This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Rob Price. LONDON — Companies that expose their customers information in data breaches could face far harsher penalties — including fines of up to 4% of their global annual turnover. On Monday, the British government announced plans to strengthen UK data protection law with the a […]
This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Lucy Yang. When it comes to finding the cheapest flights possible, you’ve probably used sites like Expedia or Airfarewatchdog. Beyond the tried-and-true classics, however, there are now countless services that can help you save more money on your flights. While it’s always a good idea to browse multiple sites at once, some […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Josh Constine. Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in less than a year, while it’s taken Apple Music more than a year and a half to […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Frederic Lardinois. In 10 years, when autonomous driving is mainstream, we’ll have a fundamentally different relationship with our cars and driving in general. Every major car company is fully aware of this, but not all are reacting to this change with the same degree of urgency. Earlier […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Andrew Keen. Another week, another political crisis. We’ve had yet another few days of outrageous tweets from President Trump all designed, it seems, to monopolize the national conversation. It’s all so predictably unpredictable — and what Tristan Harris, the co-founder of the nonprofit group Time Well Spent, calls a […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Amazon today is launching Amazon Spark, a new feature aimed at improving product discovery, which is seemingly inspired by Instagram and its use of shoppable photos. Similarly, Amazon Spark users are encouraged to post stories, ideas and images of products they love, which others can react to with […]
Would two weeks of writing everything down improve my life? Kind of. <b>This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Michael Grothaus. Japan and China may have a reputation for being technologically advanced, but recording appointments and to-dos with pen and paper is long-held tradition in Asia. There is also evidence that it’s gaining popularity […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Jassim Latif. Slack is a group messaging platform that’s handy for trading notes with your colleagues over the course of your workday. But in my time working at Slack, I’ve figured out some ways to use it for much more than that. More than just a communication platform, Slack […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Sarah Perez. Facebook today rolled out an improvement to its Instant Articles feature that now lets publishers include call-to-action units in their articles to better connect with readers, including those that encourage email sign-ups and Page Likes. The company also announced it’s testing two more units for publishers interested […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Matt Burns. Tesla’s market capitalization is now higher than Ford’s. Tesla is trading up on the day, sending its market cap to $47.46 billion. And then there’s Ford, the blue chip automaker that’s exactly 100 years older than Tesla, which is trading down on the day, causing […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Sarah Perez. The Twitterverse is still reeling from Twitter’s revamp of @ replies, and scratching its head over how changing a default avatar has anything to do with addressing abuse, but the network is plodding on, today releasing a new feature aimed at its business users. The latest […]
This article was sourced from TechCrunch. Article by Jon Russell. Done betting, Alibaba is getting down to work in Southeast Asia as it bids to lead the region’s promising e-commerce space and maximize its early mover advantage over Amazon. Alibaba became the first major international player to enter Southeast Asia, a region with more than 600 million cumulative consumers, when […]
This article was sourced from LinkedIn. Article by Mark Hardy. In this series, retail experts at Shoptalk discuss the most pressing issues facing their industries today. Write your own #Shoptalk17 article here. Virtual reality is being talked about a lot right now. Depending on who’s doing the talking, VR is either on its way to change the future as we know […]
This article was sourced from Lexology. Article by Baker Mckenzie. While the e-commerce industry is growing quickly in Thailand, there currently exist only a few regulations governing this business in the country. Recently, the Central Committee on Prices of Goods and Services, Ministry of Commerce, issued Notification No. 44 B.E. 2560 re: Displaying of Price and Details […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Matthew Ponzarino. Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that […]
This article was sourced from Tech Crunch. Article by Sarah Perez. Google Maps has just added a handy feature that will help users remember where they parked. This appears as a new menu option when you tap the blue dot, and will place a “P” icon on the map so you can find your way back […]
This article was sourced from Market Watch. Article by Claudia Assis. Tesla Inc. announced late Friday night that it is killing off the cheapest models of its Model S sedan. The news comes ahead of the launching of the Model 3, the sedan the company aims to sell to the masses. Customers who want to own […]
This article was sourced from Business Insider. Article by Rob Price. LONDON — Britain’s shock vote to leave the European Union last summer has engulfed the UK’s tech industry in confusion — with concerns over everything from visas for foreign workers to the future of funding for venture capital firms. But this hasn’t dampened people’s optimism […]
This article was sourced from Bloomberg Technology. Article by Julie Johnsson. United Airlines has taken a close look at an all-new jetliner that Boeing Co.engineers are developing for trans-Atlantic flying, and it likes what it sees. “What we’ve seen so far is very, very interesting to us,” Andrew Levy, United’s chief financial officer, said in an […]
This article was sourced from Fast Company. Article by Daniel Terdiman. Virtual reality has been around for decades, but 2016 was the year millions of consumers got their hands on the technology for the very first time. Though the headsets are still bulky and ugly, they’re giving people breathtakingly immersive digital experiences. At the same time, […]