HTC tells us to ‘be edgier,’ new smartphones coming

With the IFA almost over and with the upcoming unveiling of the LG V20 and the iPhone 7, HTC doesn’t want us to forget about the upcoming Desire 10 family. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Xbox Play Anywhere games that work with Windows 10 are now available to pre-order

Microsoft has updated the Windows Store with support for pre-orders, and the first products to take advantage of it are certainly worth checking out. The store is now accepting pre-orders for three Xbox Play Anywhere games that you can buy once on either Xbox One or your PC and e … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

SoftBank acquires chip designer ARM for $32b in the UK’s biggest tech deal

Following its July offer of $31.4 billion to acquire Cambridge, UK-based chip design firm ARM, Japan’s SoftBank has completed the transaction today in a £24.4 billion ($32.5 billion as of September 6) cash deal. The purchase marks the largest tech acquisition in the UK as well as … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Ethereum Price Technical Analysis – ETH Approaching Break

Key Highlights ETH price remained above a major support area versus the US Dollar and currently positioning for a break. Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via SimpleFX) of ETH/USD is still in play and may provide us the next break. On the d … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Michael Kors’ giant Access smartwatches are here for your fashion needs

Michael Kors has announced the availability of its new smartwatch line, dubbed Access. The new smartwatches, which were originally teased earlier this year, run Android Wear and come in two styles. The "Dylan" is a sporty style targeted at men, while the "Bradshaw" is all-metal a … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Article: What Video Ad Length Is Best on Facebook?

It might be easy to assume that the shorter the video ad, the better the completion rate. But maybe things change when it’s on a social platform. According to Q2 data, video ads that were between 30 and 60 seconds long fared better than those of less than 30 seconds on Face … | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Article: To Have a Killer Loyalty Program, Retailers Need to Think Big

Loyalty programs have become an important marketing tool for retailers, and most companies entice shoppers to join these programs by offering rewards. But these incentives may not be enough to keep consumers satisfied and happy that they joined it in the first place. Retailers ma … | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Article: Snapchat Ad Revenues to Reach Nearly $1 Billion Next Year

After weathering criticism of its initial ad offerings, Snapchat is poised for explosive growth in ad revenues in the coming years, according to eMarketer’s first forecast of ad revenues for the social platform. | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Article: Paid Search Ads Increasingly Overlooked in the UK

Paid search advertising still accounts for the biggest share of digital ad spend in the UK. However, consumers are increasingly tuning out such ads. More people are failing to recognize them in the first place, while fewer of those that do are clicking on them. | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Article: Women in Japan Turn to Web for TV-Inspired Research

About three in four female internet users in Japan say they research things they see on TV at least occasionally via the internet. The youngest women are the ones most likely to do so frequently, and most commonly look up locations like stores, as well as products and services. | Continue reading


@emarketer.com | 8 years ago

Use the porn site Brazzers? Your details could've been leaked online

Here we are again. At least 790,724 unique email addresses and passwords for the porn site Brazzers have been exposed online, Motherboard reports. The details, provided by the data breach-monitoring site Vigilante.pw apparently came from an accompanying user forum, "Brazzersforum … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/06/2016 – Potential Pullback Levels

Bitcoin price might be in for a pullback opportunity to these inflection points before resuming its climb.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 09/06/2016 – Potential Pullback Levels appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

60 Seconds on Google, Instagram, SnapChat, YouTube and Facebook (infographic)

This infographic illustrates how much data we contribute and consume as global users every single minute, and how much the population of the internet has grown over the last four years. | Continue reading


@digitalinformationworld.com | 8 years ago

Master the JavaScript Interview: What is Function Composition?

“Master the JavaScript Interview” is a series of posts designed to prepare candidates for common questions they are likely to encounter…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Report: Apple has more than 50% of Australia's smartwatch market

One day away from launching its iPhone 7, Apple has some good news out of Australia.A new report suggests the Apple Watch has captured more than 50 percent of the smartwatch market in the country, followed by the Samsung Gear and Fitbit Blaze.SEE ALSO: Inside Home: Apple’s plan t … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Stop typing on your phone. Using your voice is faster

Speech recognition software has gotten really good in the past few years. It’s so good, in fact, that you can actually dictate on your phone faster than you can type out your words. At least one recent study suggests that. Results of the study, published on August 25, show that a … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

7 steps to a winning publication with content marketing

What does a quality brand publication look like? When you consider how much ‘content’ is spewed onto the buying public, getting it right isn’t that easy. Project of the Year is being announced at the Content Marketing Awards in Cleveland, Ohio, this week. My pet project, Traction … | Continue reading


@lushthecontentagency.com | 8 years ago

World of Warcraft: Legion Day 7 journal — going far in Suramar

I’m in a strange place in my Legion adventure. I’m at the max level, but that doesn’t really mean much. I’m still locked out of a lot of the content in World of Warcraft’s latest expansion until I earn some better gear and finish more quests. The work of a death knight is never o … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

11 reasons we didn’t invest in your company

Like most VCs, we see dozens of deals each week. We’ve developed a funnel that enables us to quickly eliminate those that don’t fit our general investment criteria. The deals that survive this initial process are subjected to greater scrutiny. In the end, we invest in a small per … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

This solar-powered backpack could end your battery woes forever

After a week using BirkSun’s solar-powered bag exclusively, I can honestly say I’m hooked. Why we don’t have solar panels on all our backpacks is beyond me, but the ability to charge a device without having to worry about first charging an external battery is a godsend — especial … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Bitmovin bags $10.3 million for fixing 360-degree video streaming

360-degree videos could be incredible in VR when viewed with no bottlenecks between the camera and headset. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case today. The way video comes to your headset basically means any time you see a panoramic video in VR it isn’t anywhere near the original c … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Hillary Clinton coughed a bunch and now Twitter thinks she’s dying

One of my biggest public speaking fears is that I’ll have a coughing fit while I’m trying to make a point. So watching today’s Hilary Clinton speech, which kicked off with a lot of coughing and water sipping, is gut-wrenching. The incident is also lighter fluid dumped onto the si … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

John McAfee takes Intel to task (and court) for blocking usage of his own name

Six years after Intel purchased McAfee antivirus for $7.68 billion, its founder is now in court fighting for the right to use his own name. Bloomberg reports that John McAfee has filed paperwork to sue Intel, who’s attempting to block McAfee from using his name in a new business … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

The first chatbot arrest, but what are the implications?

GUEST: Imagine the police arresting a bot and releasing it after months of custody and investigation. This is not a scenario from a futurist’s blog — it actually happened in Switzerland last year. What were the charges against the globe-trotting Swiss bot and its owners? Its name … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Dragon’s Tale – Match the Ming Vases and win the Jackpot

Dragon’s Tale is the most exotic Bitcoin Casino and probably the oldest in the Bitcoin gambling industry. It was the first Casino in the Bitcoin to | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Has Huawei built a tablet for Google to be released in 2016?

According to prolific mobile leaker Evan Blass, we should expect to see a shiny new 7-inch tablet from Google by the end of 2016 built by Huawei. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Megaverse’s anti-gravity iPhone case is a modular solution to… everything

If I’m being honest, I never really thought about the benefits of sticking my iPhone to walls. Now, I can’t imagine not being able to. Reading recipes while cooking, watching YouTube while doing the dishes or just slapping your phone on the wall outside to have a centralized poin … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Apple’s new iPhones, and the implications of playing it safe

ANALYSIS: Apple is nothing if not predictable. Every two years, in early September, it introduces a newly designed iPhone at a meticulously staged event in and around San Francisco. In the in-between years, it also introduces new iPhones, but they are visually indistinct from the … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Pizza Hut’s new ‘Blockbuster Box’ box is the perfect movie night companion

In a moment that I’m imagining featured at least one stoned executive, Pizza Hut came up with a genius marketing gimmick idea for a dual-purpose pizza box that could keep your food warm (and in one piece) all while moonlighting as a smartphone-powered projector. According to The … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 explosion, Proxima b and SETI: Listen to TCBC Episode 3 with Emily Calandrelli

On this week’s episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch’s writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to Emily Calandrelli, our resident space reporter and the host of Xploration Outer Space – season 3 of which premieres this coming Saturday on FOX … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Exclusive: Jammerbund to leave British Fashion Council

Josef Jammerbund, head of events at the British Fashion Council (BFC) is set to leave his position at the end of the year. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 8 years ago

Disney’s shutdown of Marvel Avengers Alliance games shows the difficulties of mobile

If Disney can’t succeed with a mobile game, then you know that the $36 billion mobile game market is truly difficult. Late last week, the company shut down its Marvel Avengers Alliance and Marvel Avengers Alliance 2 games. The first one was a big hit of the Facebook games era whe … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

15 best VR games for Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is an excellent entrant into the VR gaming world. If you have one laying around, here are a list of the best VR games for Google Cardboard! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Will tech IPOs come back to life in the fall?

GUEST: After a slow start for initial public stock offerings this year, there are some promising signs that the IPO market may come to life in the weeks after Labor Day. Yet even if the IPO pipeline starts flowing again, this year will likely disappoint investors who are yearning … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Me and my internship: Olivia Hardy, FreemanXP

Olivia Hardy, an intern at FreemanXP, explains what it means to be an associate strategist and why no two days are the same. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 8 years ago

A 7-inch Google tablet built by Huawei could be on the way

Here’s something you might not have been expecting: alongside two new phones, it possible that Google will also announce a new 7-inch Android tablet very soon. According to Evan Blass, it will be released “before the end of the year,” sport 4GB of RAM, and be made by Huawei.There … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The four public policy questions every startup should ask

As a necessary function of a product launch, startups are myopic — they’re frenzied, they’re broke and they’re not remotely cognizant of the serious public policy hurdles to which they’re racing. That’s the problem. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Four reasons you really shouldn’t miss Disrupt SF, kicking off one week from today

Disrupt SF starts a week from today. There’s still time to get on board, and here are a few reasons why you might be sad if you don’t. You can still get a ticket here. #1 Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Diane Greene, Reid Hoffman, Sebastian Thrun.  If those names got your attentio … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Woman shot while “playing Pokémon Go” didn’t have a phone

Ask anyone who gets their news from local TV: Pokémon Go is dangerous. You can’t let your kids play that game, because they might get hurt. It’s like stranger-danger, but with adorable creatures to catch. Well, last night a shooting victim in Greshem, Oregon, just outside Portlan … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Armada Collective Strikes Again; Demanding 1 BTC ransom?

Armada Collective, a mysterious group of cybercriminals seem to be back again! The group known to disrupt websites by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may have sent emails demanding Bitcoin ransom from website owners. According to reports, many internet user … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Palkovice House by Qarta Architecture

Palkovice House is a single-family house designed by Praha-based Qarta Architecture. The house is situated in the periphery of Palkovice. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Orange Dental Clinic by RIGI Design / Tianjin, China

Located in the port city of Tianjin in northeastern China, Orange Dental Clinic was completed in November 2015 by RIGI Design. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Journey House by Nic Owen Architects

Journey House is a project and extension and renovation completed by Nic Owen Architects in Melbourne's Bayside suburb of Hampton. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Itoman Gyomin Shokudo – A Restaurant Covered with Coral Limestone

Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop of Tokyo designed the Itoman Gyomin Shokudo Restaurant using Ryukyu limestone and coral limestone. | Continue reading


@homeworlddesign.com | 8 years ago

Tickr makes your Apple Watch sound mechanical…for some reason

Wish your Apple Watch was constantly making sounds, and had worse battery life? Tickr is an upcoming Apple Watch app that runs constantly in the background and plays the sound of famous mechanical watches. The idea: the ticking and tocking will help sooth you to sleep, reassure y … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Playing Pokémon Go in church could send this Russian YouTuber to prison for years

A Russian YouTube star has been detained for two months and could face up to five years of prison time, reports the Guardian and many other outlets. His crime? Playing Pokémon Go in a church earlier this month. He was arrested under Article 282 of the Russian Federation Criminal … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Smartphone apps consumed half of all online attention in July

The dream of the open Web is dead. In July smartphone apps took up 50 percent of online attention in the USA, more than every other kind of internet access combined. Combine smartphone browsers, all tablet usage, and all desktop usage. Smartphone app usage alone takes up more of … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Chatbots are revolutionizing customer support

GUEST: Customer support is one the most resource-intensive departments in a company. Staff spend their day answering queries, on the telephone with customers, communicating with other departments, and much more. It is also a part of the operation that is hard to link to an ROI. A … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago