Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
At a company event today in San Francisco, Samsung President & Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn detailed that the company is actively pursuing both smartphone-focused VR headsets and standalone solutions. The decision to market and ship a dedicated all-in-one device would rely l … | Continue reading
Be honest: Have you ever spent an entire day working at a coffee shop, despite only buying a single cup of coffee? I’ve definitely been guilty of this, and I’ve also been to coffee shops that try to fight back by removing outlets, turning off their WiFi or outlawing laptops on ce … | Continue reading
In an announcement today, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it will host a public forum to discuss Fintech innovation at its Washington D.C. headquarters in November. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the federal body which serves as the regulator for all of … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: No one wants to support a marketing activity that’s losing their company money. But too often that’s the price of the mobile-first world. Join the mobile marketing mastermind at Staples for a free VB Live event to learn how to break away from legacy KPIs and develop mean … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton, in the first presidential debate, said Donald Trump’s tax returns may contain “something really important, even terrible, that he is trying to hide.” WSJ’s Jason Bellini has the Campaign Calculus. Photo: AP | Continue reading
There are three reasons why wireless headphones mostly suck and I've steered clear of dropping serious dough on a pair: poor sound quality, frustrating pairing and weak battery life.Beats' new Solo 3 wireless on-ear headphones solve all three. And they do so while looking stylish … | Continue reading
“It is still incredibly important for startups to get their products in front of customers in stores,” explains Highway1 head Brady Forrest. “Startups traditionally face hurdles to entering brick and mortar retail, and that is why PCH is working with Best Buy to innovate in-store … | Continue reading
A few weeks back we wrote that the deck-building word game Paperback [$3.99] was getting a digital version, and that version would be coming out soon. Well, "soon" has arrived since Paperback has just released on the App Store. In the game you play an author trying to finish genr … | Continue reading
Our industry faces a well-known duopoly: Facebook and Google command an ever-increasing share of digital ad spend, both in the US and globally. I recently dug into the data and forecasts available to better quantify just how much Facebook and Google are eating digital. Here’s wha … | Continue reading
Tinder is introducing a new premium feature called Tinder Boost. The feature will let users pay to have their profiles displayed first to other users on the app in the same locale for thirty minutes. According to the announcement, it’s all about saving users’ time and making sure … | Continue reading
If you had to crown an “App of the Summer,” Pokémon Go would undoubtedly be at the top of the list. The app became a household name within days of its July launch and was the most downloaded iOS app in a first week — ever. Pokémon built one of the most resilient brands in recent … | Continue reading
As Elon Musk is wont to do, he took the stage in front of a rabid crowd this afternoon to lay out an extraordinarily ambitious vision of the future that at times felt inspiring, brilliant, and unbelievable, if not all at once. This time around, Musk was outlining the first detail … | Continue reading
Amazon is hosting an extensive Logitech sale that chops the price of many products in half, but you'll have to act today to take advantage of it! | Continue reading
Ubisoft was already a pretty prolific developer in the mobile space, but today they've given themselves a major shot in the arm by acquiring the even more prolific mobile developer Ketchapp. Ubisoft has released a number of mobile games that leverage their popular AAA console and … | Continue reading
LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash. But in its early days, LendUp charged customers illegal fees, miscalculated interest rates, falsely advertised loans nationwide that weren’t available there, and m … | Continue reading
The Global Vehicle Trust has revealed its OX prototype, a truck that can be flat-packed into itself for transportation anywhere in the world. When it arrives at its destination, the OX can be unpacked and assembled in the community where it will be used by a trained team of three … | Continue reading
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to discuss blockchain at an upcoming public forum.Source | Continue reading
BlackBerry released its DTEK50 last month (pictured above) as a its second Android phone following the Priv. We heard rumors that the company would be launching more Android devices, possibly one for each quarter for the next two quarters. This might be true given that a new And … | Continue reading
GUEST: Traditionalists will tell you gaming doesn’t qualify as a sport. They’ll tell you it will never catch on like football or baseball has on an international level. Then someone you look up to gets behind the esports movement—then another and another. Soon, the movement goes … | Continue reading
Erin Everhart, Senior Manager for Media Strategy & Mobile for The Home Depot, satisfies our curiosity by sharing her insights on home improvement content. | Continue reading
How is Bitcoin faring in the market and what’s in store for the digital currency community in the near future? A recent assessment made by Needham report draws an outline of all the things that might soon happen with the most popular cryptocurrency. One glance at the report, and … | Continue reading
All eyes were on Elon Musk today as he gave a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico. Musk said he was going to detail SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars and make humans an interplanetary species, and he delivered – at least, in part, since we still h … | Continue reading
GUEST: Dashbot.io recently surpassed 50 million messages processed. We thank all our customers for the continued support — we greatly appreciate it! In thanking our customers, it got us thinking about how often bot users thank the bots as well. The beauty of conversational interf … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's Mars event today, where he outlined plans to turn the human race into a multi-planetary species, was a serious affair. Using the language of explorers, and playing up the future of civilization that hangs in the balance, Musk used grandiose terms to convince viewers a … | Continue reading
Hiring a PPC agency doesn’t have to be a fingernails-dragged-slowly-across-a-blackboard event, if you have a few fundamental questions answered to start. | Continue reading
Today, Elon Musk revealed his ambitious multi-decade roadmap for human colonization of Mars, including the Interplanetary Transport System he believes will get us there. But while the event was full of technical detail on the new rocket and ship, it appears the crafts have yet to … | Continue reading
Google’s October 4event is shaping up to be a veritable marathon of announcements: Two new Pixel phones, a new laptop and OS, new Chromecasts, Google Home, a new router and maybe a new tablet too. But there’s at least one bit of news that might be coming before that date: an upda … | Continue reading
Protecting yourself on the internet used to be a lot simpler — mostly because you weren’t always on the internet. Now we can be online from when we wake up until when we go to sleep. We seamlessly shift from chatting to shopping to banking — rarely sticking to one device or platf … | Continue reading
During his hour-long announcement of the Space X Mars colonization plan, CEO Elon Musk didn't say where exactly Martian colonists will live once they arrive on the planet — and how exactly they'll survive given the harsh environment.Musk seemed particularly unconcerned about sola … | Continue reading
SpaceX's plans for getting people to Mars are big and still a bit vague. Its plan for helping colonists actually live there for long periods of time is even more nebulous. But company founder Elon Musk suggests the latter part is by design — because SpaceX's job is to be the rail … | Continue reading
I’m not surprised a luxury leather smart dog collar exists.One of my most humbling life moments happened when I was leaving work on a rainy night and came across a dog dressed in a raincoat and wearing booties. He was dressed more appropriately for the weather than me, and that m … | Continue reading
For the last few years, Apple has been an AMD-only shop. That could change if rumors are true; Apple may be preparing to pivot back to Team Green. | Continue reading
Elon Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars and then bring them back to Earth on the same rocket they came in on. Nothing has ever been launched from Mars before, and Musk didn't go into all that much detail about how SpaceX would accomplish it. But he did says that it would al … | Continue reading
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump interrupts Hillary Clinton, who said she has a feeling she'll be "blamed for everything" during the first presidential debate on Monday. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Elon Musk just wrapped up an intricate and thorough presentation that covered his and SpaceX's vision of humans building a city on the surface of Mars. But throughout that talk, he didn't actually address exactly who should go. During the Q&A session that followed, the question i … | Continue reading
At the beginning of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, you are not meant to like Jeff Goldblum’s character. He embodies the type of aggressive intellectualism that kills fun and makes other people feel stupid. He comes off as snarky, where he would like to come off as charming. While t … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is expanding its presence in mobile. The French publisher announced today that it acquired mobile game studio Ketchapp. Ubisoft did not disclose the details of the deal, but the purchase will go through during the company’s fiscal third quarter that ends December 31. Ketc … | Continue reading
Brandburg Home & Studio is a multfunctional space project completed in August 2016 by Polish studio mode: lina ™. | Continue reading
Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there’s just so many words, phrases, and rules to deal with. Fortunately, neural networks eat big, complicated data sets for breakfast. Google h … | Continue reading
When it comes to content marketing, media spend, programmatic ad buying, and other popular marketing tactics, finding good benchmark data can be hard. Announced at AdWeek in New York today, Beckon — the marketing performance data platform — has analyzed over $16 billion in omnich … | Continue reading
A USB DAC/amp is one of the best ways to get great performance out of your music, and Oppo’s HA–2 is considered to be one of, if not the best portable headphone amplifier and DAC on the market. Of course, there’s always room for improvement, so Oppo is releasing an updated succes … | Continue reading
How will Elon Musk and SpaceX fund its ambitious plan to go to Mars? The question was a big one coming into today's announcement, and Musk opted to suggest some kind of "public-private partnership" would generate the necessary cash. But first, he made a South Park joke.When talk … | Continue reading
Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Mars vehicle — the spaceship his company plans to build to transport the first colonists to Mars. The spaceship is meant to launch from Earth on top of the booster and then travel the rest of the way on its own to the Red Planet.The compan … | Continue reading
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the design for the giant rocket booster he wants to build in order to colonize Mars. It is part of what SpaceX is referring to as the "Mars Vehicle" — the rocket booster and the Mars spaceship combined — and Musk announced it on stage in Guadalaj … | Continue reading
Elon Musk thinks that it would take between 40 and 100 years for humanity to go from landing a ship full of colonists on Mars to establishing a self-sustaining civilization. At his company SpaceX's event today, Musk laid out how a fleet of ships that could carry a minimum of 100 … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's ambitious plan to turn the human race into a multi-planetary species, starting first with the colonization of Mars, will cost a lot of money. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who laid out his Mars plans today at a press conference, hopes to eventually make the cost of taking … | Continue reading
Several South Korean fintech companies plan to petition the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) to object to Apple’s policy of not opening its near field communication (NFC) to outside app developers | Continue reading