If you could really feel your digital money — the way you can feel the metal of a quarter or the paper of a $20 bill — would you spend it more wisely? This is the question behind Scrip, a product concept from studio NewDealDesign. As companies like Apple make financial transactio … | Continue reading
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Customer Behavior - More than half (52%) of people who shopped for clothes online in the past year used a mobile device to make at least one purchase, according to recent research from ... | Continue reading
Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, has today announced that it participated as an investor in Vina’s latest funding round. Vina, a social network where girls can meet and nurture new friendships, recently raised a $1.4 million seed round from Greylock, NEA and Wildcat Ventu … | Continue reading
If you’ve been dying to try out No Man’s Sky, but your Pentium II doesn’t pack the oomph to run it – there’s now a Doom remake of the popular game that will take you back to the future. Developed by Robert Prest over the course of three weeks, No Guy’s Sky uses the original origi … | Continue reading
Protests continued for a second day in Charlotte, N.C., as a state of emergency was declared in the city. One person was shot and four officers were injured during the demonstration. | Continue reading
lastminute.de: München (ots) - Na ist denn jetzt schon Herbst? Ja, jetzt auch ganz offiziell. Die Nächte sind schon länger, die Blätter werden bunter und die Strandtücher wandern erst einmal in den hintersten Winkel des Schrankes. Kein Grund, Trübsal zu blasen. ... | Continue reading
An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a type of loan in which the interest rate keeps changing. It is also known as the variable-rate mortgage | Continue reading
A little more than a year after the release of his last album, The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, has announced his follow-up LP. It's called Starboy, and it's set to come out on November 25th, Pitchfork reports. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Analysts are estimating that Samsung's Q3 profits could fall by as much as 8.6 percent, if the Galaxy Note 7 recall costs exceed $1 billion. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced that Kony Visualizer 7, the visual application design and development solution of the Kony Mobility Platform Suite, was named the first place winner, in the Mobile... | Continue reading
The way things stand, Roger Ver is demanding a monthly US$10,000 reimbursement from OKEX, for the remaining 57 months of their original contract. | Continue reading
SGN Games has changed its name to Jam City, and to celebrate its new direction, the Los Angeles company has acquired the rights to make games based on the Peanuts franchise. The rebranding is the second one for the maker of Cookie Jam, which was founded as Mindjolt by Chris DeWol … | Continue reading
The only thing worse than not having a blog, is having one that makes your brand or business look unprofessional. When prospective clients request a Discovery call and want to talk about creating products and programs, one of the first things I do is take a look at their blog. I’ … | Continue reading
Der Telekommunikationskonzern Telefónica versucht wieder Bewegungsdaten der eigenen Kunden zu verkaufen - ein ähnlicher Versuch scheiterte 2012 am Datenschutz.Laut Wirtschaftswoche sage Konzern, dass man nun "dieses Mal die Anonymität... | Continue reading
Following its demo at May’s I/O conference, Google’s AI-powered messaging app finally launched yesterday. I took Allo for a spin and found that it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, like smart replies and Google Assistant for surfacing info from around the Web in your conversati … | Continue reading
As a professional editor, I’ve edited all kinds of documents, not the least of which are essays. I’ve seen it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Look, it’s easy to write a bad essay when it’s due in less than 24 hours (we’ve all been there), but that doesn’t mean it’s difficult … | Continue reading
Good things come to those who wait, and nowhere is this truer than for some Chromebook users who’ll start getting access to Google Play after nearly five months of waiting. | Continue reading
Seattle-based Avalara said today it had raised another round of $96 million, bringing its overall fundraising total to $300 million. The company, which offers a cloud-based tax compliance system for businesses, said the latest round includes $46 million to “repurchase shares from … | Continue reading
Mike Stiles, Global Content Strategy Manager for IHG, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss the fine art of overseeing and managing content for multiple brands. | Continue reading
Donald Trump this week came out in opposition to a plan that would see the US cede control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that oversees the allocation of domain names and IP addresses. In a statement published to Trump's web … | Continue reading
Pax Labs, makers of some of the world’s most popular loose-leaf flower and nicotine vaporizers, has today announced a new flagship vaporizer in the form of the Pax 3. Not only is Pax 3 the third generation of Pax’s flagship device, but it also happens to have three ovens for dual … | Continue reading
These days, it’s not uncommon to see folks using oil pens instead of lighting up a good old-fashioned joint. PAX Labs, the makers of the Pax vaporizer line and the JUUL e-cig, are today answering the call. Meet the PAX Era. Built in the likeness of the Juul, the PAX Era is a high … | Continue reading
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Pax Labs is the Apple of cannabis vaporizers, and it released two new vapes just in time for the upcoming holidays.Since multiple states in the United States started legalizing and selling marijuana, there have been plenty of advancements in smoking and vaping technology. Procuri … | Continue reading
FEATURE: “There comes a point when every startup founder does some soul-searching and asks the question: What is it that I actually want out of this?,” explained Ben Medlock, SwiftKey cofounder and chief technology officer (CTO), to a packed audience in London. Medlock was speaki … | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics has been asked by the South Korean government to extend its refund period for the Galaxy Note 7 in the country. | Continue reading
There’s still a lot we don’t know about life in North Korea, one of the world’s most isolated countries, but the world got a rare glimpse into how its internet works this week. Not surprisingly, it seems pretty bleak.On Tuesday, North Korea reconfigured its nameserver to reveal — … | Continue reading
Tiny Idahomes baut winzige, mobile, zuckersüße Häuschen - und jetzt auch eines, das auf Knopfdruck das Wohnzimmer und Bad ausfährt. Hübsche kleine Idee für knapp 70.000 Dollar. | Continue reading
Polaroid’s shiny new camera with a built-in Nink printer, the Snap Touch, is available on pre-sale today, although if my experiences with it at Photokina are anything to go by, it’s probably not worth your hard-earned cash. Run the other way, and buy yourself an Instax Mini 70 in … | Continue reading
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Cats like to think they don't need us, but a new study into feline genetics has indicated that the global kitty population only boomed when they moved in with humans. The research, presented last week and reported by Nature, seems to show two distinct waves of growth in cat numbe … | Continue reading
With a little personal shopping assistance, Operator thinks Chinese citizens will pounce on American products sold through its conversational shopping app. The promise of becoming the guided commerce layer connecting China with the US has earned the two-year-old a $15 million ser … | Continue reading
To succeed, virtual reality is going to have to get a lot more social. A new startup called MyWebRoom hopes to make that happen with its social VR platform, MyVR. Launching in October, MyVR will bring together content discovery, social interactions, video, chat, and more in what … | Continue reading
Learning to do things differently will have a positive impact on your business. Recently, I had the chance to talk with Deep Patel for Entrepreneur to discuss the challenges and opportunities surrounding digital Darwinism. In the conversation, I shared some of my work and observ … | Continue reading
At Disrupt London, this coming December, it will be easier than ever for investors to find companies that fit their investment strategy. For the first time TechCrunch is bringing its CrunchMatch program to Europe where startup founders will be matched with venture capitalists rea … | Continue reading
Conversational commerce channel Operator announced the close of a $10 million Series B round today. The money will be used to improve Operator‘s offering and fund the company’s expansion in China. Created in 2011, Operator has raised $25 million from venture capitalists. “To inve … | Continue reading
Whenever I write anything about DayZ, the conversation is dominated by two things: DayZ not being finished and Dean Hall not finishing it. There are legitimate concerns tied around misinformed ones. I have tried to put all of these to the game's creative director Brian Hicks.But … | Continue reading
Piękny wrzesień. Taki, jak pamiętam z czasów, kiedy chodziłam do podstawówki. Ciepłe poranki, kiedy można było zarzucić na ramiona lekki sweter i złote popołudnia, gdy wracając ze szkoły ściskałam w dłoni kasztany. Jest tak, że zaczęłam tęsknić do chwil spędzanych w lokalnej wypo … | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding its efforts to combat online hate speech, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The company's Online Civil Courage Initiative, announced in January, will transition from a pilot phase to offer advertising credits and marketing advice to a wider … | Continue reading
Kuriose Randnotiz von Heise Online: Wegen gesetzlicher Transportvorschriften könne es bei der Austauschaktion des Samsung Galaxy Note 7 zu Verzögerungen kommen. DHL habe bestätigt, dass man mit Samsung "schnellstmöglich für... | Continue reading
You can't stop the wave, but you can learn to surf. Jon Kabat-Zinn Event producers who resist event tech "have their heads in the ... | Continue reading
At its I/O developer conference in May, Google announced its plans to bring support for Android apps to Chrome OS; it subsequently launched Google Play on the platform’s developer channel for Chromebooks in June. Now, Google Play is rolling out to the stable channel. It’ll arrive … | Continue reading
Friends premiered on Sept. 22, 1994 – that's 22 years, four U.S. presidents and 12 iPhone generations ago.Binging the sitcom today on Netflix is sometimes even funnier than it was back then, because the technology is so laughably outdated.SEE ALSO: Ultimate 'Friends' fans got eng … | Continue reading
Pandora Jewellery has teamed up with Yahoo Storytellers for a Tumblr campaign, using content from experiential activity taking place at London Fashion Week. | Continue reading
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The upcoming Google Pixel smartphone is said to come with an IP53 rating, which offers some splash resistance but no protection against submersion. | Continue reading
If you found a stray USB stick in your mailbox, could you resist the temptation of picking it up and popping it into your computer to take a look around? Right now, you’re probably thinking that you’d never dream of connecting an untrusted device to your PC. However, a recent stu … | Continue reading