Aus den USA stammt dieses Feuerwehrauto mit dem protzigen Namen Bulldog Extreme 4x4 Firetruck. Ein militärischer Feuerlöscher mit Allradantrieb und knapp 7.600 Liter großem Wassertank. Der Bulldog ist vor allem für unwegsame Gefilde... | Continue reading
Startup Battlefield is back. In just a few short weeks, TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition will kick off at Disrupt SF and we’re excited to announce the judges tasked with determining which company will take up the Disrupt Cup and $50,000. This year the competition feature … | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - What do the Statue of Liberty, Ancient Egypt's pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and other iconic historical structures have in common? And what does that have to do with B2B marketing? | Continue reading
Kate Spade introduced new fitness trackers and a smartwatch to the world this week. They’re "cute," in the words of multiple magazines. I agree. They are cute. One fitness band has a cat design and another is described as a mother of pearl bangle. Dang that’s fancy. The bangle al … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is climbing in a choppy advance. Is this the base of a large advance, or just an upward correction in a sideways spell? This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now. Bitcoin Price Analysis Time of a … | Continue reading
They developed a distinctive vocal technique and worked with scientists to create special instruments that would work underwater. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Singing, Instruments Musical, Underwater Music, and Underwater | Continue reading
In a major expansion of its policy on Zika virus, the Food and Drug Administration says it now recommends all blood donated in the United States be screened for possible Zika infection. Continue reading… | Continue reading
While you’re waiting for Allo to launch – or you’re video-calling one of the other five million Duo users – Google is still giving Hangouts a fair shake. | Continue reading
Cloud services giant Rackspace has been acquired by “affiliates of certain funds” under global investment manager Apollo Global Management in a deal worth $4.3 billion. Founded in 1998, San Antonio-based Rackspace serves up a range of services aimed at enabling businesses to oper … | Continue reading
WhatsApp announced that they will be sharing data with Facebook. The data will be used for ad targeting purposes for Facebook and all of the companies it owns. | Continue reading
WhatsApp has changed its privacy policy. Once you update the app, you’ll notice a notification on the transition. WhatsApp has announced that it will now be sharing data with its owner — Facebook. The data...read moreThe post WhatsApp Is Sharing Data with Facebook. How Will Marke … | Continue reading
Another day, another iPhone rumor. The latest report from Bloomberg indicates that the 2017 iPhone will kill the home button. This isn’t the first time the rumor has popped up, mind you; it’s been floating around ever since we’ve been told the 2017 iPhone will have a curved OLED … | Continue reading
For more than five years, Vuforia has been selling augmented reality. More than 30,000 apps have used the Vuforia platform for AR, which is owned by enterprise technology company PTC. Another 37,000 apps are in development, and there are more than 250,000 registered developers ma … | Continue reading
Part with a buck, pull in thirty-eight. Email's ROI is remarkable, according to the Direct Marketing Association . But you'll ne... | Continue reading
Our Marketing Week in Review covers a new Google ranking factor, LinkedIn's best use, and atomizing content. | Continue reading
I don’t have any kids, but our designer Alex does – and he tells me he’s found a neat hidden feature in iOS that every parent is gonna love. Whenever Alex has to get work done at home, he’d put on a funny video on his iPhone and pass it over to his son, hoping to steal the kid’s … | Continue reading
Just three years ago, autonomous cars seemed like a pipe dream relegated to a far-off decade in the future. But then, last week, Ford announced that in 2021 it's planning to release an autonomous car without a steering wheel, brake or throttle pedals, designed for ride-sharing.Ju … | Continue reading
This week on Vergecast, it's Wilderness Week! Nilay, Paul, and Dieter welcome video director James Temple to the show to talk about his new Verge series, Climate Hackers, which features scientists set on trying to reverse the effects of climate change.The cast also goes into this … | Continue reading
In China kam es zu einem außergewöhnlichen Vorfall, als ein Mann mit älteren Damen in seiner Nachbarschaft eine traditionellen chinesischen Tanz tanzte. Er stellte fest, dass währenddessen Fotos geschossen wurden und aus irgendeinem... | Continue reading
Amazon has plans to open more physical bookstores, further expanding its brick-and-mortar store footprint. According to the Financial Times, Amazon spokeswoman Deborah Bass said yesterday that the retail giant is opening locations in Chicago and Portland, with the Chicago store d … | Continue reading
Sequoia-based kids educational startup Duck Duck Moose is heading to Khan Academy, to add preschool learning to the non-profit’s digital education offerings. The startup’s 21 mobile apps aimed at children ages two and up are now available for free as a part of the move, which is … | Continue reading
mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, has raised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safaricom, Cross Culture Ventures, and the Virgin Group’s Alpha Angels joined an investmen … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Building social audiences won’t get you anywhere without using the data it generates to learn and convert. Join our free social analytics roundtable to find out how Reverb built their business on not just rock ‘n’ roll, but using the power of savvy social strategy and ma … | Continue reading
Sprint is introducing a new service plan today called Unlimited Freedom Premium, which sort of inherently highlights the fact that its last unlimited data plan was not, in fact, unlimited. The new Premium plan isn't unlimited either, but it is much closer: rather than limiting yo … | Continue reading
Young Thug wrote a song called "Harambe."The history of music tells us a song with a proper noun is about said proper noun. The Beatles’ "Yellow Submarine" is about a yellow submarine, "Sweet Caroline" is a about a sweet Caroline, and YG’s "Fuck Donald Trump" is about Donald Trum … | Continue reading
You can divide SEO tactics into two general categories: the black hat and the white hat. I believe we can do a similar classification with conversion optimization. If we had two categories worth distinction they would be: BS CRO Intelligent CRO Perhaps using the same concept of B … | Continue reading
Even though professional musicians often use tools like Logic or Ableton, there are a lot of ways to make music in your browser. From Google Music Lab to Incredibox, they all offer an accessible way of creating sounds. With BlokDust, making music is now beautiful too. The open so … | Continue reading
No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, I’m going to be writing regular dispatches from No Man’s Sky … | Continue reading
Spare a thought for Device Assist. It didn’t even get to celebrate its second birthday. | Continue reading
Here are well-researched and personally tested 57 Tools to build an email List. Pick one or many from them and increase email list of your blog. | Continue reading
Breitbart is not happy with Glenn Beck. The tea party talking head, Beck, insinuated in a radio program that Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump’s new presidential campaign CEO and former Breitbart News executive, threatens enemies lives and hires assassins on the dark net. Beck, who s … | Continue reading
It doesn't look like Spotify will be getting into the album exclusive game anytime soon. In a recent interview with Billboard, Troy Carter, Spotify's global head of creator services, called exclusives "bad for artists, bad for consumers, and bad for the whole industry." He joked … | Continue reading
We learned a lot about gaming at our GamesBeat 2016 event a few weeks ago. And we’re still gleaning some of the lessons from those sessions. We’ve written a lot about the news that emerged from those talks, but we also had a lot of talks that were purely educational. Once again, … | Continue reading
While many of the ideas of transhumanism are noble, the field is accused of sharing traits with eugenics. I can’t answer the many ethical, moral and existential questions raised by transhumanism. All I know is that it’s inevitable that advances in robotics, bionics, AI and geneti … | Continue reading
Social Media - Facebook again grabbed headlinesthis time with an app for teens only. Also: what Facebook plans to take over next, why the Olympics indicate a big shift toward live-streaming, and how ... | Continue reading
Customer Behavior - The Pokémon Go craze demonstrates people's thrill over chasing something down for a reward. So, what lessons about reward marketing can you learn from augmented reality and virtual reality gaming? | Continue reading
General Management - From time savings and increased productivity to usage rights, asset protection, and more, DAM's day as an essential tool for creative directors has arrived. The rewards are plentiful, and the ... | Continue reading
Der umstrittene Fahrdienst Uber expandiert fleißig und scheint auch weiterhin nicht daran interessiert zu sein, Gewinne zu machen. Laut einem Bericht von Bloomberg hat Uber nämlich bereits im ersten Halbjahr 2016 mindestens 1,2 Mrd. Dollar... | Continue reading
Self-driving cars have a tendency to become more adorable as big tech companies iterate their design, and Baidu’s new modified Chery eQ all-electric test vehicle is no exception. It resembles Google’s updated self-driving car, the panda-like EV, but it’s got more cabin room and s … | Continue reading
One of video games’ big breakthrough moments came in the early seasons of House of Cards, when consummate politician Frank Underwood sat down and booted up Call of Duty during an episode. It didn’t seem silly or forced; if anything, it was just the 21st century version of watchin … | Continue reading
The Hyperledger Project, the blockchain initiative led by the Linux Foundation, has elected a new technical steering committee. | Continue reading
Every business needs to market itself effectively to succeed in today’s competitive environment. And by mastering different data and marketing analytics tools, you’ll turn into an in-demand professional any company would want to hire. The Marketing Analytics Mastery Bundle is you … | Continue reading
Prominent bitcoin and Ethereum wallet and exchange Coinbase has unveiled a new feature to users in Europe who will now be able to purchase the digital currencies on their phones, using a payment card. Coinbase has announced that its European customers can now purchase bitcoin and … | Continue reading
Companies may wish to revisit their employee social media policies following a recent National Labor Relations Board ruling. Many companies enforce social media policies that restrict employees from criticizing their employers on social media. Those polices are now legally questi … | Continue reading
Dongwoon Anatech Co. Ltd. has developed a combined iris scanning and processing component that could cut the cost of bringing the tech to smartphones. | Continue reading
It's Friday! Here are some fun facts for you to think on this last full weekend of August (or shall we say summer...because who really thinks summer thoughts once September comes?!). | Continue reading
A new UK Government tourism strategy has been welcomed by event industry leaders as another step in "breaking down the barriers" to bring more international events to Britain. | Continue reading
A new kind of virus is making scientists rethink how infection works. This virus, found in mosquitoes, is broken up into several pieces. If the mosquito doesn’t come into contact with at least a few pieces, it won’t get infected.This shakes up our existing knowledge, which is tha … | Continue reading