‘Star Wars’ BB-8 droid to be sold as working robot – Toronto Sun
GLENDALE, Calif. — If it weren’t for someone willing to entertain a new idea, the new Star Wars droid, BB-8, wouldn’t be rolling into living rooms this holiday season. The robot — which looks like a mechanical head on a spinning ball — was the…
Vancouver’s high-tech hurdle: Attracting top-level talent – The Globe and Mail
From left: Version One Ventures CEO and founder Boris Wertz, BuildDirect president and CEO Jeff Booth, Vision Critical founder and president of corporate innovation Andrew Reid, Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes, Shoes.com chairman and co-founder Roger Hardy, Plentyoffish CEO and founder Markus Frind, and…
The end of China’s ban on video game consoles won’t change anything – Quartz
This week, China said it will lift a ban on selling video game consoles and games in the country, the latest in a series of rules aimed at loosening restrictions on sales. But despite the nice-sounding sentiment that China is opening up, the fact is…
Using Storytelling in Your Software & Technology Marketing: When & How – Business 2 Community
In the fall of 1995, when the Internet was still young, an executive named Irving Wladawsky-Berger was put in charge of IBM’s new “Internet Division.” His mission? To figure out the business value of the internet. At that time, the Internet was just beginning to…
Nearly Every Google AdSense Publisher Must Comply With EU Cookie Consent, Not … – Marketing Land
Top news and emerging ideas in display advertising, delivered every Monday. Google has notified AdSense publishers that they must get “cookie consent” from site visitors from countries within the European Union to use their data. The change essentially affects any publisher running AdSense, not just those operating…
AT&T’s DirecTV Acquisition Completed After FCC Approval – InformationWeek – InformationWeek
Hours after the FCC gave final approval to the deal, AT&T announced it had completed its acquisition of DirecTV, a deal estimated at $49 billion. The integration of the two companies will occur over the coming months. 10 Most Reputable Tech Companies In The US…
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED – Wired
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back…
Dirty Rotten Secret About Making Money Online – Business 2 Community – Business 2 Community
Now I want to let you in on a dirty little secret; I don’t know a single person anymore who is making a lot of money sending traffic directly to a sales page.While a simple Squeeze page that goes to a sales video might have…
Study Shows Retailers Use Marketplaces to Acquire New Customers … – EcommerceBytes
Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State of Retailing Online…