Every advertiser wants to know where its customers, and potential customers, are spending time online. Social networks in particular are a focus for marketers keen to monitor the current buzz. | Continue reading
EVE Online is one of those games I wish I had time to play, but I've sort of reached a point in my life where I just don't have it in me anymore to get involved in a super-complex PC MMORPG. Well, at GDC we ran into the guys from Blackjack Studio, who are working | Continue reading
Stronghold Kingdoms is a massive online strategy free to play game which previously was only available on the PC which is on the fast track to mobile devices. Cooler yet, the whole thing is going to be totally cross platform. Effectively, the game already exists and it's getting … | Continue reading
You matched with someone online. He's interesting to text with, uses the right amount of emoji, and just asked you to your favorite coffee place. But then he showed up in a "Make America Great Again" t-shirt, and you have a Bernie 2016 bumper sticker on the back of your Prius. Aw … | Continue reading
Back in January of 2014 reports surfaced that the video network Machinima was paying YouTubers to include footage of the Xbox in their reviews and commentary. As part of the deal, video creators were allegedly told not to reveal the payments, positioning the footage as independen … | Continue reading
Multi-channel network Fullscreen has acquired StageBloc to extend the musician-centric digital marketing company’s services to its group of creators. Financial terms were not disclosed, but StageBloc’s team and technology are both included in the deal. Started in 2013 by Tom Gile … | Continue reading
DMM.com, an online entertainment platform that has 19 million users will enable its users to make purchases on the website with bitcoin. The feature is already active to millions of Japanese after being initiated on March 1, 2016. With 19 million users, DMM.com is among the top 2 … | Continue reading
Alongside Netflix, YouTube is the biggest name in online video, and today it's being added to T-Mobile's Binge On plan, which allows streaming from partner services without it counting against users' data caps. T-Mobile chief John Legere announced the news in a video on Twitter, … | Continue reading
Marketing Strategy - More than two-thirds of online marketers are men, and that proportion is even higher in many technical roles, according to a report from Moz. | Continue reading
lastminute.de: München (ots) - Von stilvollen Farbkombinationen zum verrückten colour blocking: Ostern ist farbenfroh - und dieses Jahr sind nicht nur die Ostereier bunt, sondern auch ganze Hotelzimmer. lastminute.de, der Experte für Online Reise und Freizeit, hat ... | Continue reading
Indiegogo-Unterstützer können von Jolla jetzt das Geld für das gescheiterte Tablet-Projekt über ein Online-Formular zurückfordern. Das muss bis zum 16. April, also innerhalb eines Monats geschehen, schreibt Jolla im hauseig... | Continue reading
(Reuters) – U.S. officials will travel to Brussels this week to drum up support for a transatlantic data transfer pact agreed last month that will facilitate billions of dollars worth of online business but which must overcome European regulators’ concerns over privacy protection … | Continue reading
Well, it's finally here. We've been speculating for years what Nintendo is going to do on mobile, and we now live in a world where there's a real Nintendo app on the App Store. Miitomo [Free] is currently available in Japan only, but its worldwide release will presumably follow r … | Continue reading
The integration of offline to online as well as online to offline is a fascinating new frontier for marketers. | Continue reading
While South by Southwest is a festival that examines a lot of things — new technology, up-and-coming trends, and big questions about the future of film, music and technology — rarely do attendees get the opportunity to see a battle that was sparked and largely fought online play … | Continue reading
In the world of Gamergate, empathy isn’t allowed, the harassment women face online is exaggerated, and online abuse doesn't cause real-world harm. And that’s exactly what was heard at the SXSW "SavePoint" panel yesterday. In one of the same rooms that housed SXSW’s day-long anti- … | Continue reading
Subgraph OS launched in public alpha at the weekend’s tech and democracy-focused Logan CIJ Symposium and got an endorsement from Ed Snowden – stamping it with some promise that it could be our future answer to an insecure online world. “The internet is more hostile than its ever … | Continue reading
Customers complain about companies and their products and services more than ever. With a smartphone, they can complain online from almost anywhere and at any time; there’s no cooling off period now after a customer feels offended. Aggrieved customers can spread their comments qu … | Continue reading
Einige sehr große Nachrichten-Websites wurden Opfer eines Malwaretising-Angriffes mit dem Angler Exploit Kit und lieferten kompromittierte Online-Anzeigen aus. Ziel waren vor allem Nutzer aus den USA. Die manipulierten Werbeanzeigen wurden un... | Continue reading
Online retail giant Overstock announced it will issue public shares of company stock on its tØ blockchain platform. | Continue reading
Online advertising is one of those subjects that we can rely on to get almost everyone to roll their eyes. And lately, it seems that investors have become skeptical, too.Still, you can’t understand the business of many big, consumer Internet companies without understanding advert … | Continue reading
If you're not using video content in your marketing strategy, now's the time to start. By 2017, video will make up 69% of all online consumer traffic. | Continue reading
Game engine Unity has a bit of a bad rap for its graphical power - or lack thereof.But there's a new short film, Adam, which has been rendered in real-time using Unity that may change some people's perception.The short's first section is available now to watch online - you can se … | Continue reading
CrowdStreet, a management tool for real estate investors, announced today that it closed a $3.5 million investment led by Rally Ventures. The series A funds will be used to further develop CrowStreet’s technology and build new partnerships, the startup said. The Portland company … | Continue reading
Letzte Woche konnten wir einen schnellen Blick auf das VR-Experiment von Industrial Light & Magic werfen, jetzt ist der Trailer zu "Trials on Tatooine" auch absichtlich online: RoadtoVR hat ihn veröffentlicht, bei uns seht ihr ihn nach dem... | Continue reading
So many aspects can be taken into account when it comes to reader engagement. It really depends on what type of blog it is for and who the target audiences are. Teenagers will find reading material online in a much different way that an elderly lade. So keep in mind that you will … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has another hit franchise in its stable. The publisher revealed today that its online shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division has had best first week ever for a new games franchise. Previously, its opening day sales were the best in the company’s history. According to Ubisoft, … | Continue reading
Esports are about to do the dinosaur. Developer Studio Wildcard revealed Ark: Survival of the Fittest, a spinoff based on its online game Ark: Survival Evolved, and it’s out today via Steam (with a console release date to be determined). It’s calling Survival of the Fittest a mul … | Continue reading
Traffic sucks? No conversions? Stuck in a rut? We’ve all been there. Marketing your business online is hard and requires a lot of upkeep to keep it running like a machine. If you aren’t getting the results you want, you are probably committing one or more of these things below. D … | Continue reading
David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Dashlane is a password management service that helps users keep track of their passwords, as well as helping with safe online transactions through a Dashlane digital wal … | Continue reading
Well, that was short-lived. It was only in October that I outed the then stealthy Valk Fleet, a new food delivery and logistics startup from European online take-out behemoth Delivery Hero. However, the short-lived company has announced that it is closing down as part of a reorga … | Continue reading
Influencer marketing has emerged as one of the most successful online PR and marketing strategies. Various studies illustrate the effectiveness of influencer marketing. Marketers who implemented an influencer marketing program in the first half of 2015 received $9.60 in earned me … | Continue reading
Whether you’re building an app or running an online store, analytics can help you figure out what your users are trying to achieve and how you can serve them better. To that end, Google has launched a new set of enterprise-grade tools to help marketers gain insights about their c … | Continue reading
Advertising is one beast that Apple hasn’t really been able to tame as it’s grown its tech empire. Now it’s about to borrow a technique first pioneered online by the likes of Buzzfeed and Upworthy: native in-feed posts, advertorial in old media terms, within its aggregated News a … | Continue reading
LendInvest, a peer-to-peer online mortgage platform, has closed a £17m (about $24 million) Series B funding round from Atomico, the tech VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström, Skype’s co-founder. The raise, which brings the company’s total institutional funding to over £200m (about … | Continue reading
African nations have some of the highest gender gaps in digital access and smartphone ownership, according to a February 2016 report. Even where overall access is very low, men are more likely than women to be online. | Continue reading
Amazon wants you to be able to authorize a transaction with a selfie, so now you’ll have to make sure you’re looking halfway decent when you’re doing some late-night, online shopping.Amazon’s patent application for this technology, first seen by Re/Code, was filed Thursday. The p … | Continue reading
The first test of the Australian government's new site blocking law began in Sydney Tuesday, with two entertainment companies seeking to block access to multiple foreign torrent sites. The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill, which became law in June 2015, allows copyr … | Continue reading
Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online services using the widely used SAML standard. Today, Google is adding a few new options to this … | Continue reading
It seems Microsoft is jumping off the Bitcoin bandwagon.The company's online store has quietly announced — via a FAQ update — that it's no longer accepting the cryptocurrency. SEE ALSO: The Bitcoin blockchain: Could it be the biggest invention since the Internet?"You can no longe … | Continue reading
"If you don't know who Slenderman is, you're living under a rock," remarks one of the dozens of teens appearing in YouTube videos that are excerpted in Beware the Slenderman. It's the first hint that the documentary is going to try to do the impossible:€” explain the internet, an … | Continue reading
Last month, Capcom took action against 30 Street Fighter 5 rage quitters, resetting their League Points and, as a result, dumping them back down the online ranking system.One of those affected was Japanese player "World_Combo", who had been accused of rage quitting his way to top … | Continue reading
The Division is the UK's biggest ever game launch during the first three months of any year.The online shooter's arrival last week was the biggest Q1 debut for any game since previous record holder, PS2 racer Gran Turismo 4 back in 2005.Ubisoft previously said that The Division w … | Continue reading
The origin story of SXSW's Online Harassment Summit is not a pretty one, and it informed the tone of the event months ahead of time. SXSW canceled a panel called "Level Up: Overcoming Harassment in Gaming" in October after it received "numerous threats of on-site violence." An ou … | Continue reading
Are you a designer and struggling to promote yourself online? Online portfolios (like Dribble and Behance) are a great way to get the word out! Read on to find more about them. | Continue reading
Representative Katherine Clark (D-MA) has announced a new federal bill to ramp up cybercrime enforcement training for police departments and create a national resource center that hosts a cybercrime-specific library. Clark announced the bill at a SXSW panel about how law enforcem … | Continue reading
Online lending platform EZBob Ltd has raised £20m (about $28.3 million) in Series C funding in a round led by Leumi Partners and Oaktree Capital Management. According to statement, the company will use the new funds to increase its lending capacity and continue to develop its tec … | Continue reading
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed a new set of rules that would set strict limits on what data ISPs can gather and sell about their customers. | Continue reading