Signia Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $85 million to lead early-stage deals in emerging tech startups mostly in and around San Francisco. For the unfamiliar, Signia is typically the first money in and the lead investor in the companies it backs, writing $1-2 milli … | Continue reading
Google is buying up massive swaths of vertical real estate to advertise its upcoming October 4th hardware event. Billboards in the United States, building-side projections in Germany — timed to coincide with Cologne’s Photokina exhibition — and even a freaking statue have all pop … | Continue reading
Dass das iPhone 7 ohne die vertraute Kopfhörerbuchse kommt, gefällt vielen Nutzern überhaupt nicht, weil ihnen weder das Hantieren mit dem offiziellen Adapter oder irgendwelchen anderen Zusatz-Gadgets noch die Verwendung von AirPods gefallen... | Continue reading
The Voyager Golden Record wasn’t made for you. It was made for aliens. But if buying stuff that wasn’t originally intended for you isn’t what Kickstarter is for, I honestly don’t know what is. Longtime Boing Boing editor David Pescovitz has teamed with Amoeba Records manager Timo … | Continue reading
Blockchain startup Symbiont has demonstrated a self-executing catastrophe swap smart contract on a platform designed for a wide-range of industries.Source | Continue reading
Instagram has announced that it now has more than 500,000 advertisers using the platform to market their wares. The milestone figure comes seven months after the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing service said it has passed 200,000 advertisers, meaning it has grown by around … | Continue reading
Game streaming is something that everyone working in streamed video wants a part of, and now Facebook Live can stream Android games (and other apps) via the BlueStacks desktop emulator for PC and Mac. The integration is pretty smart, and while it was previously available for Twit … | Continue reading
Chinese companies are increasingly showing us why one shouldn’t have to pay a premium for a high-end smartphone.SEE ALSO: Lenovo launches affordable Moto E3 Power smartphone in India for $120Take Lenovo for example, which today launched the Z2 Plus, its new flagship smartphone fo … | Continue reading
For 30 years, Phil Tippett has been creating monsters for the movies, including the memorable Holochess game in the original Star Wars film. And now he’s made the monsters for a new augmented reality mobile game, HoloGrid: Monster Battle. I traveled to Tippett Studio in Berkeley, … | Continue reading
It’s time to hang up those bulky, wired headphones–for good. FRANKLIN Headphones deliver clear wireless sound, and they fold for easy transport. For a limited time, you can pick up your own set for just $39.99 from TNW Deals. Pair your FRANKLIN headphones with your phone, tablet, … | Continue reading
All right, we know about saturation in paint mixes (too dark) and superhero movies (too many), but what does saturation mean when it comes to blogging? It's not pretty: content saturation refers to a point where there are so many blogs out there that your own blog impact becomes … | Continue reading
Scale Model, the betaworks-backed marketing platform for better audience targeting, has today announced the launch of its fully-baked V2.Scale Model hooks into the Twitter Ads API to help brands and influencers better understand their audience, and the way that their own follower … | Continue reading
In yet another play for the hearts of the nation's youth, Hillary Clinton has appeared on Zach Galifianakis' web talk show Between Two Ferns. This time however, it stands to pay off for Clinton — she gets to sit mostly in silence and offer deadpan responses to Galifianakis' deadp … | Continue reading
Three months after the Iraqi city of Fallujah was fully liberated from Islamic State, families are returning home. The first images have been released from inside the city showing people returning to claim back their homes and their property, or, what is left of it. Photo: Assoc … | Continue reading
This blog post was originally released on the Europeana Sounds blog. After a nice journey through Europeana Sounds items related to goats , let’s continue our series on animals and sounds with some fascinating resources held by the Irish Traditional ... | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Pacers committed to George | Wall’s health a question | Sixers not shopping No. 1: Bird says Paul George going nowhere — Larry Bird drafted Paul George and has helped him blossom into an All-Star and the foundation of the Pacers franchise. Now the team preside … | Continue reading
Mobile platform BlueStacks today announced an elegant solution to stream apps directly to Facebook. The company has already had success doing the same with platforms like Twitch.tv, a move that saw streamers and technophiles broadcasting in front of a potential audience of millio … | Continue reading
BlueStacks is announcing today it has fully integrated with Facebook Live, a move that will enable streaming for 150 million users on its platform for playing mobile content on PCs and other platforms. Not only games, but also karaoke/music apps and other mobile-first experiences … | Continue reading
There's a very good chance that you've already installed iOS 10, the latest operating system for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple is much better at getting devices upgraded consistently than Google is, so reviewing it is a little different than other operating systems like Android, … | Continue reading
Roughly one-third of eligible voters are not registered to vote, but more than 90 percent of Americans own a mobile phone. HelloVote is designed to close that gap by using phones to help everyone register to vote. The bot can register voters in all 50 states, and it takes the ave … | Continue reading
Jay Baer weighs in on why so many brands blow the all-important Moment of Truth: when a curious site visitor goes searching for answers. | Continue reading
The UK Government has launched a new technology competition inviting submissions related to distributed ledger technology.Source | Continue reading
Vitaly Kryuchin ist als Chef der Russian Federation of Practical Shooting ein ausgewiesener Waffennarr, aber darüber hinaus hat Kryuchin dann noch eine drängende musikalische Ader, und um beide Hobbys unter einen Hut zu kriegen, hat Kryuchin... | Continue reading
Game media personality Geoff Keighley is launching a new weekly live talk show with YouTube Gaming to celebrate gaming culture. Live with YouTube Gaming premieres on September 29 as a joint production of Keighley, host of The Game Awards and YouTube Live at E3, and YouTube’s own … | Continue reading
For some reason certain people feel the need to create a dating profile using someone else’s pictures. Whether it’s done to impersonate someone else, bully someone or even just pull a prank, it happens more than you’d think.Luckily Bumble thinks they have found a pretty innovativ … | Continue reading
For those of you following Instagram’s ad business, my headline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back in February, but at the time there were only 200,000 advertisers, less than half of the 500,000 ad … | Continue reading
The US Drug Enforcement Administration plans to name a new Schedule I drug: a Southeast Asian plant known for its opiate-like effects called kratom. The move may slow down medical research into a promising painkiller, or discourage it altogether.Schedule I is the DEA’s most restr … | Continue reading
If you could really feel your digital money — the way you can feel the metal of a quarter or the paper of a $20 bill — would you spend it more wisely? This is the question behind Scrip, a product concept from studio NewDealDesign. As companies like Apple make financial transactio … | Continue reading
Strategic bullet points highlight easily digestible bits of important information, which keeps your reader's attention focused and breaks up dense text. | Continue reading
Customer Behavior - More than half (52%) of people who shopped for clothes online in the past year used a mobile device to make at least one purchase, according to recent research from ... | Continue reading
Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, has today announced that it participated as an investor in Vina’s latest funding round. Vina, a social network where girls can meet and nurture new friendships, recently raised a $1.4 million seed round from Greylock, NEA and Wildcat Ventu … | Continue reading
If you’ve been dying to try out No Man’s Sky, but your Pentium II doesn’t pack the oomph to run it – there’s now a Doom remake of the popular game that will take you back to the future. Developed by Robert Prest over the course of three weeks, No Guy’s Sky uses the original origi … | Continue reading
Protests continued for a second day in Charlotte, N.C., as a state of emergency was declared in the city. One person was shot and four officers were injured during the demonstration. | Continue reading
lastminute.de: München (ots) - Na ist denn jetzt schon Herbst? Ja, jetzt auch ganz offiziell. Die Nächte sind schon länger, die Blätter werden bunter und die Strandtücher wandern erst einmal in den hintersten Winkel des Schrankes. Kein Grund, Trübsal zu blasen. ... | Continue reading
An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a type of loan in which the interest rate keeps changing. It is also known as the variable-rate mortgage | Continue reading
A little more than a year after the release of his last album, The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, has announced his follow-up LP. It's called Starboy, and it's set to come out on November 25th, Pitchfork reports. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Analysts are estimating that Samsung's Q3 profits could fall by as much as 8.6 percent, if the Galaxy Note 7 recall costs exceed $1 billion. | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced that Kony Visualizer 7, the visual application design and development solution of the Kony Mobility Platform Suite, was named the first place winner, in the Mobile... | Continue reading
The way things stand, Roger Ver is demanding a monthly US$10,000 reimbursement from OKEX, for the remaining 57 months of their original contract. | Continue reading
SGN Games has changed its name to Jam City, and to celebrate its new direction, the Los Angeles company has acquired the rights to make games based on the Peanuts franchise. The rebranding is the second one for the maker of Cookie Jam, which was founded as Mindjolt by Chris DeWol … | Continue reading
The only thing worse than not having a blog, is having one that makes your brand or business look unprofessional. When prospective clients request a Discovery call and want to talk about creating products and programs, one of the first things I do is take a look at their blog. I’ … | Continue reading
Der Telekommunikationskonzern Telefónica versucht wieder Bewegungsdaten der eigenen Kunden zu verkaufen - ein ähnlicher Versuch scheiterte 2012 am Datenschutz.Laut Wirtschaftswoche sage Konzern, dass man nun "dieses Mal die Anonymität... | Continue reading
Following its demo at May’s I/O conference, Google’s AI-powered messaging app finally launched yesterday. I took Allo for a spin and found that it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, like smart replies and Google Assistant for surfacing info from around the Web in your conversati … | Continue reading
As a professional editor, I’ve edited all kinds of documents, not the least of which are essays. I’ve seen it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Look, it’s easy to write a bad essay when it’s due in less than 24 hours (we’ve all been there), but that doesn’t mean it’s difficult … | Continue reading
Good things come to those who wait, and nowhere is this truer than for some Chromebook users who’ll start getting access to Google Play after nearly five months of waiting. | Continue reading
Seattle-based Avalara said today it had raised another round of $96 million, bringing its overall fundraising total to $300 million. The company, which offers a cloud-based tax compliance system for businesses, said the latest round includes $46 million to “repurchase shares from … | Continue reading
Mike Stiles, Global Content Strategy Manager for IHG, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss the fine art of overseeing and managing content for multiple brands. | Continue reading
Donald Trump this week came out in opposition to a plan that would see the US cede control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that oversees the allocation of domain names and IP addresses. In a statement published to Trump's web … | Continue reading