Leslie Jones has used Twitter to great effect in the past, but the comedian has tonight faced the worst of the microblogging service, as hundreds of people bombarded her with racist and insulting tweets. The sheer number of virulently racist messages prompted Jones to reply, sayi … | Continue reading
A tequila brand and car company joining forces isn’t exactly a marriage made in marketing heaven. So what brought Ford and Jose Cuervo together? On Tuesday, the two companies announced a partnership to explore how the tequila distributor’s leftover agave plant fibers can be used … | Continue reading
It’s not easy to be a nimble marketer in today’s ever-expanding, increasingly real-time digital world. But a growing number of brands and agencies are able to make decisions about customers, products and markets more quickly and thoughtfully by revising and updating t … | Continue reading
Research into the smartphone habits of users in Indonesia point to key age-specific differences in preferred device brands, smartphone activities and ownership of multiple phones. | Continue reading
YouTube has by far the most monthly unique visitors, but several regional websites are outstripping global competition from Netflix and Spotify. Research also suggests entertainment properties occupy more time than average in Latin America. | Continue reading
In emerging and developed markets, almost all consumers check their mobile devices within three hours of waking up, research revealed. There are some, though, that reach for their device immediately. | Continue reading
The rise of ad blocking in the UK has been discussed at length, with a fifth of UK internet users already in the habit. On mobile devices advertising is seen as especially annoying, so giving users better control and a better overall mobile ad experience are particularly importan … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price could be due for a test of the channel support once more, with technical indicators confirming a potential bounce.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 07/19/2016 – Aiming for Channel Support Again? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
SINGAPORE — The lack of Pokémon Go in Asia (save for Indonesia) is driving people mad, including one very talented Singaporean student.While trainer-wannabes continue to wait for the augmented reality game to drop in their respective countries, 19-year-old Nurul Syafiqa decided t … | Continue reading
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made a brief but dramatic appearance on stage Monday to introduce his wife, Melania, who delivered a speech on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. Photo: AP | Continue reading
GameStop is also trying to reap the benefits of a title that has over 20 million users by the Pokeballs. | Continue reading
Though a variety of systems of accounting are in proof considerably earlier, the roots of contemporary accounting strategies look to lie with Italian merchants in Florence in the thirteenth century. The Italian city states of the time were the financial powerhouses of Europe, exp … | Continue reading
TechShop CEO steps down from running company, Thrive Capital’s $700 million new fund, Microsoft XBOX One gets a release date of August 2nd, Softbank Group buys Arm Holdings for $32 billion, Uber completes its 2 billionth ride. All this on Crunch Report! Read More | Continue reading
The lifecycle of new marketing content keeps getting shorter all the time, so we are having to produce more content all the time. So how did we get here and, more importantly, what do we do about it. This infographic from WebDAM tells the story. | Continue reading
Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm Collaborative Fund in order to gain more of a foothold in the U.S.According to a Dealbook story th … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go isn't the only Pokémon app at the top of the App Store.Nintendo's game has sat at the No. 1 spot in Apple's App Store since it launched earlier this month but now two other Pokémon apps have joined it at the top of the charts: Poke Radar and Helper for Pokémon Go, both … | Continue reading
The dream of riding one of the light cycles from the movie Tron just got a lot closer to becoming a reality.SEE ALSO: Ray J reveals the inside story of his bid to launch a tech startupComposed of lightweight carbon fiber, the Cyclotron's most distinctive feature is its spokeless … | Continue reading
GUEST: This year has been fondly dubbed the year of the bot by tech leaders, investors, and journalists. However, while many have been following the bot revolution, the first truly viral augmented reality (AR) game, Pokémon Go, has just usurped that whole trend in the public eye. … | Continue reading
In the fifth developer preview of Android Nougat, which Google released earlier today, you’ll find a nifty update to the standard-issue camera app. Now you can decide what happens when you hit the volume up and down buttons. Usually when you do that, the app actuates the shutter … | Continue reading
Apple is addressing a major complaint some users had with the way its Apple Music streaming service functions when it comes to matching your personal music collection to an online catalog – a feature that allows you to stream your tracks from the cloud, via Apple’s iCloud. The co … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Digital signage is an industry that just keeps getting bigger. Most digital signage customers use screens to sell advertising space, provide information or assist wayfinding. The really good ones look to create dynamic signage that changes in response to variables that allows the … | Continue reading
While the ordinary proving ground of the smartphone may be the mean streets of the city, devices are to be found on the field of battle, too — and if a report from DoDBuzz is to be believed, Android may soon be giving way to iOS for some special operations forces. Read More | Continue reading
A new Congressional resolution calls on the government to support payment innovations like digital currencies and blockchain. | Continue reading
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer provided a brief update on her company’s pilot effort with bots during a conference call following today’s quarterly earnings announcement. She suggested that the company’s initial efforts with conversational interfaces will lead it to compete with other v … | Continue reading
More than 50 former wrestlers and performers have filed suit against the WWE, claiming that it hid the risk of brain trauma and failed to provide wrestlers with necessary medical attention and support. The wrestlers, who include Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, allege that the WWE knew ab … | Continue reading
Cortana is set to fly the friendly skies thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and Boeing, bring the Microsoft intelligent assistant closer still to the domain of its namesake. Microsoft and Boeing announced a partnership today to move Boeing’s suite of digital aviation o … | Continue reading
Not only does this 3D print job protect your smartphone from scrapes and knicks, but it also keeps you charged and fashionable with retro Pokemon style. | Continue reading
Hello, gentle listeners, and welcome to a much-belated episode of the RPG Reload Podcast. We're a couple of weeks late this month, and that's partly from tech problems and partly from my strict schedule the last few weeks. It's here now, though, and the good news is that the next … | Continue reading
A new lawsuit alleges the Federal Bureau of Investigation is willfully avoiding granting access to documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuit, filed by national security researcher and MIT Ph.D. candidate, Ryan Shapiro alleges the FBI is using an … | Continue reading
If you feel like playing Hearthstone [Free] with friends this week, then you're in luck because Blizzard has given you plenty of reasons to do so. From today until July 24th, Hearthstone is running an event called Friendly Feud where you can complete your quests by playing agains … | Continue reading
Content Marketing Lessons we can learn from the Epic “Game of Thrones” is priceless. Here are 21 of them in an elegant infographic. | Continue reading
Good news Apple Music subscribers: Apple is updating the way its “match” feature works.Not only is the matching algorithm now better (matching from audio fingerprints instead of metadata), tracks you upload to iTunes from Apple Music will no longer have DRM. In other words, it wi … | Continue reading
Estonian start-up Cleveron is looking to one-up Amazon’s Lockers with a more advanced solution, and today the company’s PackRobot makes its public debut in its home country. Read More | Continue reading
Can you guess just how much Pokémon Go makes in minutes? Well, let’s just say, it is probably going to be more than what you make in a year. | Continue reading
The US Navy is now using a particular type of sonar in more than half of the world’s ocean under an illegal permit. That sonar harms marine mammals like whales, dolphins, seals, and walruses. On Friday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in California found that a 2012 regulat … | Continue reading
Autonomy isn't just for cars; Mercedes-Benz has created a self-driving city bus, too.Mercedes-Benz revealed its latest creation on Monday morning. Called the Future Bus, it's the first city bus that can drive autonomously. Mercedes did more than just unveil the futuristic vehicle … | Continue reading
Google released the fifth developer preview for Android 7.0. Even though the Nougat codename is official, it appears Google still didn't leave us with an Easter egg in the updated dev preview. At least at first glance, anyway. | Continue reading
Eager to throw its product development into high gear, Postmates snags the team from Hey! inc. The latter best known for its ludicrously viral game Stolen, which was shut down and later reborn as Famous. “The Hey team was introduced to us an investor,” Postmates’ CTO and co-found … | Continue reading
A new report from JPMorgan Chase and Oliver Wyman argues that blockchain technology is an opportunity for asset managers. | Continue reading
Every toy and electronics maker wants to get on the edutainment train. And understandably so. After all, who wouldn’t want to make the toy that kickstarts the lifelong fascination of the next Nikola Tesla or Ada Lovelace? But such a glut of products highlights a consistent issue … | Continue reading
Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The internet certainly offers plenty of ways for you to unload the tickets… but how much should you charge? Ticketing startup SeatGeek has launched a … | Continue reading
Umbrella, purveyors of some darn fine microgames, are about to release a torrent of games onto an unsuspecting public. They're getting into publishing, though in a very hands-on role contributing art, design, and code for many titles, to go along with their self-developed titles. … | Continue reading
When Google first announced in May that it was accepting naming suggestions for the next version of Android — something that started with the letter "N" and referenced some sort of sweet, of course — I campaigned hard on the Internets for the name Nougat.Why, you might ask? Nouga … | Continue reading
Its core assets are worth $5 billion (we think?)It owns a bunch of AlibabaThe audio fidelity of the earnings calls is really goodYahoo FinanceFantasy sports (See also: Yahoo’s latest disappointing quarter pretty much sums up the past few years) Read More | Continue reading
aCommerce, a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. Read More | Continue reading
I've been waiting for the upcoming wargame Heroes of Normandie for quite some time now, but the wait is finally coming to an end as the game is set to release July 28th. After first appearing as a boardgame and then moving on to the PC, the game is finally coming to the App Store … | Continue reading
Earlier today ZTE announced its newest device, the $99 ZTE Max Pro. On paper, it’s a whole lot of phone for an off-contract device. After spending a few minutes with it, there’s a lot to like. Specs Here’s the basic rundown: 1080p 6-inch LCD Snapdragon 617 processor 2 GB RAM 32 G … | Continue reading