MTV gave us a blast from the past last month when it streamed nonstop Prince videos as a memorial to the musician’s untimely death. But, as it turns out, we will start seeing a lot more music video programming on another platform very soon. Spotify — the music streaming startup w … | Continue reading
Opera has announced the launch of a new standalone VPN app for iPhone and iPad that promises to unlock geo-location restrictions and block ads. The launch follows the introduction of the VPN service baked into its desktop browser last month, but brings it to a far larger potentia … | Continue reading
When it comes to reading, there are two ditches modern-day web writers may fall into. Both are notorious, unrefined, and dangerous — especially if you want to be more than an ordinary writer. On one side, you have the ditch of never-ending digital content where you spend all your … | Continue reading
Nintendo's Virtual Boy is often used as a grisly warning in articles about virtual reality. "This is what you get when expectations outpace technology," they say. "A bulky headset, six months of nonexistent sales, and users complaining of dizziness and neck pain." But we've moved … | Continue reading
Google and Oracle are heading back to court today, this time to decide the copyright status of the 37 Java APIs used in Android and any potential damages. | Continue reading
We’ve got a big day ahead of us, so buckle up!Live from Red Hook in Brooklyn, Disrupt NY is unfolding before our very eyes with badass speakers, awesome demoes and, of course, the world-famous Startup Battlefield. Read More | Continue reading
Spotify announced this morning that it's expanding its video program with 12 new shows, all of which will revolve around music and pop culture. Bloomberg has confirmed that each episode will last no longer than 15 minutes, and the series will be made available to iOS and Android … | Continue reading
Opera is on a bit of a privacy tear at the moment. Last month, the company integrated a free and unlimited VPN (virtual private network) into the developer version of its web browser, and last week, it added built-in ad blocking to its desktop and mobile software. Now, Opera has … | Continue reading
Lending Club shares are down more than 25% — shaving off hundreds of millions of dollars off the company’s roughly $2.5 billion market cap — after it announced its CEO would resign following an internal review of $22 million in near-prime loan sales to a single investor.Renaud La … | Continue reading
Der Kingspray Graffiti Simulator, das bemerkt 3D VR Central schon ganz gut, wirkt so real, dass man fast das Lösungsmittel riecht: Im VR-Helm sprüht man im Simulator Wände an, das ist alles. Erscheint in den nächsten Tagen auf S... | Continue reading
It's finally happened: Super Mario is (officially) in Minecraft. Minecraft: Wii U Edition, that is.On 18th May Nintendo will release a free Super Mario-themed update for Minecraft: Wii U Edition. It's a partnership between Nintendo, Mojang and Microsoft. That's right - Nintendo i … | Continue reading
Following the launch of a built-in VPN service in its web browser last month, Opera this morning debuted a free and unlimited mobile VPN app for iOS devices. Called Opera VPN, the app is designed to protect users’ privacy – it removes ad blockers, for example – but it’s also mark … | Continue reading
James Blake’s baritone sounds like a voice caught in a throat. It falters, it skips, it chokes. This pained, broken thing is the starting point of all of Blake’s music. From this voice emerges an even greater depth of sound: part R&B, part ambient, part lo-fi love song. His vocal … | Continue reading
Violent clashes erupted on the streets of Athens Sunday as the Greek parliament voted to overhaul pensions and increase taxes. The vote took place ahead of a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers on Monday to discuss Greece’s fiscal strategy and debt sustainability. Photo: Reuter … | Continue reading
Google’s well-known for tweaking and testing every aspect of its products, and as Search underpins a huge part of the company’s performance, eking out every single benefit can translate into a huge win for the company. Now, it’s testing a different color font on its Search result … | Continue reading
Last December, Minecraft made its much-belated debut on Nintendo hardware with a new version on the Wii U. While the game itself was virtually identical to Minecraft on other platforms, it came with some interesting potential: Nintendo announced plans for "new content for Nintend … | Continue reading
Da wo Captain America mal wieder im Kino läuft, fragen sich viele: Wie macht er das bloß mit seinem Schild, der sich wie von Zauberhand an den Unterarm des Superhelden tackert? Die Jungs von Hacksmith haben dafür eine Lösung ge... | Continue reading
European technology titan Opera Software is today launching a virtual private network (VPN) client for iPhones and iPads. This launch comes three weeks after the announcement of such a feature for its desktop Opera browser. With Opera VPN for iOS, the Norwegian company — acquired … | Continue reading
Nancy Duarte, the Principal of Duarte Inc., and Patti Sanchez, her Chief Strategy Officer, join the Business of Story Podcast to share the tactics behind their masterfully persuasive presentations. | Continue reading
Tyra Banks: master marketer and brand builder, and anyone willing to challenge their marketing craft can learn a lot from her. Here's some wisdom from her keynote: | Continue reading
Wercker is introducing Workflows, a streamlined way to manage custom Docker container pipelines for distributed apps and microservices. Workflows can be used with AWS, CoreOS, Deis, Kubernetes and DC/OS. Once a user defines a hook, the pipeline is executed in a Docker container. … | Continue reading
Casa Encallada is a wooden beach house designed by Whale! Architecture and located on the Pacific coast, in Tunquen, Chile. | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Curry ‘doubtful’ for Game 4 | Horford mum on future with Hawks | Green essentially guarantees Game 4 win | Report: Kings to meet with Joerger again | Report: Grizzlies reach out to Vogel No. 1: Curry ‘doubtful’ for Game 4 — With a win tonight in Game 4 against … | Continue reading
It’s Monday and you’re keen to jump feet-first into a new week, but before you get properly started, there’s a whole load of news you need to check out from over the weekend. You wouldn’t want to sound stupid at the (virtual) watercooler in Slack would you? Exactly. So, all you n … | Continue reading
Maintaining a dynamic web presence goes far beyond your own website. Google and the other search engines have become incredibly sophisticated, to the point that its algorithms can look at a website and determine the quality of the content it offers, how people are responding to t … | Continue reading
Motion-Designer, Animationsfilmer, Grafiker und alle anderen kreativ veranlagten Fans von Star Wars können sich freuen. Es gibt von der Firma Video Copilot ein umfangreiches Set mit zahlreichen 3D-Modellen aus dem aktuellen Star-Wars-Universum... | Continue reading
MIT astrobiologists have an ambitious new plan to expand the search for life -- but they could expand it too far. | Continue reading
CoreOS, the company behind the container-centric CoreOS Linux distribution and Tectonic container management service, today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B round led by GV, the fund formerly known as Google Ventures. Other investors include Accel, Fuel Capital … | Continue reading
When the Gemini Trust Company begins trading Ether Monday at 9:30 a.m., offering ETH/BTC and ETH/USD trading pairs on two order books, a new chapter begins with the world’s first licensed Ether exchange. Ether is the crypto-asset and token of the Ethereum network, and has emerged … | Continue reading
On Monday two of the creators of Apple’s Siri will unveil Viv. It’ll be the first public demonstration of the new AI assistant from Viv Labs. Viv is said to be like Siri if only it worked really well, and was an open system the way the creators had originally intended. Before, yo … | Continue reading
Former daily deals darling Groupon has sold its Breadcrumb point-of-sale (POS) business to Upserve, a restaurant technology startup that was formerly known as Swipely up until March this year. The company originally acquired Breadcrumb back in 2012, shortly after Groupon went pub … | Continue reading
Google's News section will now highlight the importance of local news sources. While Google News has more than 75,000 news sources, it hasn't always done a good job of surfacing hyper-local blogs and sites about specific topics when a major story breaks. "When a local story is pi … | Continue reading
Der tunesische Handyspiele-Entwickler Digital Mania hat seinen erfolgreichsten Kunden und Kundinnen eine Kuh als Hauptgewinn versprochen: Wer in Bagra - tunesisch für Kuh - seine Kuhherde am besten pflegt und am meisten Gewinn von den anderen... | Continue reading
China's web censorship laws have claimed a new, apparently not-so-innocent victim: live streams of people "seductively" eating fruit. According to reports from domestic media, censors have banned broadcasts of people "seductively eating bananas" online, as part of an ongoing clam … | Continue reading
HTC has posted a final Q1, 2016 operating cost loss of $148 million with a 64% drop in sales year-over-year (but the HTC 10 and HTC Vive are not included). | Continue reading
Bango, the U.K.-based mobile payments company that provides tech to enable consumers to charge app store purchases directly to their phone bill, has acquired the U.S.-based carrier billing service BilltoMobile from Danal Inc. Read More | Continue reading
OLIMAR Reisen Vertriebs GmbH: Köln (ots) - Anmoderationsvorschlag: Spanien und Italien sind so die klassischen Urlaubsziele der Deutschen, die eigentlich jedes Jahr im Sommer angesteuert werden. Wir lieben einfach Sommer, Sonne und den Strand. In letzter Zeit hat sich aber ein .. … | Continue reading
With a number of high-profile crowdfunding failures hitting headlines in recent months – and confirmation of another million dollar flop last week – PayPal has announced that it’s withdrawing its purchase protection program for people who back projects using the platform as the … | Continue reading
Google has today announced plans to shine a light on local news reporting with the introduction of a new “Local Source” tag in Google News. The Internet giant has long appended articles in Google News with additional data to help users home in on the best and most relevant articl … | Continue reading
A new Accenture-commissioned survey has revealed that over 60% small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) would use their banks if they receive Bitcoin services. The report, titled “SME Banking 2020; Changing the Conversation”, is penned after surveying 1,000 UK-based SMEs to understand … | Continue reading
As marketers, though oftentimes we share the same goals, we have to face numerous problems of different kinds and degrees. Here are the top challenges and possible quick solutions for those problems. | Continue reading
Consumers delivered the consumer electronics industry another punch in the face during the first three months of this year. According to the latest report from market research firm Canalys, shipments of PC devices (including desktops, notebooks, two-in-ones and tablets) were 101 … | Continue reading
Learn how you can use these 5 digital marketing rules to create a more meaningful connection with your customers. | Continue reading
A major wildfire near Fort McMurray in Canada has forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate the area and destroyed roughly a fifth of local homes. One of the affected houses belonged to a man by the name of James O'Reilly, who got a uniquely intimate perspective on his home's d … | Continue reading
HTC musste im heute veröffentlichten Geschäftsbericht zum Ende des ersten Quartals 2016 einen heftigen Umsatzeinbruch mitteilen: 64 Prozent weniger Umsatz als im Vorjahrsquartal. Statt 41,5 Milliarden Taiwan-Dollar (NTD) setzte das Untern... | Continue reading
The second, bigger Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine may be released 30th May.That's according to an apparent Steam listing for the game that jumped the gun yesterday and has since been taken down. A screenshot was captured on Twitter (via IGN) and looks authentic.Among the expa … | Continue reading
Located at The O2, NY-LON bar opened last summer in a collaboration between Virgin Atlantic and Delta Air Lines. | Continue reading