.com LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers became the first team in NBA history to overcome a 3-1 Finals deficit to win a championship. James was the unanimous choice for Finals MVP after fueling this comeback and became just the third player ever to n … | Continue reading
I'm not a fist bumper. I just want to get that out of the way early on before you see me awkwardly fist bump Boss Key Productions co-founder, Cliff Bleszinski, at the end of this interview. Apparently, it's his thing. He fist bumps people, rather than shaking hands, to avoid pick … | Continue reading
Im August wird Amazon die erste exklusive Sport-Dokumentation ausstrahlen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei das American-Football-Team Arizona Cardinals. All or Nothing: A Season with the Arizona Cardinals nennt sich das Format und das Amazon Original wird... | Continue reading
No matter what industry you’re involved in, data analysis is an extremely valuable skill set which separates true leaders from daydreaming subordinates. With The Essential Data Analysis Bundle, you’ll develop deep familiarity with the vital role data analysis plays in high-level … | Continue reading
There are literally pages of data on how much visual images can increase engagement and response: If you have a piece of content, it's almost always a good idea to include a visual. Choosing that visual, however, isn't always easy – so let's break the process down into 10 tips fo … | Continue reading
Blinkist takes non-fiction books and offers them in an abridged format, allowing users to understand the key concepts and ideas of these books within 15 minutes via kindle, the mobile app or on the web. This month the company launched Blinkist Magazine, making it easy to explore … | Continue reading
Jahreszeiten Verlag, MERIAN: Hamburg (ots) - Für unzählige Deutsche ist Südschweden ein Traumziel. Jedes Jahr füllen sich im Sommer in Travemünde und Rostock die Fähren Richtung Trelleborg mit erwartungsfrohen Urlaubsgästen. Familien fühlen sich in der Heimat der ... | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that it now has 500 million users — two thirds (300 million) of whom use the photo- and video-sharing service every day. Today’s news comes nine months after Instagram revealed its previous notable milestone of 400 million, and four years after Facebook ac … | Continue reading
My entire body clenches when I hear the word doxxing. Each time I write something that, for whatever reason, upsets a corner of the internet, I wonder if my personal information — phone numbers, address, social security number, credit card information — will be made public, or do … | Continue reading
A weight-loss device approved by the FDA last week has some doctors up in arms, with one even attempting to put together 4,000 physicians to sue the agency. That’s because they say the device, which lets patients pump some of the food they've just eaten directly from their stomac … | Continue reading
I use apps for everything. Maybe it’s the millennial blood coursing through my veins or a general desire to accomplish as much as possible while doing as little as humanly possible, but when I want to accomplish a task or do something more effectively I go searching in the app s … | Continue reading
Adobe is rolling out a host of updates to its Creative Cloud platform, including some very welcome new features to its suite of apps. Pretty much everyone reading this site will use Photoshop at some point in their life, so we’ll focus on that. First up, Photoshop CC “2015.5” is … | Continue reading
Netatmo keeps improving the Netatmo Welcome, its indoor security camera, with software updates. The company just added Dropbox support so that your camera can upload videos to your private Dropbox directly. The two key features behind the Netatmo Welcome is that it can recognize … | Continue reading
Adobe is launching a major update to its Creative Cloud applications today that includes a number of useful new features to core tools like Photoshop and introduces new features and services around its Adobe Stock stock imagery services.The marquee feature of today’s release is c … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: GamEffective has raised $7 million to improve worker performance via “gamification” or making work activities more game-like. GamEffective also offers real-time feedback, so workers can figure out how to improve their performance on their own. The funding round was led … | Continue reading