Facebook, Apple, Google, other tech CEOs demand North Carolina repeal anti-LGBT law

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC just released a letter addressed to North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, urging him to repeal the provisions of House Bill 2. H.B. 2 gets rid of non-discrimination ordinances and effectively writes discrimination against LGBT people … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Fitbit Alta review

Fitbit has finally made an attractive wearable with the Alta. What else does this new fitness tracker have to offer? Get all the details in our full Fitbit Alta review! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Dropbox on Android now lets you open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader

As expected, Dropbox and Adobe are announcing today that people can now open PDF documents stored in Dropbox using the Adobe Acrobat Reader app on Android devices. This lets users of the apps sign, highlight, annotate, and comment on files from Dropbox from within Acrobat Reader. … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Google introduces the Fiber Phone

Fiber Phone wants to drag landline technology kicking and screaming into the modern age. The goal is to make your home phone, well, mobile. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Razer takes aim at game streaming community with Ripsaw capture card

Razer’s Ripsaw is far from the first game capture card, but it leapfrogs the competition nicely and takes aim at a growing population of streamers who are willing to pay good money for an easily set up solution with industrial-strength capabilities. Read More | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

7 frequently asked questions about audience personas and buyer journeys

Brafton and Akoonu got together to answer some of the questions you asked during our webinar on audience personas and buyer journeys. | Continue reading


@brafton.com | 8 years ago

Watch Albert Einstein jumpkick Isaac Newton in Science Kombat

Remember that time you ate glue in seventh grade, and wondered what it would be like if Mortal Kombat featured the characters from your science textbook instead of ninjas? I do! And now I can relive that fantasy without poisoning myself. Browser game Science Kombat stars eight sc … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

A $99 per month lunch membership just launched in NYC

The last $5 lunch we had in NYC involved multiple slices of dry $0.99 pizza. Good luck finding anything cheaperMealPass is trying. The meal planning startup, which will launch in New York City on Wednesday, according to Eater, allows users to pre-order lunches and pick them up in … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Obama Outlines Plan to Fight Opioid and Heroin Addiction

President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 8 years ago

Facebook Messenger is reportedly taking on Apple Pay and Samsung Pay

Facebook may be looking to get into the digital wallet game, according to source code uncovered by The Information. Some of the commands discovered in the latest version of Facebook’s Messanger app include “pay in person”, “pay directly in Messenger when you pick up the item” and … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Blockstream Among 10 New Firms to Join Hyperledger Blockchain Project

Bitcoin development startup Blockstream is among 10 firms that have joined the Hyperledger blockchain project. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Learn how to monetize your app with ads, commerce, and subscriptions at Mobile Summit

VB EVENT: Mobile commerce is exploding, with researchers at Gartner and Forrester predicting the market to reach $1 trillion in the U.S. alone within the next decade, from around $100 billion today. Seeing that opportunity, companies with mobile apps are trying to ride that wave … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

The Effect of Brand Loyalty in the Costco and AmEx Breakup

FBI Announces They Can Hack on Their Own It has been a month since it became public knowledge that the FBI was locked out of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. And after getting rejected by Apple in assisting with the unlock, the bureau has been flooded with off … | Continue reading


@convinceandconvert.com | 8 years ago

Is Square Enix Planning to Go all 'Go' on Us With Franchises Like 'Just Cause' and 'Deus Ex'?

Square Enix played it very smart when it came to bringing its franchises to mobile. Instead of making a Tomb Raider endless runner or a Match 3 Hitman, it reimagined those franchises into mobile-appropriate games in the form of Lara Croft Go [$4.99] and Hitman Go [$4.99]. Well, i … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Tips for learning on the job

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@josephwoodward.co.uk | 8 years ago

Women aren’t the only ones who feel they’re not paid fairly in tech

Comparably, the Glassdoor-like platform for self-reporting employment and compensation data, has released some data around culture at tech companies. Within a couple of weeks of launching, over 2,000 people have submitted data around what it’s like working at their respective com … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Old-timey Google just launched a landline phone service

For Google, it's Throwback Tuesday.The company typically likes to stand on the bleeding edge of technology (think self-driving cars and multi-modal drones), but today it's looking back at the venerable landline. Google is launching Fiber Phone, a new service tied to its Fiber Int … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Sony's 4k streaming service will launch in early April

Sony has finally revealed when Ultra, its 4k streaming service, will be availableFirst announced at CES earlier this year, Ultra will make its debut on April 4 and will be available on Sony's 4K sets with Android TV, the company announced at a press event in San Francisco on Tues … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

What to expect from Microsoft at Build 2016

It’s that time of year: Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference is upon us. Running for three days starting March 30, Microsoft biggest developer event will surely be saturated with software news, and maybe even some hardware too. This year, the company is being extremely tight-lipped … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Will capitalism survive the robot revolution?

Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now considered plausible — is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is ce … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

HTC 10 to have capacitive keys

Rather than having on-screen buttons at the bottom of the screen, the HTC 10 will have capacitive ones built into the body. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Bitcoin Undervalued By Over $200, Investment Bank Report Finds

A comparison of bitcoin investment to gold investment lead investment bank, Needham, to price the cryptocurrency at more than 50% its current value. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

Can Apple’s color-shifting screen really help you fall asleep faster?

Last week, Apple released iOS 9.3 and introduced "Night Shift" — a way of modifying the computer’s display so that less blue light is present — to millions of iPhones and iPads. The feature, if enabled, will automatically take effect when the sun goes down, making the phone look … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Audioshield is the best virtual reality game I’ve played yet

I never owned a lot of music. As a kid, everyone around me would talk about their latest CD purchases, but I preferred engaging with the new tracks and classic hits when artists would combine them with other media like music videos, film, and — eventually — video games. The class … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Instagram needs editing tools to make new 60-second videos tolerable

Most people are terrible at shooting video. Any longer than 15-seconds and it will probably be boring. That’s why Instagram capped videos at a quarter-minute when it launched the feature in 2013. Yet today it extended the length to 60 seconds for user-shot or uploaded videos. Tha … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

FTC files false advertising lawsuit against VW

This morning, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America, charging that it “deceived customers with the advertising campaign it used to promote its supposedly ‘clean diesel’ VWs and Audis,” according to the FTC press release. As I’m sure you … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Pep Boys & Yeoman Technologies show how marketing clouds impact the bottom line (webinar)

VB WEBINAR: Missed it? Imagine every piece of data about a customer, or a potential customer, at your fingertips. Find out why top marketers say that investing in a marketing cloud solution can help you unlock the full promise of data-driven marketing.  Access the webinar right h … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Google introduces ‘Fiber Phone,’ a $10/mo home phone service for all Fiber cities

A couple months back, we reported that Google was testing a home phone service called ‘Fiber Phone’ — a service it could bundle with TV and internet to create that ever-so-profitable “triple play” that telecoms have been profiting from for years. Today, Google announced that it w … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

NFC-Equipped Shake App Allows Users to Spend Bitcoin at VISA Card Terminals

Shake Alpha, based in Montreal, Canada, is a mobile app that allows users to tap and pay with bitcoin at contactless terminals that accept VISA cards, according to the company’s blog. It is an Android app equipped with near field communication (NFC). NFC allows a phone to emulate … | Continue reading


@cryptocoinsnews.com | 8 years ago

How to Excel at Customer Journey Map Design and Execution?

A customer journey map is a graphical illustration or a pictorial representation that shows the various customer touchpoints with your... | Continue reading


@orchestrate.com | 8 years ago

Watch: How does Overwatch play on consoles?

We've seen plenty of Overwatch on the PC - thanks to the ongoing beta - but Blizzard's class-based shooter is also set to launch on both the PS4 and Xbox One in just under two months. So how exactly do those console versions compare?I had some hands-on time with the PS4 and Xbox … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Twitter now lets users add image descriptions to help the visually impaired

Twitter is working to make it easier for people with visual impairments to access and understand images uploaded to the site. Although screen readers and braille technology work efficiently with text posts, images have been out of reach — until now. Starting today, people using t … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Kanye West's The Life of Pablo was streamed 250 million times in 10 days

Kanye West's new album The Life of Pablo racked up 250 million streams in its first 10 days of availability on Tidal, according to a press release the service made available today. The album-specific reveal was tucked within the larger announcement that Tidal has cracked three mi … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The future of interactive music is here, courtesy of Jeff Buckley

For his most recent cover of Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman, Jeff Buckley’s creative team has pulled out all the stops. Dropping today is an interactive music video with a gabazillion possible iterations for the viewer to explore, creating a unique listening experience every time. … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

'Infinite Tanks' is a Visually Stunning Tank Battling Game from 'Sky Gamblers' Developer Atypical Games

Atypical Games busted onto the scene with their exhilarating Sky Gamblers series of aerial dogfighting games, and then took the fight to the land and sea as well in the excellent Battle Supremacy series. Today they've unveiled their latest game which focuses on land battling… in … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

The San Bernadino battle is over but the FBI’s war rages on

After an 11th hour reprieve by an unknown source claiming it could access the San Bernadino iPhone, and yesterday’s announcement that the FBI did indeed gain access to the device, we’re left with vocal proclamations all over the Web that the fight is over. It’s not. The Apple and … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Tinder’s latest acquisition might help it shake the hookup rep

Dating app Tinder has officially acquired contact management startup Humin today for an undisclosed amount. The technology behind Humin is the most attractive part of the deal, as well as some of its staff who will be offered new roles. Co-founders Ankur Jain and David Wyler will … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Wyclef Jean on His New Album and More

Recording artist Wyclef Jean joins Lee Hawkins to preview his new single, "My Girl," off his upcoming album, and discuss how he's approaching changing trends in the music industry. | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 8 years ago

You can now post 60-second videos on Instagram

Capturing your life in video on Instagram just got a lot more interesting. The company just announced that it's increasing the video time limit to a full 60 secondsSee also: New Instagram search bar takes stalking to the next levelCompared to the 15-second videos available on the … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Google Fiber’s latest innovation is a landline

Google Fiber may be the holy grail of Internet service for many, but many people still rely on landlines for everyday communication purposes or emergency use. In order to allow its subscribers to sever connections with the old local ISPs and telecoms completely, Google will soon … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Waze now notifies you when you’re speeding

Waze now lets you know if you're speeding, so you can stay within the law on poorly marked or unfamiliar roads. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Learn to Code: 13 Tips that Could Save You Years of Effort

When you’re new to coding, it can be hard to know where to start, and it’s easy to get sucked down paths that could waste a whole lot of…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 8 years ago

Google’s Rating Guidelines Reveal How to Attain Higher Search Engine Rankings

Digital marketers and search engine optimization specialists would love to see Google’s search engine algorithm. The formula that ranks websites is secret, even though SEO experts contend they understand how it works. Google has published what might be the next best thing: Search … | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

Google Fiber just announced a home phone service inspired by Google Voice

Google has just announced Fiber Phone, confirming rumors that the company would be adding a home telephone service to its existing Fiber high-speed internet and cable TV offerings. "While mobile phones have pushed us toward the future, home phone service is still important to man … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Instagram now lets you record 60-second videos, but it probably won’t make people any happier

Instagram is rolling out the ability for the average Joe to record and share a video of up to one minute, increasing it from the current 15-second limit. While advertisers have been able to share these longer clips for a couple of months, it’s still going to take a little while f … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Google unveils Fiber Phone, a $10/month home phone service coming to all Fiber cities

Google today announced Fiber Phone, a home phone service powered by “much of the same technology as Google Voice.: Fiber Phone is an optional $10-per-month add-on for Basic, Gig, and Gig TV customers. Home phone service — is this an early April Fools’ joke? “Haha, definitely not” … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

NASA entdeckt früheren See auf Pluto

Während die Raumsonde New Horizons schon lange weiter zum Kuipergürtel-Objekt 2014 MU69 reist, präsentiert die NASA immer noch neue Fotos des Pluto-Vorbeiflugs. Dieses hier zeigt wahrscheinlich einen gefrorenen früheren See aus... | Continue reading


@de.engadget.com | 8 years ago

Left 4 Dead 2 added to Xbox One's backwards compatible library

The Xbox One's backwards compatible list has just been bolstered by Left 4 Dead 2.Yesterday the service received a few other titles such as Soul Caliber HD, Halo Wars and The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match.Fans have been clamouring for a Left 4 Dead 3 since Valve's sequel la … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago