Bitcoin Press Release: The developers of YoCoin have announced the conversion of peer to peer cryptocurrency into Ethereum based asset. | Continue reading
August 23, 2016 Blokhus, Denmark – BlockPay is a young blockchain based FinTech company from Munich that helps businesses with fast and simple payment processing services. The platform supports most cryptocurrencies. BlockPay is solving most of the security and business risks thr … | Continue reading
One of the occupational hazards of gadget blogging is the never-ending flood of PR emails from desperate Kickstarter companies. There is thirst, and then there is the clawing, yearning thirst of a PR person struggling to stand out with a half-baked product. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Dyson’s been on something of a product launching roll, of late – hair dryers, robotic vacuums, it’s a diverse portfolio to put it mildly. The latest launch from the company, however, isn’t so much new territory as it is fusing together of a few of its existing lines into a single … | Continue reading
The Pokémon franchise scored a double victory in the month of July with the launch of the mobile game Pokémon Go, as the augmented reality app shot to No. 1 and boosted sales of older Pokémon games on the Nintendo 3DS handheld, according to data released today from SuperData Rese … | Continue reading
A hardware defect is causing certain iPhone touchscreens to malfunction and become unusable. Is it a design flaw or planned obsolescence?The issue, dubbed "Touch Disease," affects iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models, according to Jessa Jones, a repair specialist from iPad Rehab. On … | Continue reading
Jawbone’s chief creative officer, Yves Behar, has a bone to pick with Xiaomi over their Mi Square Box Bluetooth speaker. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Nintendo has been recently trying to expand its portfolio outside of games published on its own consoles. And taking a look at Pokémon Go, you could say they’ve been quite successful so far. However, in Japan the company has been involved with much more than games for years. You … | Continue reading
While Pokémon Go is definitely the primary benefactor of its own success, that doesn’t mean it’s hurting its competition in the mobile gaming space. New data from mobile commerce provider DOCOMO Digital has found that in fact, the Google Play Store’s top four grossing apps have s … | Continue reading
Makers of Polly, a poll-making bot that is the most popular in the Bot category of the Slack App Directory, announced the close of a $1.2 million seed round today. Polly and parent company Subcurrent were made by former Microsoft engineers Samir Diwan and Bilal Aijazi. At the Re … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it hoped to have its new mobile, high-tech fare payment system for the New York City subway installed by 2020. But e-ticketing may be coming to the nation’s largest rapid transit system sooner than we thought. That … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever watched YouTube on the big screen, chances are it was a letdown with all the clumsy navigation and content discovery problems. That may not be the case for long — unless you have an Apple TV. Google is rolling out an updated YouTube app for its various TV presences … | Continue reading
What do you think of bitcoin? Have you ever used it? You know, bitcoin is cryptocurrency, a new world’s currency that was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto early 2009. Despite the comparatively short history, lots of people worldwide have already had their own opinion about this type … | Continue reading
Now that The Angry Birds Movie is the second-highest grossing video game movie of all time, it makes perfect sense that a sequel is on the way. The Wall Street Journal reports that Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish company behind the popular mobile series, is developing a follow-u … | Continue reading
Facebook's ban on private gun sales has faced steady criticism since it was first instituted in January, as reports of sales on the site continued. Last month, Democratic Massachusetts senator Edward Markey wrote to Facebook and Instagram with questions about how the ban was bein … | Continue reading
While I’ve never been to New York myself, I feel I’ve seen it a thousand times. Whether it’s in books, in movies or in pictures, the Big Apple is virtually everywhere. Yet after all this time, nothing has piqued my curiosity for the concrete jungle as much as this dazzling timela … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Activision Publishing is about to kick its marketing for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare into high gear with its big fan event next week, Call of Duty XP. Just like its predecessor event in 2011, the XP event will draw thousands of rabid Call of Duty fans to watch the f … | Continue reading
In honour of National Burger Day, Event explores venues with fast food. | Continue reading
If customized keyboards for mobile devices are to be the next-gen interface for accessing the wider web – including information you’d normally turn to a search engine to find – then Microsoft today has stepped up its fight with Google with the rollout of a new version of its pred … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Redditor bcassalino uploaded a gif of two pokémon, Dragonite and Charizard, performing a surprisingly elaborate dance routine. Titled "No time to explain, let’s dance," the post... | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues slumping as the smaller timeframe chart indicators continue to swing wildly. 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 analysis: 13h00 UTC Wednesday Bits … | Continue reading
“… informally inscribed rock …” = An Chloch Mhór / The Big Stone | Continue reading
A startup called SelfScore has raised $7.1 million in new venture funding to help bring much-needed financial services to international students at U.S. colleges and universities. SelfScore co-founder and CEO Kalpesh Kapadia grew up in India, but moved to the U.S. for graduate sc … | Continue reading
Last Fall, LinkedIn launched a pilot program in an effort to help connect members with independent contractors and freelancers. The company has been pleased with the program’s progress, and today LinkedIn is opening up its latest product — LinkedIn ProFinder — to everyone in the … | Continue reading
Weil sich PKWs scheinbar unaufhaltsam vermehren wird es - jedenfalls in den Ballungsräumen - immer kniffeliger, die ruhende Blechlawine unterzubringen. Eine gängige Strategie ist es dabei, die Autos mittels Hightech-Systemen und einer guten... | Continue reading
Convergence is the ultimate goal of most technological developments, but there are some areas of life that don’t benefit from it. A good example: valuable items that you might keep about your person. Don’t converge those. As a seasoned traveler, I know to keep my passport in one … | Continue reading
Often adults, particularly the nerdiest amongst us, possess an unflagging love for an entertainment franchise that defined their childhood. Star Wars. The Lord of the Rings. Jem and the Holograms. My heart, for example, belongs to ToeJam and Earl, an all but forgotten roguelike f … | Continue reading
Genius, the service that lets users add annotations and context to other docs, has today announced the launch of Questions and Answers, or Q+A. Genius originally launched as a rap lyrics data trove, where users could add interesting context and insights about various rap lyrics. … | Continue reading
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. Robert McKee Henning Mankell, the creator of Wallan... | Continue reading
China’s got some lofty space plans lined up for the next couple of decades, culminating with a manned moon landing by 2036. Meantime, the country is looking even further out, geographically speaking, toward the red planet, detailing a mission to send a rover to Mars at around Jul … | Continue reading
Multiple organizations and institutions have asked people to temporarily remove passwords from their WiFi after the strong earthquake that struck central Italy early Wednesday, leaving dozens dead. SEE ALSO: This photo shows the level of destruction of Italy earthquakeThe Nationa … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe it's already been a year since the last time we celebrated National Waffle Day, but, here we are. For me, I typically spend National Waffle Day in sullen and remorseful silence because we don't have any Waffle House locations in the Chicago Area. (I actually … | Continue reading
Social media listening has surpassed more traditional marketing research techniques to become the favored marketing research method among brands in the Asia-Pacific region, reveals new research from global research firm TNS. Marketers in the region, which covers Australia, China, … | Continue reading
New York-based startup R3CEV has reportedly filed for a patent for a blockchain-inspired financial platform. | Continue reading
If you don't own a Shield device and have been waiting to play Riptide GP: Renegade, we have some good news for you. It's now available for non-Shield Android smartphones and tablets! | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekly installment of VB Engage, the VentureBeat podcast where we dissect mobile and marketing in a brutally honest way. This week, Stewart and Travis chat with Roland Smart, the VP of Social and Community at Oracle. If you missed last week’s episode, we talked wit … | Continue reading
Bachelor in Paradise is a television show in which the discarded men and women from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette come to a place called "Paradise" (technically a resort in Mexico) for a second (or sometimes third, and occasionally fourth) shot at love. Each week, they pair o … | Continue reading
September's Games with Gold has Earthlock: Festival of Magic and Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China on Xbox One.Earthlock is free to download during the month of September. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China is a free download from 16th September to 15th October.Xbox 360 gets For … | Continue reading
Koffer-technisch passiert ja eine Menge dieser Tage, man könnte fast meinen, die Tage des Schleppens seien schon gezählt, so emsig erklimmt das ehemals sperrige Gepäck nun Treppen oder dient dem Reisenden gleich als Scooter. Passend dazu... | Continue reading
Four years ago, Advanced Micro Devices went back to the drawing board. With a new chief executive, Lisa Su, and a mandate to do something big, a small team of chip designers started thinking about how to boost processing speeds without generating too much power. They came up with … | Continue reading
Only 2% of web visitors convert on their first visit. That means 98% didn’t, but thanks to retargeting, you’ll get another shot at them. | Continue reading
SkyGiraffe helps enterprises give their employees access to their line-of-business apps and enterprise data from virtually any device. The company today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by SGVC, with participation from Trilogy Equity Partners and a numb … | Continue reading
SkyGiraffe, the development platform that lets you deploy highly connected apps, has announced a new funding round of $6 million to help them expand their offerings. The startup, based in San Francisco, has also made their single REST endpoint for Slack and other third-party apps … | Continue reading
You’ve seen a few posts here about our upcoming event, Digital Commerce Summit — especially about the myriad benefits it will deliver to attendees. Today, we have one more quick note for you about our inaugural event … but this note isn’t aimed at potential attendees (more for th … | Continue reading
Synereo, a Tel-Aviv based company developing a blockchain-based, decentralized social network and a platform allowing web applications to exist without centralized servers, will move into alpha phase this September. The open source social network has been two years in the making … | Continue reading
Here's how to highlight your value to comparison shoppers on your own site and on third-party sites that comparison shoppers rely on. | Continue reading
AchievementsImagine your favourite football team entering a stadium. An army of wireless cameras is following the players to give you the best possible view - of the whole pitch, of the chanting crowd, of each footballer, from the tip of his head to the grass blades he treads wit … | Continue reading
With more people than ever cutting the cord, watching via smart TVs, and turning to streaming media players like Roku and others, YouTube decided it was time to update is TV application to be easier to use on the big screen. A new version of the application rolling out now will f … | Continue reading