US spending on addressable TV ads doubled in 2015 and is set to double again this year, eMarketer projects in its first estimates of spending on targeted TV ads delivered on a home-by-home basis via cable and satellite. Still, addressable ads account for just a tiny share of all … | Continue reading
Wearable device usage may be growing, but according to March 2016 research, some wearable owners have stopped using their device. Limited functionality and use is the biggest reason why. | Continue reading
Despite the rise of online commerce, over half of adults in France visit a shopping center or mall at least once a month, research reveals. Young people welcome the social aspects of shopping in retail malls, but older consumers are also regular customers. | Continue reading
A majority of internet users in Canada need a daily dose of Facebook, according to March 2016 research. Around a quarter used YouTube that frequently. Both social sites are also seeing increased interest compared to last year. | Continue reading
Sales enablement technology can aid sales teams with customer interactions spanning the entire buyer journey and also provide support for internal communication. Allana Hinks, marketing manager for Brauer Natural Medicine, spoke with eMarketer about the value of sales enablement … | Continue reading
The topics of marketing technology, data security and privacy are increasingly interconnected. As more organizations rely on marketing technology to provide granular audience targeting, richer analytics and improved online conversions, a greater degree of information—and tr … | Continue reading
David Rush, CEO and co-founder of real-time social media marketing platform Earshot, discusses how shopper marketers can effectively communicate with and convert the multichannel shopper. | Continue reading
Tesla offers to Buy Solar City for 2.7 Billion dollars, Twitter launches to App Twitter engage for Analytics, Instagram hits 500 Million Monthly Users, Twitter video gets an update, Apple kids coding camps coming to stores. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is finding support at the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level but a larger pullback might be due.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 06/22/2016 – Still in Correction Mode! appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
The 2016 Australian election campaign has so far been the political equivalent of chipping off old nail polish. It seems only right it be accompanied by the most banal of content: The badly-shot Facebook Live video.Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, leader of the Liberal Party, has … | Continue reading
Are you struggling to catch the attention of more readers? Take a look at this infographic that goes through the step-by-step process on how to promote your blog and make it go viral. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Smartphone maker Samsung has for years been a spectator as Apple built a services “ecosystem” supporting its products. But now, as the two develop the market for mobile payments, the Korean tech giant is taking the fight to its U.S. archrival. For Apple, offering use … | Continue reading
Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville weigh in on The DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that was exploited this week. | Continue reading
News of an offer from Tesla to acquire SolarCity came mostly unexpected to traders earlier this afternoon. In a rapid “knee-jerk” reaction, traders bid up SolarCity by 13 percent and sent Tesla tumbling down 12 percent. It is typical for the stock of an acquisition target to spik … | Continue reading
Quick diagnosis of bloodborne diseases can very much be a matter of life and death, but bouncing results off a hospital can take hours or days — so the NIH and Cornell University are working on a device called the FeverPhone that could cut that time to as little as 15 minutes. Re … | Continue reading
Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, we wrote about a 30,000 member Facebook group that had formed in Austin to help facilitate ride requests in the absence of Uber and Lyft. Riders posted requests, drivers responded, and people got where t … | Continue reading
Ben Simmons has worked out for the Philadelphia 76ers, who could make him the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. | Continue reading
Seems like just yesterday when 7-speeds in an automatic transmission seemed like too many gears.SEE ALSO: Dodge announces end of Viper production on model's 25th anniversaryFord's desert-racing F-150 Raptor pickup is getting a new 10-speed automatic transmission for 2017. Turns o … | Continue reading
The explosion of tech companies setting up headquarters in major cities has encroached on the homeless population. Like San Francisco, the tech industry is growing rapidly in Seattle, and we too have the same dilemma. But unlike San Francisco, we have the opportunity to get ahead … | Continue reading
Minecraft has a storied modding scene, but you’ve primarily had to play on PC to enjoy those up to this point. With its new add-ons, Mojang is bringing that magic to players on smartphones. The Minecraft developer announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow last week … | Continue reading
If you've ever tried getting around when traveling in a country with an unfamiliar language, you might have had trouble figuring out what all the businesses around you are, even if you could read the names. A new Google Maps feature developed in Japan and launching there today, h … | Continue reading
Your options are extremely limited if you want a flagship smartphone that's also rugged.There's only one real tough phone to consider: the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active. That's it. Every other rugged smartphone out there doesn't even compare.SEE ALSO: Unboxing the sleek Batman Samsung … | Continue reading
Luke Walton realizes he is reporting to his dream job a little late. | Continue reading
Facebook's live streaming platform is proving to be a significant source of cash for some media companies. The social network is paying out more than $50 million to publishers and celebrities who produce content for Facebook Live, according to "a document" reviewed by the Wall S … | Continue reading
As if a new Power Rangers movie wasn't grand enough on its own, actor Bryan Cranston announced today on Twitter he will be playing Zordon in the franchise reboot. Known on the show as a giant and slightly opaque floating head, Zordon is a galactic sage, the creator and mentor of … | Continue reading
Sonos makes controlling your music across your home extremely convenient, but having to open up an iOS app everytime you want to adjust something can be a pain. Fret no more: you can now control playback and view current tracks right from you iPhone or iPad’s lock screen. This fu … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Messaging platforms, bots, and conversational commerce are looking to become as big a game-changer as apps were when they first appeared in 2007. Don’t miss this essential VB Live event to understand the game-changing impact of bots on brands. Register here for free. 900 … | Continue reading
Eliot Peper has been lauded as the heir to William Gibson’s throne. He is a writer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and is latest book, Cumulus, has become an online hit. The energy of his writing and the strength of his characters is palpable throughout the story — a worl … | Continue reading
Already, Tennis Champs Returns [Free] is one of the best games of the year, and perhaps the best tennis game since the Game Boy versions of Mario Tennis. But now this rad tennis game is about to get even better, with an update set to hit on or around Thursday, June 23rd. The kill … | Continue reading
Seven financial institutions have partnered to explore how blockchain tech could benefit small enterprises. | Continue reading
Huawei’s new MateBook is probably the closest we’ll get to an iPad Pro running Windows 10, and it actually looks pretty sweet. Spec-wise, the 12-inc, 2-in-1 tablet is actually most reminiscent of Samsung’s TabPro S (which I quite liked). It’s ridiculously thin (6.9mm) and weight … | Continue reading
The Milwaukee Bucks have signed coach Jason Kidd to a three-year contract extension. | Continue reading
I'd never heard of Uhans before today. It's a Chinese phone manufacturer, and there are a lot of those, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that there are a few I haven't heard of. What did surprise me, however, is how obsessively honest and blunt Uhans is in its marketing.Okay, … | Continue reading
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has been increasingly willing to share moments from his family and work life.But a photo he posted on Tuesday, intended to promote Instagram's user milestone numbers, may have ended up revealing a little more about Zuckerberg than he intended: … | Continue reading
Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight has sold more than a quarter million copies in only a week.Publisher Starbreeze (Payday 2, Brothers: A… | Continue reading
VLC media player for Android just got a killer update that brings us a lot of features that we've been anticipating for a while. | Continue reading
The Ninebot by Segway miniPRO is not a hoverboard. Instead, it’s a true descendant of the original revolution in personal transportation, the Segway.Fifteen years ago, dungaree-wearing inventor Dean Kamen introduced the first Segway. His person-sized, self-balancing, rideable pla … | Continue reading
In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists modified the DNA of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 – nearly half of them – failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics o … | Continue reading
Withings co-founder Cédric Hutchings wants to be clear that the sale of his company to Nokia is not the end of the road, but a new beginning. The $192 million deal for Paris-based Withings, a leading connected health device company, to Finland’s Nokia was a bit of a shocker when … | Continue reading
When you really need to get a signal in from Pluto, a direct connection isn’t always possible. Oh sure, when it’s a big project like New Horizons, you can make sure the line is clear and someone’s listening — but for routine updates from a Neptune orbiter or power-starved comet l … | Continue reading
These days, if you want to watch a NASA-sanctioned rocket launch or astronauts play on the International Space Station, you typically reach for your computer. You can always watch these kinds of space activities on TV with NASA’s cable channel, but for those who don’t want to shi … | Continue reading
Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but… well, this one wins.It’s a four foot tall recreation of the Nerf N-Strike Maverick — one of the greatest Nerf guns of all time. Oh, and it works. It shoots massive darts* at around 40 miles per hour. Read More | Continue reading
Today, as Instagram celebrated reaching 500 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo of himself enjoying the moment. But after he did, some sharp observers noticed another detail: the laptop on his desk, which seems to have a webcam wrapped up with tape.Zuckerberg is … | Continue reading
The last we heard from AirBoxLab, the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the Foobot, raised €2 million and shifted focus fr … | Continue reading
A new report claims that Apple will take the unusual step later this year of introducing a ninth-generation iPhone family that is largely unchanged, appearance-wise, from not just the prior year, but the one before that as well. The report comes from the Wall Street Journal, whic … | Continue reading
Identifier: REC-DISC-AG-2016Pillar: RRAC Combat racism, xenophobia, homophobiaPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Identifier: REC-CHILD-AG-2016Pillar: RCHI Promote and protect the rights of the childPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
Identifier: REC-DATA-2016Pillar: RDAT Contribute to ensuring the highest level of protection of privacy and personal dataPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading