A Paris criminal court has fined Uber €800,000 ($907,000) over its low-cost UberPop service, which was banned under a law passed in 2014. Two Uber France executives, CEO Thibaud Simphal and Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, Uber's general manager for Western Europe, were also fined €20,0 … | Continue reading
Katholische Jugendfürsorge der Diözese Augsburg e.V.: Scheidegg (ots) - Die Aussicht ist rundum grandios, die Konstruktion einzigartig in Deutschland, und moderne Technik ermöglicht allen Besuchern ein Naturerlebnis: der skywalk allgäu Naturerlebnispark feiert sein fünfjähriges B … | Continue reading
A French criminal court has finally reached a verdict in the long-running case against Uber that accused it of running an illegal transport service. A court in Paris has ruled that Uber must pay a €800,000 fine ($900,000), though half of that is suspended based on Uber’s future c … | Continue reading
It began with two birds. Starting in April a small family of sparrows took up residence in the rain gutter outside of my bedroom window. The birds, at first, were a happy pair but over the weeks they began an insipid sort of cheeping associated with broken toys and bored children … | Continue reading
Will Apple wirklich zurück in die Zukunft? Vor ein paar Wochen kündigte 9To5Mac an, dass der Konzern zur Entwicklerkonferenz WWDC (am kommenden Montag) die Umbenennung von "OS X" in das alte "macOS" im Programm habe. Jetzt hat die Seite e... | Continue reading
A recent campaign from the UK’s Department for Transport uses Snapchat geofilters to combat driving under the influence of drugs. | Continue reading
This afternoon, a giant Delta IV rocket will launch a secret spy satellite into space for the National Reconnaissance Office. The rocket, manufactured by the United Launch Alliance, is scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:59PM ET. The flight is dubbed the NROL- … | Continue reading
Nearly a year after suspending UberPOP in France, Uber will now have to pay a fine. A criminal court in Paris has sanctioned Uber for its UberPOP operations between February 2014 and July 2015. The court is asking for $900,000 (€800,000) — half of it is a suspended sentence. Two … | Continue reading
I love it when an app makes you feel at home in a city you’ve never been before. Thanks to Airbnb I’m able to get a temporary apartment anywhere in the world and Uber provides a personal driver to get me to my destination. However, there’s one app that ties it all together. The f … | Continue reading
Digg today launched a bot for Facebook Messenger. The bot, which you can access directly here, is able to suggest interesting articles and videos for you, but you can also use it to find content yourself. The reasoning behind the bot is simple: “We aim to provide worldclass cont … | Continue reading
See how a content marketing platform helped Wikimotive's editorial team scale content production and and grow its business. | Continue reading
App-enabled cab service Uber is announcing today that its UberRush application programming interface (API) is now available for any developer to use in order to bring an on-demand delivery component to their own applications. This follows a private beta that was first announced i … | Continue reading
Plex today announced that in addition to an always on PC, Mac, or NAS, you’ll be able to use an NVIDIA Shield as a media server to house all your content. The update is set to arrive by the end of June, and you won’t need a hardware upgrade either. The set-top box launched last M … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to get Minecraft into schools, and it's starting by trying to get teachers on board. Minecraft: Education Edition, which was announced in January, goes into an open beta today that's meant to let teachers try it out before the game's public launch in September. Mi … | Continue reading
Every big studio film represents some kind of compromise between commerce and art. Some particularly craven cash-grabs leave art almost entirely out of the picture, but those aren’t the most frustrating films, just as the pure-art prestige pictures are rarely the most fascinating … | Continue reading
Freenome, a year-old liquid biopsy diagnosis platform that detects the cell-free DNA sequencing of cancer, has landed $5.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Founders Fund, Data Collective, and Third Kind Venture Capital. The deal is a bit … | Continue reading
Search Engine Marketing - Almost all of the 100 most expensive Google AdWords keywords in the United States are related to lucrative legal terms, according to recent research from ClickZ, EmpericalProof, and SEMrush. | Continue reading
Watch the animated video for the term "membership site" from our Content Marketing Glossary that helps you master content marketing terms. | Continue reading
We may be nearing peak Uber.Uber, the ride hailing company, will now be able to help prop up all of those on-demand "Uber for x" startups.SEE ALSO: Uber for failure: How on-demand startups crash and burnUberRush, which first debuted last fall, is now available to any developer wh … | Continue reading
Between two-legged robots, tech for cities of the future and self-driving cars, Google’s parent company Alphabet certainly has its fingers in many gee-whiz pies. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that its leaders’ ambitions don’t stop there. The publication’s new piece reveals that, … | Continue reading
As there is always more to learn from failures than success, the reasons for Agile transformation mishaps could serve as an important learning guide. Discussed here are some of the reasons that lead to the transitional failures. | Continue reading
A new report released today by App Annie — the market data solution for the app economy — revealed that the iOS App Store generated almost double the revenue of Android’s Google Play. In fact, App Store revenues for Q1 2016 were 90 percent higher than those of Google Play, driven … | Continue reading
Mobile advertising company Smaato is set to become the latest technology startup to be acquired by Chinese investors, after the San Francisco firm announced that Beijing-based Spearhead Integrated Marketing Communication has agreed to buy it for $148 million. Read More | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Will Love play in Game 4? | Thompson calls Mozgov’s foul ‘kind of dirty’ | Calipari: Murray should go No. 1 No. 1: In wake of Game 3 win, Cavs have Love issues to discuss— Due to his failure to pass the NBA’s concussion protocol, Kevin Love was not cleared to … | Continue reading
“If you can’t beat them, join them” may not sound like the most encouraging pitch for a cybersecurity company, but a startup called Cylance has created an artificial intelligence-powered brain that essentially does just that, and it has taken off — raising $100 million in a Serie … | Continue reading
After six years in off-and-on development, Mozilla's Electrolysis project is finally coming to users with Firefox 48. | Continue reading
Quick reminder that TechCrunch will be heading to Berlin for a Meetup + Pitch-off on July 14. So don’t miss out on your chance to pitch your startup to some of the TechCrunch team, local VCs and your local tech community. Read More | Continue reading
Verizon is rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow to its Samsung Galaxy Note Edge devices. | Continue reading
How do you bring stage magic to life with contemporary movie technology? That’s what I asked Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu — after all, you could use CGI to make any trick work on-screen, but doesn’t that ruin some of the fun? “It’s always a challenge to shoot magic in a m … | Continue reading
Moco Museum Amsterdam: Amsterdam (ots/PRNewswire) - Das Moco Museum in Amsterdam hat 'Heart Boy' - ein wichtiges Straßenwerk von Street-Art-Legende Banksy - dauerhaft zu Ihrer Sammlung hinzugefügt. Das Stück, mit einem Gewicht von mehr als 2000 kg, wurde im Garten vor dem ... | Continue reading
Angestoßen von der öffentlichen Diskussion rund um die Situation der Tourismusforschung an österreichischen Universitäten hat sich im Jahr 2014 die Initiative der Plattform Tourismusforschung gebildet. Sie umfasst aktuell elf Fachhochschulen, Privatuniversitäten und forschungs- b … | Continue reading
I’ve finalized the meetups in both Krakow and Warsaw and am pleased to invite you to an evening of piwo, pitching, and Polish. The Warsaw event will be held on June 13 at Campus Warsaw 27/31 Ząbkowska. It starts at 8pm and we’ll have five startups pitching on stage. The Krakow ev … | Continue reading
Der neue Nest-Chef Marwan Fawaz versucht offensichtlich, nach dem Abgang seines Vorgängers Tony Fadell mehr Ruhe in den Laden zu bringen. Das dürfte auch dringend nötig gewesen sein, machten doch Gerüchte die Runde, dass er geko... | Continue reading
R+V-Infocenter: Wiesbaden (ots) - Viele Urlauber buchen ihre Ferienunterkunft im Internet. Doch Vorsicht: Immer wieder inserieren dort Betrüger verlockende Angebote, um Interessenten abzuzocken. Eine Betrugsmasche setzt dabei sogar auf ein persönliches Treffen. ... | Continue reading
Twitter has teamed up Transport for London (the organization that looks after the city's tubes and buses) to create a new alert systems for disruptions on the London Underground. TfL has long provided travel alerts via Twitter accounts for different tube lines, but now, users tha … | Continue reading
Dave Gerhardt, Marketing Lead at Drift.com, joins the Content Pros Podcast to discuss his revolutionary approach to marketing: killing gated content, removing lead forms, and nurturing sales outside of the traditional funnel method. | Continue reading
The University of Calgary is the most recent victim of ransomware attacks, and the school paid CND$20,000 in Bitcoin to get rid of the malware. Despite paying the fee, not all systems are back online, as the provided decryption keys do not restore all systems automatically. Troub … | Continue reading
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Bernie Sanders has had a good run. Yet numbers are pilled against him, and he should know it. After all he said he was “pretty good in arithmetic.” Hillary has beaten him, and the right and honorable thing for him to do is to call it quits.“If, on November 8th of this year, Hilla … | Continue reading
Shervin Pishevar, investor to the stars and the founder of Sherpa Capital and Hyperloop One – Elon Musk’s wild idea to shoot folks in a vacuum tube from San Francisco to Los Angeles in less than 30 minutes – is coming to Disrupt SF 2016. The legendary VC will join us on stage to … | Continue reading
When we started Teamleader, we liked to read the GrooveHQ blogs – they were full of practical tips on how to build a startup, and Groove CEO Alex Turnbull was incredibly transparent about GrooveHQ’s MRR growth. Blogs like those helped me think about my own company. And having suc … | Continue reading
Following Apple's decision to lower its transaction fee on subscriptions to 15%, it now seems that Google will follow suit, but with one big difference. | Continue reading
More big U.S. corporate names are entering Africa’s tech space and testing new models there.UPS took its first steps in the African drone delivery space teaming up with San Francisco startup Zipline, and Gates Foundation backed Gavi, to begin unmanned aerial transport of healthca … | Continue reading
Valve is releasing a new tool to let designers create and share VR "destinations" on Steam. The software will be available under the gaming platform's Early Access scheme from June 9th, and supports both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. It allows designers to create VR locations … | Continue reading
Barcelona-based startup TravelPerk announced today that it has scored a $7 million investment led by Spark Capital. TravelPerk’s free traveling service aims to help users budget, book, and manage business travel. With a database that stores transaction details such as passenger i … | Continue reading
Barcelona based TravelPerk, a business travel booking platform founded last year by a team of ex-Booking.com employees, has closed a $7 million Series A round of financing led by Spark Capital. Read More | Continue reading
It doesn’t take a hurricane or an asteroid to remind us that our technological prowess is still at the mercy of nature. Sometimes, it only takes a monkey. On Tuesday, the entire country of Kenya lost electricity for nearly four hours, and it was all because of a clumsy monkey. Ac … | Continue reading
E3 is taking off next week, but some companies just can't wait. Acclaimed game developer and publisher Square Enix is showing off Deus Ex GO. | Continue reading