Instagram has announced that it has reached the milestone of 500 million monthly users. That's a commonly used metric that has its limitations when it comes to tracking just how engaged users are with a given app, but Instagram says that over 300 million of those people use the s … | Continue reading
Former Ford engineer Kip Ewing is among the latest auto industry veterans to join Karma Automotive, the upstart electric car company built on the ashes of Fisker. The company is opening a new Troy, Michigan engineering center, an outpost of the company’s California headquarters a … | Continue reading
Dating is a bleak, bleak endeavor. Between seemingly endless swipes, missed IRL connections, and no one being emotionally available, it’s dark out there — and sometimes, it can even be dangerous, especially for women. Burner — a company that lets people create temporary phone nu … | Continue reading
Twitter-owned Vine rose to prominence with its looping 6-second videos, a creative constraint that created a notably diverse and entertaining playground. But almost four years after launching, the company has seen its early lead in social video evaporate in the face of competitio … | Continue reading
Misfit is expanding the capabilities of its Shine 2 and Ray fitness trackers with the swim tracking features first introduced in the Speedo Shine last year. In addition, the company is releasing the Speedo Shine 2, an update to last year’s model that’s based on the Shine 2 tracke … | Continue reading
As an influential celebrity on the go, you've heard about Twitter, and your handlers are always telling you about what it can do for your brand. But what are you supposed to tweet about? And what happens if a normal tweets at you? Enter Engage, a new standalone app for influentia … | Continue reading
Misfit is back with another swim-focused fitness device, the Speedo Shine 2, which combines all of the hardware capabilities of the Shine 2, which the Speedo-branding and swim tracking of its predecessor. The Cullen Jones endorsed wearable counts laps, tracks activities and sleep … | Continue reading
Debbie Hodge's story is this month’s Hero’s Journey, where we tap our community's wisdom to report from the front lines of the digital business world. | Continue reading
Watching Sony's E3 2016 media briefing, you'd be forgiven for thinking all of the games made by the company were variations of Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic masterpiece The Last of Us.God of War now has a tighter, over-the-shoulder camera perspective, and as its debut trailer un … | Continue reading
General Management - Which social media monitoring/automation tools, CRM platforms, SEO/SEM tools, and email services are used most by marketing and advertising agencies? | Continue reading
Instagram has reached a new milestone. The photo sharing app now counts more than 500 million monthly active users, up from 400 million in September, Instagram announced Tuesday.SEE ALSO: Dear millennials: Instagram doesn't owe you anythingOf those, more than 300 million people u … | Continue reading
Twitter is extending the length of Vine uploads for a select few users to 140 seconds, and making the same format available to all on Twitter proper. There’s also a new iOS app called ‘Engage’ to help you track analytics. Previously, Twitter supported videos of 30 seconds or shor … | Continue reading
80% of Instagram users come from outside the US, up from 75% in September, showing the popularity of pretty pictures that cross language barriers. It still has 100 million in the US, which command high rates for ads delivered through new video units and Facebook’s Ads API. But pe … | Continue reading
I first tried on a prototype of the Basslet wearable subwoofer at SXSW 2016. Built by a Berlin startup called Lofelt and headed by CEO/cofounder Daniel Büttner and CTO/cofounder Gwydion ap Dafydd (ex-Ableton and Native Instruments leaders respectively) the Basslet has a strange a … | Continue reading
Indian customers have a new entry-level device to choose from. HTC is throwing the Desire 630 into the fray, with an asking price of Rs. 14,990. | Continue reading
If there’s one food obsession that surpasses all others in today’s world, it’s pizza. The latest evidence of pizza’s overwhelming popularity was last week’s T-Mobile Tuesday deal that offered the carrier’s subscribers a free Domino’s pizza. It was shut down after the first day ow … | Continue reading
Jetzt ist es offiziell. Der chinesische Internet-Gigant Tencent übernimmt den Großteil des finnischen Game-Studio Supercell für 8,6 Mrd. Dollar (7,6 Mrd. Euro). Die Anteile werden von dem japanischen Unternehmen SoftBank übernommen... | Continue reading
Design and function should be closely intertwined. This article explains some important considerations for UX design, including app onboarding, efficiency and designing for the user first. | Continue reading
Email marketing is making a comeback. This infographic shows how to use content marketing and email marketing together,. | Continue reading
Rhonda represents the marketing manager who frequently attends conferences or workshops about various forms of online media. Related posts:Will Ferrell testing big screen ideas on the tiny screen Rim shot Actual office conversation | Continue reading
Mighty No. 9, the Mega Man spiritual successor that comes out today, has got off to a rocky start.Kickstarter backers report problems with game codes. In some cases, backers have been sent codes for the wrong version of the game.Meanwhile, the Xbox 360 version has been delayed at … | Continue reading
Return on investment (ROI) has lately become the metric above all metrics to demonstrate success for PR, because it connects PR outcomes to corporate goals and revenues. Here’s the thing though. Although everything is measurable – even PR — and there’s a right metric for everythi … | Continue reading
Toyota's new Prius plug-in hybrid might be eco-friendly, but apparently it's not safety-friendly — at least, not enough for American roadways.SEE ALSO: Acura's all-electric NSX concept is more advanced than a TeslaThe next-generation Prius plug-in, called the Prius PHV, comes com … | Continue reading
A new report from Korea indicates that LG's mobile division is expected to record its fourth consecutive fiscal quarter of losses. Major headaches inbound? | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Report: LeBron leaning toward skipping Olympics | Durant to play in 2016 Games | Pippen, Rodman maintain ’96 Bulls are best team ever | Thompson, Green likely in for Olympics No. 1: Report: LeBron leaning toward skipping Olympics — What a season it has been fo … | Continue reading
Brussels (Belgium), 6th July 2016 In January 2015, Europe’s data industry together with the European Commission committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims at accelerating the development of Europe’s data-driven economy. Data represents a key … | Continue reading
Benefit Cosmetics launched an afternoon tea-themed sensory adventure on board The Good Ship Benefit, its beauty and entertainment destination on the river Thames. | Continue reading
Two-factor authentication, while basically essential for protecting important aspects of your online life nowadays, can also be annoying, especially if you juggle a lot of accounts. Usually, the two-factor authentication (or 2-step verification, as Google calls it), works as foll … | Continue reading
Berlin-based startup Number26 just raised a $40 million Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. With 200,000 clients, Number26 wants to become a major consumer-facing bank in Europe providing all the services you’d expect from your bank. And this funding round is an important mi … | Continue reading
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. Battery Ventures, Robert Gentz, David Schneider, and Rubin Ritter also joined the round as new investors … | Continue reading
I spy with my little eye… Something beginning with F! Is it Flowers? No. Fish finger sandwiches? No. A Fantastic Feast of Fun? Well, no, not quite, but almost. My Eye Spy launches today; it’s a new iOS app which brings every parents’ favorite child-distraction game to the iOS pla … | Continue reading
When we decided to start this company, we needed to hunt down for writers. We didn’t have a big budget so only one writer was needed. So we wrote down some requirements and tweeted them in hopes we would find that special someone we were looking for. And nothing happened. Nobody … | Continue reading
Date: 21/06/2016Manufacturers use computer simulations as a less expensive, risk-free way to predict how new products – or changes to existing ones – would behave under real-life conditions.Read more A more advanced computer mode … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Tribune Publishing Co., a 168-year-old newspaper publisher that’s been home to the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune, changed its name to tronc. I didn’t mistype, that’s what the company decided to go with, and it really is all lowercase … | Continue reading
For a while now there have been rumors that Apple is working on a car. The company still hasn't publicly acknowledged this project, but a startup coming out of stealth today provides a nice taste of how a car might look and feel if it was built by Apple. That's because the startu … | Continue reading
Jeff Perkins, CMO of Parkmobile, has learned that the people on a marketing team matter a lot more than the technology they use. | Continue reading
It has been almost 8 years since Bitcoin was introduced to the world by Satoshi Nakamoto. Since then the businesses involved in the digital currency industry are well set at the moment, with a few like Gemini planning to spread its wings further to ensure more Bitcoin adoption. T … | Continue reading
Tesla may have created the notion that the tech in every car should be upgradable without buying a new car with its constant software updates — but there still aren’t many Tesla owners out there. In fact for many car owners it’ll be a pain or expensive to install new technology t … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One is working on a transportation technology that can make trains go as fast as 760 miles per hour. And today, the company is announcing that it has signed a deal with investment firm The Summa Group and the city of Moscow to explore building high-capacity passenger sy … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles-based startup working on making Elon Musk’s crazy-fast vacuum tube transportation blueprint a reality, has agreed to partner with the Summa Group and the Russian Government to build a hyperloop in Moscow.The Summa Group is a Russsian investment group … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One, an LA-based startup working to realize Elon Musk's dream of 760-mph tube-based transportation, announced today that it struck a partnership with the city of Moscow thanks to the support of a mysterious Russian oligarch. The startup and the Summa Group, a Russian po … | Continue reading
Photographers are always happy to have another backup, so Western Digital is introducing a new hard drive meant to make it easier to store photos while on the go. The new drive is called the My Passport Wireless Pro — it's an updated model of the My Passport Wireless that was int … | Continue reading
The iPhone has one of the best smartphone cameras out there. The only thing holding it back? Its fixed lens.Committed iPhone photographers have long recommended adding an external lens. Olloclip, so far, makes the most popular models that actually offer decent quality.They cost a … | Continue reading
Artist Mike Diva talks about why he created a music video that imagines a Donald Trump presidency through the eyes of a Japanese fangirl. Photo: Mike Diva | Continue reading
What can we learn from The DAO's downfall? Ethereum board advisor William Mougayar offers his thoughts on the path ahead. | Continue reading
It’s a busy day at SoftBank HQ in Tokyo today. Fresh from confirming the much-anticipated sale of a majority stake in games giant Supercell, SoftBank also announced the somewhat surprise departure of President and COO Nikesh Arora, the man who had been primed to take the helm fro … | Continue reading
Date: 21/06/2016The scheme, which focuses on fundamental research, will be implemented by Poland’s National Science Centre. Named Polonez, this Marie Skłodowska-Curie action is aimed at experienced researchers in other countries, inviting them to apply for fellowships hosted by i … | Continue reading
Dass unser Nachthimmel in der Regel bis zur Unkenntlichkeit lichtverschmutzt ist, dürfte inzwischen eine Binsenweisheit sein, trotzdem scheint es immer noch an Basiswissen zum Phänomen zu fehlen, wie der gerade publizierte Atlas of Artificial... | Continue reading