Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for close to $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter.
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The team behind travel website lastminute.com is searching for a “Spontaneity Champion”, a brand ambassador who loves to go on sudden adventures.
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Korean Illustrator and graphic artist Kim Dong-Kyu has put a spin on several art masterpieces by infusing the past with a dosage of modern technology. Vermeer's 'Girl With A Peal Earring' becomes 'Girl With A Pearl Earring and An iPhone', and van Gogh's 'The Room' is transformed into a 21st-century teenager's room with the addition of several Apple gadgets.
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Google Analytics Real-Time monitors visitor activity as it happens, providing constantly updated data. Analytics users can watch instant traffic shifts, see visitor geographic locations, monitor which pages are being viewed, and more. Assess Real-Time through any Google Analytics account.
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Soft drink giant Coca-Cola has redesigned its website-thecoca-colacompany.com-to make it look more like an online magazine than a corporate website, for a consumer-friendly philosophy. The makeover is described by the company's executives as "the most ambitious digital project they have undertaken", according to The New York Times.
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The social network wants to make sure you know it's paying attention to its mobile apps.Facebook really wants people to know that it's got its mind on mobile.
The company put out a blog post today detailing the work of its product teams since its mobile first transformation. Wall Street has been highly critical of Facebook in the past for not paying attention to mobile, which is where many users have moved.
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(Reuters) - Spotify is in the middle of a $100 million financing round that could value the music streaming company at just over $3 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported citing sources.
The Journal said Spotify would raise the fresh capital from multiple investors including Goldman Sachs. The WSJ report did not name any other investors.
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The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.
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When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net.
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The first attempt to rank countries by how much benefit their citizens get from the web has been unveiled. But what does it really mean for a country to come top or bottom of the web index?
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Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians. On January 28 2011, three days into the fierce protests that would eventually oust the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, a Twitter user called Farrah posted a link to a picture that supposedly showed an armed man as he ran on a “rooftop during clashes between police and protesters in Suez”. I say supposedly, because...
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Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers forever. You're in fast moving traffic on a busy motorway approaching a complicated junction with just seconds to get into the right lane. Your phone, sensing that now is not the moment to disturb you...
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After being re-elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama tweeted a victory tweet-which has quickly become the most-retweeted tweet in Twitter's history, according to Mediabistro. The tweet that writes "Four more years."-accompanied by a photograph of Obama embracing his wife-set a record just 22 minutes after it was posted. Currently, the second most-retweeted tweet was also by Obama that read "This happened because of you", which garnered over 213,000 retweets. Previously, the most retweeted tweet of all time was posted by celebrity Justin Beiber-a tweet that read "RIP Avalanna. i love you".
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Some 16 million people in the UK lack basic online skills, a survey suggests. The report, conducted by consultancy firm Booz & Company, defines basic skills as using a search engine, sending and receiving emails, completing online applications and accessing information online. Go ON UK, a charity chaired by the UK digital champion Martha Lane Fox, commissioned the report. The organisation aims to do more to improve digital literacy in the UK. It will start by looking at how to improve skills in the workplace.
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Software that can translate spoken English into spoken Chinese almost instantly has been demonstrated by Microsoft. The software preserves intonation and cadence so the translated speech still sounds like the original speaker.
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Plans to offer UK-based firms shorter internet domain names backed by added security features have been proposed. The scheme would give businesses the chance to register www.name.uk as their web address. It would run alongside the current www.name.co.uk service.Applicants would have to prove they had a UK presence and pay a higher fee. A three-month consultation is under way. Some companies may oppose the move on the grounds they already face having to buy other new net addresses. Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is creating hundreds of other top-level domains as part of a separate expansion set to create addresses ending in .home, .shop and .play.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is testing a new monthly option for its popular Prime video-streaming service as the world's largest Internet retailer steps up competition with Netflix Inc. Prime typically costs $79 a year in the United States for free two-day shipping, free video streaming and access to Amazon's Kindle e-book lending library. The company is now offering the service for $7.99 a month on its website, which works out to $95.88 a year, but at that rate it can be purchased strictly on a month-to-month basis.
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Dean Sparks is a 49-year-old farmer near Binghamton, N.Y., who for decades has relied on wholesale distributors to buy his organic eggs, milk, and cheese and sell it to stores and restaurants around the East Coast. In early April, he started experimenting with online food wholesaler FarmersWeb to sell to chefs and shop owners directly. He's since landed about a dozen new clients via the site and relishes its simplicity. “With FarmersWeb, selling is a 15-minute process without hours of paperwork,” says Sparks. “For a small business, time can be more valuable than money. It makes a big difference.”
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In his first interview since his company's underwhelming initial public offering and subsequent stock slide, Facebook (FB) co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday told the audience at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco a lot about the social network’s strategy in a number of areas, including a defense of the company’s approach to mobile and an explanation why it moved away from HTML5 for its apps.
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Gerald Gorman, who runs online businesses such as Lawyer.com, pays Google (GOOG) $100,000 a month to place ads near search results and on Google's partner sites. While the ads have proved effective at attracting customers, their increasing price tag has led Gorman to look around for alternatives.
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