Microsoft’s Visual Code Studio, announced at last year’s Build conference, has reached its 1.0 release. In announcing the milestone, Microsoft notes Visual Studio is “about more than features.” In the year it’s been around, Microsoft has worked with the community to make it more … | Continue reading
Supercell knows how to make money. The mobile publisher earned $80 million from it’s newly released head-to-head strategy battler Clash Royale last month, according to industry-tracking firm NewZoo. That figure does not include the 30 percent that Supercell gave to Apple and Goog … | Continue reading
In an interview with Variety, AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said the company may consider allowing patrons to text during the movie. Yeah, this is gonna end well. While AMC isn’t sure exactly how this will be implemented, it says it’s considering options to make it possible, su … | Continue reading
We all make mistakes. Some mistakes are more egregious than others. Most errors endemic to PR can be avoided pretty easily. These are the top PR shortfalls to shun. These mistakes can cause journalists to quickly delete your story pitch and become reluctant to respond to your fut … | Continue reading
ContainerShip, a service that aims to make it easier for developers to use Docker containers to develop and deploy their applications, today announced that it has raised a $2.41 million seed round led by Pittsburgh-based Draper Triangle Ventures and Birchmere Ventures. ContainerS … | Continue reading
Sometime last night the update to Crashlands [$4.99] hit the App Store, and it's added a ton of things that are going to make playing the game a whole lot nicer- Arguably making the whole thing worth playing again. Namely, the world map got much better, harvesting plants got less … | Continue reading
Among a handful of announcements made by Microsoft today designed to make Windows a core facet of the classroom, the company provided more details on the Minecraft: Education Edition, which the company first teased back in January. Kicking off in June, any school will be able to … | Continue reading
Disrupt NY is right around the corner, and soon thousands of entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts will make their way to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in New York City for the show. But one of our favorite parts of Disrupt actually takes place before the show floor opens — the Hacka … | Continue reading
Azure Media Services, Microsoft’s collection of cloud-based tools for video workflows, is about to get a lot smarter. As the company announced at the annual NAB show in Las Vegas today, Media Services will now make use of some of the tools Microsoft developed for its machine lear … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Inspired by Microsoft’s HoloLens holographic glasses, the founders of Loook are announcing today that they are creating “mixed reality” apps that blend holographic animations and the real world. Seattle-based Loook is the brainchild of Sébastien Motte, former head of X … | Continue reading
We've all been there: the hero is seconds away from swooping in to save the day, when all of a sudden... some schmuck's smartphone flares to life as he types "OMG THIS MOVIE IS LIT."Cellphone use at movie theaters is one of the most obnoxious aspects of the modern age — yet the A … | Continue reading
Anyone who's ever tried to lose more than a few pounds knows the harsh raw power of the bathroom mirror and the bathroom scales. For some of us, weighing in every day and looking at ourselves naked is all the motivation we need to hit the gym and eat better. For others, however, … | Continue reading
Alexis Maybank, one of the founders of Gilt Groupe (recently acquired by the owner of Saks Fifth Avenue), has a new startup in the world of fashion and shopping — Project September. Maybank told me her aim is to “make the visual world shoppable.” In other words, if you see a phot … | Continue reading
Want to be the selfie queen of your squad? Then it's time to get down with this 1940s Rolleiflex film camera. It's v dreamy and sure to make you reign supreme in the land of selfies and vintage cameras.Check back each Thursday as we explore another piece of #ThrowbackTech for a w … | Continue reading
I don’t think I’ll be picking up the new Kindle Oasis, Amazon’s latest top-end e-reader; upgrading to my beloved Voyage from a Paperwhite was decadent enough, and the $289.99 price tag on the Oasis is something else entirely. But I do appreciate that it exists. Amazon has made so … | Continue reading
A new and improved GoldenEye 007 mod for Doom is in the works, and a demo is expected by the end of the month.The mod, Goldeneye007 Tc Gzdoom, was announced on ModDB. It will be similar to the GoldenEye 007 Doom 2 mod but make use of the new and improved GZDoom source port, which … | Continue reading
If you want to get noticed online, you need a strong online strategy. Regularly posting boring blogs and looking all over the internet for s[..] | Continue reading
VB INSIGHT: DigitalGenius is announcing a Human+AI customer service platform today with a $4.1 million seed investment. The platform integrates with existing customer service software suites — like Salesforce, ZenDesk, and Oracle — to automate the most repetitive parts of custome … | Continue reading
Generating referrals is hard work. Even professional practices that have built successful and growing businesses based on a brisk referral business sometimes experience lulls. Referrals are incredibly valuable, as are your relationships with the people who send them to you. It’s … | Continue reading
LG has launched its first "Make in India" smartphones today, having just unveiled its new entry-level K7 LTE and K10 LTE handsets in the country. | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
The rise of on-demand startups and other fast-growing businesses like online marketplaces has created a need for reliable ways to verify new hires and customers to make sure they are cut out for the task. Onfido, one of the group of startups building software-based solutions to d … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price is still moving inside the short-term channel but it looks like resistance held, as predicted in the previous update. With that, bitcoin could make its way back to the bottom of both the long-term and short-term channels near $420. Techn … | Continue reading
GUEST: Facebook’s big announcement at its annual F8 Developer conference, was to make Messenger, its 900-million-user messaging app into a full-fledged platform that allows businesses to communicate with users via chatbots. On the surface, that sounds like a standard, if very amb … | Continue reading
Facebook has a new tool for designers, and it’s meant to make prototyping apps much faster and easier than your current workflow. Origami Studio is native for OS X, and uses current technology like Core Animation for stability and speed. Facebook also built Origami Studio to feel … | Continue reading
Two days of Facebook’s F8 Conference have come and gone, so here’s a look back at all the things you may have missed from the event. To learn more about each topic, click the links below for full stories. Mark Zuckerberg kicks off the event… with a Trump takedown It’s not unusual … | Continue reading
The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco gave a speech on financial technology earlier this week. | Continue reading
Facebook envisions a future dominated by mobile video. So it's no surprise the company is working on a feature to automatically tag you and your friends to make those posts more searchable. Facebook’s Joaquin Quiñonero Candelae, the company's director of machine learning, went in … | Continue reading
The USS Zumwalt, under the command of Captain James Kirk, is the most stealthy ship the Navy's ever built -- so much so, in fact, she may carry deflectors to make her safe for other vessels to operate around. | Continue reading
For all of Android's imperfections, one has stood out high above the others over the years: its truly terrible blob-like emoji, which remain completely indecipherable and cause great confusion when traveling between platforms. But this year, Google is finally going to fix it.This … | Continue reading
Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition to a demo on how to do selfies in a 360-degree VR photo, Facebook showed how researchers are trying to make social interaction in VR indisting … | Continue reading
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, just showed how to take a selfie of yourself and a friend inside a virtual reality 360-degree photo. He showed off the demo during a keynote at the F8 event in San Francisco today. It’s part of Facebook’s plan to make VR, whic … | Continue reading
Snapchat is getting a nifty update to its videos: users can now attach stickers and emoji to objects and track them around a scene. That lets you do things like place an emoji on your face and use it as a mask, or make tiny vehicles move around in your videos. via Mashable You ca … | Continue reading
For anyone who loves to add emojis to video clips on Snapchat, the company behind the ephemeral messaging app has released an update that will make things more exciting. The feature is rolling out today for those on Android and will allow you to make emojis move, rotate, and scal … | Continue reading
Stationary, one-size-fits-all emoji are so yesterday. Android Snapchat users can now attach emoji to specific objects in their videos that will move, rotate, and scale automatically as the object moves throughout the snap. The update will come to iOS in the coming weeks. Make sur … | Continue reading
Google Photos automatically backs up photos to the cloud, which is a convenient way of making sure you never lose your memories. But sometimes you want to make sure a photo is backed up right now, in which case you were out luck. That’s changing today – if you use Android, at le … | Continue reading
Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University, Chico, Mora-Blanco had majored in art, minored in women’s studies, and spent much of her free time making sculptures from found objec … | Continue reading
A new startup has launched this month with one raison d’être: to make group calling easier and more accessible on mobile phones. Available for Android and iOS, Meucci works like other messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, insofar as you register for the service with your mobile phone … | Continue reading
Sales - When Marketing and Sales can move beyond their differences and become a power couple, they have the ability to optimize their value and synchronize their efforts. And the company wins. | Continue reading
Could blockchain help increase the transparency of offshore trusts? Open University lecturer Robert Herian explores in this opinion piece. | Continue reading
Amazon’s philosophy with the Kindle line has been consistent for nearly 10 years now — to make the device disappear, by making it as close to paper as possible. However, with the release of its latest model, called the Kindle Oasis, Amazon is shining a spotlight on the Kindle des … | Continue reading
Career Management - Which areas of expertise and which skill sets are most in demand by employers looking to make marketing hires this year? | Continue reading
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Date: 13/04/2016Electric vehicles can be a great choice for the environment and our energy security. A snap-on range-extender from the EP Tender project could encourage more car buyers to make that choice.Most affordable low- to mid-range electric cars can do a day’s driving – ab … | Continue reading
Written content, including articles, blog posts, press releases and white papers, make up the foundation of any effective content marketing campaign. However, a successful strategy may also include visual content, such as images, infographics, memes, videos and even animation. Wh … | Continue reading
You’re about to leave an e-commerce site and then suddenly a message flashes up offering you a killer deal on the product you were just looking at. Depending on your outlook, that’s either really annoying or a brilliant user experience, but one thing’s for sure – it can be an eff … | Continue reading
Lucid VR has raised $2.1 million and it has partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron to make its LucidCam 180-degree virtual reality camera. The pocket-sized LucidCam captures 3D VR video, pretty much as your eyes see the world. The company hopes to make its mark as virtual … | Continue reading
Date: 13/04/2016The FET2RIN project, a coordination and support action within the FET-programme, aims at bringing FET research results closer to the market. Its objective is to help FET beneficiaries overcome obstacles related to market outreach and to access early stage investor … | Continue reading