If you've taken a look at online promotion/marketing videos, you may have noticed something: There's not many about construction or the LBM industry, at all. Sure those videos are great for B2C products or arts-and-crafts or fun little diagrams about the latest services, but wher … | Continue reading
As the title suggests, The Big Book of Science Fiction is a big book. I haven’t felt this sorry for mail carriers since the last Harry Potter novel came out. Weighing in at over 1,100 pages of fiction and commentary, Ann and Jeff Vandermeer’s massive tome is an important contribu … | Continue reading
Convenient that we just revealed self-taught autonomous car creator Geohot will be at Disrupt: Now you, too, can become a self-driving vehicle engineer, in one year, using Udacity’s newly announced nanodegree (via Recode). Udacity is the online education startup helmed by Sebasti … | Continue reading
LONDON — When it comes to hanging out with friends, Tinder's probably the last place you'd think to look. SEE ALSO: Tinder Social: What the new group dating feature is really likeBut now, the hugely popular dating app doesn't just want to hook you up with a new partner, it wants … | Continue reading
After unveiling the OnePlus 3’s graphite color variant in June, OnePlus has just teased a soft gold version of its latest flagship offering. | Continue reading
With a couple of tricks up their sleeve, are the new Motorola flagships the phones to beat? We find out, in this Moto Z and Moto Z Force review! | Continue reading
It’s time to check your website traffic report to determine whether your content creation is merely creating buzz or actually driving business and ROI. | Continue reading
Can Alcatel continue what it started last year with their latest affordable smartphone offering? We find out, in this our Alcatel Idol 4s review! | Continue reading
The latest Droids are near. Verizon and Lenovo today announced that the Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid will launch on the leading US carrier on July 28th — a week from today. Preorders for the two smartphones with modular "MotoMods" attachments start today. The Moto Z retail … | Continue reading
Fast processing, hi-res screens, good cameras. Sure, some are certainly better than others, but even the bad ones are capable of things unthinkable on a mobile device not all that long ago. Heck, at the top of the heap, premium handsets are all starting to look the same.Over the … | Continue reading
Lenovo’s new Moto Z and Moto Z Force are the best test yet of whether a “modular” approach to smartphones can truly reinvent what these devices can be, beyond slabs of internet-connected glass. In reviewing them, I’ve been trying to figure out whether this futuristic dream makes … | Continue reading
Today, AGTech startup Indigo launched a probiotic-covered seed called Indigo Cotton, which promises to reduce how much water a cotton plant needs by harnessing the power of microbes. Indigo also closed a $100 million Series C funding round and announced it will launch its next mi … | Continue reading
Across 1,000 acres of cotton plants in Arkansas, Tyler McClendon is running an experiment. The seeds are the same, as are his company Oxbow Agriculture’s methods of growing them. But just ahead of planting the cotton seeds in April, Oxbow dusted them with a special microbe not us … | Continue reading
Discover how three writers learned to make a healthy living from their content marketing skills. You'll learn the steps they took and their best advice. | Continue reading
"Where do we go from here?" That's the question phone makers and gadget reviewers like me ask whenever a new smartphone launches and it's just another great smartphone in a sea of great smartphones.As much as I prefer the iPhone, I'll admit it has become boring. The iPhone 6S and … | Continue reading
Social Media - Marketers at large companies say Facebook is both the most used social network by their businesses and also the most effective one for engaging audiences, according to a recent report ... | Continue reading
You’ve been accepted to university. You’ve already envisioned the posters you’ll hang up in your dorm room; your iPod is stocked with a mix of Dave Matthews Band and EDM tunes; you’ve cleaned Costco out of its entire supply of Red Bull and ramen noodles—and then the tuition bill … | Continue reading
Plymouth Gin has launched a nautical-themed outdoor terrace at the Rivington Grill in London's Greenwich, serving bespoke gin cocktails inspired by the rich maritime history of the local area. | Continue reading
Benchmark specialist Futuremark has updated its 3DMark software with a new test designed from the ground up to support DirectX 12 - and its results are causing some controversy. AMD users in particular are somewhat surprised by the higher results gleaned from Nvidia hardware, sug … | Continue reading
Another one bites the dust: Nachdem US-Staatsanwälte ein Verfahren wegen organisierter Raubkopiererei und Geldwäsche gegen ihn eingeleitet haben, ist der ukrainische Betreiber von KickassTorrents in Polen verhaftet worden und sieht nun seiner... | Continue reading
For those keeping tabs, one more big tech company built and operating in the UK has been snapped up by another company from abroad. Today, MasterCard Inc. announced that it has agreed to acquire 92.4% of VocaLink — the tech giant behind the UK’s ATM, direct debit, and major mobil … | Continue reading
Font foundry Monotype, a company specializing in digital typesetting and typeface design, has acquired Olapic, a startup that helps brands garner relevant photos and videos from social media users for marketing campaigns. Founded in the 1880s, Massachusetts-based Monotype, includ … | Continue reading
Instagram boasts more than 500 million users, including more than 300 million daily active users. It’s been gaining 100 million users, or Instagramers, every nine months. Because of that rapid growth, Instagram has joined the ranks of Twitter and LinkedIn as a major social media. … | Continue reading
Consulting firm Bain & Company believes banks are at risk of missing out on the adoption of digital currencies – and the revenue that might come with it. The Boston-based firm has published research that argues financial firms are effectively holding themselves back amid an envir … | Continue reading
When he was seventeen, George “geohot” Hotz became the first person to jailbreak an iPhone, back when Apple really didn’t take too kindly to such things. Three years later, he moved his unlocking efforts over to the PlayStation 3. Again, Sony wasn’t a feeling it. The young hacker … | Continue reading
Bitcoin miners in Chelan County, Washington will now have to shell out more for the electricity following Public Utility District‘s decision to increase energy tariff from next year. The increased energy rates are not just applicable to Bitcoin mining centers but to other energy … | Continue reading
Car and tech companies continue to partner up, but Honda and SoftBank’s newly-announced union is a little different than most. Rather than working on self-driving cars, or a more connected vehicle, Honda and SoftBank are working on making an artificial intelligence that can actua … | Continue reading
Between overloads caused by too many players logging on at once, to hackers threatening to take down its servers, there’s a chance that you may not be able to play Pokémon Go when you want to. Thankfully, the fine folks at New York-based cloud monitoring firm Datadog have whipped … | Continue reading
Ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's has devised a London road tour to support the launch of its 'Wich Family' product range. | Continue reading
Einmal im Jahr findet im Rahmen der RoboChallenge eine zünftige Massenkeilerei statt, die derjenige BattleBot gewinnt, der zuletzt noch funktionsfähig ist. 2015 stiegen 18 Kampfroboter zum Death Match der Blechkameraden in die Arena, dieses... | Continue reading
Thanos Hotels: Pafos, Zypern (ots) - "Europas Kulturhauptstadt 2017" präsentiert mit dem Aphrodite Opernfestival einen Vorgeschmack auf das bevorstehende Kulturjahr. Das Hafenstädtchen feiert mit Don Giovanni von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ein Meisterwerk der ... | Continue reading
If you've thought of Alcatel at all, you've probably only thought of it as a budget smartphone maker, creating drops in a sea of low-end Android phones. But say you're Alcatel, how do you move up from the bottom to the middle, and make a phone that isn't destined for the prepaid … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to enable Windows 10 apps to run on its Xbox One console very soon, and we're starting to see exactly how they'll work today. Universal apps for Netflix and MSN Weather are both installable on Xbox One consoles running the latest preview software, and Window … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky uses fancy maths to generate its infinite, procedurally-generated galaxy. But is the maths Hello Games used to build the game its own creation?In 2003, a Belgian plant geneticist named Johan Gielis published an equation that can describe a large number of natural for … | Continue reading
Cava brand Freixenet is hosting two pop-up bars at Westfield London and Stratford, to promote Freixenet ICE, its new range of cava served over ice. | Continue reading
I’ve never liked Pokémon, and I don’t care about Pokémon Go. But I do use dating apps, which is why I was intrigued by yesterday’s announcement of PokéDates: a dating service for Pokémon Go. The concept is as straightforward as it is inevitable: you fill out some basic informatio … | Continue reading
Seit einem Jahr behält der Wettersatellit Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) die Erde aus rund 1,5 Millionen Kilometern Entfernung (vom Lagrange-Punkt L1) im Blick und schießt täglich mehrere, hochaufgelöste Fotos mit seiner... | Continue reading
Like it or lump it, there are some publishers out there who march to the beat of their own drum. Square Enix is definitely one of them, as today's news demonstrates quite nicely. Fresh from removing most of the Chaos Rings series of RPGs from the App Store storefront, Square Enix … | Continue reading
Redis Labs, the company behind the open source Redis data structure store, today announced that it has raised a $14 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures. The company’s existing investors, including Silicon Valley Bank and Tamar Ventures managing … | Continue reading
There are few greater joys in a marketer’s life than experimenting with a new technique — and having it work like a charm. You feel like a cross between a scientist, an artist, and a magician, am I right? After doing a little celebrating, you officially add the tactic to your rep … | Continue reading
Dziś chciałabym podzielić się z Wami refleksją na temat niedawno kupionej przeze mnie książki, genialnej w swej prostocie. Wprawdzie książka jest po angielsku (może doczeka się kiedyś polskiej wersji?), ale jest tak prosta i przejrzyście napisana, że jestem pewna, że nawet najwi … | Continue reading
Man kann von Über-Unternehmer Elon Musk halten, was man will, der Mann hält, was er verspricht: 2006 hatte Musk einen Masterplan für den damals noch in den ärgsten Kinderschuhen steckenden Elektroautobauer Tesla Motors aufgestellt,... | Continue reading
If you're trying to determine if influencers and content might be a fit for your brand, review these 3 indicators to inform your strategy. | Continue reading
In 1893, L. Frank Baum was working as a salesman in Chicago. A world's fair was taking place that year in the South Side, and its luminous exhibits lured the big-thinking Baum repeatedly (fellow Chicagoans nicknamed the fair "The White City" because it gleamed all night under Edi … | Continue reading
A place for unhappy accountants on the huge accounting corporations to vent and share information about what their corporations are doing behind closed doors. Government accounting handles the information of presidency organizations and completes auditing duties for individuals … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go's check-in locations, Pokéstops, are meant to be places of local interest. Churches, museums, landmarks. Often, however they are... not so much.To build an app with data for the entire planet, developer Niantic understandably had to crowdsource its information. The stu … | Continue reading
Do you want to publsih your blog post in Apple News App? Find 6 step by step easy guide for how to publish and monetize content on Apple News App. | Continue reading
"Sandstorm" by Darude might not be the most critically acclaimed piece of music out there, but it is honest, pure, and strong. It's a trance track that, to quote my colleague Sam Byford, is to dance music what Andrew W.K.'s "Party Hard" is to metal: "It elevates the tropes of a g … | Continue reading