Lead generation, the act of getting a quality contact that you can market, often seems like an impossible goal. In fact, only 0.3% of all leads generated end up converting into revenue. Research indicates that for every one conversion, a company may need to generate approximately … | Continue reading
If you're one of the many enthusiasts that applied to buy the $450,000 GT supercar but didn't make the initial cut, I have some good news: Ford announced Friday that it will be doubling the production cycle — from two years to four — for the all-new supercar.Originally, Ford only … | Continue reading
Glenmorangie brand Ardbeg has launched a search for the ultimate Ardbeg 'Ardventurer'. | Continue reading
Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘bitcoin lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. Read More | Continue reading
Key Highlights ETH price remained under pressure against the US Dollar, as buyers failed to gain momentum. There are a couple of important bearish trend lines formed on the hourly chart (data feed via SimpleFX) of ETH/USD, which are preventing gains. It looks like buyers are find … | Continue reading
This, then, is how Nintendo has chosen to mark Metroid's 30th anniversary. And this is how Nintendo has elected to break six years of silence for one of its most celebrated series: a co-op shooter with chibi visuals in which Samus Aran, the stoic bounty hunter who's fronted every … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price looks ready to break out of its symmetrical triangle consolidation pattern, which could determine its longer-term direction.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 08/19/2016 – Watch Out for a Breakout! appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
It's not Boys Don't Cry, but Frank Ocean has a new album — of sorts — available on Apple Music. Described as a "visual album," Endless is a 45-minute video that features new songs, playing as Ocean works in the same warehouse that he has used in his previous live streams. The vis … | Continue reading
Nearly half of US internet users said they prefer receiving loyalty-related messages via SMS, March 2016 research found. Yet less than a quarter of US brand marketers use SMS for their loyalty program, that same study revealed. | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics’ stock value has jumped this year, and on Thursday it reached an all-time high, capping an increase of more than 30% for the year. Here’s how Samsung compares with Apple in the smartphone market. | Continue reading
Nearly 50% of UK internet users surveyed say they would use a chatbot—a sort of virtual assistant—to obtain quick emergency answers if one were available. Many were even up for making a purchase from a bot—though not an expensive one. | Continue reading
Social media ad spending in China will reach RMB20 billion ($3.2 billion) in 2016, up 44% from 2015. The double-digit growth in ad spending continues even as user growth has flattened. | Continue reading
Before joining programmatic advertising and audience targeting firm Dstillery as chief scientist, Claudia Perlich focused on machine learning at IBM Watson. That highly analytical and data-driven experience has proven valuable in helping Dstillery combat fraud. Perlich spoke with … | Continue reading
Frank Ocean's third studio album still isn't out, but the R&B star seems to have given attentive fans a sneak peek at the long-awaited Boys Don't Cry this evening. Ocean debuted snippets of tracks that could possibly be taken from the upcoming release on a live stream tonight, as … | Continue reading
Wondering, how do you start dominating social media through content marketing? Then wonder no more! We have some excellent tips that will help you. | Continue reading
Uber’s self-driving cars start driving this month in Pittsburgh, Rothenberg Ventures might be in some financial trouble, Twitter increases its efforts to remove terror propaganda, CNN adds drones to its arsenal, and Gawker.com is shutting down. All this on Crunch Report. Read Mor … | Continue reading
While the first official Pokémon Go wearable is still several weeks away, that hasn't stopped at least one enterprising developer from hacking together a wearable version of Nintendo's hit mobile game.Patrick Cho, a developer at Intel, has succeeded in putting a very basic versio … | Continue reading
Spain stalwart Pau Gasol could miss Friday’s Olympic semifinal game against the United States with a calf injury, coach Sergio Scariolo told the Spanish-speaking media on Thursday. “He is not well, I cannot say for sure that he is going to play,” he said as translated by Eurohoop … | Continue reading
Dating is hard, online dating is its own hell, and opening lines can make you want to cease human contact altogether. It's awkward to straddle the line between just the right amount of forwardness and tact to total strangers when you're not actually interacting in person. But pan … | Continue reading
Fitbit is facing a class-action lawsuit regarding the accuracy of their heart-rate data, which have been shown to be inaccurate by a margin of up to 20 beats per minute. This news risks sending back to the drawing board many of us who have been experimenting with biotelemetry. He … | Continue reading
This is the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 and Mercedes says it's a throwback to the "glorious age of the aero coupes." The 18.5-foot long 2+2 concept makes its debut this weekend at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.Last year, I drove a fire-engine red Rolls-Royce Wraith around Lo … | Continue reading
People seem to have forgotten that Mercedes resurrected the Maybach brand as an all-new suffix to Mercedes' most luxurious models, like the Mercedes-Maybach S600. To remedy that, it's created a new luxury car of monumental proportions: the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept.You mi … | Continue reading
When visiting South Africa and experiencing the world’s highest bungee jump there are a few things that go through your mind; none of them are related to the mobile phone in your pocket. Mairtin Farragher found this out the hard way after jumping off the Bloukran’s Bridge in Cape … | Continue reading
It’s time for some real talk about self-driving cars: they're not coming around any time soon. You won’t find a bigger fan of the technology than me. I love robots, autonomy and artificial intelligence. I can still remember visiting Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and s … | Continue reading
The upcoming Galaxy Note7 boasts an advanced Always-On Display feature, and Motorola took to Twitter to call it a stolen feature. | Continue reading
It's the place between words, a slight pause before listening and after talking: silence. It can also be the impossibility of separating the sound of words from their background. Body language can convey so much. When we can't hear the character, we can see them — talk, scream, w … | Continue reading
The range of benefits that Silicon Valley companies offer employees may vary from dental, vision and 401(k) all the way to yoga massages, car washes and beauty services. With tech giants like Facebook and Google making a big deal about the benefits they offer, delivering and mana … | Continue reading
If you’re a regular reader of The Verge, you may be familiar with Jake Kastrenakes' bluntly named, eloquently written weekly roundup of movie trailers. I look forward to these pieces, which collect the marketing materials designed to capture in miniature the oomph of a full-lengt … | Continue reading
Airbus, the second largest aeronautics company in the United States (behind Boeing) envisions a future of flying taxis operated by artificial intelligence. The ambitious plan sounds almost laughable when it reveals that it could begin testing as early as 2017, but then you rememb … | Continue reading
Comcast says it's begun offering gigabit internet service in the Chicago metropolitan area as part of a multi-city trial period. This follows the telecom’s ongoing gigabit tests in Atlanta and Nashville, which both started earlier this year. Comcast is delivering the 1Gbps speeds … | Continue reading
Unleash your inner 'thumb ninja' with Satellina Zero, a simple mobile game that is surprisingly difficult and satisfying to play, once you get in the zone. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Virtual reality experiences are leveling up, and that’s evident in a new Hollywood-created VR experience dubbed Firebird: La Peri. It is a storybook fantasy that is voiced dramatically by actor John Rhys-Davies, the actor from The Lord of the Rings and the Indiana Jone … | Continue reading
The term "flagship" might mean something different to everyone. So we want to know, what is a flagship to you? | Continue reading
Heap announced today that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding. We’ve written about the company’s “capture everything” approach to analytics before — it aims to collect data about every tap, swipe and other action that a user takes on a website or app. CEO Matin Movassat … | Continue reading
Capybara Games' (Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery, Super Time Force) highly anticipated action-roguelike-like Below has been delayed indefinitely.The moody dungeon-crawler was announced over three years ago at E3 2013 and was slated to finally arrive this summer, but Capybara Ga … | Continue reading
The National Telecommunications Information Admistration (NTIA) announced via blog post on Tuesday that it will hand over the internet domain naming system, or DNS, to a non-U.S. entity: the multi-stakeholder nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles called the Internet Corpora … | Continue reading
A US district judge has rejected a proposed $100 million settlement in a pair of class action lawsuits filed in California and Massachusetts, saying the proposed settlement was neither fair nor adequate."The settlement, mutually agreed by both sides, was fair and reasonable," sai … | Continue reading
Sprint also refines its unlimited data offering by launching a new Unlimited Freedom plan. However, there is some crucial fine print attached to it. | Continue reading
I’ve lived through a lot of liveblogs in my life, mostly by the skin of my teeth, desperately watching as my battery ticks down, hoping desperately that the company is nearing the finish line.Of course, the fact that both my personal work computers sometimes feel like they’re on … | Continue reading
Uber and Volvo have entered into an industrial partnership to collaborate on autonomous car development, the two companies announced today. The deal will see Volvo sell 100 cars to Uber by the end of the year (a few have been delivered already) along with a longer-term project to … | Continue reading
Nintendo had a very good month in mobile gaming, according to NPD Group’s latest data. The 3DS won in both hardware and software sales for the analyst firm’s latest tracker report, with the 3DS and its family of systems (including New 3DS, 3DS XL and 2DS devices) up 80 percent fo … | Continue reading
Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët will unveil L'Eden by Perrier-Jouët, an immersive experience themed around a vision of nature, at this year's London Design Festival. | Continue reading
Google has revealed that September will see them opening a new facility that seeks to help tech startups the world over get off the ground. | Continue reading
We saw the surprising stat, 68% of publishers using editorial staff to create native, I've yet to dig in to this - but haven't seen this first hand. Typically editorial have shifted across. But it does touch on a good point, if you're a smaller publisher - how do you resource you … | Continue reading
BetChain is a professional online Bitcoin Casino that was established in 2014. Betchain is a licensed and regulated online casino that offers a wide range of games. From roulette to slots, baccarat, scratch cards, and even horse racing, you are unlikely to run out of options. New … | Continue reading
Whether the concept of a DAO could live on in the wake of the downfall of The DAO was the topic of debate at a New York conference this week. | Continue reading
Despite being five years old, the Nintendo 3DS became the most popular selling system in US retail for the month of July, according to Nintendo via analyst group NPD.While Nintendo didn't disclose exact figures, it noted that sales of the 3DS skyrocketed up 80 per cent compared t … | Continue reading