Huawei is on the cusp of greatness, but nothing is set in stone just yet. Will Huawei have another great year? Can this Chinese company establish itself in the West? What challenges await it in 2016? | Continue reading
It's been just over a year since Digit launched its powerful automated savings plan, which painlessly saves a few dollars at a time from your checking account to help you pay down debt or save for major purchases. Aside from adding interest payments, the service hasn't changed mu … | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Manu Mahajan and I'm a software engineer with Keen IO's Platform team. Over the past year... | Continue reading
London-based health startup Yomp, which raised $315,000 (£200,000) from five angel investors last year, set out to be a heath and wellness platform which ‘gamified’ company employees into healthy habits, thus increasing productivity, reducing absenteeism, you know the drill. It’s … | Continue reading
Last year, Google Ventures launched a website focused on the concept of a five-day design sprint – a process for companies to help focus and define their core product and goals. Today, the site is now followed up with its long-awaited book, appropriately named ‘Sprint: How to Sol … | Continue reading
While most people try to avoid that panic feeling that accompanies a dying smartphone battery, attendees at this year's South by Southwest may find themselves hoping for the redThat's because smartphone accessory maker Mophie is once again enlisting a fleet of adorable St. Bernar … | Continue reading
It’s a new year and we have some fresh faces for TechCrunch — faces whose interests run the gamut from robotics to venture to gadgets and photography to science to transportation and beyond.First up, Lora Kolodny joins us as Emerging Technologies Editor later this month. Lora was … | Continue reading
Last year we reported that Truecaller — the popular, smart phonebook app and startup — was looking to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. But while there has been no development on that front, the startup has been on a consolidation kick as it aims to become cash-flow p … | Continue reading
This one's been a long time coming. Last year, we reviewed Intel's Skylake-based Core i7 6700K and lauded its brutally fast gaming performance, where its combination of architectural improvements plus higher levels of memory bandwidth translated into tangibly faster, smoother gam … | 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
Car manufacturer Ford announced earlier this year that it was ramping up its self-driving car testing. What it didn’t mention was that the company is at least looking into the idea of turning those vehicles into mobile movie theaters. Yes, Ford has filed a patent for an “Autonomo … | Continue reading
Skype Translator is still in preview mode after around a year and a half in beta – and four years in development – but the team has announced a new milestone for its real-time natural language processing tool as Arabic goes live on the service. Along with Chinese, Arabic is one o … | Continue reading
Let’s Encrypt’s SSL certificate service launch marked a milestone for the open Web last year when it became the first major service to offer valid certificates for free. Now, just a few months past general availability, the group has passed more than 1 million issued certificates … | Continue reading
500 Startups announced today that the launch of a $10 million micro-fund that will invest solely on Vietnamese startups. It’s the latest in a series of such investment vehicles the Silicon Valley-based accelerator program has created in the past year. The organization plans to fu … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s Skype introduced launched its real-time translation feature out of beta about half a year ago and today it is adding Arabic — and more specifically, Modern Standard Arabic — as its eighth supported language. As the Skype team told a small group of reporters at a press … | Continue reading
Following a major breach of its systems in which hackers stole 700,000 US taxpayers’ records in 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) attempted to tighten security last week by issuing people personal identification numbers (PINs). The trouble is that this new authentication m … | Continue reading
Next year will mark a major milestone for ad spending, as total digital surpasses TV for the first time, eMarketer predicts. In 2017, TV ad spending will total $72.01 billion, or 35.8% of total media ad spending in the US. Meanwhile, total digital ad spending in 2017 will equal $ … | Continue reading
Microsoft's popular database software SQL Server is coming to Linux and will be available sometime next year. This is the first time that Microsoft has let SQL Server run on a platform other than Windows — it's a notable shift that means Microsoft is now prioritizing the sale of … | Continue reading
One of gaming’s most beloved niche publishers wants to sell itself … to its fans and employees. Paradox Interactive, the publisher responsible for critically acclaimed grand-strategy game releases like Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV, has begun the process to present … | Continue reading
Peeple, the notorious people-rating app that went viral last year for all the wrong reasons, has landed in the App StoreOften billed as "Yelp for people," the app — which launched on iOS Monday — lets you rate people you know on a 1-to-5 star scale professionally, personally or r … | Continue reading
Microsoft’s SQL Server is coming to Linux early next year as the company preps SQL Server 2016 for a late-2016 launch. Today, the company is previewing a SQL Server for Linux that features the core relational database features of SQL Server 2016. The aim is to allow companies to … | Continue reading
Music listeners are cheapskates. Few will pay Spotify or Apple $10 a month even to stream almost every song ever. Meanwhile, radio services Pandora hardly scrape by on the meager ad rates after they pay out royalties. So if Pandora wants to resuscitate the battered corpse of Rdio … | Continue reading
A 99 million-year-old baby chameleon was found in a lump of amber in Myanmar, according to a study published in Science Advances on Friday. That makes it the oldest known chameleon fossil ever discovered, researchers say. Because of its age, the lizard is being referred to as a " … | Continue reading
When 4chan founder Christopher Poole (better known on the internet as moot) announced he was retiring from the Web community, many wondered what to expect next. Over one year later, we have our answer. Via a blog post, Poole has announced that he is joining Google in an undisclos … | Continue reading
One of the great ironies of the cloud computing age is that the five to ten year old laptop gathering dust in your desk drawer probably has more horsepower than a top of the line Chromebook which just hit the market. That means you can take a long dormant unit out of retirement a … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Michael Carter-Williams will have surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The Milwaukee Bucks will have to finish the season without the services of Michael Carter-Williams. The third-year point guard is scheduled for season-ending surgery on th … | Continue reading
At least four major video game publishers have dropped out of the show floor for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the giant gaming extravaganza held each year in Los Angeles in June. This likely forces the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group that organizes … | Continue reading
Confirming reports from earlier this year, which spoke of a forthcoming revamp of the Facebook Messenger application for Android devices, Facebook today began rolling out a new, Material Design-styled version of Messenger on Android to all users worldwide. The updated application … | Continue reading
This year, more money will be spent on political ads – $11.4 billion – than ever before. According to Borrell Associates around $1 billion of that will be spent on digital media, and half of that on social media. Compare that digital media spend to the $22.25 million spent in 200 … | Continue reading
Augmented reality and virtual reality investment reached $1.1 billion in the first 2 months of this year, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. That figure is impressive because it beats the $686 million in AR/VR investments for all of 2015, and this is the first time that AR/V … | Continue reading
We’re now a year into the White House’s TechHire initiative to help more Americans qualify for better, higher-paying tech jobs regardless of their pedigree. The verdict so far? TechHire has seen solid traction, but evaluating this effort through a short-term lens misses the point … | Continue reading
Rebellion is prepping an all-new Sniper Elite, with the fourth instalment in the World War 2 series coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year. Set in Italy in 1943, the new Sniper Elite makes a break from the last generation of hardware, offering up larger maps in … | Continue reading
In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 600, is one of the country’s premier startup events. Read More | Continue reading
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Jimmy Kimmel will host the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards this year, Deadline reports. Kimmel has hosted the television-centric awards show once before, in 2012. Continue reading… | Continue reading
After a 13-year run, the final episode of MythBusters' final season aired this weekend, and a reunion special featured a goodbye from a few special guests. President Barack Obama himself recorded a farewell to the show's hosts, sharing some memories and thanking them for "inspiri … | Continue reading
Millennials are now the majority. This year, the 18-to 34-year-old millennial generation (or Gen Y) is set to overtake Baby Boomers as the largest living generation, with 75.3 million versus 74.9 million Boomers, according to Pew. They are also the largest generational group in t … | Continue reading
With the year zipping by at a healthy clip already, it’s easy to get caught up in the little things in life that suck all your time. Like work, chores, having fun, looking after your kids, painting the fence and everything else that a weekend throws up. And while they all have th … | Continue reading
It began with a simple idea: to offer the German public a convenient way to order shoes online. Fresh out of business school – and unhindered by an unsuccessful attempt at a social media startup – Robert Gentz and David Schneider founded Zalando. Seven years later and their compa … | Continue reading
Red Bull has announced that the UK round of its Air Race World Championship event series will return to Ascot for the third consecutive year from 13-14 August. | Continue reading
Mobile video accounted for a majority of all mobile data traffic in Russia last year—and one researcher estimates that by 2020, three-quarters of all mobile traffic will come from video viewing. | Continue reading
Since 2007, London-based Mubi has quietly built a reputation as a stellar streaming service for serious film lovers. While Netflix has grabbed the headlines, Mubi has survived and thrived, snagging a recent valuation of $125 million and sweeping into China ahead of its much-large … | Continue reading
It’s being predicted that by the end of this year, mobile payment transactions in the U.S. will grow 210 percent. Despite this impressive gain, it turns out that not everyone is taking advantage of mobile payments. Why aren’t more people enjoying the convenience and ease of mobil … | Continue reading
China has a massive mobile gaming market, but it’s not a viable option if you’re a Western developer. That could change if Google returns to the world’s most populous country. Smartphone and tablet gaming generated $5.5 billion in spending from Chinese players last year, accordin … | Continue reading
A year ago, the design-focused software firm Autodesk announced it would stop selling its standalone perpetual licenses of its desktop software, and early last month, it began implementing that switch, a move that will be complete by mid-year, when the company’s older products wi … | Continue reading
Let's admit it: emoji is one of the best things that has ever happened to the iPhone.Seriously, what would life be like without the ability to quickly show someone solidarity or express tears of joy?See also: Why 2015 was the year of emojiAlthough iOS has a solid built-in emoji k … | Continue reading
The bitcoin block size debate is the classic example for the term “running around in circles”. Those of us who have been following thins know very well that the debate about increasing the block size has been going on for almost a year now and yet we do not have any results to sh … | Continue reading
Ready or not, USB-C is the port of the future. There weren't many devices with the new, tiny, reversible USB-C port this time last year, but that's quickly changing.Joining Apple's new MacBook and Google's Chromebook Pixel 2 are Dell's XPS 12, XPS 13, XPS 15 and Latitude 7000 ser … | Continue reading