Brand journalism helps marketers keep up with both the speed at which technology moves and the way in which consumers want to be communicated with. | Continue reading
Last year's Galaxy S6 Edge proved to be quite a big seller at the expense of the standard S6. Will history repeat this year, too? It's all up to you! | Continue reading
Wonderful diagram of @adrianco Microservices talk at #OOP2016 by @remarker_eu If you li... | Continue reading
It’s not always easy as a tech company to make yourself relevant to every single big public event. But Google has had a pretty nice go at shoehorning itself into the Oscars this year by letting you travel through a winning movie’s story using Maps. Can you guess which films they’ … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Fire Emblem: Fates is a hit, we learn more about the Iron Maiden mobile game, and Nintendo cuts its 2016 earnings guidance. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Nine memorable moments fr … | Continue reading
Zenefits is laying off around 17% of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales divisions, according to an email sent by CEO David Sacks to the company. Most of the layoffs are happening in the sales division, according to the email … | Continue reading
The long and bumpy road to the 88th annual Academy Awards is almost at an end, and Sunday's telecast of the ceremony is look to be just as interesting for what goes down on stage than on the actual awards outcome — maybe more so. With many prominent filmmakers and actors opting o … | Continue reading
FEATURE: We are now two decades removed from the start of the Pokémon fad, and I’m starting to think it is more than just a phase. Back in the late 1990s, it was difficult to understand why Pokémon caught on with so many people around the world. But with the benefit of 20 years o … | Continue reading
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app features a number of popular features including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system … | Continue reading
Swiss Army Knife creator and watchmaker Victorinox has partnered with Acer to create the INOX Cybertool, a smart watch attachment for a traditional watch. The Cybertool clips on to any Victorinox INOX watch (it won't work with other traditional watches) and won't cover up the wat … | Continue reading
A few months ago, Google demonstrated a visualization tool that shows how its AI that mimics neural networks identifies objects in images. Applying it to photos and videos makes for some interesting effects that we’ve previously seen in video clips and our own snapshots. Now, you … | Continue reading
Watching Amazon's original shows like Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle typically requires a subscription to Amazon Prime, but as of today, there's an exception to that rule. As Recode notes, the company is letting anyone watch season three of The Fashion Fund — so long as the … | Continue reading
If you're looking for some insights from the recent Bitcoin Roundtable consensus, you're in the right place. | Continue reading
I've been spending a lot of time with TinyCo's Marvel Avengers Academy [Free] recently. What can I say? I have a documented weakness for Marvel fan-service, and this app really packs it in nicely. Now, there's not a whole lot of playing to be done here, since at its heart it's mo … | Continue reading
The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesfo … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Learn which marketing automation systems come out on top in our recent VB report covering the top 43 vendors — and hear how marketing leaders in the trenches are getting outstanding results with them. Register here for free. There’s no question that marketing automati … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues scratching out a non-committal path around $420 and 2800 CNY. Another attempt at advance is not out of the question, but the prospect of a labored decline looms. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Stephen Curry scores 51 points in Orlando HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Stephen Curry is following up his MVP season with … another MVP season. On Thursday, Curry set the record for most consecutive games with a 3-pointer and hit 10 of them for good measure. He’s currently 10 awa … | Continue reading
When you visit South Korea's capital in 2017, you can expect to hop onto free Wi-Fi in public spaces, including subway trains and buses.That's what the government promised this week, as part of a broader 460.5 billion won ($372.5 million) digital plan to get its people and busine … | Continue reading
Media relations is the traditional core of public relations. With the demise of print newspapers and the corresponding rise of digital alternatives, some public relations veterans say media relations is disappearing. Industry observers point to several trends. Print circulation c … | Continue reading
OnePlus has begun rolling out a hotfix for a camera image corruption bug that has been affecting some OnePlus X handsets. | Continue reading
As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe you can build a world-changing organization anywhere, but the job is always easier at your industry’s center of gravity. For fashion, i … | Continue reading
Last week, I heard a lot of smart people talking about the game industry at the DICE Summit, the elite game industry event in Las Vegas. After I got home, people kept asking me what the most interesting thing I heard was. I had to punt and say I couldn’t think of any single barn- … | Continue reading
Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.Henderson told GameBundle.com to give the 10 per cent of revenue promised to him by the company to video game charity Special Effect.La … | Continue reading
While most video games have a story to tell, the best tales are actually told by the players themselves. It's one thing to play an online shooter; it's another for someone to regale the time they randomly lobbed a grenade across the stage and won the game with half a point of lif … | Continue reading
There are auto shows, and then there is Geneva.This is the show of the state of the automotive art, a place where car companies flex their muscles and give us a sense of what it looks like when both engineering and design are pushed to the jagged limits of present-day technology. … | Continue reading
2016 is the year of Pokémon. Nintendo revealed Pokémon Sun and Moon today, the next entries in its popular series that has so far sold over 200 million games. We don’t know much about Sun and Moon yet, other than that it will come out worldwide this holiday. This announcement com … | Continue reading
Samsung phone owners will get the first new set of emoji since the S5 when the company releases the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge next month. Get ready, taco fans, unicorn lovers, and volleyball players because the release on March 8th will include all the emoji you’ll need to communicat … | Continue reading
Popcorntime.io, probably the most popular iteration of slippery movie piracy app Popcorn Time, is back — sort of. Earlier this week, part of the team apparently behind popcorntime.io announced a comeback, four months after being shut down and hit with a lawsuit from the MPAA. Lik … | Continue reading
The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the Flint River. That tragic mistake was the culmination of a much longer ongoing disaster, one caused by greed, politics, inc … | Continue reading
Human resources and insurance software startup Zenefits has announced that 250 employees are being made redundant, representing 17 percent of the company’s workforce. The news comes as Zenefits faces increasing scrutiny over the way it sells insurance policies to small businesses … | Continue reading
Apple has just made a big — and timely — hire, recruiting a developer behind encrypted messaging app Signal, perhaps best known for being Edward Snowden's chat app of choice. The developer, Frederic Jacobs, confirmed the news on Twitter:I'm delighted to announce that I accepted a … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch piece, we reiterated our Thursday evening comments – primarily focusing on the muted action we had seen in the bitcoin price throughout the Thursday evening session and, in turn, the Friday morning session in Europe. We were hoping that the s … | Continue reading
The Omni Foundation, developers behind the Omni Layer, the largest asset layer built on top of and secured by the Bitcoin blockchain have released OmniDex 1.0. The developers proclaim it as the “first true decentralized” cryptocurrency exchange. OmniDex also allows for the trustl … | Continue reading
The game and tech industry has heard a lot of chatter about diversity, recruiting women and minorities into development, and encouraging girls to become engineers. This kind of talk usually takes place on a high level, with chief executives like Brian Krzanich at Intel weighing i … | Continue reading
When it comes to new emoji, Samsung users are typically one of the last to receive updates including the latest batch approved by the Unicode Consortium. Finally, that’ll change. Today, the company has shown off some of the new emoji iOS and Android users have been enjoying for m … | Continue reading
If you have a decent gaming PC and you are torn between console or computer for Far Cry Primal, these screenshots should make the decision for you. Far Cry Primal is already available on consoles, but won't arrive on PC until March 1st. I've spent a couple hours touring the Windo … | Continue reading
As you've probably guessed from all the stories I write about Hearthstone, I enjoy a good CCG on my device. I like strategy games, and for me CCGs are a quick path to complex strategic play. Star Crusade: War for the Expanse, is an upcoming CCG that looks like it might hold its o … | Continue reading
Ab heute ist die neue Kooperation der Marken Sennheiser und Freitag erhältlich. Der Kopfhörer F703 bekommt in dieser auf 1.500 Stück limitierten Edition ein einzigartiges Freitag-Design. Man kennt die Taschen der Schweizer Marke, d... | Continue reading
In this hackathon in particular, we focus on concepts and business models rather than the development itself. by Fred Truyen, KU Leuven. The Photography hackathon “Hack your Photo Heritage” is taking place this weekend, hosted at the FabLab of KU Leuven in Heverlee (Belgium). Pe … | Continue reading
Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are expected to file a joint motion in support of Apple, as the company fights a ruling forcing it to bypass iPhone security. | Continue reading
Good news for everyone who constantly has to battle "not enough space" messages on their smartphone: Samsung has announced a 256GB flash embedded memory, aimed specifically for high-end mobile devicesBesides offering a lot of storage space — top smartphones today only go up to 12 … | Continue reading
At a brief online event today, Nintendo unveiled the next big Pokemon games: Sun and Moon. The two releases will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS in holiday 2016, and are the first major entries in the series since Pokemon X and Y in 2013. The titles for the games actually leaked ou … | Continue reading
Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which will launch for 3DS this year.The two games were announced just now in a Pokémon Direct broadcast from Nintendo.Pokémon celebrates its 20th anniversary this year - a perfect time, then, for a new generation of … | Continue reading
The time has never been better to enter IT: with demand for high-level security professionals rising as the evolution of malicious hackers intensifies. If IT and digital security interest you, TNW Deals has put together an offer to greatly improve your employability in a promisin … | Continue reading
The day has finally arrived: Mailbox, the once red-hot email startup, is no more. After nearly three years of helping us in our (often futile) quest for inbox zero, Dropbox has officially shut it down.Luckily, in those three years, email apps have come along way — thanks at least … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading