Facebook is working on a new tool to help stem one source of harassment on its platform.The social network is testing a new feature that will automatically alert you if it detects another user is impersonating your account by using your name and profile photoSee also: Sheryl Sand … | Continue reading
Today, the Department of Justice put out arrest warrants for two hackers linked to the Syrian Electronic Army. Ahmad Umar Agha and Firas Dardar are allegedly responsible for seven extortion attacks, including attacks on a gaming company and an online media outlet. As of today, th … | Continue reading
Doordash, the food delivery company that helps restaurants deliver food to their customers’ homes for a fee, has raised another $127 million in its third round of funding. The company just posted about the Series C funding today, after months of speculation that it was struggling … | Continue reading
The big question here is while iPhone owners may trade in every year or two, iPads are generally on a slower upgrade cycle; will the 9.7-inch iPad Pro change things? | Continue reading
Scottish craft beer brand Brewdog and Meantime Brewery are among the brands to feature at Castle Pubs' Craft Keg Fest, which is taking placing from 3 April to 26 June. | Continue reading
LeBron's locked in already. Now he's got to get the Cavs to, ahem, follow him. | Continue reading
Streaming is now the biggest revenue stream for the music industry in the US, generating $2.4 billion in 2015. The RIAA has released its report on the state of the US music industry in 2015, and streaming music has edged out digital downloads in revenue for the first time. After … | Continue reading
The Clintons didn’t try very hard to distance themselves from Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Instead, they graciously used her clout to raise money. Continue reading… | Continue reading
70 articles that will teach you how to promote your website and blog in 2016. Learn content promotion, SEO, social media marketing, and more. | Continue reading
On May 19, Prague will host Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Prague. The event will bring together blockchain developers and those who apply the technology in practice: financiers, bankers and businessmen. The event will consist of a conference, divided into two streams, and an ex … | Continue reading
You may have seen that some apps on the Google Play Store require "root" access to work. But what is root? Do you need it? Let's find out! | Continue reading
Disclosures - When, Where, and How to Use Them Disclosures within advertising are to inform the readers that the content they're about to read is an advertisement. Previously, Nudge created a whitepaper regarding disclosures and custom native ads, where the results were surprisi … | Continue reading
Hitman developer Io-Interactive is still navigating the waters of how to release a triple A game episodically and we've got some good news and bad news. The bad news first: the much touted Elusive Targets have been delayed until "closer to the planned release of the next episode" … | Continue reading
Music startup 8tracks has always had a strong sense of community. But the startup is taking this one step further by raising $30 million from its own community. Instead of asking money from venture capitalists, the company has started an equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest … | Continue reading
If you haven't played Nimian Legends: BrightRidge [$1.99] when it came out some time ago, you missed out on a lovely open world experience which was a commendable effort by its sole developer despite some issues (like repetitive music, for instance). The developer hasn't stopped … | Continue reading
A person with knowledge of the situation says Dallas Mavericks forward Chandler Parsons will have arthroscopic surgery for a meniscus tear in his right knee but might not be finished for the season. | Continue reading
In light of the recent attacks on European soil, US carriers are extending free service to those attempting to contact friends and loved ones in Belgium. | Continue reading
Nvidia continues to invest in its GeForce Now cloud-based streaming technology, which can deliver PC or console games to an Nvidia Shield set-top box in the living room. Instead of using a console or PC, the GeForce Now service executes the game in a web-connected data center and … | Continue reading
Marketing automation is becoming the system of record for modern marketers. Automation software makes a complicated system easier, it is not a substitute for a planned system. | Continue reading
HTC sent out invitations today for the unveiling of its 2016 flagship smartphone, which will be known as simply the HTC 10. The date for the launch event, to be held simultaneously in New York, London, and Taipei at 1 p.m. GMT on April 12, is not a complete surprise: It’s the sam … | Continue reading
Apple doesn’t like to talk about specs. But it turns out my boss Matthew Panzarino already has review units of the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. So nobody is going to stop us if we want to run Geekbench on these new devices. The result is both interesting and unsurprising. While th … | Continue reading
Star Ocean: Integrity & Faithlessness has been confirmed for a summer release in Europe and North America.The PS4-exclusive action-RPG follows the exploits of a man named Fidel who finds himself protecting a mysterious girl who's being hunted by unknown forces. Publisher Square E … | Continue reading
CUPERTINO, California — Apple customers looking to recycle iPhones will be awarded with a gift of thanks at retail stores, but don't expect to get credit to buy more stuff.As a part of a greater effort to help the environment and give old iPhones a second chance at life, the comp … | Continue reading
If it is too good to be true, then it probably is not true. Everyone should keep these words in mind whenever they are on a lookout for some investment opportunities. The same holds true for Bitcoin, for it has few additional drawbacks compared to centralized fiat currencies in t … | Continue reading
In an attempt to patent the term ‘Bitcoin’ in Russia, a Moscow-based firm called M-Group filed an application at the Russian patent office. The application was duly rejected. Rospatent, the Russian patent agency has recently confirmed the rejection of an application by a Moscow-b … | Continue reading
Although press releases have evolved, they have not disappeared; they remain a core public relations tool for businesses of all sizes. Polished publicity releases can be especially effective for smaller businesses and local businesses that don’t have outsize marketing budgets. … | Continue reading
A new service from the online wedding inspiration startup Loverly wants to put the capabilities of a wedding planner right in your pocket. Officially launching today, Loverly is unveiling a new chat-based “concierge” service that will send brides and grooms a list of vetted weddi … | Continue reading
Although Nintendo has continued to offer a wide range of programming for the Wii U — including but not limited to a sweet new ‘Starfox’ game — a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei indicates that this might be the last year of production for the four-year-old console. Although … | Continue reading
If SXSW has a heart, it’s somewhere on 6th Street. The historic Austin avenue becomes a 24/7 pedestrian playground during the festival’s second half, one stuffed to bursting with street musicians, enterprising vendors, and curious civilians. There’s a band inside every bar lining … | Continue reading
The life of the Wii U, Nintendo’s troubled home video game console, will be cut short. According to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo will cease production of the tablet/console hybrid in 2016. The end of the Wii U will likely align with the launch of Nintendo’s l … | Continue reading
T-Mobile may still offer unlimited data, but it seemingly is less integral to its marketing plans than it was in the past. | Continue reading
Apple is reportedly in talks to buy Imagination Technologies, its longtime GPU supplier. The move would shake up the mobile graphics market and give Apple ownership of MIPS as well as its own ray tracing division. | Continue reading
When it comes to cross-platform gaming between Xbox and PlayStation, gamers have been requesting it for a long time but with consoles running on different operating systems, that’s no easy feat. However, Psyonix, the indie studio behind hit game Rocket League wants to make gamers … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: On Thursday, VentureBeat will host an event in SF to showcase our research on how to best put together a fast-growth mobile strategy using data. Our research — based on thousands of surveys and other data — suggests that the best strategy is one where a company’s market … | Continue reading
Chinese game publisher Youzu Interactive has acquired German game developer Bigpoint for up to 80 million euros, or $89.68 million. The deal is one more sign of how the $99.3 billion game business has gone global and Chinese publishers are using their financial power to become pl … | Continue reading
Chevy’s entry level electric car, the Bolt, is entering pre-production. Today, the car manufacturer is announcing that its well-received electric car has graduated from the drawing board and being manufactured by hand to the production line. While this doesn’t mean Chevy is start … | Continue reading
Tesla is preparing to unveil its mass-market Model 3 on March 31 with production beginning in late 2017. Meanwhile, Chevrolet is already putting it's 200-plus-mile Bolt EV into pre-production.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Chevrolet … | Continue reading
HTC will unveil its next flagship phone on April 12.The company teased the new device — rumored to be called the HTC 10 — ahead of Mobile World Congress. On Tuesday, HTC sent out invites for the April 12 unveiling.See also: HTC teases its next flagship smartphoneImage: HTCThe ann … | Continue reading
In most arcade fighting games, a slow reaction or a mis-timed special move lead to a thorough ass-kicking by your competitor. ‘War of the Currents’ takes a different approach, not only is your character getting a beat down, you’re going to suffer a bit as well. The arcade cabinet … | Continue reading
There’s a prevailing idea within e-commerce circles that what customers really want is to buy things in more places. Shopify has doubled down on this theory with an update today that allows vendors to sell their goods in more places than ever before. Announced at the company’s de … | Continue reading
Houzz, the home remodelling site with a focus on giving you house envy, today announced that it is opening up its Commerce API for third-party developers. While you may mostly look at Houzz as a mobile app and website that features beautiful home remodelling photography in an eff … | Continue reading
Chevy just released a few images and a quick teaser video of its Bolt EV going through pre-production on its Michigan assembly line, one of the final steps before actual production. The Bolt is expected to be in at least some dealerships by the end of this year, promising a reaso … | Continue reading
ClicksMob and AppGrade are getting hitched. ClicksMob is a mobile-only performance advertising platform that delivers users to app developers and publishers. As a third-party broker, ClicksMob can access thousands of sources of traffic, making mobile advertising more efficient by … | Continue reading
David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his own new firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and it’s apparently targeting $50 million for its debut fund. Refactor, which was incorpo … | Continue reading
The Binding of Isaac developers Edmund McMillen and James Id have announced a new game entitled The Legend of Bum-boMcMillen called the upcoming project a "turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated" in its announcement on The Binding of Isaac's blog.He noted that … | Continue reading
Today Google finally told the world its real strategy for competing with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google first launched the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2012, but it has always been in the shadows of AWS. Google tried us … | Continue reading
Shadow Bug is a stylish upcoming platformer that was originally introduced on our forums way back in July of last year. Developer Muro Studios used our forum members to run a beta in August, and then did another round of beta testing in early January just to be sure to smooth out … | Continue reading
Total Mentions Over the last week, SXSW has generated hundreds of thousands of mentions. Broken down by film, music, and interactive, it logically was the crowd discussing technology and media that made the most noise over the first half of the festival. This is due to one large … | Continue reading