Did you get your HTC Vive this morning? Pre-orders for the $799 headset began today, and eager VR enthusiasts will get their hands on the product April 5 — mere days after competitor Oculus Rift ships. The pre-order bundle is costly, but arguably it comes with more goodies to sin … | Continue reading
Transport for London (TfL) has enlisted author and comedian Julian Clary to deliver a one-off story time experience on the Emirates Air Line cable car tomorrow (2 March), in celebration of World Book Day. | Continue reading
It’s easy to think of Twitter first when you see Moments than Facebook’s photo-sharing app – but while you’re busy figuring out why the Moments tab moved on Twitter.com, Facebook’s app has quietly hit 400M photos shared – 100M of which was from the past month alone. Facebook’s mi … | Continue reading
Your transactional emails are leaking money. A lot of it. That should be concerning to everyone, not just eCommerce companies. Here's how to plug the leak. | Continue reading
Facebook’s Moments, the social network’s private photo-sharing application – and replacement for photo syncing – will now support video-sharing, the company announced today. The new feature is live in the updated version of the Moments mobile application for iOS and Android devic … | Continue reading
Sony's PlayStation TV is no longer being shipped in Japan.According to Japanese site AV Watch (translated via Kotaku), Sony confirmed that it would cease shipping PlayStation TVs at the end of February 2016, i.e. today.Indeed the Japanese PlayStation Store noted that shipping has … | Continue reading
You know what Google does as a company, but do you know how they do all of it? Probably not, but there’s now a website where Google software engineers can tell their stories, and give us better insight on the inner workings in Mountain View. Called bar.foo, the name itself sugges … | Continue reading
Understanding Millennials is key to tapping into a market of 92 million consumers. | Continue reading
Mate1.com just proved that after the Ashley Madison hack, we’ve learned nothing. A hacker on ‘Hell,’ a dark web hacking forum, claims to have gained access to over 27 million plaintext passwords from Mate1.com, which he says he later sold. The asking price was 20 bitcoin ($8,700) … | Continue reading
Data intelligence startup Terbium Labs announced today that it staged a $6.4 million series A investment led by .406 Ventures. The Baltimore-based startup said it’ll use the investment to fuel enterprise sales of its intelligence system Matchlight, a dark web data intelligence pl … | Continue reading
As it gets closer to the its international launch, Supercell is adding and rebalancing stuff like crazy in Clash Royale. The latest update hit this morning, and oddly enough includes basically everything that "leaked" a couple weeks ago. The Royal Giant, Three Musketeers, and oth … | Continue reading
Sometime in the mid-2000s, hedge fund owners got an idea. Financial markets are impacted by the news — so if you can thoroughly understand the news, and do it quickly, you can have a headstart on changes in the market. Using artificial intelligence, they devised software that cou … | Continue reading
Glenmorangie will unveil the second edition in its pop-up bar series, coined Beyond The Cask, within London's Soho on Thursday (3 March). | Continue reading
After facilitating over 20 innovation workshops, I see a distinct pattern in how to inspire innovation. It’s all about the environmental factors. If you create the right environment, great innovations can take place. Innovation is hard Most mature companies suffer the Innovator’s … | Continue reading
You can now share videos with your friends within Facebook’s Moments app. The company released an update today for the photo-sharing app today and said that in the coming weeks, it’ll launch an ability to include videos in Moments slideshows. The addition of video support comes a … | Continue reading
After presenting the Academy Award for best picture to the team behind Spotlight, Morgan Freeman took a little time to grab some Girl Scout cookies out of Chris Rock's hand and leave immediately.Obviously there's a lot to respect about this move, despite the fact that the cookies … | Continue reading
All week long, we have been covering Social Media Week in New York City on our blog and across the Zignal Labs social channels. Here is a look at what is driving the conversation in The City so Nice, They Named it Twice. Total Mentions Since kicking off on Monday night at the ope … | Continue reading
The humble Happy Meal box will see perhaps its largest ever innovation go live this week – it can now be folded in seconds into a pair of VR ‘Happy Goggles.’ Don’t all rush at once, though, because they’re only available in a pretty limited pilot across seven McDonald’s stores in … | Continue reading
Fallout Shelter has received what publisher Bethesda is calling its "biggest update yet". The free community managment game's 1.4 update add… | Continue reading
Uber has taken a lot of flack from some of its drivers since it lowered fares in January, but the ride-hail company argues that the cheaper rides are having the desired effect. In New York City, for example, where fares were cut 15 percent on January 28th, demand for uberX rides … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: CRO (conversion rate optimization) offers tremendous gains in engagement, often at a fraction of the cost of other marketing tools. Join our free webinar and learn from the experts exactly how to leverage the power of CRO — and the best tools they’re using to do it. R … | Continue reading
Bethesda's Fallout Shelter [Free] has had a odd lifecycle for a mobile game. It was revealed (then subsequently released) during a massive E3 press conference, and it really seemed like the game was positioned as one of those lightweight companion adver-game sort of things like t … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s augmented reality development kit costs $3,000, and that’s because it shares some components that you’d normally find in spacecraft, guided missiles, and drones. HoloLens, the head-mounted display that mixes digital imagery with the real world, starts shipping to deve … | Continue reading
Fund February: A flurry of VC funds launch in Israel. Read More | Continue reading
Roc Nation's newest member is DJ Khaled. Khaled just signed a management-only deal with Jay Z's company, which lands him in a roster the includes the likes of Big Sean, DJ Mustard, Kanye West, and Rihanna. According to an announcement from Roc Nation, Jay Z himself will be Khaled … | Continue reading
Right on schedule, HTC has opened up pre-orders for its Vive virtual reality headset and controllers on its website. The Vive will cost $799 in the U.S., £689 in the UK and €899 in Europe.The HTC Vive will ship on April 5, mere days after its closest competitor, the $599 Oculus R … | Continue reading
Snapchat debuted its web player just in time for the Oscars on Sunday night, giving everyone a nice behind-the-scenes look at the red carpet and the actual show.Snapchat.com is featuring a curated Live Story — the same one you can watch in its app — from Snapchat reporters, start … | Continue reading
Apple is giving developers a bit more control of Swift, and you don’t even need to work in Cupertino. Writing that its new Continuous Integration is now “established and proven,” Apple intends to give some of its more ardent contributors commit access on GitHub. If you’d like to … | Continue reading
MongoLab has long been the de facto service for deploying and managing MongoDB databases, but now that the company has cornered this market, it’s looking to expand into new areas. Before launching any new products, though, the company decided to change its name and because of thi … | Continue reading
Der dänische Programmierer Søren Louv-Jansen hat ein interessantes Tool entwickelt, das mit Hilfe von Aktivitäten beim Facebook Messenger herausfinden kann, wer seiner Kontakte wann ins Bett geht und wieder aufsteht. Da die meist... | Continue reading
Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like PayPal and Venmo: the ability to maintain a cash balance. That is, users can now choose … | Continue reading
Forget about finding your son. Fallout Shelter has some new tools in its important quest for user retention. The mobile hit released a new update today, developer Bethesda announced, that adds crafting. Fallout Shelter has been a hit for Bethesda, managing to earn 12 million down … | Continue reading
Whether it's pushing speed and performance boundaries or redefining expectations of luxury and technological advancement, the cars of the Geneva Motor Show are invariably leaders in their class. All the big companies prioritize this one week in March as a time to show off their v … | Continue reading
Last year, Popslate brought its first E ink iPhone case to market, giving users a second screen to display information on. This year, the company is back with the Popslate 2, which features a larger screen, notifications, and a built-in battery to charge your iPhone.Although the … | Continue reading
This is a guest repost by Bryan Helmig , Co-founder & CTO at Zapier , who makes it ea... | Continue reading
There are many absurd facts about the Bugatti Chiron that was just introduced today ahead of the Geneva Motor Show. Its top speed is electronically limited — limited! — to 261 miles per hour. It can reach 125 miles per hour in 6.5 seconds, which may very well be faster than the t … | Continue reading
Facebook has received a pretty manageable €100,000 admin fine in Germany for failing to properly inform users about its ownership of their images and videos – but the country’s consumer watchdog had some pretty harsh words for the company. “Facebook tried very persistently to cir … | Continue reading
HTC’s $799 Vive virtual reality headset opened for pre-orders this morning. The headset will begin shipping April 5 in the US, just a week or so after the consumer launch of the the Oculus Rift, which launches March 28.Pre-orders can be placed on the HTC site today for shipment t … | Continue reading
After the Oscars last night, Jimmy Kimmel invited Ben Affleck on to his show to reveal a brand-new clip from Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. Here, the two superheroes are in the middle of their battle when Superman drags the Dark Knight through a building (presumably the Got … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: The modern web browsing experience is increasingly being rendered in higher and higher definition -- Youtube started supporting 4K Ultra HD video in 2014. Now, high definition audio is finally catching up to video – and audience expectations -- with Dolby Digital Plus. | Continue reading
Microsoft hat eine Reihe neuer Werbespots für Windows 10 veröffentlicht, die vor allem gegen die Konkurrenz stichelt. Aber das Spiel kennt man ja bereits seit Jahren ("I'm a Mac"). Protagonistinnen dieser Clips sind die sogenannten Bug C... | Continue reading
As if 1,500 horsepower, a $2.6 million price tag, and two metric tons of carbon fiber, aluminum, titanium, glass, and leather weren't enough to set the Bugatti Chiron apart, this new supercar also comes with speaker tweeters made out of diamonds. Each of the four tweeters in the … | Continue reading
Ransomware has become a real plague for Internet users all over the world. There is nothing more annoying than using a computer only to have the end user completely locked out due to a piece of malware encrypting all of the necessary files. Various German hospitals have fallen vi … | Continue reading
Okay, Blizzard, we are all ready. Now, where's Standard Format? Everyone - including me- is patiently waiting for the new formats to hit, but at least this past week had enough Hearthstone [Free] news to keep us all busy reading (and maybe reading to forget that the meta continue … | Continue reading
There's more to Uncharted 4 than a gritty story, Troy Baker and some Assassin's Creed concept art - oh yes. Naughty Dog has once again put together a multip… | Continue reading
Tomorrow, Apple will make its case before Congress, as General Counsel Bruce Sewell gives testimony to the House Judiciary Committee at 1PM ET. It's Apple's first appearance before Congress since the company received an order to break security measures on a phone linked to the Sa … | Continue reading
Innocent finished a three city tour with its travelling supermarket last Friday (26 February), in a bid to promote its super smoothies range. | Continue reading