Purity has been appointed as the official event staff supplier for BMW and Mini over the next three years, following a competitive pitch. | Continue reading
FastMail, an email service offering paid email accounts for individuals and organizations has silently been accepting bitcoin payments for premium upgrade via BitPay. Since its launch 17 years ago in 1999, FastMail has continued its legacy as one of the most prominent privacy and … | Continue reading
Quantum Break is a big new video game from Microsoft for the PC and Xbox One. Remedy worked on this time-travel shooter game for five years. It is perhaps the biggest new original game that Microsoft has coming for the Xbox One, and its success or failure will help or hinder Micr … | Continue reading
After ten years of waiting, Tesla has revealed the Model 3, the vehicle that CEO Elon Musk hopes will take the electric car to the masses.At the unveiling of the Model 3 this evening at the company's design studio in Hawthorne, California, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the car will de … | Continue reading
And there it is. After years of speculation, the Tesla Model 3 has been unveiled. We’re live in Hawthorne, CA, where the company has just shown the car for the very first time. Story actively developing; refresh for updates as we hear them. Curiously, they’ve actually said no big … | Continue reading
55% of the startups in the US are not in existence only after 5 years and here are 56 reasons why startups fail presented in an infographic | Continue reading
While we're still several years away from truly autonomous cars, that doesn't mean your car can't be a little smarter about how you get from point A to point B.BMW debuted Connected, its new app for car owners that learns your habits over time and is able to predict driving direc … | Continue reading
Here we go again. It’s April Fools’ Day, and like every year, Google is doing its best to outdo itself. This is the first year the company is doing so under its new Alphabet parent company, so we’ll see if that has any impact. But if the jokes are anything like in previous years, … | Continue reading
Given the health risks of carrying a smartphone (or any kind of mobile device) too close to the body for extended periods, I try to always remove electronic devices from my pockets whenever I can. For ten years this has … Continue reading → | Continue reading
After years of rumors, Tesla will unveil the Model 3 tonight. At a target price of $35,000 before incentives, the Model 3 is meant to be Tesla’s first car affordable by those of us (read: most of us) who can’t drop $70-$100k on a Model S or $80-$130k for a Model X. Besides the pr … | Continue reading
As interns at Nudge, we thought it would be interesting to write about the history of the company. To make it more personal we held interviews with the people working here. The Formative Years Young & Shand is a digital marketing company from New Zealand founded by Ben Young and … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Gant - Never Stop Learning Source: Inside Hook Why we like it: Introduced with an engaging story-building video, followed by an article with styling tips and links to purchase. This New York Lifestyle Guide, presented by GANT in InsideHook, is fun, well bran … | Continue reading
For a product line that starts around $300, Dyson fans, vacuums, and humidifiers have often been on the high end of the price spectrum – but it wasn’t until this week that it finally added a feature most other home gadgets have had for years: IoT integration. With its new Pure Co … | Continue reading
Google today announced the first Chromebase for Meetings device, from Acer. It’s a desktop computer designed exclusively for videoconferencing. It costs $799, and it’s available from Google’s partners in U.S, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. It will become available in mor … | Continue reading
Hajime Tabata wants to put Final Fantasy back on top.As the director of Final Fantasy XV, Tabata has a difficult task ahead of him. While the Final Fantasy name is still well known, over the years it has lost much of its luster, and more recent releases haven’t captured the imagi … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Within two years, a relatively unknown company called Machine Zone has exploded to become one of the largest mobile gaming companies in the world, all on the back of a single successful mobile game, Game of War. The company’s CEO, Gabe Leydon, has since become one of th … | Continue reading
This is it: after years of hype, Tesla Motors is scheduled to pull the covers off of its Model 3 electric car at the company's facility in Hawthorne, California this evening at 8:30PM Pacific Time. Unlike the Model S sedan, the new Model X crossover, and the seminal Roadster, the … | Continue reading
We've been talking about what Nintendo is going to do when it comes to smartphones for quite literally years now, and while Miitomo has been soft launched in Japan for a couple weeks now, it's finally available in the US App Store. Something to keep in mind before downloading Mii … | Continue reading
It has been a tough couple of years for Ross Ulbricht and his family. In mid-2015, Ross Ulbricht learned his fate for his involvement in Silk Road (which was futilely appealed). The Silk Road, as readers may remember, was an online black market that featured everything from guns … | Continue reading
Last few places remaining for hands-on oral history training with SarahLowryLearn how to: interview people; use an audio recorder; record with a phone;work with oral history materials; advanced recording techniques; contributeto a community archive of Stave Hill marking 30 Years … | Continue reading
It's finally happening: the first big Final Fantasy in years has a release date. At a lavish event in Los Angeles this evening, developer Square Enix revealed that Final Fantasy XV will launch on September 30th. It had previously been pegged for some time this year, and the game … | Continue reading
Dyson shot to fame for its bagless vacuum cleaners more than two decades ago, and in the intervening years the U.K. company has launched everything from hand-dryers and heaters to washing machines and air multipliers. Exactly a year ago today, Dyson launched its first ever air pu … | Continue reading
It’s something I have experienced firsthand — the power of a team over the power of one. For many years I worked as a freelancer, running my own business. In many ways, it was great. For a start, I was the lead editor in my own little empire. But I was also the motion graphics... | Continue reading
It's been nearly three years since Microsoft said that retail Xbox Ones would also function as dev kits, but that dreams is finally being realised this summ… | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has, in recent years, done a fairly good job of moving its Windows 10 and Xbox gaming platforms closer together, but mostly in favor of the console and console games.That may be changing with the next big Windows update — the Windows Anniversary Update — … | Continue reading
During a talk at Microsoft’s Build conference, the company responded to criticism that it was moving to close down the open PC platform. Terry Myerson, executive vice president for Windows and Devices at Microsoft, said during the opening keynote that the platform has been open f … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe we've been celebrating Pencil Day for 158 years now, but for some people, it's better than Christmas. If you're looking for some great iOS games to play while you partake in Pencil Day festivities, you're also in luck as the iOS gaming gods have blasted the A … | Continue reading
Say goodbye to support@uber.com, the email address used by drivers and passengers to report everything from lost bags to fishy-looking fares to fisticuffs spurred by lost bags or fishy-looking fares. The company is mothballing the email address it has used for six years, and repl … | Continue reading
For a game that's been in the works for many, many years, we know surprisingly little about Final Fantasy XV — but that's about to change. Tonight, starting at 7PM PT / 10PM ET, developer Square Enix will be hosting an hour-long event called "Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV," which i … | Continue reading
Fantastical is back with a huge update on OS X. There are ton of new things, like native Exchange support, checking your coworkers’ availability, notifications for shared calendars in iCloud, printable calendars and more. But enough with the release notes, and let’s talk about ca … | Continue reading
Yahoo has been the media’s whipping boy for years now. But that could all change as the company begins a fire sale of its key assets. After months of prolonged pressure from Starboard, Yahoo’s activist investor, to sack the people in charge, the company has given would be suitors … | Continue reading
Technology companies have faced years’ worth of criticism for being behind the times in dealing with political pressure. Unlike other, more old-line industries that saw regulations, taxing and spending policy and government contracts as critical to their success, tech has not bee … | Continue reading
Trading bitcoin seems like an interesting Idea and there hasn’t actually ever been a platform offering that kind of service. A few years ago, there were no trading Brokers dealing with bitcoins, and you wouldn’t be able to find any other than traditional Brokers who basically of … | Continue reading
Parrot has been a pioneer in the drone industry. The company started working on drones nearly ten years ago before it was cool. That’s why we’re glad to announce that Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux will join us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt New York on May 9-11, 2016. Read … | Continue reading
Microsoft returns to San Francisco today to hold its Build 2016 developers conference. It’s an annual event that’s designed to give software developers a better understanding of what Microsoft is planning for the rest of the year. In previous years we’ve seen some pretty big anno … | Continue reading
Despite a slight decline over the last four years, research by Deloitte tells us that 75 percent of smartphone users still make phone calls, and BIA/Kelsey estimates that mobile search will generate 73 billion calls to businesses in 2018, up from 30 billion in 2013. So with a sol … | Continue reading
For over two years, Google has been sending people into further flung places to capture as much of the earth as it can for its Street View service.Not everywhere can be captured by car, so intrepid trekkers are sent out on foot with a special backpack with a 360-degree camera.In … | Continue reading
Vodafone will remain the headline sponsor of Capital's Summertime Ball for the next three years after signing an agreement with Global, the station's owner. | Continue reading
Ryuichi 'Woshige' Shigeno had been waiting for more than a decade to fight Ken-ichi 'Ogawazato' Ogawa on a tournament stage when he heard that he'd drawn, as he puts it today, the "match of his dreams." When he was 13-years-old, Shigeno played in his first Japanese national video … | Continue reading
Smartphone penetration in France has steadily grown quarter by quarter over the past two years. In Q4 2013, 64.1% of internet users in France were smartphone users; in Q4 2014, that figure rose to 66.0%; and in Q4 2015 69.2% of internet users were also smartphone users. | Continue reading
Our team has been active as investors in the Internet of Things and hardware space over the past two years. We’ve read pitches from hundreds of companies, met with dozens, read hundreds of research reports and spoken with various experts. We’ve invested in six IoT/hardware compan … | Continue reading
With Strata + Hadoop World kicking off, it’s always fascinating to step back and look at the contents of the sessions as a way of understanding what’s happening in the world of Big Data.For those of you who have attended this conference for the more than five years that the event … | Continue reading
Economic experts are trying to figure out a question that just two decades ago seemed ridiculous: If 90 percent of human jobs are replaced by robots in the next 50 years — something now considered plausible — is capitalism still the ideal economic system to champion? No one is ce … | Continue reading
A couple months back, we reported that Google was testing a home phone service called ‘Fiber Phone’ — a service it could bundle with TV and internet to create that ever-so-profitable “triple play” that telecoms have been profiting from for years. Today, Google announced that it w … | Continue reading
When you’re new to coding, it can be hard to know where to start, and it’s easy to get sucked down paths that could waste a whole lot of…Continue reading on Medium » | Continue reading
Microsoft isn’t doing so hot in mobile. That’s been its unfortunate story for years, as it’s played catch-up to Google and Apple ever since Windows Phone 7 launched in 2010. There’s plenty to blame: entering the game late, featuring underpowered hardware, missing features and a l … | Continue reading
Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.But now, someone has programmed Super Mario World from within the game - while playing it - so it transforms into a completely different and entirely functioning other game, Flap … | Continue reading
San Francisco has long been hailed the home of the tech startup — the place to be for entrepreneurs looking to lay the foundation for the next big thing. As a mobile app platform with high aspirations, we joined the mix, sharing an area code for four years with the lauded enginee … | Continue reading