Oracle will acquire NetSuite for about $9.3 billion, or $109 per share in an all-cash deal, the companies announced Thursday. Both Oracle and NetSuite’s cloud service offerings aimed at enterprise customers will continue to operate and “coexist in the marketplace forever,” accord … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 won't be officially unveiled until August 2, but that didn't stop Samsung Korea from releasing the first ad for the device. The ad never really shows what the phone looks like, but it does hint at several new features, including water resistance, which wou … | Continue reading
Got a bright idea for a company, but need a co-founder? You’re about to start walking down a really complicated path, fraught with dangers behind every turn. Until very recently, there were two companies to help you along: CoFoundersLab and FounderDating. Until the former acquire … | Continue reading
Media Alert Contact Liz King – liz@lizkingevents.com Aaron Kaufman – aaron@fifthelementgroup.com Dahlia El Gazzar – dahlia@dahliaplus.com 28 July 2016 — Yesterday morning, via various outlets, a he… | Continue reading
Aaron Kaufman from Fifth Element Group Aaron Kaufman, CSEP works hard – and with extreme passion! As the President of Fifth Element Group, it is safe to say that Aaron is a rising international res… | Continue reading
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced today that it will build an “innovation train” for Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in Europe. The train will not be a super-fast hyperloop, in which pods are propelled through aluminum tubes at speeds of … | Continue reading
"Does the internet dream of itself?" is the logline for director Werner Herzog’s new documentary, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. It's actually a collection of documentary vignettes exploring the history, power, purpose, and future of technology in the internet ag … | Continue reading
Read what one business learned—the hard way—about creating engaging, effective live chat customer support. | Continue reading
Customer Behavior - How do consumers feel about seeing emojis in marketing messages? Do their feelings toward emojis change depending on the type of message in which the emojis are included? | Continue reading
Today is the last day to get your tickets to Digital Commerce Summit, happening October 13-14, 2016, in Denver, CO. The last day unless you want to pay much more, that is. We’ve got great speakers, including Rand Fishkin, Tara Gentile, Jeff Walker, Laura Roeder of Edgar, Kevan Le … | Continue reading
From time-to-time here at TechCrunch, we see companies tackling problems or painpoints in a way that makes you wonder why it wasn’t done long ago. Seatfrog from Australia is one that gives me that feeling. Read More | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertainment begeht dieses Jahr seines 25stes Firmenjubiläum und da die Unternehmenslaune angesichts des neusten Blockbusters ziemlich gut sein dürfte, setzt man sich fröhlich selbst ein Denkmal in Form einer stattlichen Bronze-Skulptur,... | Continue reading
A letter to the FTC co-authored by executives from Consumer Reports, the Ralph Nader-founded Center for Auto Safety and the Center for Auto Safety, as well as a former NHTSA Administrator, asks that the federal regulator investigate Mercedes-Benz on the grounds a new TV ad overst … | Continue reading
Deborah Anderson-Bialis, the cofounder of pregnancy-focused tech startup FertilityIQ, is coming to Disrupt SF. After spending three years and over $70,000 to get pregnant, Anderson-Bialis and her partner Jake Bilas cofounded FertilityIQ, a centralized place for people to get revi … | Continue reading
“I remember everything,” Jason Bourne says in voiceover at the beginning of his latest movie. After three films in a row focused on Bourne (Matt Damon) trying to recover the memories of how he became an amnesiac CIA assassin (not counting 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, in which Bourne … | Continue reading
China's Taikang Life Insurance has bought a 13.5% stake in Sotheby's, becoming the largest shareholder of the New York-based auction company. Photo: ZUMA PRESS | Continue reading
Samsung is expected to launch the new Galaxy Tab S3 at IFA 2016 and both variants could be these two unannounced tablets that paid a visit to the FCC. | Continue reading
You might know what a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is. But if you’re like many people out there, you probably don’t use one. You should though. And when you finish this blog post, you’ll know why. A VPN is a private network established over the internet. That might sound compl … | Continue reading
Everyone’s already talking about Millennials. Congratulations! But what about their younger siblings? Get ready for the new generation of digital natives charging into the marketplace. In fact, the next generation is already here. Born in the late 1990s through the mid 2010s, we’ … | Continue reading
Michael Brenner, CEO of Marketing Insider Group, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss how paid promotion can energize your brand's content marketing campaign and grow your audience. | Continue reading
Mobile marketing automation (MMA) is how big businesses improve monetization, engage deeper with customers, and get you to come back, time and time again. We know the space well. We surveyed developers with over 900 million monthly average users to find the best mobile marketing … | Continue reading
I recently read a book called The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. There are a bunch of chapters in it. One of the chapters was about how in the future we won't really own much of anything, but we'll have access to everything. We'll just ask our apartment for what we want in the mornin … | Continue reading
Shopping via bots is nothing new, but Kip wants to make it as easy as entering a few emoji. The problem is, emojis aren’t very specific, and bots are pretty dumb. To start, Kip (already available for Slack) asks a few questions to try and get to know you better, but it’s not clea … | Continue reading
Hier kommt der nächste Drohnen-Stunt aus der Flying Machine Arena der ETH Zürich: Ein handlicher Flieger in fast klassischer Form mit zwei Flügeln und zwei Propellern, der sowohl Schweben als auch Gleiten kann, aber vor allem durch die... | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Towns: ‘Things are about to change’ | Watson recalls Popovich scolding him | Divac responds to Gay’s comments No. 1: Towns expecting big changes in Minnesota — You have to go back a dozen years to reach the last season in which the Minnesota Timberwolves made … | Continue reading
Jackie Mulligan is to leave her role at Leeds Beckett University to join Game Republic, which is known as the largest games industry network in the North of England. | Continue reading
Twitter really shines when used on mobile — and now there’s a way to make sure it’s literally always with you. Taiwanese-born, NYC-based artist John Yuyi recently created Twitter UI-based temporary tattoos. By using elements from the social networking service’s website and app, s … | Continue reading
Most brands have informative content production down to a science. They hit “go” on the production pipeline and can produce dozens of he[..] | Continue reading
I personally love to keep all my projects isolated in one way or another. In some cases –the most complex ones– I need to provision Virtual Machines by using tools like Vagrant and Ansible, but in most of them I can just define a bunch of Docker containers within the project’s co … | Continue reading
Following an incident caught on CCTV of a Xiaomi Mi 4i catching fire and exploding, Xiaomi has provided an official response and vowed to replace the phone. | Continue reading
If you’re like most marketers, you don’t live in an ivory tower. You try to follow “best practices” with your marketing campaigns and site, but with your limited resources, you have to spend your time on the tactics that make the biggest difference. Unfortunately, most best pract … | Continue reading
This morning, an Atlas V rocket will blast off into space from Cape Canaveral, taking a classified satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit. The rocket — the primary craft of private space travel company United Launch Alliance — is scheduled to take off at 8:37 … | Continue reading
Seminal Washington DC punk label Dischord made its entire back catalog available on Bandcamp this week, in the short gap between the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Most, if not all, of the tracks were available on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, … | Continue reading
Tumblr this week announced that it will roll out ads across all of its blogs, in a bid to increase revenue from the Yahoo-owned site. The ads will begin appearing on Thursday, though users will at first not receive a cut of the revenue. In a blog post published this week, Tumblr … | Continue reading
Gaining blog traffic can be a real challenge. But I have explained plenty of ways which will help you to grow visitors and more share of your blog | Continue reading
Pokémon-Go-Entwickler Niantic Labs muss sich nicht nur mit Servern am Rande des Nervenzusammenbruchs herumschlagen, sondern auch mit Cheat-Software, die Spieler-Aktivitäten simuliert, falsche Geo-Daten inklusive. So findet sich auf GitHub... | Continue reading
Samsung has posted its largest quarterly profit in over two years on the back of continued strong sales of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. | Continue reading
A Facebook exec recently predicted her platform would be "all video" in five years. Her prediction should neither surprise nor distu... | Continue reading
We’re big believers that some of the biggest lessons you’ll ever learn in life, are those learnt in unlikely places. The human mind is programmed to enjoy fun and if you’ve ever studied the science and psychology of memory, you’ll know that the more fun your brain has, the more l … | Continue reading
Destiny has been swamped by Beavers following the latest patch.This week's update to the game has caused problems for a sizable percentage of the game's playerbase. "Beaver" error codes are displaying for players as they attempt to land in the game's social spaces. (Destiny names … | Continue reading
Microsoft released Windows 10 almost a year ago on July 29th, 2015. The software maker has offered its latest OS to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users as a free upgrade for the past year, but that offer is about to run out. You only have one day left to upgrade to Windows 10 for fre … | Continue reading
Flagship phones are often make or break in the mobile industry. Just ask LG. The Korean company’s G5, an ambitious effort at modular devices, continues to weigh on the company’s financial performance this year. Read More | Continue reading
Learn how you can make your content more mobile-friendly to give your audience a better experience. | Continue reading
Ride-hailing services like Uber will be legal in China as of November, Bloomberg reports, citing a document from the country's transportation ministry. Uber and its Chinese rival, Didi Chuxing, have so far been operating in a legal gray area, as the two companies vie for supremac … | Continue reading
AIDA Cruises: Rostock (ots) - AIDA Cruises macht auf seiner Tour durch Deutschlands Urlaubsregionen vom 27. Juli bis 14. August 2016 in Essen am schönsten Strand des Ruhrgebiets Station. Unter dem Motto "Erleben Sie Urlaub neu" laden Kozica Reisen und ... | Continue reading
Prisma for Android does a lot to transform your photos but if you prefer video, you were out of luck. Until now, as Prisma will soon offer video editing. | Continue reading
Sachen gibt's: Die russische Firma Sound of Power hat ein echtes Konzeptkunst-Sortiment, das aus Bluetooth-Lautsprechern mit integrierten Verstärkern in Form von Büsten prominenter, mehr oder weniger mächtiger Menschen besteht, deren... | Continue reading
Deutscher Verband Flüssiggas e. V.: Berlin (ots) - Wer seine Urlaubsreise mit einem Autogas-Fahrzeug antritt, kann sich auch in diesem Jahr wieder über günstige Kraftstoffpreise freuen. In vielen beliebten Urlaubsländern tanken Autogas-Fahrer für die Hälfte des Preises herkömmlic … | Continue reading