Image 1 of 3 Image 2 of 3 Image 3 of 3 The bottom line: Tablets sell like hot cakes around Black Friday, and this temptingly priced and well-specced iPad rival from Samsung should appeal to Android fans – and with enough processing power to play […]
Day: November 24, 2017
Pokémon Go creator raises $200 million ahead of Harry Potter game launch
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has raised a new $200 million in funding, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Series B raise was led by Spark Capital, and includes participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, You & Mr. Jones and NetEase, Inc. Spark partner […]
How to make the most of a ski holiday: visit a new resort each day on a tour of the French Alps
The scene is set for one of those best days. Snow has fallen overnight, a fresh layer of white weighing down the branches of trees and blurring the sharp lines of rocky outcrops, and we're going to be first to dive into a pristine field […]
Padova, strade a orologeria: incidenti in aumento
PADOVA. Sono stati 66 gli incidenti mortali sulle strade della provincia di Padova l'anno scorso. Mai così tanti dal 2014 quando i decessi sono stati 51, uomini e donne il cui tributo di sangue… di Riccardo Sandre … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews #orecchioacerbo
Black Friday deals net $640M in sales so far, mobile 60% of all traffic
With Thanksgiving hitting a record $2.87 billion in online sales in the U.S., Black Friday is shaping up to be an even bigger haul for online retailers. Figures from Adobe — which analyses 80 percent of online transactions to the 100 largest web retailers in […]
The big stores that track your every online move
So before you get all hopped up on eggnog and go hogwild doing your Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopping, you might want to find out which sites are seriously spying on you. Using “session replay scripts” from third-party companies, websites are recording your every […]
Your 2017 Black Friday Booklist: Eight Essential Science Reads
The holidays are prime reading season. All that travel and post-meal lounging will give you plenty of time to plow through the books that have been stacking up on your bedside table for the past year. Just be sure to grab a good one. Your […]
These new iPhone deals just dropped – and they’re the cheapest yet
Just as it was looking like mobile phone companies were winding down their Black Friday offerings, Mobiles.co.uk has shot back with some improved deals on the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. And they’re the cheapest tariffs we’ve seen so far on both 2017 flagship Apple […]
Approaching e-commerce investments in the age of Amazon
With Amazon as the 800-pound gorilla, many of my fellow investors choose to ignore e-commerce altogether. In fact, the industry hit recent lows in a number of deals and investments. But as Bonobos’ $310 million acquisition by Walmart and Stitch Fix’s IPO demonstrate, there are still […]
A lost ‘Doctor Who’ episode featuring Tom Baker is finally here
As you can expect, Shada was an almost mythical entry in the series for fans. But it wasn’t the only “lost” episode. Last year, the BBC also released an animated version of The Power of the Daleks using audio from the original episode, after losing […]