Barbie will be joining the cut-throat startup world this year armed with a tiny smartphone and tablet.
Nicknamed "Chief Inspiration Officer," Entrepreneur Barbie is Mattel's latest addition to its "I Can Be" career line. She was unveiled at this week's American International Toy...
As the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics continue, UK Twitter users are no longer content to simply watch events on their television—they’re tweeting about the Games as well. Out of the 81% who planned to watch the Olympics, more than...
Open-Xchange makes a suite of web apps that ISPs, hosting firms and enterprises can rebrand and roll out as an alternative to the likes of Google Apps – we’ve previously covered the German company’s innovative OX Text collaborative document editor and...
The Android Open Source Project, or AOSP, allows anyone to build a device using the basic Android operating system, without Google’s permission. However, that also means forgoing all of the Google services that users take for granted as part...
Many of us have become incredibly attached to our gadgets, rarely straying far from our phones. Human-gadget interaction is increasingly a mundane and unremarkable part of our lives. Spike Jonze’s movie Her imagines a future in which our attachment to our...
Facebook is 10 years old. For some of you, that means it's time for your high school (or even college) reunion. Starting to sweat a little?
Between your "Look Back" video reminding you exactly what you were wearing in the mid-2000s...
Online retail executives in Spain are upbeat about prospects for 2014, and the positive outlook will drive higher sales and marketing budgets. Two key trends shaping the market are showrooming and multichannel sales.
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Source: eMarketer.com.
Music streaming service Spotify appears to be preparing for an IPO, according to Reuters. The company posted a job listing that contained these requirements, Reuters said:
The job advertisement, posted on Spotify's website and on LinkedIn, said the successful candidate -...
Twitter is an incredible resource for insight into what's popular: It's a good indicator of what cool new tech is trending and what news story is being talked about most. But what if you could use it to monitor...
Researcher IHS Technology expects spending on cloud infrastructure and services to hit $174.2 billion in 2014, up 20 percent from $145.2 billion last year. Perhaps more to the point, it expects this growth rate to continue with enterprise spending on cloud...
Apple officially opened its first store in Brazil this weekend and began selling the iPhone 5S there for 2,799 Brazilian reais — or a staggering $1,174 — according to Bloomberg.
Compare that to $649 in the U.S. or $872 in China for...
In the USA, Chief Digital Officers are being tested. Now they only has one goal: to transform the company so quickly that they’ll be left jobless
“The most significant accomplishment for CDOs in 2013 is that a number of CDOs...
In the States, you can buy the Nokia, Samsung and LG models at the supermarket, with no contract and at very low prices. Europe has the BIC phone
Disposable phones can be bought almost anywhere, in supermarkets, at the newsstand...
We now have a pretty good idea about what the next iPhone is going to look like.
Blogger Sonny Dickson says he's gotten his hands on the casings Apple is planning to use for the iPhone 6. He says that it...
Twitter is testing a major redesign to its service, according to some users who spotted a dramatic change to their profiles yesterday. The new interface is closer in appearance to Facebook's profile design than anything Twitter has designed in...
Millions of Facebook users took a trip down memory lane last week to celebrate the company's 10th anniversary
In honor of turning a decade old, Facebook gave users the option of downloading a "Look Back" video that highlights the top moments from their profile...
Crowd-funding isn’t necessarily the solution for every creator looking to make content on their own terms. But if you have serious production experience and a fan base that wants to see what you’re putting out, then you want to...
When signing in to other sites with a social network ID, users prefer to enter their Facebook information. Recent research finds that this is the top social network ID used for social logins in each region worldwide, and Facebook...
More than 50% of UK digital retailers now respond to customer questions via Twitter. Customer engagement may be helping to fuel sales via the social network: Average revenue per visitor rose 64.3% year over year in Q4 2013.
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Instagram is generating 15 times the level of luxury brand engagement as Facebook, despite having only one-tenth Facebook's reach. That's according to a new study from L2 Think Tank which found that 93% of luxury brands are now on the network.
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