National storage provider Extra Space Storage knows the importance of optimizing customer journeys, but doing that requires developing a deep understanding of why customers exhibit certain behaviors online. Brooke Johnson, senior manager of marketing optimization at Extra Space S … | Continue reading
In many respects, social media and paid search are ideal partners. One facilitates branding and engagement, while the other helps seal the deal by driving traffic, leads and sales. | Continue reading
Mobile video ad spending continues to see healthy growth in the US, with many advertisers suggesting the format helps improve brand awareness, audience targeting and brand favorability. But despite these positive results, many advertisers also note a variety of challenges with mo … | Continue reading
Over the last two days, over 5,000 attendees (along with hundreds of thousands of people tuning in online) have watched 25 companies duke it out for the right to call themselves the Startup Battlefield Winner at Disrupt SF 2016. These are the six companies that remain: BlazingDB … | Continue reading
September 13th, 2016 is coming to a close. There will never be another. Pour one out and reflect on this, as well as the somewhat improbable fact that the date marks 1,000 (one thousand) days since Apple released the first version of its gorgeous and radically revamped Mac Pro co … | Continue reading
It’s the second day of Disrupt SF 2016. We interview Startup Battlefield company EverlyWell, iOS 10 is available today, YC MOOCs are on the way, Alexa App store hits 3,000 skills, and co-working space Industrious lands a Series B. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Fortunejack.com offers various bonuses to players, some of which are noticeably more attractive than those of other online casinos. New players can claim a 100% casino bonus on their first deposit at FortuneJack, up to 1BTC. | Continue reading
There is more work to do to realize the promise of social…and everyone knows there is a better way. Here are the driving principles that will ignite more powerful social interactions for brands. | Continue reading
There are plenty of tools out there, and you can even turn your tablet into a second monitor, but none of those solutions are perfect. Can DeskDock make the cut? | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is still hovering close to the long-term rising trend line but could be trying to resume its rally.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/14/2016 – Long-Term Climb Gaining Steam? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Video analytics platform Valossa just launched Val.ai, a platform to help video creators, advertisers and other video boffins figure out what’s going on in video. In addition to computer-vision tricks, the platform can do sentiment analyses (person is happy / person is sad) and e … | Continue reading
Sunrise, the popular calendar app acquired by Microsoft in 2015, is officially no more.The app's calendars have stopped updating and users will no longer be able to access their accounts through the app or website as of Sept. 14, the company revealed. In what may be an effort to … | Continue reading
Samsung began a global Note7 recall program a while back, but according to Apteligent, users are still stubbornly using their Note7 devices despite all the risks. | Continue reading
Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry closed out the second day of Disrupt San Francisco by discussing his recent forays into technology investments and charitable organizations, kicking things off by talking Slyce, the social media startup he cofounded with former Davidson teammate, Ja … | Continue reading
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 today, I had a chance to chat with DJ Patil, the nation’s deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist. We talked about what he’s been up to at the White House lately, the criminal justice system and a recently-launched da … | Continue reading
The US Presidential race is well and truly under way, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaigning relentlessly for support. Rather than yet another discussion of politics, today the team took a closer look at the marketing strategies of each candidate. Sarah Mitchell was re … | Continue reading
WhatsApp has updated its iOS app on Tuesday to let users incorporate voice-activated controls into their usage. For those with iOS 10 installed, you’ll be able to use Siri to not only send messages, but also place WhatsApp calls. By doing so, it simplifies the communication proce … | Continue reading
It was a story about how big data allows us to make decisions in real time that caught my eye a while ago that led me to say no, big data should not replace our thinking. The story contained another assumption about strategy, how it is fixed once and for all. And that is right be … | Continue reading
Giving his first public speech as CEO of the NCSC, at the Billington Cyber Security Summit in Washington today, Ciaran Martin warned that far too many unsophisticated cyber attacks are succeeding, going on to discuss the government’s new more pro-active cyber security strategy. R … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever watched the Nic Cage freak-out montage, you’ll know exactly where the creators of the ‘Nic Cage Rage Page‘ are coming from. Perhaps the biggest over-actor in a generation, Cage is equal parts humorous and certifiable. His fan-made rage page takes elements of both. … | Continue reading
Apple announced that Pokémon Go would be making its way to the Apple Watch. According to the creator of the game, it will likely come to Android Wear too. | Continue reading
Chelsea Manning has ended the hunger strike she began September 9th after the US military agreed to let her receive gender reassignment surgery, according to her lawyers. "I am unendingly relieved that the military is finally doing the right thing," Manning said in a statement. " … | Continue reading
REVIEW: Pac-Man is back for another championship. Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is out now for $13 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and I’ve played it for around four hours. It brings back a lot of the elements that helped the original stick out while simultaneously burying w … | Continue reading
Nvidia revealed a new configuration of its DRIVE PX 2 in-car autonomous driving computing platform today, which vastly improves power efficiency and drops physical size compared to the original unveiled at CES earlier this year. The new single-core configuration will be used by B … | Continue reading
Keeping close, quantified track of personal progress is absolutely imperative for one group of people: recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. And it’s this often isolated segment of society that the startup behind the WeConnect app is aiming to help. Read More | Continue reading
Everything is getting hacked to the point that it’s getting kind of ridiculous — and everyone needs to have secure passwords. The trouble, however, is making them tough to crack and also being able to remember them. That’s led to a blossoming ecosystem of password management serv … | Continue reading
Justice isn’t raining from the sky for once, and it’s not because I shot Pharah with Ana’s sleeper dart. Blizzard’s Battle.net server is experiencing issues that are keeping players offline. This is affecting people trying to play Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone: Heroes … | Continue reading
Sensay, one contestant at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield, is aiming to be the first breakout cross-platform chatbot — but, unlike most that provide services and information at a convenience chat, its currency is people. Read More | Continue reading
Bandai Namco needed to include a few key characteristics in order to ensure that Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is a real Pac-Man Championship Edition game. These include fast gameplay, 5 minute rounds, score-chasing leaderboards, and — most important — a bass-pounding theme song … | Continue reading
Forget Ford's 2025 benchmark to sell self-driving cars to the public. Volvo is handing over a fleet of autonomous SUVs to Swedish families next year.For a while now, Volvo has said it will launch its public self-driving vehicle experiment called "Drive Me" in Gothenburg, Sweden i … | Continue reading
Cards on the table: I’m team Mario. I think that Super Mario World is a classic that stands the test of time, and that Sonic 2 is a marketing driven mess of fast paced bullshit, totally unplayable by contemporary standards. So yeah. I’m not a Sega fanboy. And yet, it’s a lot easi … | Continue reading
Stripe announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Tonic, an app development and prototyping service, in a move meant to shore up its developer offering. While financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, it was revealed that Tonic has rebranded to RunKit and will continue to ope … | Continue reading
Giftbit, a company that operates a digital gift card marketplace for online retailers, is launching a new product today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF that will enable merchants to easily create their own custom currency — meaning gift cards, promo codes and refund credits — without ha … | Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter have joined likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and others to improve the quality of information on social media. The group hopes to target fake news and misinformation, although it stops short of saying what steps it would take or how it’d reac … | Continue reading
Your phone doesn’t know how you’re feeling — but you may want it to if that capability came with a few fringe benefits. Affectiva makes emotion-detection software, and CEO Rana el Kaliouby was full of ideas today at Disrupt SF as to how it could be deployed, from gifs to Ubers. R … | Continue reading
Today has been a massive Apple update day. The company released iOS 10, tvOS 10 and also watchOS 3. After announcing it at WWDC, it’s finally here — and it’s a huge update. I won’t mention all the changes with watchOS 3. Instead, I’ll focus on three topics — speed, app switching … | Continue reading
VR content is really in the hands of the early adopters at the moment. For most consumers there’s just not much accessibility in creating VR moments.Launching today out of TechCrunch Disrupt SF’s Startup Battlefield, Spincle is aiming to bring VR content capture to mobile in a wa … | Continue reading
My cousin David was recently murdered. Close family and friends went to out to the location in Arizona where his body was found. I was able to grab this picture of his mom saying one last goodbye before we left. | Continue reading
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The ability to read and record genes sits at the base (base pair, if you will) of biotech companies worldwide. So improvements to that ability are kind of like upgrading the specs of the industry itself. That’s what Amaryllis Nucleics aims to do with its vastly improved method of … | Continue reading
French startup Sqreen protects your web apps and services with little effort from your side. If you don’t want to deal with security yourself, Sqreen is a software-as-a-service product that automatically watches for attacks and protects your server in real time. The company is pa … | Continue reading
We've known that the Sunrise team was going over to Microsoft for some time, but today marks the last update that will come to the popular calendar app. | Continue reading
Diane Greene, executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise, appeared on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco with TechCrunch editor Matt Burns today, and talked about her role running Google’s massive cloud business.She came on board last year when Google bought her s … | Continue reading
Samsung’s Gear S3 was announced to somewhat mixed reception. The plethora of features packed into it were welcome, but they came at a big expense: size. After all, one of the best things about the Gear S2 was how much smaller it was than all the devices around it. But after spend … | Continue reading
Meetings are probably never going to die — and, along with that, neither are presentations. But the traditional route for making presentations is getting a little outdated, with tools like PowerPoint getting updated regularly but lacking a certain simplicity to them.That’s why Ow … | Continue reading
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For all the high-tech advances in healthcare when it comes to drugs and devices, doctors, their back offices, pharmacies, labs that conduct health tests and insurance providers aren’t exactly in easy communication about or with the people in their care. And patients don’t have a … | Continue reading
Upscale coworking space Industrious announced today that it scored a $37 million series B round to compete with WeWork in more than 20 cities. Backed by Riverwood Capital, Industrious says it aims to open 12 new locations and expand the services it currently offers in its curren … | Continue reading