Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University, Chico, Mora-Blanco had majored in art, minored in women’s studies, and spent much of her free time making sculptures from found objec … | Continue reading
While Amazon, Google, and a number of startups like Instacart, Postmates, Shipt and others are focused on quick, same-day deliveries of groceries and household items, Walmart has been taking a different approach. It has instead tapped into its large brick-and-mortar footprint to … | Continue reading
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If you’re a marketer, it’s a safe bet that doing a content audit is not your idea of a good time. Don’t feel too bad about this; unless your perfect Friday night involves a root canal and a few dozen paper cuts, I don’t expect you to be crazy about content audits, either. Still, … | Continue reading
A new startup has launched this month with one raison d’être: to make group calling easier and more accessible on mobile phones. Available for Android and iOS, Meucci works like other messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, insofar as you register for the service with your mobile phone … | Continue reading
The EU’s consumer protection group has rejected in its current form the new rules written to govern EU-US data transfers. Despite the new regs receiving early support from Microsoft, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has fallen on the side of Snowden in criticizing the … | Continue reading
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Now that the Bitcoin experiment held by the MMM Global company is coming to an end, there is a massive outpouring of user opinions on how this platform operated. As was to be expected, some people are happy with their experience, whereas others have lost a lot of funds. Especiall … | Continue reading
Classpass made its name — and picked up 17 million reservations — around a services that let people take an unlimited number of fitness classes for a flat $100 monthly payment. Today, all of that is changing. See, Classpass functions based on the usage habits of their users. Folk … | Continue reading
How did you get into venture capital? And why did you decide on that versus another startup? These are two questions aspiring VCs often ask. While I usually hop on 15-30 minute calls with those looking to learn more, I thought it might be more impactful to share my experience her … | Continue reading
Customer Relationships - The arena of competition today is customer experience. Brands are shifting away from pushing products to focusing on crafting seamless customer experiences that drive purchases, loyalty, and positive word-of-mouth. | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy: Marketing Podcast - Zignal Labs Vice-President of Marketing Tim Hayden discusses data-driven marketing and split-second analytics, and why email and Twitter are very much alive. | Continue reading
Content - Storytelling is at the core of what drives great marketing today. You can amp up your marketing campaigns by following these five easy tips that create powerful stories. | Continue reading
Sales - When Marketing and Sales can move beyond their differences and become a power couple, they have the ability to optimize their value and synchronize their efforts. And the company wins. | Continue reading
It’s a little after 10AM on a Monday morning and I’m in the front seat of a black Mercedes, cruising around a Brussels neighborhood that has become known in the media as “jihad central.” It was here, in Molenbeek, that ISIS-affiliated terrorists hatched plans to attack Paris in N … | Continue reading
Dish Network’s Sling TV this morning announced a new multi-stream service in beta which lets subscribers watch on up to three devices at the same time. The multi-stream service comes with live local content from Fox Networks – you can access local channels based on your zip code. … | Continue reading
I can't tell you how many times I had people ask me to get on a Minecraft server while streaming Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] on our Mobcrush channel. It's always been the number one request, and while I was all for doing some team building and exploring, I really didn't wan … | Continue reading
Digital marketing and advertising is no longer about reach and frequency. Learn from the best mobile marketing campaigns out there. | Continue reading
Holliday 711 was designed by the Brazilian studio Mezzanine Arquitetura. Mezzanine was founded by Rômulo Teixeira and Cintia Miyahira. | Continue reading
Ein Auto kann jeder zeichnen, aber ein Fahrrad? Gianluca Gimini hat hunderte Menschen auf der Straße zu Stift und Papier gebeten: Zeichne ein Fahrrad! Das ging wie zu erwarten reichlich schief - die Skizzen baute Gimini deshalb in einem 3D-Pr... | Continue reading
www.ZerCustoms.com - The Volvo FH16 750 is one of the toughest and most powerful trucks in the world.... [...] | Continue reading
After raising $25 million in a Series C round of funding in October, civic technology specialist OpenGov — the startup co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale that works with government organizations to collate, analyse and publicly present their data — today announced its first ac … | Continue reading
Is a pink phone, actually pink? What about a black, silver or white one? In fact, what color is your phone? Join us to discuss whacky smartphone colors!! | Continue reading
Any successful website is the product of strong management and quality design. The WordPress Wizard Bundle equips you with the skills to accomplish both, and transform your ideas into a high-quality professional website through 12 essential courses – and the entire bundle is an i … | Continue reading
Dish's Sling TV is adding Fox channels to its programming lineup, but they're not going to be part of the existing $20 package. Instead, and this is pretty strange, Sling is launching a new, second $20-per-month subscription package that includes Fox's broadcast network (in selec … | Continue reading
The debut of Facebook Live offers brands a new tool for engaging with fans in real time. Here's how Monsanto put live video to work. | Continue reading
Digital video has emerged as the next new thing in gaining attention online. Everyone seems to be creating or at least preparing to produce online video for PR and marketing. The average amount of time people will spend consuming online video each day will increase 19.8 percent … | Continue reading
When it comes to creating the digital world of the future, data – in massive volume – forms the foundation. The ability to access unprecedented levels of data from multiple sources is providing organizations with the insights they need to change the world. From healthcare to cust … | Continue reading
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SPONSORED: While Silicon Valley remains the center of innovation and startup activity in the globe, other geographical markets are developing startup ecosystems in varying degrees of maturity. Comparing these bubbles of startup activity, it’s clear that more globally successful c … | Continue reading
One of the largest bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Kraken, has announced an investment from a leading Japanese foreign exchange brokerage, in the exchange’s Series B round of financing. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced an investment from Tokyo-based … | Continue reading
Every business says that they want their customer's trust but to stand out, build your business around your customer's trust and watch them reward you. | Continue reading
It's a tough road, that of the principled DIY punk act in 2016. That's not just a polite way of saying punk is dead; but it's true that the way punk traditionally approaches disruption does feel out of step with our sleek, contemporary Muskian understanding of the term. Our curre … | Continue reading
If you were under the impression that a new data transfer agreement had been locked down between Europe and the US — to restore legal confidence in commercial data flows across the Atlantic — think again. Read More | Continue reading
Even before the blockbuster acquisition of Cruise Automation by General Motors for more than $1 billion, venture firms were looking for big ideas in autonomous vehicles. The latest company to attract a round of funding for driverless car technology is Palo Alto-based NAUTO, co-fo … | Continue reading
Minecraft owes a lot of its popularity to its openness and depth. Players can do things like run their own servers or install all kinds of mods. But that also introduces a level of complexity that a lot of fans struggle to overcome. Mojang is ready to do something about that for … | Continue reading
True to earlier reports, Amazon’s Kindle Oasis is the smallest and lightest Kindle yet and comes with a handle for gripping. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos teased an “all-new, top of the line” Kindle last week and Chinese site Tmall.com sent the e-reader world in a tizzy when it accidentall … | Continue reading
Could blockchain help increase the transparency of offshore trusts? Open University lecturer Robert Herian explores in this opinion piece. | Continue reading
Workplace messaging startup Slack is close to cracking one of its most wanted features: threaded messaging. In conversation with The Verge's Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said the company has been prototyping various forms of threaded messaging internally for month … | Continue reading
Amazon’s philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent for nearly 10 years now — to make the device disappear, by making it as close to paper as possible. However, with the release of its latest model, called the Kindle Oasis, Amazon is shining a spotlight on the Kindle des … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.Not long ago, discussions of the modern workplace were colored by complaints about t … | Continue reading
Sonia Thompson's story is this month’s Hero’s Journey, where we tap the wisdom from our community to bring you reports from the content marketing world. | Continue reading
Career Management - Which areas of expertise and which skill sets are most in demand by employers looking to make marketing hires this year? | Continue reading
Amazon erweitert die Kindle-Familie der E-Reader um das Modell "Oasis". Und bricht dabei mit allerhand Gewohnheiten. Das neue Lesegerät ist nicht nur der leichteste und dünnste Kindle bislang, sondern setzt auch auf ein komplett neues Des... | Continue reading
With so many technology companies taking the safe route of incremental change, something utterly new can knock you back on your heels.The Amazon Kindle Oasis e-reader, which goes on pre-order on Wednesday, is that fresh and different.SEE ALSO: 12 must-read books for everyone obse … | Continue reading
Do you have a link building strategy in place? Here's what to keep in mind when creating a new strategy or updating an existing one. | Continue reading
Let’s talk about Amazon’s most expensive Kindle yet. The company’s latest reading device, the Oasis is launching in just over two weeks and will cost you $290. That’s about all the news left to reveal, after a series of leaks spoiled Amazon’s surprise (or built up hype, depending … | Continue reading
Yep – the leaks are true. Amazon’s newest e-reader is called the Kindle Oasis, and is the company’s thinnest e-reader to date. We got a hands-on preview of the device last week and it is significantly tinier than the Kindle Voyage. While the screen size and resolution remains the … | Continue reading