Capital Float, an online lending platform for small businesses in India, announced today that it has closed a $25 million Series B. Read More | Continue reading
Opera has announced a new power saving mode for the developer version of its web browser, with he company making the ambitious claim that it can increase a Windows laptop's battery life by up to 50 percent compared to Google's Chrome. When users unplug their laptop from mains pow … | Continue reading
Hitman is a series of some wonder. It has been since its inception in 2000, and the latest instalment (helpfully differentiated as Hitmanᵀᴹ) is a hugely welcome return to form. Despite its focus on methodical professionalism and minimal exposure, the series has always been surpri … | Continue reading
Auch wenn der Echo bei uns noch nicht zu haben ist - in den USA ist der vernetzte Lautsprecher von Amazon ein Verkaufsschlager. Nun will angeblich auch Google ein Stück vom Kuchen. Laut Recode arbeitet der Suchgigant an einem Konkurrenzprodukt... | Continue reading
You think it’s too early to talk about Samsung’s Next Big Thing? Like it or not, rumors about the Galaxy Note 6 are already trickling in and today we have a doozy from @evleaks. | Continue reading
Lyft has agreed to more than double its settlement in a class action lawsuit in California after a judge rejected a $12.25 million deal as too small. Drivers for the service argued that they'd been misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees, and are set to re … | Continue reading
Opera is on a roll lately. Over the last few weeks, the company added a built-in ad blocker and VPN service to its desktop browser, for example. Today, the company is launching a new early release developer version for its Windows and OS X users that includes a power-saving mode. … | Continue reading
Opera has updated its browser for Windows and OS X with optimizations to help save battery life on laptops. The new power saving mode, available for preview in Opera’s latest developer build, is accessible via the battery icon that shows up when your laptop is unplugged from main … | Continue reading
European tech company Opera Software is introducing a new power-saving mode to its desktop browser app, a feature it says can extend a laptop’s battery life by up to 50 percent. The Norway-based company is making the feature available in the developer version of the product from … | Continue reading
Smyths Toys is hosting a pop-up Lego Imagination Factory roadshow at selected stores across the UK, giving visitors the chance to build their own creations out of Lego bricks. | Continue reading
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo von KGI liegt mit seinem Apple-Orakel oft richtig, jetzt aber hat er sich selbst korrigiert: Entgegen seiner Voraussage im Januar wird es von dem im Herbst erwarteten iPhone 7 Plus nur eine Version geben. Diese werde auf der R&... | Continue reading
Japan's Big 3 carriers have announced an anemic Summer 2016 product line with some giant gaps that will seemingly shock customers in other territories. | Continue reading
The first trailer for the Assassin’s Creed movie, based on Ubisoft’s hit game franchise, premiered on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night, and it’s full of good stuff: shadowy killers, historical Spanish settings and a dark reimagining of the Animus VR machine. It also features Michae … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price finally moved higher and broke the consolidation to register gains intraday vs the US Dollar and Bitcoin. Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD was broken during the upside drift. The price l … | Continue reading
Fraport AG: Frankfurt (ots) - Cargo-Aufkommen wächst erstmals in diesem Jahr / Sondereffekte drücken das Passagieraufkommen Mit annähernd fünf Millionen Fluggästen lag das Passagieraufkommen am Flughafen Frankfurt im April um 2,5 Prozent unter dem ... | Continue reading
Fraport AG: Frankfurt (ots) - Cargo Throughput Grows for the First Time in the Current Business Year - Passenger Traffic Impacted by Special Effects With almost five million passengers served in April 2016, Frankfurt Airport (FRA) saw passenger figures decline ... | Continue reading
Video game movies are notorious for spending eternity in development hell, but this one's actually happening: here's the first trailer for Assassin's Creed. The movie doesn't appear to take too heavily from any of the games in particular, but it's very much in line with the serie … | Continue reading
Nearly three-quarters (73%) of US female internet users say they at least sometimes receive marketing messages directed specifically to women. But 74% of respondents said they prefer messages that are gender neutral. | Continue reading
Out-of-home spending and cinema spending grew over the course of the year, with out-of-home growth modest, at 7.6%, while cinema spending, niche by nature, grew by 48.1%. | Continue reading
Adoption of EMV cards, a global standard for credit and debit card payments sometimes referred to as chip-and-PIN, has ways to go. March 2016 research found that consumers are still struggling when using these cards for the first time. | Continue reading
Dialing for delivery is still the most common way to order takeaway food in the UK. However, logging on and ordering digitally is becoming increasingly common, and much of this digital behavior is being driven by mobile. | Continue reading
Electronics worth less than $50 are still one of the leading product categories purchased by Amazon Prime members. Data from Cowen and Company also indicated that more consumers are purchasing video games, toys and vitamins than did so a year ago. | Continue reading
Nearly 50% of subscribers conducted transfers or used inquiry services in 2015, a figure that inched up from the prior year. Digital banking is especially popular in the country among younger users. | Continue reading
Hexaware Technologies: Mumbai (ots/PRNewswire) - Hexaware Technologies Limited, ein weltweit führender Anbieter von IT, BPS und Beratungsdienstleistungen, gab heute die Eröffnung seines neuesten Globalen Auslieferungszentrums (GDC - Global Delivery Centre) in Tver ... | Continue reading
Good news, guys! Republic Wireless has announced they will be introducing 7 new smartphones to their selection, this July. | Continue reading
It's once again the time of week when a ton of new iOS games hit the App Store. As much as I'd love to talk in depth about each and every one of the games on the list below, I also have a giant plate of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets sitting in front of me, and | Continue reading
From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Spike Jonze’s Her, for decades we have been obsessed with the idea that artificial intelligence powered-computers will one day be able to interact with people, follow spoken instructions and make decisions independently, like a hum … | Continue reading
When you consider all your options for social media marketing, it can be overwhelming. Start here... | Continue reading
It’s actually very tasty. Really. I certainly had my doubts, eating a tortilla that came out of a pod, but 90 or so seconds after Flatev co-founder and CEO put the little Keurig-esque plastic saucer in the machine, a pipping hot and legitimately delicious corn tortilla popped dow … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price is still stuck in consolidation, testing the channel support highlighted in a previous article. Price came off a sharp selloff before consolidating in a tight flag pattern, which might turn out to be a continuation signal. Price is still … | Continue reading
Last week, we spotted an early test of Instagram's new profiles for business users. Now, it looks like Instagram is also starting to test analytics features for businesses. New screenshots show the photo sharing app is working on a set of fairly advanced analytics features that a … | Continue reading
Astrobotic Technology, the company that plans to deliver payloads to the moon, has completed a $2.5 million seed round led by Space Angels Network. The company was originally spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 to compete for the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP). As of today … | Continue reading
GUEST: If you’re feeling an impending sense of Doom, that’s just because Bethesda’s reboot of the classic shooter series is about to come out — and it’s blowing it up on TV. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real time, to bring you a monthly … | Continue reading
Despite having less than 3 weeks of availability during Q1 2016, Samsung's flagship smartphones still had a major presence. Find out why within. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Join Celtra Director of Engineering and Analytics Grega Kešpre as he shares hard-won insights about harnessing the cloud to deliver a world-class data processing pipeline that handles over 2 billion analytics events daily. Missed it? Access this VB Live event on demand r … | Continue reading
The following is an excerpt from The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology by William Mougayar. In it, Mougayar waxes ecstatic about the future of distributed databases. At its core, the blockchain is a technology that permanently … | Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY — The NBA Officiating “Last Two Minute Report” turned up two more glaring errors in the final 55 seconds of Game 5 between the Spurs and Thunder on Tuesday night. Both calls in the in-depth breakdown of the final two minutes went against the Spurs in their 95-91 los … | Continue reading
If you need an artsy tube racer to play today – who doesn't? – and don't want to spend a lot of money to do so – guilty as charged – then do I have good news for you. Proun+ [Free], the iOS version of the art-inspired tube racer, has just gone free-to-play permanently. Developed | Continue reading
It only lasted about two seconds, but wow, what a sort of thrilling two seconds it was! Hyperloop One, the LA-based startup striving to realize Elon Musk's pipe dream, conducted it's first public open-air test in the Nevada desert Wednesday.A crowd of wealthy investors, transport … | Continue reading
Until 2012, there had been no significant changes within the automobile industry for 15 years. But that year — 2012, marked an inflection point from which myriad innovative opportunities emerged. Tesla showed us the power of a truly connected car with API’s that could remotely ac … | Continue reading
The healthcare industry, with its maddening inefficiencies and an economic model that incentivizes disease care over health care, desperately needs a Silicon Valley-style overhaul. Why is the nation’s $3 trillion creaky, monstrous and convoluted healthcare sector seemingly imperv … | Continue reading
Former CFTC Commissioner advised Obama in an op-ed on CNBC today to take a reasonable approach to bitcoin and blockchain technology, one that fosters innovation. | Continue reading
On Sunday, a man in Texas handed a bottle of Dr. Pepper to his three-year-old grandson. The next day, the child allegedly found a dead rodent in the bottle, according to KPRC 2. By then, the three-year-old had ingested half its contents, the man says. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Since Microsoft has brought on the Sunrise Calendar team to work on Outlook, they've decided to pull the app and eventually cease support entirely. | Continue reading
Coworking The Sun, which has opened in the very heart of Kyiv, is placed on the 4th floor of historic building on Khreshchatyk street. | Continue reading
One of my favorite games of the past few months has been Ellipsis [$2.99], a game that's difficult to classify but has you trying to collect orbs as quickly as possible to get stars on levels. The wide variety of levels and branching paths help keep it engaging, and it's just a r … | Continue reading
Those customers who purchased the ZenFone 2 variant will be pleased to know Android 6.0 is on its way to you now, with less bloat to boot! | Continue reading