Tesla hat überraschend viele Vorbestellungen für das Model 3 erhalten. Elon Musk twitterte bereits, dass er die Produktionsplanung überdenken muss, und das betrifft natürlich auch die Zulieferer. Nach Informationen von Reuters w... | Continue reading
Harassment, hoaxes, mob justice, public shaming, doxing, citizen journalism, disinformation, snuff, celebrity breakdowns, racist chat-bots, joke plagiarism and an endless stream of delectable cat gifs. The effects of the rise of social media on humanity are myriad, varied and - l … | Continue reading
When SiriusDecisions asserted last year that content marketers were wasting “tens of millions of dollars a year” on the 60% to 70% of content created by B2B marketing teams that never gets used, my jaw dropped. Waste makes me crazy, and that’s a pretty incredible waste. That’s wh … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: The first quarter of 2016 has come to a close: European and Israeli startups raised €4.4 billion across 769 deals in Q1, including Spotify’s recent $1 billion debt round. European and Israeli tech startups have raised €4.4 billion (about $5.01 billion) in funding in the … | Continue reading
The DealDey acquisition marks continued outside investor confidence in the value proposition for African e-commerce—expected to top $75 billion by 2025, according to McKinsey Consulting. Read More | Continue reading
Swiss Travel System AG: Zürich (ots) - Mit dem Gotthard-Basistunnel geht am 11. Dezember 2016 der längste Eisenbahntunnel der Welt in Betrieb. Davor zeigt sich das Rekordbauwerk für kurze Zeit zugänglicher denn je: Ab dem 2. August 2016 tauchen Gäste auf exklusiven ... | Continue reading
If you enjoy following reality talent shows, Google’s latest search update will get your vote. The company will soon allow users in Asia so they can cast their votes for their favorite contestants on shows like Idols, Got Talent and The X Factor right from search results on mobil … | Continue reading
Micromanufacturing. As soon as I finish typing the word, my Grammarly spell checker promptly underscores it in red and suggests a replacement: “micro-manufacturing.” But this new spelling is about to go mainstream. When I say micromanufacturing, I don’t mean making tiny (micro-sc … | Continue reading
Despite the perceptions from many outside of the country, Iranians haven’t been twiddling their thumbs, waiting idly all these years for sanctions relief. The country has long since accustomed itself to be self-sufficient, and the e-commerce industry in Iran is no exception. Read … | Continue reading
München (ots) - Preisaufschlag von durchschnittlich 127 Euro für Zimmer gleicher Kategorie im identischen Hotel / günstigste Unterkunft während des Hafenfests kostet mindestens... | Continue reading
Less is more: The longer your piece, the less readers will read. Add words, and you reduce reading, according to 60 years of research. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk alluded before the Model 3’s launch event that the company’s presentation last week was only part one of what the new electric car has in store for customers. That’s understandable, given that the Model 3 won’t hit the streets until the end of 2017. Over the p … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been slowly trending higher, moving inside a rising channel visible on its 4-hour chart. Price just made a test of support around $410 and bounced, but it appears to be having trouble sustaining its bullish momentum. Price is still h … | Continue reading
Oscar nominee Amy Adams will star in Sharp Objects, a new HBO show based on the book of the same name by Gillian Flynn, the writer of tense psychological thriller Gone Girl. Adams will play a reporter tracking the murder of two young girls, herself dealing with the aftermath of p … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Digital privacy advocates and users of Reddit expressed their alarm on Friday over a change in the forum’s transparency report that suggested it may have been asked to give customer data to FBI investigators under a secretive government authority. The annual report li … | Continue reading
Mobile devices have helped bring the internet and digital media to more people in China than ever before. But 2015 research suggests that users in the country are less receptive to mobile video ads than their counterparts around the world. | Continue reading
Mobile is making a bigger mark than ever on the shopping process, according to 2015 data about how desktop- and mobile-based buyers conduct their research. | Continue reading
According to a February 2016 survey, 36% of internet users in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden used an ad blocker. The ad blocking user rate was highest in Sweden, at 39% of respondents, followed by Denmark (37%). Norway and Finland were tied at 34% each. | Continue reading
It’s probably not shocking to hear that US shoppers said they have a more positive experience buying a new item than they do interacting with customer service across industries. But when looking at particular verticals, health plan providers have their work cut out for them … | Continue reading
Communication comes first for most US internet users, and even before coffee for a great many of them, according to February 2016 polling. | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price after settling below the 100 hourly simple moving average continued to struggle to trade higher. There is a contracting triangle pattern forming on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) of ETH/USD, which may provide us the next break. As long as th … | Continue reading
As we reported on Saturday, the most recent flight test by Blue Origin came off without a hitch. And now there's video to prove it.The space flight company, created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, posted the video to YouTube on Sunday. The video shows the take off and re-entry of t … | Continue reading
The good folks at Reddit are already getting their Redditors fired up about the massive document dump we reported earlier this evening. There’s an official link to the trove of information that more than 200 journalists have been combing through for the better part of a year avai … | Continue reading
How can you write a call to action button so irresistible that your visitors can’t help but click on it? In this article, we’ll look at 10 powerful proven tactics to create effective CTAs: | Continue reading
The ASUS Zenfone 3 and Zenfone 3 Deluxe have shown up over at Red Dot 21's website. What can we gather in terms of details? Click through to find out. | Continue reading
Using the Internet to teach your kids about the world can be hit or miss in terms of appropriate content, but a new feature in Google search is a robust tool straight out of Sesame StreetSee also: 'Kid-safe' search engine helps find age-appropriate contentNow when you search for … | Continue reading
FEATURE: The most surprising fact about video and music streaming pioneer RealNetworks more than 22 years after its founding is that the Seattle-based company still exists. Since being founded by former Microsoft executive Rob Glaser in 1994, the company has managed to be at time … | Continue reading
One of the most important lessons that Silicon Valley learned, that gives it a strategic advantage, is to think bigger than products and business models: it builds platforms. The fastest growing and most disruptive companies in history — Google, Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, and eBay—are … | Continue reading
GUEST: Bots are fast becoming all the rage in tech, offering users the ability to use a messaging app to type in simple English requests to services like Uber. The user interface is just like texting a friend, and it’s far simpler to enter a message than to download and use a clu … | Continue reading
The steering wheel setup in the Tesla Model 3 — seen above in a shot from the media event last week — is not the version that will be in the final car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said tonight in a series of tweets.Instead, the "real steering controls and system" for the Model 3 feel "li … | Continue reading
Looking for hot new gadgets? Crowdfunding projects are a good place to look around for the coolest tech products. Many of these end up being flops, though, which is why we have created the “Crowdfunding project of the week” series. In these articles we get rid of all the noise an … | Continue reading
All day, the Internet has been abuzz with stories culled from the “Panama Papers” — roughly 2.6 terabytes of documents, related to hundreds of thousands of offshore companies, leaked from a small, relatively unknown Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca. Read More | Continue reading
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GUEST: Whenever I hear or see the word “innovation,” a feeling of nausea washes over me. Unlike other cliché buzzwords (synergy, paradigm shift, value-add, etc.) that I have forced myself to accept, I’m afraid “innovation” is one I may never be able to stomach. The word is the co … | Continue reading
Reinvent Mountains, „Berge 3.0“ oder „Rummelplatz Alpen“ – all diese Begriffsverdichtungen wollen andeuten, dass im Alpentourismus große Umwälzungen bewältigt wurden und noch weiter bevorstehen. Aber nicht nur die Klimaveränderung, neue Rahmenbedingungen bei der Finanzierung (Ba … | Continue reading
If you’re a local law enforcement agency trying to crack an iPhone (or any smartphone, really) the FBI is now absolutely here for you. In an advisory obtained by BuzzFeed, the agency will be taking advantage of the new skills it learned unlocking the San Bernadino iPhone to help … | Continue reading
If Elon Musk was delighted by the 115,000 orders for his Tesla Model 3 at launch, he should be positively jubilant with the latest figures which break the $10 billion mark. Today, the Tesla Motors CEO tweeted that his company had received 276,000 orders for the Model 3 at the end … | Continue reading
It is now possible to buy anything with bitcoin. Starting with something as simple as a pizza worth $10 to a brand new high tech electric automobile. Bitcoin has come a long way since it was first introduced in 2008. When it was first introduced, the idea behind it was well appre … | Continue reading
veraPDF is building the definitive, open source PDF/A validator veraPF's latest software is now available for download in the Open Source Portal. The veraPDF validation engine implements the PDF/A specification using formalisations of each requirement in PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF … | Continue reading
Upper West Side Townhouse is a family home renovated by New York-based DHD Interiors. This stately townhouse underwent a full renovation ... | Continue reading
Blizzard has released the second in a series of four short animated videos ahead of the launch of multiplayer shooter Overwatch on May 24th. It'd be easy to write off the game — Blizzard's first new property in nearly two decades — as just another arena shooter. But it's far more … | Continue reading
Years ago I came to San Francisco to join an exciting company building software for bands. Tools that make digital life easier for…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Insurance policies can be complex, and some policyholders may not understand all the fees and coverages included in a policy. Indeed, people typically buy policies on unfavorable terms. In 2014, two major insurers, Blue Shield and Cigna of California, were sued for misrepresentat … | Continue reading
It’s an open secret that the mega-rich and powerful people in the world go to great lengths to keep their financial situations hidden from world governments (and tax collectors), but a collection of 11.5 million documents called “The Panama Papers” shows just how tangled the web … | Continue reading
GUEST: Can machines be creative? Recent successes in AI have shown that machines can now perform at human levels in many tasks that, just a few years ago, were considered to be decades away, like driving cars, understanding spoken language, and recognizing objects. But these are … | Continue reading
Q: Social media gurus talk in praise of the tribe . But who stands up for the herd? A: James Rebanks , the "Herdwick Shepherd." A se... | Continue reading
Threading the waters as a Bitcoin startup is far from an easy task, as there are many different pitfalls to take into account. Moreover, given the negative stance most banks have toward Bitcoin startups, it might become a struggle to find the right financial partner at an early s … | Continue reading
Technology is surrounding us; its surface is becoming more complex, pliable and familiar to the eye. Virtual reality is no longer creeping into the mainstream: It’s leaping. Though the industry is giddy with the potential of VR, the consumer is still a step away from being able t … | Continue reading