A meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee discussed how blockchain could reshape the derivatives market. | Continue reading
Less than a week after its relaunch, controversial mobile app Famous has been pulled from Apple's App Store. The game, which lets people become other users' "biggest fans" by sending them hearts, reportedly violated a developer guideline forbidding apps that are "defamatory, offe … | Continue reading
Next week, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will head back to Earth on a Russian Soyuz capsule, completing 340 days aboard the International Space Station. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko have both spent nearly a year on the ISS to help researchers better understand how … | Continue reading
I’m guessing you like free games. Here’s some details about the free game’s you could get in March. Microsoft today revealed what Xbox Live Gold members will receive in March. From March 1 to March 15, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishment for Xbox One and Supreme Commander 2 fo … | Continue reading
First, watch the video above. Don't think too much about it. Just press play, and let the frog scream send a shiver through your bones. Just a normal frog scream, right? That's what I thought, too.This, my friend, is no ordinary frog scream. This is a beautiful instrument, capabl … | Continue reading
You saw a watch online and feel like it is following you online. You might think this is strange or pure coincidence – it is not; this is a retargeting ad | Continue reading
Pocket is toying with sponsored content in your account. Rather than feed you ads, Pocket will forcibly place sponsored content in your reading list, which act a bit like articles you can suggest to friends. The content isn’t banner advertising, but is nonetheless content you may … | Continue reading
Article-saving app company Pocket is finally starting to pick up revenue through advertising. In a blog post today the company announced that it’s beginning to display sponsored posts in the app, which works on web browsers, Mac desktops, and multiple mobile platforms. But Pocket … | Continue reading
The importance of effective customer service has never wavered. Customers and businesses alike know the impact it has on a transaction and the role it plays in brand loyalty. We have all told or heard stories of rude cashiers, offensive comments, or never receiving a response at … | Continue reading
Etsy didn’t have a good 2015, but it was still able to finish on the stronger side. Today the company reported its fourth-quarter results, coming in at $87.9 million in revenue and a loss of 4 cents per share. Analysts were expecting a loss of 1 cent per share on revenue of $86.5 … | Continue reading
Bill Gates' own existential crisis is now out there for all the world to see.The Microsoft co-founder and former CEO now finds himself caught up in the vigorous and ongoing debate over whether or not Apple should be forced to create a special mobile operating system to access the … | Continue reading
In this series of blog posts, I’ve enjoyed shedding some light on how we approach marketing at The Next Web through Web analytics, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), social media and more. This piece focuses on how and why we’re working with Goo … | Continue reading
Thankfully, Apple has no plans to cripple its Pencil accessory for the iPad Pro. After the most recent iOS 9.3 beta removed the ability to navigate around iOS with the $99 add-on — marketed as a drawing tool more than a stylus — Apple has confirmed with The Verge that all of thos … | Continue reading
But these aren’t the crappy click-bait you see below lots of blog posts. “We’re being very choosy” Pocket founder Nate Weiner tells me. “We don’t want this to become the bottom of the barrel content.” If Pocket can convince users that these articles would be worthy of appearing i … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 is an impressive piece of kit with a refined set of features, but should owners of the S6 or older devices upgrade? | Continue reading
Over 18,300 people have applied to join NASA’s latest astronaut class, breaking the previous record of 8,000 submissions set in 1978. This year’s turnout was also nearly 3 times higher than NASA’s last call for applications in 2012.Each of these hopefuls is competing to be in the … | Continue reading
Roland Köppel ist Professor für Eventkommunikation an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Chur und war vorher für das internationale Business bei der Habegger AG zuständig. Für eventlokale.ch hat er zusammengefasst, welche 5 Eigenschaften man braucht, um erfolgreich Even … | Continue reading
Will you have to consider spending another $249 for an Apple Watch accessory this March? There’s now mixed evidence of a Modern Buckle band in a stone color for the Space Gray Apple Watch, Spotted at a ‘premium’ Apple retailer in France named iConcept Toulouse Esquirol, the new b … | Continue reading
Spotify announced today that they have selected Google Cloud Platform as an infrastructure partner for their popular music streaming service. Up until now, it appears Spotify have been mostly managing that hardware burden themselves via multiple providers, however the music compa … | Continue reading
Yesterday Snapchat opened up a new revenue stream in the form of on-demand geofilters. The new on-demand geofilters let anyone pay Snapchat to create and distribute a custom filter in a specific area for a set time. We wanted to see how quick and easy it was to launch a custom fi … | Continue reading
Cartoon Network has been my go-to animated block for years. I remember when it first debuted (complete with plenty of teaser commercials) and hosted master-crafted shows like Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls (which is coming back by the way!) and smiling throughout. Over time Adu … | Continue reading
One of the biggest releases of 2015 is about to get even larger thanks to its community, and for once, this doesn’t only apply to the PC. Mod support is coming to the Windows version of Fallout 4 in April, according to Bethesda director Todd Howard (via an interview with Game Inf … | Continue reading
CloudFlare, the security-focused content delivery network, already protects its customers from DDoS attacks and other attacks, but today, the company is taking another step to ensure its customers remain in control of their sites. CloudFlare is launching a domain registry service … | Continue reading
The process of creating buyer personas involves research and planning for the best possible outcome, making it essential to approach it tactfully. | Continue reading
A group of Japanese financial services and technology companies have formed a new blockchain research initiative. | Continue reading
There's no shortage of ways to store your photos and videos in the cloudAt Mashable, Google Photos has quickly become our favorite online photo and video storage service because it's free and offers unlimited storage, as long as you're OK with photos being no larger than 16-megap … | Continue reading
Virtual Reality is huge, and ever since Google cheekily launched Cardboard at I/O 2014, everyone wants to check it out. Now its Coca-Cola’s turn. While it’s just an experiment the company is showing off, Coca-Cola is nevertheless toying with the idea of turning 12-packs of soda i … | Continue reading
Fitbit has long been the king of wearables and an IDC report released today says James Park and Co. still wear the crown. But Xiaomi is quickly gaining power. A lot of power. Fitbit managed to ship 21 million devices in 2015, up 93.2% over 2014’s amount of 10.9 million units. Tha … | Continue reading
Over the years, Amazon has challenged the traditional brick-and-mortar model, redefined the books landscape, and gone all-in with original programming. Now, the retail giant is foraying headfirst into fashion.Amazon has released 1,800 products, ranging from women’s clothing and b … | Continue reading
Car infotainment systems are slowly improving nowadays, but the vast majority remain unintuitive and quickly grow out of date. So what if, instead of being stuck with whatever your carmaker thinks is right, everything could just run on your smartphone instead? That's partly the i … | Continue reading
Doug Liman — director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, and Swingers — is now working on a six-part virtual reality miniseries. Invisible is described as an action-adventure series about a Manhattan family with supernatural powers, which may or may not include invisibilit … | Continue reading
The FBI and the Department of Justice have used a strong narrative to defend their case in the dispute between the FBI and Apple. The FBI wants Apple to unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to one of the terrorists involved in the San Bernardino shooting. According to the FBI, it’s just … | Continue reading
The cool thing about livestreaming platform Twitch is that, if you want, you can relive the action of a given stream on a broadcaster’s channel. But in replaying a stream, there was a lack of a huge component to Twitch’s overall experience: the chat. The platform has now changed … | Continue reading
Do you like virtual reality, but wish for more news stories to read? Do you report on virtual reality news, but feel as if you've exhausted the capacity to crib from another press release? Do you desire to live in a future in which the machines have won, making professional write … | Continue reading
Sometimes generating leads is about finding connections wherever you can. “I went to school at X too!” “X is a great cause, my brother has done some work with them also.” And so on and so forth. The problem is braving the firehose of information available online to find these con … | Continue reading
If you need to turn your dumb watch into a smartwatch and don’t mind a parasitic ring of plastic attached to your analog timepiece, then Victorinox and Acer have you covered. The Cybertool offers multiple timezone displays, activity monitoring, and call and message notifications … | Continue reading
Here we go again. Months ago, we were the first to report that Amazon had removed Swagway hoverboards from its website, a situation that was reversed soon after with no explanation from the companyBut on Tuesday, searches for hoverboards on Amazon returned no results, apart from … | Continue reading
A newly unsealed court brief filed yesterday by Apple attorney Marc Zwillinger showed that ‘just this one phone‘ obviously has a different definition to law enforcement. The brief detailed at least 12 government requests for Apple to help extract data, such as calls, photos, iMes … | Continue reading
The creators of a buzzy but controversial mobile game called Stolen, which let users buy and sell Twitter profiles as if they were trading cards, proactively shut their application down after responding to criticism that its game mechanics allowed for abuse and bullying. The comp … | Continue reading
In a lot of ways, Redshift's The Quest [$4.99] is one of the best mobile RPGs. Its huge open world is a great place to lose hours in, but its quest-based structure makes it equally suitable for shorter play sessions. You can enjoy it as a straightforward hack 'n' zap, skipping ar … | Continue reading
Amazon today said that its Dash Replenishment Service will now work with select Samsung printers. Customers who have signed up for the Amazon service through Samsung's Mobile Print app or desktop printer management app can pre-select a toner type and it will automatically be reor … | Continue reading
David Bowie's most recent and final album Blackstar is being made into a four-minute movie that's going to premiere on Instagram. Unbound: A Blackstar InstaMiniSeries will unravel over the course of 16 short episodes on the InstaMiniSeries Instagram account.The series will star T … | Continue reading
With The X-Files miniseries ending in a polarizing cliffhanger last night, series creator Chris Carter is confident his sci-fi brainchild will return. "I can tell you, almost without a doubt, we will come back," he told the New York Times. It's just a matter of when Fox can make … | Continue reading
Though Apple isn’t sharing sales figures for Apple Watch, IDC is doing its best to track all wearable sales, and has some details on how Apple’s first wearable is selling. According to IDC, Apple Watch was the number three wearable in 2015, behind Fitbit and Xiaomi. It’s ahead of … | Continue reading
Zynga has put its San Francisco headquarters up for sale, confirming a report today from the San Francisco blog SFist. The social mobile game company’s headcount is down around 2,300 or so, significantly down from its peak above 3,500 people. That means it doesn’t need as much sp … | Continue reading
Luxury SUVs are all the rage right now: Maserati just announced the Levante a few days ago, there's the new Bentley Bentayga, a Rolls-Royce in the works, and the Porsche Cayenne and Macan. But let's bring it back, way back, to the granddaddy of the high-end SUV market — Land Rove … | Continue reading
The Minnesota Timberwolves say Nikola Pekovic is out indefinitely as he recovers from right Achilles surgery he underwent last April. | Continue reading
Grizzlies center Marc Gasol will miss the rest of this season after having surgery to repair his broken right foot. | Continue reading