Key Highlights Ethereum price corrected a few points as forecasted in yesterday’s post to present a nice buying opportunity. The price found support near the 100 hourly simple and traded back higher to complete the buy trade idea. The price is again moving down and finding bids n … | Continue reading
More adults make restaurant and retail purchases on the weekends than do so during the week, research found. | Continue reading
Since eMarketer last spoke with Rishi Dave, CMO of Dun & Bradstreet, the business information services company had honed its utilization of marketing technology to help achieve its business goals. eMarketer checked in with Dave to discuss what is in store for 2016, and how Dun & … | Continue reading
The worldwide recession hit Spain hard, and brought down ad spending significantly. Total media spending has still not recovered, but it is on the rebound. | Continue reading
More viewers in Japan are choosing to watch TV and video content on their smartphones. Indeed, the number of viewers who used smartphones to watch TV and subscription video-on-demand services was significantly larger than viewers who watched such content on desktop or laptop comp … | Continue reading
When it comes to targeted advertising, many US internet users across generations feel like they are often forgotten about by advertisers, according to November 2015 research. And they feel it is about time they are recognized. | Continue reading
Australian telecommunications company Optus is pushing into the payment space with a rubber band that you can slap on your wrist to buy anything under A$100.Using Visa Paywave technology, which is already commonplace in Australia, you can put the rubber band up to any terminal to … | Continue reading
Here are 12 important things to know about using Periscope as a tool for building your personal brand. | Continue reading
With all the hoopla surrounding the FBI-Apple controversy, it may surprise you how easy it is to hack into an iPhone. In this video, Skycure CEO Adi Sharabani demonstrated how simple it was to access my device. He also offered some tips for keeping your smartphone secure. Read M … | Continue reading
Optimizely, a startup known for its cloud-based A/B testing service for Web and mobile apps, announced today that it’s laying off 40 people, which equates to 10 percent of its approximately 400 employees. The cuts are hitting all departments of the startup. “While it is sad to se … | Continue reading
Because of these patent wars and patent trolls, technology companies are divesting huge resources to defend themselves rather than advancing their innovations. This is the equivalent of nuclear arms race and is a lose-lose situation. Read More | Continue reading
FEATURE: Nintendo says that today is Mario Day (March 10 … MAR10 … get it?), so let’s celebrate it by listing the Italian plumber’s main adventures. The Mario franchise is the best-selling in gaming history, with sales exceeding 500 million copies. Mario is global icon that has a … | Continue reading
From staff reports It looks like three-time NBA Slam Dunk champion Nate Robinson is trading his basketball high tops for football cleats. Robinson, 31, announced on Thursday that he will be pursuing an NFL job next season. Robinson was a two-sport start at the University of Washi … | Continue reading
The thing about South by Southwest is that it’s huge. Like, mind-bogglingly huge. And, despite all of the best research and top-notch planning, it’s just impossible to be in the thick of the action all the time. As the festival goes into full swing Friday, SXSW’s Director of Tec … | Continue reading
Tensions between Apple and the FBI flared up Thursday after the U.S. Department of Justice filed its latest response in the San Bernardino iPhone case.The FBI is asking Apple to help it unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, the gunman in the San Bernardino attackSee also: Everyth … | Continue reading
After years of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tap into the burgeoning e-commerce market in India, one of the country’s biggest tech companies is facing a markdown in its valuation as it aims to pick up yet more investment. TechCrunch has learned from sources that Flip … | Continue reading
Google has smartened up several of its products with a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves training neural networks on lots of data and then having them make predictions about new data. Google Maps, Google Photos, and Gmail, for example, have been … | Continue reading
There may soon be a lot less comments on GitHub, and that’s a good thing. Today, the company is introducing emoji reactions for comments, pull requests and issues — just as you find in chat services like Slack. Instead of a responding with a full comment agreeing or disagreeing w … | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3's PC version will run at 60fps, publisher Bandai Namco confirmed on Twitter.To see if you've got a good enough kit to run it, check out the Dark Souls 3 PC system specs.In other Dark Souls news, Bandai Namco just awarded $10k to the winner of its Dark Souls lore vide … | Continue reading
Nexon's Legacy Quest [Free] was originally announced more than a year ago, in February 2015, and just a week or so after that it ended up being one of my favorite games that I saw at GDC that year. The game had been in soft-launch since last September, and has undergone numerous … | Continue reading
Yes, you read that correctly: An electrified Corvette is now the fastest road-legal electric vehicle in the world.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?The car in question is called the GXE and it was made by the Genovation green car compa … | Continue reading
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement with the government of the Slovak Republic to "explore" building a hyperloop system that connects Bratislava with Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fas … | Continue reading
Grizzlies guard Mario Chalmers will miss the rest of the season after rupturing his right Achilles tendon, and Memphis waived the veteran to clear up a much-needed spot on the roster. | Continue reading
Far Cry: Primal was February's top-selling game in US retail shops, according to chart-tracking group NPD.Interestingly, NPD noted that spin-off Far Cry: Primal had "greater sales than Far Cry 4 when adjusted for the number of days the games sold within their respective launch mo … | Continue reading
This was inevitable, but the speed at which it happened is surprising. A Chinese company has already come up with a clone of Supercell’s No. 1-ranked mobile game, Clash Royale, according to a Chinese web site. For sure, this isn’t good for Supercell. But it’s unlikely this cloned … | Continue reading
Procedurally-generated co-op action-RPG Moon Hunters has launched for PC on Steam.Announced in 2014, Moon Hunters became part of the Square Enix Collective after a very successful Kickstarter campaign saw developer Kitfox Games raise $178,986 Canadian dollars.Moon Hunter's unique … | Continue reading
News Republic is a pretty solid Android app that provides users with many different sources of information, and today it's getting much better. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Fifteen years after calling the open-source operating system Linux a “cancer,” former Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has softened his position. Speaking on Wednesday night at a dinner hosted by Fortune magazine, Ballmer said the position was right for the tim … | Continue reading
As Apple and the FBI head to another hearing on the San Bernardino iPhone case, both sides are growing more aggressive — and the exchange is quickly turning negative. Hours ago, federal prosecutors filed a motion that said "Apple’s rhetoric is not only false, but also corrosive o … | Continue reading
For those whose Recent Apps list get a little out of control, here is the button to close all the apps. GravityBox root app required - Android customization | Continue reading
Those guys over at Wargaming.net continue to update World of Tanks Blitz [Free] almost monthly, ensuring that the game stay fresh and tankers have new battlefields to explore and new tanks to blow up. Yesterday we got update 2.7, with its highlight being a whole new map, Mirage. … | Continue reading
If you judged each country based on how many websites used their two-letter Internet domain code, like Canada’s .ca or India’s .in, the U.S. would pale in comparison to the might of the United Kingdom, Germany and China.Nominet, the official registry for UK domain names, created … | Continue reading
Apple has some timeless, gorgeous designs under its belt. Chargers don’t fall under that category, but a new accessory called the Blockhead can help. It’s a simple little thing, but exceedingly smart. Rather than prongs that face forward, Blockhead’s look east. A charger that onc … | Continue reading
February had a lot of blockbuster game releases, but that wasn’t enough to match spending from last year. Consumers spent $842.5 million on new physical gaming products at United States retailers during the four-week period from January 31 through February 27, according to indust … | Continue reading
If you're still painstakingly killing all your apps in the hopes of squeezing out some extra battery life from your iPhone, you can officially stop.Apple's iOS chief Craig Federighi has dispelled the myth that force closing your iPhone apps will help save your battery. The execut … | Continue reading
Uber has an emergency phone number for passengers and drivers to get in touch with a human employee at the ride-hail company, according to a report in Inc. Thursday. The number, which has been operational since October, is only available in 22 cities and is only intended for non- … | Continue reading
Learning how to code takes diligent effort and tons of time digging into Xcode or another developer environment, but there’s another component that you may be overlooking. Regardless of what type of development you’re learning — or even which language you’re interested in — you c … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Gabe Leydon, CEO of one of the largest gaming companies and now one of the largest mobile advertisers, Machine Zone, ruffled some feathers in the media world last week. He said media publishing and agency giants are behind the times, and vulnerable to disruption if they … | Continue reading
Last week, my friend and colleague Ben Kuchera posted a video on Polygon about the hidden danger of virtual reality: leaning on a fake desk and falling on your tookus. I admit, I still giggle at the image of a grown man wearing an expensive virtual reality headset, tethered to a … | Continue reading
Attorneys with the U.S. Department of Justice today filed their reply to Apple’s formal motion to vacate the order that’s pushing the company to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. The lawyers dismantled Apple’s legal case, including its defens … | Continue reading
We've seen everything from press renders to blurrycam shots of the HTC 10 over the past couple weeks, and today we're getting yet another pair of photos of the device the wild. | Continue reading
Calling itself an ‘active listening’ device, Here promises to let you tune into the things you want and filter out what you don’t. It may sound silly or kitsch, but in reviewing here earbuds, I found it may not be. What is Here? Two wireless in-ear buds and a charging/storage cas … | Continue reading
Since it’s Throwback Thursday on social media, we might as well throw it all the way back to that iconic 1966 “spaghetti Western” starring a young Clint Eastwood and directed by Italy’s Sergio Leone that has become a favorite of headline writers and those trading in triplets of a … | Continue reading
Creating valuable content can sometimes be tricky. After you've published it, you can't just sit and wait for it to perform. All the following steps need to be taken into consideration when creating content, from planning to measuring it. Content Planning Most actions start with … | Continue reading
Learn the essentials of content metadata and its powerful potential for your marketing. | Continue reading
VB EVENT: The Mobile Data Strategy roadshow is coming to San Francisco! How can you excel at data-driven marketing in a mobile-first world? Register for the event now. Marketing wants a product that does everything. Engineering wants to deliver it on time and on budget. Marketin … | Continue reading
Few are better positioned to ride the second wave of vinyl popularity than Crosley Radio. The company has been around in some form or another since 1920, branching out into TVs, kitchen appliances and even cars — but audio has always been the company’s core.Recent years have seen … | Continue reading
Bitcoin started the cryptocurrency revolution. Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009 after Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper about the new digital currency the previous year. Being an open source protocol, many alternate cryptocurrencies followed bitcoin. These alternate currenci … | Continue reading