Twitter has finally taken action against Infowars creator Alex Jones, but it isn’t what you might think. While Apple, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Spotify and many others have removed Jones and his conspiracy-peddling organization Infowars from their platforms, Twitter has remained unmoved with its claim that Jones hasn’t violated rules on its platform. That was helped in…
Anyone with even a tangential relationship to the European tech startup scene knows that Startup Battlefield is one of the most effective launching pads for early-stage startups. All the pitch-competition drama and excitement goes down at Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. If you want to spotlight your startup in front of the continent’s brightest innovators,…
Servitization is a transformation journey. Along this journey, businesses work to develop capabilities for providing services that supplement their traditional product portfolios. In last week’s column I went into great detail to explain these points. So this column, I will give some real-world examples of servitization in action and will offer up what steps manufacturers…
According to RootMetrics’ most recent network performance test, Knoxville, Tennesee, takes the overall number one spot for mobile performance out of the 125 major metropolitan areas tested. Each area was ranked in six categories. The post Knoxville ranks No. 1 in mobile performance among U.S. metro areas, study says appeared first on Digital Trends. Source…
In what it claims is a UK first, Sainsbury’s is trialling new scan, pay and go technology in one of its London stores, removing the need for customers to queue at checkouts. The retailer’s SmartShop app allows customers at its Clapham North station Local branch to use their smartphones to scan items as they pick…
HQ Trivia’s app store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but it’s hoping a new version on your television could revitalize growth. HQ today launched an Apple TV app that lets users play the twice-daily live quiz game alongside iOS Android players. “Everything about the game is still the same – same…
The BitFi crypto wallet was supposed to be unhackable and none other than famous weirdo John McAfee claimed that the device – essentially an Android-based mini tablet – would withstand any attack. Spoiler alert: it couldn’t. First, a bit of background. The $120 device launched at the beginning of this month to much fanfare. It…
CEO John Lemp recently said that thanks to a new policy, publishers in Revcontent‘s content recommendation network “won’t ever make a cent” on false and misleading stories — at least, not from the network. To achieve this, the company is relying on fact-checking provided by the Poynter Institute’s International Fact Checking Network. If any two independent…
More posts by this contributor GDPR panic may spur data and AI innovation Data is not the new oil While Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg debate the dangers of artificial general intelligence, startups applying AI to more narrowly defined problems such as accelerating the performance of sales teams and improving the operating efficiency of manufacturing lines…
So you’re having a few problems with your Google Pixel? There’s no need to panic. All smartphones, especially newer ones, have their fair share of issues, bugs, and glitches, from the unique to the familiar. Of course, if you’ve just spent a large sum of money to acquire Google’s phone, there’s no doubt you want it to…
