NBA Finals Game 5 on ABC -- the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA championship -- generated a 16.0 metered market rating, making it the highest-rated NBA Finals Game 5 since 1998, according to Nielsen. The ABC broadcast peaked with an 18.8 rati … | Continue reading
A strong Call-To Action can have a big impact on your lead generation. Here are 6 best practices that improve your CTAs and increase your conversion rates. | Continue reading
Nintendo has revealed a pair of new games for Nintendo Switch, respectively starring Yoshi and Kirby.The games, which still lack final names, will launch on… | Continue reading
In a bombshell announcement, Nintendo has confirmed it is developing Metroid Prime 4 for Nintendo Switch.A simple logo was teased during the company's E3 Spotlight presentation today - and nothing else. It comes, perhaps, as something of a surprise. It has been 10 years since the … | Continue reading
Vizio has been on a hell of a journey in the past couple of years, from smart TVs, to dumb TVs with tablets for remotes, to a new kind of smart-ish TV in this year's P-Series and M-Series SmartCast lineup. The line of 4K TVs has slightly improved picture quality and more color, b … | Continue reading
Rocket League is heading to the Switch, as revealed by Nintendo in its E3 Spotlight announcement stream. The popular virtual soccer game took the world by storm over the summer of 2015, when it was first released on PC and PS4, followed by a Xbox One and Mac OS X versions in 2016 … | Continue reading
Mozilla today launched Firefox 54 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version includes the next major phase of multi-process support, which streamlines memory use, improving responsiveness, and speed. Firefox 54 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.c … | Continue reading
Nintendo has finally confirmed it has a proper Pokémon role-playing game headed to Switch.As expected, the project is in development at mainline Pokémon studio GameFreak - but the team is, for now, keeping schtum on further details.As for when we'll see it, well, it'll follow the … | Continue reading
The App Store is a funny place as most everything nowadays is free, and even paid games skew much cheaper than on other gaming platforms. That said, everybody likes so save some dough now and then, and with that in mind Playdigious is currently throwing a sale on four of their Ap … | Continue reading
Twitter today is rolling out a new feature that will allow businesses to prompt their followers to take an action beyond a simple fav or retweet. The company is introducing the ability for businesses to add buttons inside their direct message conversations designed to encourage … | Continue reading
Twitter just souped up Direct Messages, in the process making them more useful for brands when it comes to customer service and growing engagement. Now, businesses have the option to add buttons to direct messages. These let customers easily do something — like follow an account, … | Continue reading
Space-faring game Elite Dangerous will get a 4K patch for the Xbox One X's launch on 7th November.The game is being shown here in Los Angeles at E3, where Xbox One X was debuted just two days ago."We will of course be embracing it at Frontier," Elite Dangerous director David Brab … | Continue reading
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told lawmakers Tuesday he has not seen any evidence of “good cause” to fire the special counsel handling the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and … | Continue reading
The upcoming snowboarding title, set for release this summer, trades snowy mountains for desert dunes — with all-new gameplay features. | Continue reading
The Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles will never end. It is a permanent dimension of game announcements and awkward stage presentations. And now, it’s Nintendo’s turn. After eons of E3 media events from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Sony, we’ve co … | Continue reading
When I go to marketing industry conferences these days, I get more inspired by intangibles, rather than the tangible. Give me something that will really move me or get me thinking deep thoughts. Give me something that I could do in my every day life,... | Continue reading
Palata in Yangon After walking around Yangon’s famous Shwedagon Pagoda, I found streets overflowing with roadside eateries and barking dogs, my stomach growling under the burning sun. Plastic stools, street hawkers, and endless rows of restaurants crowded the roads of Burma’s bus … | Continue reading
Sprint just launched a new promotion that’s a very good deal but also seems like the ultimate Hail Mary throw of desperation. The company is offering an entire year of free service — including unlimited data, talk, and text — to customers who switch to the carrier and bring over … | Continue reading
Das schwedische Start-up Wheelys Cafe hat erste Erfahrungen mit der Vermarktung von Fahrrad-basierten Kaffeeständen gesammelt, aber jetzt zielt man auf Größeres und zwar auf nicht weniger als die Zukunft des Einzelhandels in dünn... | Continue reading
The director who brought stylised stop-motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline to life, Henry Selick, will direct a pilot for a television series adaptation of video game Little Nightmares.Little Nightmares is the creepy platformer about a tiny girl navigating a … | Continue reading
Hungary’s parliament passed Tuesday a law imposing strict restrictions on NGOs that receive foreign funding—a move that has been criticized by rights organizations as a crackdown on dissent.The law, approved 130-40, requires groups receiving more than 24,000 euros annually ($26,0 … | Continue reading
A group of 30 entertainment companies, including power players like Netflix, HBO, and NBCUniversal, have joined forces today in an effort to fight online piracy. The new group is called the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), and the partnership, while somewhat thin … | Continue reading
Taking advantage of search engine optimization seems simple. Just tag your web pages and posts with relevant keywords and you’re done, right? Not quite. Web crawlers run billions of Google searches a day — and after two decades of web building, there’s a science in determining wh … | Continue reading
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (3) show floor opens today for as many as 65,000 attendees in Los Angeles. But the big companies have already been battling for attention with press events that started on Saturday. Synthesio, a social intelligence platform, has pulled all the da … | Continue reading
India is looking to arrest six more people connected to the OneCoin digital currency scheme. Source | Continue reading
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet. ― Ruadhán J. McElroy Two psyc... | Continue reading
This week, Travis and Stewart interview TJ Leonard on why video content is so engaging and what marketers can do to leverage the opportunity. In the news segment, they discuss what Apple’s WWDC event means for marketers, why the HomePod might not be the most attractive smart spea … | Continue reading
Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, who was sentenced last year by North Korea’s Supreme Court to 15 years of prison and hard labor for stealing a propaganda sign from his hotel, has been freed and is on his way to the U.S., Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tues … | Continue reading
When Amazon introduced voice calling and messaging for its smart speaker Echo in May, users were quick to point out that it was missing one key feature: blocking. Now Amazon is finally addressing those concerns. In the latest update to the Alexa app, the company finally added a w … | Continue reading
LG Display is still No. 1 in the global large display panel market, boasting the world’s highest shipments for 30 consecutive quarters. | Continue reading
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is leaving the company. A $4.48 billion deal in which Verizon will subsume Yahoo's business operations has led to her resignation, though she stashed away $23 million on the way out.SEE ALSO: More women than ever lead Fortune 500 companies this year — but … | Continue reading
Figure 1 isn’t for the squeamish, but investors apparently love it. The company, a kind of social network where more than a million healthcare professionals can view rare conditions, learn about novel treatments and even teach cases, has just raised $10 million in Series B fundi … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Echo is great. It’s a speaker for music, a digital assistant with Amazon’s excellent Alexa voice control, and a useful smart home controller. But why buy an Echo from Amazon when you could build one yourself? Here’s how: SuppliesTo put together your own Echo, you’ll need … | Continue reading
Tesla loves to tout its cars' safety features as the best in the industry — and now, another of its vehicles has the ratings to back it up.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently gave the Model X perfect safety scores across the board after putting the … | Continue reading
Israel has been a key flash-point for tensions in the Middle East between Jewish and Muslim people, and while politicians continue to work on (and fight over) the route to a peaceful future, some of the most interesting developments for cooperation and progress are happening not … | Continue reading
Over the past few years, an interesting dichotomy has emerged on the ever-changing landscape that is the App Store. Most releases can be divided into either smaller, innovative titles from independent developers, or big-budget graphical powerhouses that push the platform to its l … | Continue reading
As of today, Verizon is officially the owner of Yahoo. Yahoo’s assets are now being mashed up with those of AOL, which Verizon bought in 2015, into a horribly named new division called Oath. Oath will contain sites like HuffPost, Yahoo Sports, TechCrunch, and Engadget, as well as … | Continue reading
Digital security is a hot topic in business and an ever growing concern for event professionals. We explore the current threats and what can be done to secure and protect event data. Nobody can deny that the Internet is one of the greatest and most impactful inventions of all tim … | Continue reading
The Nintendo Switch has invigorated the gaming community, so it goes without saying that the Nintendo Digital Showcase today is one of the more hotly anticipated events of E3 2017. Unlike some of the other press conferences at the event, Nintendo is holding a purely digital expe … | Continue reading
In an effort to teach children the basics of coding from a young age, the toy market has been flooded with robots and wearables that allow users to practice programming commands.Jewelbots, Sphero, and Ozobot Bit are all making playtime smarter. Read more...More about Tech, Techno … | Continue reading
CryptoFinancing 2017 is Europe’s first conference opening the lid on the emerging world of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Token Sales will take place in London on July 7, 2017 at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel. The inaugural event, will bring debate about the nascent industry’s eff … | Continue reading
Mac McClelland is no stranger to risk and discomfort: This is a woman who has reported on rape in Haiti’s tent cities and genocide in … | Continue reading
The startup 'Inspire' is working to power the whole world with clean energy. They offer renewable energy on a subscription model, similar to services like Netflix. Mashable’s new series, A Cleaner Future, highlights the best and brightest innovators working to change our world fo … | Continue reading
Die Animations-Designer von Rollin' Wild (Kyra Buschor und Constantin Päplow) blasen am liebsten Tiere zu kugelrunden Ballons auf und lassen dann dem durchweg drolligen Verhängnis ihren Lauf, aber während sie sich bislang eher exotischen... | Continue reading
Google is helping the New York Times expand its online article comments with an advanced tool designed to fight internet trolls. Using Google's Perspective — an API created by Jigsaw (a subsidiary of Alphabet) — the Times lets readers post comments on all top stories and opinion … | Continue reading
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just awarded the Tesla Model X a 5-star safety rating in every category and subcategory after conducting the first independent crash test of the electric vehicle since its launch in 2015. Tesla was quick to trumpet the rating, no … | Continue reading
If you want a truly massive 4K TV in your house — and you have a nearly limitless budget to make it happen — there’s only one option for you: the C Seed 262. This monstrosity comes in at 262 inches, a staggering size that makes a 100-inch TV look tiny in comparison. … | Continue reading
The Essential Phone slaps a camera right into the display itself. What does that mean for the smartphone industry? It's a step in the sprint towards an entirely embedded world. | Continue reading