Watch out Braintree, Stripe and other online checkout systems, Square is going after you. The company launched new APIs today for offline and online stores. But the bigger news is that e-commerce merchants can now process credit card payments using a simple form. Behind the scene … | Continue reading
Square is introducing ‘Build with Square,’ which lets businesses monetize their online and in-store efforts entirely through Square. A collection of new APIs, Build with Square offers solutions from beginning to end. A new Register API allows for more customized point-of-sale sol … | Continue reading
Billing itself as “the easy instant access to Bitcoins,” Bitit, a Paris, France-based bitcoin sales platform, allows people to buy bitcoin for cash or credit card in stores and online. The vouchers and prepaid gift cards are available at 100,000 stores. There is a map of the stor … | Continue reading
There are a multitude of articles covering the blogging sites and publishing platforms. However, while all these platforms are really great and effective for building an online presence, a bad Web hosting provider can easily rub off (almost) all the good in them. A bad Web host c … | Continue reading
Oh, Microsoft. Last week, the company pulled its Tay chatbot from Twitter after some users trained it to become a racist jackass. On Wednesday, Tay was brought back online, sending thousands of tweet replies. The vast majority of these were just "you are too fast" messages indica … | Continue reading
Tay's back. Microsoft AI chatbot is tweeting again after being taken offline following a bout of sudden racism last week. At some time around 03:30AM ET this morning, Tay started firing out tweets to other users, with one particular message repeated over and over again: "You are … | Continue reading
Well, uh, Microsoft’s Tay chatbot, which got turned off a few days ago after behaving badly, has suddenly returned to Twitter and has started tweeting to users like mad. Most of its musings are innocuous, but there is one funny one I’ve come across so far. “i’m smoking kush infro … | Continue reading
Tokyo-based BizReach, the Japanese company providing an online talent search platform under the same name, announced today that it has fundraised about 3.73 billion yen (about $32.9 million) in the second funding round. This round was led by YJ Capital, the investment arm of Yaho … | Continue reading
MedStar Health was forced offline this week after hackers took over its computer systems. An unconfirmed virus reportedly strangled the network and rendered it completely useless. Because of the attack, the healthcare operator’s 30,000 staff members and 3,000 affiliated physician … | Continue reading
Killer Instinct is a fighting game that requires expert timing and split second reactions to succeed online. Oh and sight. You need to see what's going on on your screen to win. Right?Wrong."Sightless Kombat" is a completely blind gamer who in January hit the "Killer" rank in the … | Continue reading
Online interior design platform Havenly has raised $5.8 million, bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3 million. The round was led by Binary Capital with participation from Foundry Group and Chicago Ventures. Havenly plans to use the funding for growing the staff b … | Continue reading
Microsoft has added another three Xbox 360 games to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility list: Halo Wars, SoulCalibur 2 HD Online and King of Fighters '98.The addition of Halo Wars has been long in the making - preview programme members have been testing it for a while.Other ga … | Continue reading
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The new Google Analytics 360 Suite is good news for marketers. The centralized web analytics platform offers a significant improvement in marketer’s ability to track and store information about customers and their behaviors. Some observers even compare the development to an earth … | Continue reading
Most of us aren’t buying and selling drugs on AlphaBay, but its new security practices should make companies that rely on online purchases to stand up and take notice. The darkweb site, which features “drugs, stolen data and hacking tools” now requires two-factor authentication ( … | Continue reading
Live is having a moment. A key player in the shift to mobile live streaming, the Twitter-owned service Periscope this weekend celebrated its first year online. The company also revealed a few metrics indicating how quickly it had grown in the time since its March 2015, noting tha … | Continue reading
Tumblr is announcing a couple of updates to its platform today that should make it a much better tool for hosting online discussions, and a lot of users happy. First up, Tumblr is bringing back replies and making them much more conversational; the company had killed them off in N … | Continue reading
Finding the right online casinos for the right persons is a matter of mixing and matching, as every individual player has their own preferences and needs. While everyone wants to find the safe online casino games they desire, the choice of payment method can be a determining fact … | Continue reading
Having a funny name can sometimes be unfortunate, but one couple is finding it pretty difficult to do anything online because of theirs. Jennifer Null (and her husband, who warned her it would be a bumpy ride when she took his last name) have trouble booking flights, accessing th … | Continue reading
It happens a lot: two people break up, one of them is angry and post private, explicit photos and videos of the other person online. It’s called “revenge porn.” Both Microsoft andGoogle announced new policies last summer to remove “revenge porn” from their search engines if the v … | Continue reading
Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web. Your actual credit card number stays safe, and you get more control over your online subs … | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are selling the stolen Verizon Enterprise Solutions customer data online for $100,000. | Continue reading
Apple has launched a new web tool that lets you tinker with all the combinations of cases, bands, and faces available for the Apple Watch. It's a welcome, if long overdue, addition to the company's website, especially considering the hundreds of possible variations. In fact, teas … | Continue reading
Real estate managing tool OneRent announced yesterday that it sealed a $4 million funding deal with early-stage VC Renren, Inc. The investment will be used to hire new personnel and expand to six new cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington, DC. OneRent, which cur … | Continue reading
Google is announcing today the launch of Android Experiments I/O Challenge, a short program to encourage the submission of cool new open-source Android apps to the Android Experiments program that Google introduced last year. Google has racked up apps in its online gallery since … | Continue reading
Over 30 million Americans have used an online dating service or mobile dating app, according to Pew Research Center. Yet Black online users face apparent bias: Data collected from 25 million OkCupid accounts demonstrated that when users rated their matches they penalized Black me … | Continue reading
Badoo is today launching photo-verification and verified profiles to make online dating safer. Most folks don’t know that Badoo is the silent giant in online dating. Globally, the 10-year-old company is bigger than any other online dating platform, including OkCupid, Match.com, e … | Continue reading
Die Gaming-Plattform Valve hat die CAD-Pläne für ihren Steam Controller online gestellt, damit Spieler (vorausgesetzt, sie haben Zugang zu einem 3D-Drucker) ihr ganz eigenes, individuelles Zubehör für den Controller gestalten k... | Continue reading
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Cybercriminals have stolen data from Verizon's enterprise unit and have put it up for sale online. According to security journalist Brian Krebs, the data was stolen from Verizon Enterprise Solutions, a Verizon business unit that provides IT services to major companies, and which … | Continue reading
Linking your online and offline marketing strategies via email marketing can be an effective strategy to streamline your marketing efforts, share information, and ultimately drive more sales. | Continue reading
Samsung wants to change its internal culture to make the 300,000-person company operate more like a startup. Executives are planning to sign a pledge to pivot the company away from its traditional corporate structure to a more open working environment, Reuters reports. Changes wi … | Continue reading
Capcom has dated its big March update for Street Fighter 5, with a patch arriving on March 28th that will introduce features such as Challenge Mode, 8 player lobbies and an online rematch option. Shortly afterwards, on March 30th, another update lands that will introduce Street F … | Continue reading
With nearly 70 percent of American’s shopping online at least once monthly, it’s safe to say that our online Amazon binges are officially a “thing.” Unfortunately, another “thing” that’s quickly pervading the online shopping world is the fear and uncertainty that comes with enter … | Continue reading
In 2016, it’s remarkably hard to buy something anonymously. Bitcoin would be the easiest way, but most places don’t accept it. Even walking into a store and paying cash, there’s a decent chance you’ll be asked for your name and zip code. Paying online is even harder. Use a credit … | Continue reading
Hitman developer IO Interactive has finally commented on how its episodic game handles saving.When Hitman's first episode launched, fans were surprised to discover that Hitman's saves made while online were incompatible with those made offline.This means if you play online and fo … | Continue reading
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How does your city sound? That’s a question a group of researchers are trying to answer with a new project called Chatty Maps. The site, which features aerial views of London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Boston mines Flickr for geo-located tags that feature words that can be … | Continue reading
If you’re in the market for a smaller iPhone or iPad Pro, Apple has now opened preorders for its more demure devices — the 4″ iPhone SE and 9.7″ iPad Pro — just as it announced it would earlier this week. Unveiled at an event on Monday, the iPhone SE is similar to the iPhone […] | Continue reading
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Apple has begun accepting pre-orders for its new 4-inch iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro online in 12 countries. Both devices are now available in Apple’s Web stores for customers in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, … | Continue reading
Kreditech — the German startup that offers loans and other financial services to consumers who have little or no credit history by using some 20,000 data points online to assess their suitability — has added another $11 million (€10 million) to its Series C round of funding. This … | Continue reading
Dublin-based currency exchange marketplace CurrencyFair has raised €8 million (about $8.9 million) in a new funding round led by Octopus Ventures and appointed new chief marketing officer Nils Andén. New investor Proxy Ventures and previous investor Frontline Ventures also partic … | Continue reading
Mexico is an intensely social country, both online and offline. While overall internet uptake during the past decade has remained subdued, social media adoption and engagement among connected consumers has remained strong. | Continue reading
Google may be developing a way to make live streaming on YouTube much easier. VentureBeat reports that the company is working on a new mobile app called YouTube Connect that would offer similar functionality to the likes of Periscope and Facebook Live by letting users stream onli … | Continue reading
After an uber-successful theater run, ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ is just two short weeks away from Blu-ray and DVD release on April 5. But, as usual, waiting is hard, and pirating is… well… not. Pirates are off to an early start by downloading the film an estimated 250,000 ti … | Continue reading
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Multiple reports claiming to detail Nintendo's NX controller have surfaced online this week, the latest two of which include photos apparently of the console pad. Today's alleged "leak" is the the third time we have seen suggestion the NX's controller will have an oval form facto … | Continue reading