Well it's once again that time of week when a veritable truckload of new iOS games hit the App Store. Not just any truck either, a pretty darn large truck. Also, this is a pretty special week as there's a new Mika Mobile game, Lost Frontier, and they don't often release games but … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Want to rack up users by the boatload? That’s fairly easy. Want to get high-quality users that will pay off? Not so easy. Join our VB Live Event to learn, in 30 fast-paced minutes, user acquisition strategies that will keep on giving. Register here for free. There’s no d … | Continue reading
Mary Meeker releases her annual internet trends report, sales force acquires Demandware for 2.8 Billion Dollars, Google now lets both iOS and Android users find their lost phones, Apple’s world wide developers conference is going to be June 13th, Peter Thiel to remain on Facebook … | Continue reading
Here are 5 easy ways to keep up on the promotion of your business whether you are a pro or new to the industry. Find out what you can do to improve yours! | Continue reading
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California —Bill Gates is apparently balancing his fear of "super intelligence" with an almost unbridled enthusiasm for the future of artificial intelligence."No doubt in a 19-year time frame there will be more robots doing physical jobs," said Gates at the … | Continue reading
A silver screen adaptation of Tom Clancy's The Division is in the works with Donnie Darko himself Jake Gyllenhaal playing the lead.As reported by Variety, Gyllenhaal is also producing the film. A movie based on The Division shouldn't be that surprising given that Ubisoft's shared … | Continue reading
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, widely known for his efforts to improve diversity in the technology industry, planned to host a fundraiser at his home for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump this week. But after an Intel spokesperson fielded questions from the New York Times … | Continue reading
Just because Volvo wants to champion driverless cars doesn't mean it wants to kill manual driving either.SEE ALSO: How driverless cars will change car ownership forever“We have no ambition to have a car that could drive in urban environments from A to B,” Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelss … | Continue reading
Facebook is using its latest AI project to get a lot smarter at understanding text. In fact, the social network says DeepText, its new "text understanding engine," is so good, it can interpret "several thousands posts a second" with "near-human accuracy."Introduced Wednesday, Dee … | Continue reading
Elizabeth Holmes, the once celebrated founder of Theranos, sat at number one on Forbes list of richest self-made women last year but has taken quite the tumble – the media outlet has since revalued her net worth to zilch. Holmes, 31, comes from a family with powerful political co … | Continue reading
Seller beware — if you buy reviews for your products on Amazon, the company might sue you.As part of its effort to combat fake reviews on its platform, Amazon sued three of its sellers today for using sock puppet accounts to post fake reviews about their products. Amazon has been … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is one of the best-looking console games of all time. Now you can understand why. Specifically, you can learn why the action-adventure game for the PlayStation 4 has such stunning environments. Places from tropical islands to laundry rooms are full of d … | Continue reading
The recent unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 resulted in the largest product pre-order in history. The fact that about 400,000 people paid $1,000 each for a car they will receive in 2018 is simply astounding. In addition to the $400 million wired to Tesla, this represents an order boo … | Continue reading
OAKLAND — It’s the 2016 Finals that begin Thursday, sources confirmed to NBA.com, not a continuation of the 2015 championship series. There is no attempt at a replay, no try for redemption. That goes for both sides, for the Cavaliers who lost in six games a year ago while playing … | Continue reading
Enterprise cloud storage company Box posted its first-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Despite beating analyst expectations on revenue and earnings per share, the stock dropped 12.89 percent then recovered to an 8 percent loss in after-hours trading after investors w … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Some describe it as a North Star for the tech industry, while others deride it as marketing drivel from a one-time cheerleader of the dot-com boom (and bust). Say what you will about Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report, but for the past 21 years her annual tome — this … | Continue reading
A research team from the University of Wisconsin has discovered a way to create circuits that are fast, stretchable, and wearable as temporary tattoos. | Continue reading
Though the Tumi Luke Roll Top is expensive for a backpack, it partially makes up for this by taking a military-inspired look (the roll-top) and heavily stylizing it. Read More | Continue reading
I guess y’all wanted some mods on your consoles after all. Fallout 4 publisher Bethesda revealed today that the launch of mods on Xbox One had 50 times more traffic than the initial launch on PC. This means that the Xbox One mods section on Bethesda.net had 50 times more clicks t … | Continue reading
God created the world in six days, rested the seventh and on the eight he discovered emoji. Fast forward about 6,000 years (if you’re a Christian), or 4.5 billion years (if you’re not) and God’s supposed word has just been translated into the language of the millennial — emoji. T … | Continue reading
The global anti-Uber alliance just lobbed what the four companies hope will be another blow to Uber. At Recode's third annual Code Conference, Anthony Tan, the CEO of Southeast Asian ride-hailing app Grab, announced the official launch of a feature that allows any Grab loyalists … | Continue reading
In between fits of rage-joy at the success of the Warriors (see GIF below), Apple exec Eddie Cue may want to channel his NBA fervor in another, more productive direction — the new NBA Fit app.The NBA's first-ever fitness app, launched on Wednesday, was produced in partnership wit … | Continue reading
You might think that Google's own chief executive would have all kinds of Google gadgets-in-the-works at home, but the opposite is true.I had the opportunity to briefly interview Sundar Pichai at Code Conference today, and asked whether his morning routine involves shouting at th … | Continue reading
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California —As Ferguson, Missouri was erupting in protest in 2014, two men with little seemingly in common were drawn to the St. Louis suburb to see the action for themselves. It was Twitter that would later bring them together.One man was Twitter co-founder … | Continue reading
Google Keep just got a new update that brings link preview capabilities, alerts to keep you from adding duplicate items, and intelligent auto-completion. | Continue reading
Thread, the U.K. personal styling service for men that uses a mixture of algorithms and humans to help solve the online clothes shopping problem, has raised a further round of funding. Read More | Continue reading
Regina Hartley, VP of HR for UPS, suggested that hiring managers may perceive a series of employment gaps as indicative of unreliability, which may be true, or such a pattern may instead exemplify a committed struggle against obstacles. | Continue reading
We had the pleasure of attending The Startup Conference 2016 in Redwood City this May. A number of exciting and new startups brought their cutting edge tech and entrepreneurship to the stage. Some of the highlight companies included: Split – Smarter Shared Rides Split’s technol … | Continue reading
Are you excited about David Lynch's upcoming Twin Peaks series for Showtime? So are we! Are you curious about when you'll be able to watch it? So are we! Is there any new information as to when that will be? Kind of!Vulture reports that during a conference call with reporters tod … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump a "fraud" over his legal troubles with the now-defunct Trump University, in a sharp attack by the Democrat presidential front-runner against her likely GOP rival in the general election. Photo: European Press Photo Agency | Continue reading
Triseum has raised $1.43 million to create better game-based learning systems for students. And it is starting out today with the launch of its first educational game, ARTé: Mecenas, which teaches students how to appreciate art and the business of art during the Renaissance. Afte … | Continue reading
Sometimes you just want a Mercedes you can mistreat in the mud.SEE ALSO: Ferrari just built a one-off supercar for a very lucky (and rich) British buyerThe boxy Mercedes-Benz G-Class — known around the world as the G-Wagen — is the chariot of choice for well-heeled SUV buyers.The … | Continue reading
It's become a lot easier to read eBooks than it used to be and there are a ton of options. Here are the best eBook reader apps for Android! | Continue reading
I love Spotify. It’s my go-to for music and I’ve chosen it repeatedly over the likes of Google, Apple and others. My affinity for Spotify, however, isn’t going to save it — nor is its new monetization plan. It’s important to understand how a business with 75 million users is walk … | Continue reading
We write about a lot of influencer marketing companies at TechCrunch, but Social Nature has a unique focus — natural products.The company is announcing that it has raised $1 million in seed funding from investors including Shopify co-founder Scott Lake, the Pereira/Wharton family … | Continue reading
Just how popular was that video of the mom laughing in her Chewbacca mask? And how did that video stack up against the mermaid pillow one which went viral in January? Are videos published by Last Week Tonight watched more or shared more than videos published by The Late Show with … | Continue reading
Sustained labor market growth and a steadily expanding economy are among the reasons for optimism for job seekers from the Class of 2016, but the good news nonetheless comes with caveats, as detailed in a number of recent reports. | Continue reading
Content (in all its forms) is increasingly both the commodity and currency of the digital era, but the speed and ease of near-instantaneous global communication and a capacity for infinite reproduction has served to make it easier to sever the work from its creator.Brooklyn-based … | Continue reading
Facebook has developed a new AI called DeepText that it claims can understand what people are writing about with "near-human accuracy." Oh, and it can do that several thousand times per second in over 20 languages.DeepText was announced in a blog post today, with Facebook enginee … | Continue reading
App-enabled cab company Uber today confirmed that it has raised $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which is the investing arm of the Saudi Arabian kingdom. The money came in at Uber’s valuation of $62.5 billion, which is the same amount at which it raised $2 … | Continue reading
This is the second (and, for the time being, the last) article about messaging and Mangos. After doing first steps with the Pair protocol, we now look into a slightly more complex protocol, the Publisher-Subscriber (or PubSub) protocol. | Continue reading
How will you interact with the Internet of Things in your smart home of the future? Perhaps by looking your connected air conditioning unit in the lens from the comfort of your sofa and fanning your face with your hand to tell it to crank up its cooling jets. Read More | Continue reading
Ignite Visibility is delighted to introduce you to Jason Carleton, who joins us as a Project Coordinator! Jason has been working in all things SEO and web design since 2012, and his background in Business Administration makes for well-rounded insight into thinking about what stra … | Continue reading
Today Google CEO Sundar Pichai sat down to talk with Re/code about a variety of topics including the challenges facing the company over the next years. | Continue reading
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, California — The future of artificial intelligence may impact virtually every part of our lives.“If it’s digital, it’ll be cognitive,” explained IBM CEO Ginny Rometty in a wide-ranging discussion with Recode's Kara Swisher on Wednesday during the annual Code … | Continue reading
Promoted by Qualcomm® Snapdragon™With a Snapdragon LTE Modem in your phone, you'll experience epically fast LTE downloads, fewer dropped calls, and long battery life.Futuristic as it sounds, 2020 is a mere blip away. But in an age of fast and furious technological advances, that … | Continue reading
Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean is set to host yet another blockchain-focused gathering this month. | Continue reading