Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing, and other home care and repair services, Plowz & Mowz has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio, Science. On the heels of the firm’s successful exit from Dollar Shave Club, Science has turned to t … | Continue reading
IBM will hold its first-ever conference for developers who are making bots and virtual assistants with IBM Watson. Part of the Watson Developer Conference will be two bot competitions. One competition is for a bot to get people around the conference. The other asks developers to … | Continue reading
Facebook's News Feed team has been reeling since a report earlier this year argued that a team of contractors responsible for the feed's Trending Topics module routinely suppressed news of interest to political conservatives. Facebook denied the report, which was published by Giz … | Continue reading
Facebook’s trending topics is getting an update that involves eliminating the human element when it comes to describing why something merits promotion. The company is now relying on its algorithm and programming to display subjects and topics that Facebook thinks you’ll be intere … | Continue reading
You can see VR, but you can't feel VR. Maybe one day, you will with Dexmo. | Continue reading
Twitter’s “Trends” are often confusing. Why is #MPBMS or #TechMunch trending? You had to click through and figure it out for yourself. When Facebook copied Twitter’s trends in 2014, it vastly improved them by adding human-written descriptions right below so you knew if you cared … | Continue reading
The Honor 8 is bringing near-flagship level performance at about half the cost, and Honor is even knocking $50 off the price tag for a limited time. | Continue reading
From its modest start as a lowly edible to its meteoric rise as a phallic symbol, the eggplant is undoubtedly a the star of the emoji world. And now it’s going places few emoji (presumably) have ever seen… literally. What started as a joke eventually led creator Jaime Jandler to … | Continue reading
Kazoo House is a single-family home designed by Architects EAT. Albert Mo and Eid Goh established their office in South Yarra, Melbourne ... | Continue reading
Clapton House is an extension and renovation project completed in 2016 by London-based Scenario Architecture. | Continue reading
Designed by Rob Kennon Architects, Goulburn Valley House won the 2016 AIA Victorian Architecture Residential Commendation Awards. | Continue reading
The Naranga Avenue House project is the winner in 2016 - Houses Australian Awards - Category: New House under 200m2 | Continue reading
Want to be a cyborg? Dangerous Things, a biohacking company, has developed a near-field communication (NFC) compliant chip that allows people to implant cryptographic keys under their skin, as reported by Motherboard. The chip is scheduled for release next year. Benefits Versus … | Continue reading
Creating carefully researched and crafted buyer personas are the first step to making your school marketing much more effective. | Continue reading
This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording session starts at 1:00pmPT, August 26, 2016.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Facebook pa … | Continue reading
Taekwondo Game Global Tournament [Free] has been my game of choice whenever I need a quick fighting game fix, but its lack of online multiplayer was always a big shame since the game is so well made. We really liked the game here at TouchArcade when it first came out and even gav … | Continue reading
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an office under the Department of Homeland Security, put forward a proposal today that would allow the U.S. government to offer parole (temporary permission to be in the country) to foreign entrepreneurs starting their businesses in … | Continue reading
From Drake’s “Views” to Kanye’s “Life of Pablo,” streaming hit a cultural tipping point this summer. WSJ’s Neil Shah joins Tanya Rivero to discuss how the music industry is evolving following the summer of streaming. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Sometimes embracing “weirdness” is the best way to connect your content with a receptive audience. | Continue reading
Two months ago, the White House first announced its Equal Play Pledge — a plan to end the salary gap between men and women in the private sector. Today, on Women’s Equality Day, 29 new signatures were added to a growing chorus of companies who demand equal pay for both sexes. A t … | Continue reading
Andrew Luck, the highest-paid player in NFL history, got a cool new piece of technology recently.No, not a personal robot butler or a self-driving car — a flip phone.SEE ALSO: How to get better players in 'Madden NFL 17' Ultimate Team modeLuck, who will make $25 million this seas … | Continue reading
The mid-size pickup truck market is heating up with several new, compelling entrants in the last year. And — thanks to Chevy — starting later this year, the mid-size segment is getting both more powerful and more efficient.SEE ALSO: Thieves steal $250,000 worth of wheels at Texas … | Continue reading
If it seems like we’re saying the same thing every year, it’s because we are. Again, Apple is weeks away from releasing a new phone without the supply to meet the expected demand. At this point, it’s tradition. This year’s supply shortage is more of the same as recent years and i … | Continue reading
GUEST: The upper echelon of chatbots, in terms of A.I.-powered intelligence, virtual assistants (VA) have become a hot topic in customer experience. Presenting a significant opportunity to increase revenue and cost savings, virtual assistants: Extend the reach of customer interac … | Continue reading
A self-research program that features 14 DVDs of content material and teachings from our signature 3-day branding event. When a model is targeted and engaged, it creates a multiplier effect by profiting from each shopper interplay, throughout channels, across touchpoints, throug … | Continue reading
Spotify is apparently punishing artists who decide to make their albums exclusives on other streaming services when they first drop. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Spotify is making these artists' music more difficult to find on their service by burying them in search … | Continue reading
Google today is stepping up its battle with Venmo, Square Cash and other person-to-person payment applications with an update to its Google Wallet mobile app, which now allows for automatic transfers to your bank account. That is, transfers will no longer require you to cash out … | Continue reading
Twitter is planning on battling its long-standing harassment issues with a keyword filter, according to Bloomberg. The filter – a result of consulting with anti-harrasment groups – will let users block out specific words (think racial slurs, misogynistic terms, etc.) or entire ha … | Continue reading
Sprint is launching a new unlimited plan that has fewer data restrictions than their previous, less well-received approach. | Continue reading
Apple has released the seventh public beta of its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10. The update arrives just one week after the release of the company’s sixth public beta, and less than two weeks after the fifth public beta. To quote BGR, “this is getting a little bit r … | Continue reading
Nintendo is taking more control of the retail side of the supply chain in Japan. The Mario publisher revealed that it is acquiring the distribution company Jesnet, which was already responsible for getting Nintendo products to consumers in Japan. Nintendo is purchasing 70 percent … | Continue reading
The price of classic ether plunged against several currencies over the last week amid concerns of waning market enthusiasm. | Continue reading
A picture may be worth a thousand words to tell a story at a distance, but live video brings your followers right along with you in the moment. | Continue reading
The fight between Spotify and Apple Music has been heating up for some time, but today things just got ugly — childish even. Citing sources familiar with Spotify strategy, Bloomberg today detailed Spotify’s push to punish artists that release music as an Apple exclusive. Lately, … | Continue reading
Dominos Pizza Enterprises has demonstrated delivery of hot pizzas by drone in Auckland, New Zealand. The company has a long history of embracing high-tech concepts. Last year, they tested out a four-wheeled, driverless pizza delivery vehicle. And in 2012, Dominos launched a casua … | Continue reading
Now all of your Facebook friends can share in your Overwatch frustrations as Ana wastes another ultimate on Lucio. Blizzard Streaming is now live in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. It allows people using Blizzard’s Battle.net client to easily stream game … | Continue reading
San Francisco-based education startup StudySoup, which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding.The company works as an online study group where students can sell or purchase class notes and study guides. “We realize … | Continue reading
Apple has a lot of money.On most days, it’s the largest company in the world by market cap and a surprising amount of that money is already in the bank. At the close of Q1 of this year, the company had $55 billion in easily accessible cash along with another $178 billion in long- … | Continue reading
Back in June Blizzard announced a collaboration with Facebook which would allow players to easily stream any of the developer’s games through Facebook Live. Today, the feature is finally going live.Starting today the live-streaming capability will be available in every Blizzard g … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we went to the Pokémon World Championships, we reviewed Deux Ex: Mankind Divided, and we look at some impressively powerful gaming laptops. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: What Poké … | Continue reading
Gain insights into how B2B companies are successfully implementing influencer content programs from TopRank Marketing CEO Lee Odden. | Continue reading
Well that was fast. Just one day after WhatsApp revealed a sea-change in its attitude to user data, by detailing plans to share the mobile numbers and last seen status of its users with parent company Facebook for ad-targeting and marketing purposes, the UK’s data protection watc … | Continue reading
Spotify is getting a small but useful update for informing you of your favorite artist’s latest moves: you can now view concerts right from individual artist pages. To be clear, the company has featured concert dates in its ‘On Tour’ section since 2013, but I’d argue a simple lis … | Continue reading
This week: Google explains a change, an old search result label is disappearing, and you’d better get rid of “intrusive interstitials” from your website. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. | Continue reading
Yesterday Apple released an emergency fix to try to stamp out the so-called ‘Trident’ vulnerabilities. The multiple-headed monster exposed your device through not one, but three distinct vulnerabilities. Once accessed, these sensitive areas of iOS acted as an opportunity to remot … | Continue reading
The Note 7 comes with a new, one-stop note managing app that replaces previous Memo, S Note, and Scrapbook apps, and it's coming to older Note devices. | Continue reading
The Galaxy Note 7 is this year’s best new phone, edging out Samsung’s own S7 Edge, and easily the most talked-about new device of the summer. But with great fame comes great scrutiny, and this week has seen the Note 7 subjected to allegations of having "embarrassing real-world pe … | Continue reading
A personalized video channel for Apple TV, Rheo, has now closed on $2.3 million in seed funding, the company announced this week. It has also updated its application and expanded its content lineup, thanks to a new deal with Vimeo which brings the network’s catalog of short video … | Continue reading