App marketers are focusing on engagement and retention, but are still faced with challenges, like getting users to engage with the app after they download it. According to research, less than a quarter of mobile app users worldwide will return to an app a day after first using it … | Continue reading
Consumers are steadily downloading more retail apps to their device compared to a year prior, research found. Indeed, nearly a quarter of respondents said they have between six and 10 retail apps on their smartphone as of April 2016, up 3 percentage points from October 2015. | Continue reading
Nearly 83% of all mobile connections in Mexico will be smartphones in 2016, according to research. eMarketer estimates the highest usage growth rates among young people and older adults. | Continue reading
Automotive magazines—including their ads, websites and articles—most often persuade car buyers in France to research new vehicle brands or models. Only TV commercials approach their effectiveness in driving awareness. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been stuck in consolidation once more, as traders are waiting for more directional clues. Today’s top-tier events and potential profit-taking ahead of the weekend could spur stronger moves. Price has formed higher lows on the 1-hour … | Continue reading
Facebook only introduced its chatbot platform in April, but already several companies have created their own bots for the social network's Messenger service, using them to field queries and provide information to customers and fans. The NBA is the latest organization to do just t … | Continue reading
As you might have noticed, things aren’t going so well in Brazil. Its economy shrank 5.4 percent in the first quarter, according to government figures released yesterday. Its president, Dilma Rousseff, was temporarily suspended by a congressional impeachment vote. Brazil is also … | Continue reading
Head of Hillary Clinton Campaign Says he filed a FOIA request for UFO Documents, Instacart has partnered with the food network to shop for your favorite recipes, There are a bunch of new Emoji’s being released soon, Newsletter Startup the Skimm is raising 8 Million dollars in a s … | Continue reading
Are you a blogger or a blogging entrepreneur? Your writing skills can be leveraged to develop a blogging business online if you mix them up with powerful lessons of how to market your blog. Here's how? | Continue reading
Google just upgraded the iOS version of their Search App, bringing AMP to users' fingertips. Here's what it means for marketers. | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Find out how free-to-play games like Angry Birds 2, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and Song of Pan use these essential data metrics to maximize engagement, boost monetization, and increase retention by up to 66 percent. Missed it? Access this VB Live event on demand right … | Continue reading
Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More | Continue reading
T-Mobile is about to make their eleventh ‘Uncarrier’ move on June 6th, and they’ve been pushing the hype all day today. | Continue reading
Those robots in disguise just can’t help smashing things on our little ball of dirt in the cosmos. Mobile game publisher Backflip Studios released Transformers: Earth Wars, a mobile base-building strategy game (think Clash of Clans, but with the iconic Optimus Prime and Megatron … | Continue reading
OAKLAND — The Cleveland Cavaliers don’t want you to call it a rematch of the 2015 Finals. They insist this year’s team is so drastically different at this stage of the season that it’s unfair to call this series against the Golden State Warriors a “rematch.” Kevin Love is health … | Continue reading
The king of the tech-centric Teutonic coupes is back.SEE ALSO: BMW refocuses i brand on driverless cars instead of EVs, report saysAudi pulled the covers off both its all-new A5 and S5 Coupé on Thursday afternoon, nine years after the marque was created.Sporting a new chassis, ne … | Continue reading
There may be more VCs per capita in California than anywhere else in the world, but they aren’t paying much attention to what’s happening in and around the state’s capital of Sacramento, Ca. That’s both good and bad for what may be the only early-stage venture firm in the area, M … | Continue reading
Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges, has been fined by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commision (CFTC) for offering illegal off-exchange financed retail commodity transactions in Bitcoin and also failing to register as a Futures Commissio … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload. This week, we're continuing our little monthly project looking at the history of handheld RPGs. That means that we will not be taking a look at a specific RPG from the App Store's past this time around. Last month, we looked a … | Continue reading
Because you know Microsoft wants you to be productive in that HoloLens. Today Microsoft said that its Outlook email and calendar app can now run on the HoloLens. It’s a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app, so that means it can run on any device running Windows 10. And Microsoft’ … | Continue reading
Augmented reality promises many things, from turning your living room into a video game to transforming how we see and experience the world. But first, it has to do the basics, and no company knows this better than Microsoft. So today, the company announced the release of dedicat … | Continue reading
Transformers: Earth Wars is a base-building real-time strategy game that pits your favorite robots against each other in an epic battle for planet Earth. | Continue reading
When you think action cams, any number of brands spring to mind. Ricoh may not be one of them, but on paper, the WG-M2 from Ricoh has the perfect combination of features if you like your adventures on the wet and rough end of the spectrum. The camera’s party-trick — and the reaso … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Tinder is set to unveil a new experience for transgender users within the next couple of months.Thus far, the app has never accounted for the non-gender-conforming demographic, instead exclusively serving cisgender users through filters for male and female only, both to self-iden … | Continue reading
Google has opened a Play Store testing program for early releases of its Maps app for Android. Starting today, if you sign up to become a beta tester, you can download and install new versions of Google Maps not yet ready for official release more easily than before. That starts … | Continue reading
Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media and a late edition to the Code conference thinks Facebook has to be held accountable for the content posted the site. First, kudos to Denton for assuming responsibility for what Gawker publishes and for admitting that it should be held acc … | Continue reading
Badland 2 [$3.99] may have released back in December and been quite an improvement over the already phenomenal Badland [$2.99], but that doesn't mean that the first game doesn't still have some gas left in the tank. We used to joke about Badland being the best value for money on … | Continue reading
Rock of Ages, ACE Team's devilishly delightful twist on tower defence, is getting a sequel this autumn on PS4, Xbox One and PC.Dubbed Rock of Ages 2: Bigger and Boulder, this sequel will continue the peculiar genre-merging mechanics of the first Rock of Ages wherein players deplo … | Continue reading
Mashable's Ray Wong gives you a first look at Samsung's Gear IconX, a pair of fitness-based earbuds that are truly wireless. You might lose them easily, but they sure are fabulous.More details from Ray: http://on.mash.to/1ZgOEoq Read more...More about Audio, Fitness, Samsung, Sou … | Continue reading
Maps and Music notifications on Android Wear are great, but killer on the battery, this Android customization takes control, saving your watch battery. | Continue reading
David DeMartini, a well-known former executive at Oculus VR and Electronic Arts, passed away at the age of 56. In recent weeks, DeMartini, known as DeMar, wrote on his Facebook page that he was undergoing a lung transplant. His daughter posted yesterday on Facebook that her fathe … | Continue reading
Everyone seems to be jumping on the bot bandwagon. Chatbots are not only being touted as the end of apps, but also the next paradigm in human-computer interaction — and, if you believe the hype, the end of many customer service jobs, too. But bots are unlikely to live up to these … | Continue reading
Google today announced that it has more widely deployed its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology for Google News, which is available on iOS, Android, and the Web. No longer is this capability limited to English-speaking Google News users in the U.S. Now the app will more qui … | Continue reading
Today Samsung revealed their long-awaited Gear Fit2 as well as the Gear IconX earbuds. The former will arrive in June, but well have to wait for the latter. | Continue reading
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) and 10 Uber drivers have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing Uber of stealing wages.The group representing 5,000 Uber drivers in New York filed the new claims today and says the rideshare giant unfairly skims driver wages witho … | Continue reading
Mashable's Ray Wong gives you a first look at Samsung's Gear Fit 2, an advanced activity tracker that is less smartwatch, more fitness bandFor more details: http://on.mash.to/1ZgOEoq Read more...More about Gadgets, Samsung, Tech, Wearable Tech, and Activity Tracker | Continue reading
It was a short week with big news, as tech headlines saw two monster enterprise acquisitions, Mary Meeker released the annual Internet Trends Report, and Uber got a its biggest round of funding yet. These are the stories to catch you up on this week’s tech news. Read More | Continue reading
Overwatch has more than 7m registered players since its launch nine days ago on 24th May.That's not as many as the open beta, which drew in 9.7m players, bu… | Continue reading
Earlier today, Donald Trump tweeted a screenshot from a flight simulator rendering of Redding Airport in California, apparently believing it was a freely available photograph of the airport itself. Now, the person who first took that screenshot has asked Trump to take the tweet d … | Continue reading
In the beginning was the AI. And the AI created lots of little people who were also AIs, sort of. Or maybe they were brains in jars, or they were actual people who didn't know they were actually living in tanks of milky fluid so they could power batteries for the AI's machines, e … | Continue reading
Android devices with a main focus on the front-facing camera are hard to find, so we have put together a curated list with our very favorite ones. Here are the best phones for selfies! | Continue reading
Delivery fiends rejoice, you can now use Apple Pay to get your food delivered even faster. Grubhub just rolled out an update to the Grubhub and Seamless iOS apps that let customers check out using Apple Pay. Considering the company did $2.4 billion in food sales last year, and 60 … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: GamesBeat is pleased to announce two “roadshow” events on mobile gaming influencers in New York and Seattle in June. At each event, we’ll have a discussion about the rise of influencers and their impact on the $34 billion mobile gaming market. We’ll discuss the best way … | Continue reading
This is part 4 of my series on writing a ray/path tracer in Go. Check out parts 1, 2 and 3.I’m roughly following the e-book Ray Tracing in One Weekend, but translating all of the code into Go.All of the code for this post can be found on my Github.Last time we added the ability t … | Continue reading
Tribune Publishing, owner of newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, just announced that starting on June 20, it will rebrand as tronc*, Inc. — short for “tribune online content.” The company is pitching this as part of its broader move to digital, which a … | Continue reading
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin, helmed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is partnering with NASA to help transport new technologies to the edge of space. These payloads will fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, a reusable vehicle designed to travel up to 62 miles above t … | Continue reading