Facebook this week announced its new Women in Gaming Initiative, dedicated to encouraging more women to join the games industry. The social media company focuses on providing role models and success stories, and it’s actually a pleasant approach. Though gender and diversity in gaming is a sensitive topic at times,...
Long seen as one of the fastest growing and most opportunity-laden markets on the continent, Nigeria’s ecommerce space had a challenging February. One of the country’s flagship ecommerce ventures, Konga, which raised substantial backing from the likes of multinational conglomerate Naspers and was once seen as the...
Media is a hard business. But if you’ve watched even one episode of Shark Tank, you know that retail is also a hard business. So it’s interesting to learn that BuzzFeed is launching a new line of kitchenware that will be sold in 4,000 Walmart stores. According to Recode, the media company is going...
LinkedIn just ran the latest numbers on the most overused “buzzwords” on the platform, and you will not be surprised in the slightest to learn what they are: Specialized Experienced Leadership Skilled Passionate Expert Motivated Creative Strategic Successful LinkedIn releases a new such roundup...
'Light Phone 2' is an updated version of 'Light Phone,' a smartphone that only gives you the necessities. It has no apps, no camera, and no frills — allowing you to be in the moment. Read more...More about Technology, Mashable Video, Cell Phone, Phone, and Social Media
Sure, you can book appointments with the help of an app like Google Calendar or Outlook...or you can just create your own completely self-contained business platform with the help of Book Like a Boss. Right now, you can get a lifetime of Book Like a Boss’ Super Boss services for just $59.99 (over 90 percent off)...
Yesterday, one of the country’s top gun retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, said it would stop selling assault-style rifles and raise the age restriction on gun sales to 21. The decision—made in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Florida—sparked a massive response on social...
A former software engineer has filed a lawsuit against the search giant alleging she endured constant sexual harassment while working for the company due to its “bro culture,” Gizmodo reports. The lawsuit alleges a series of harassment including: an incident where the software engineer returned to her...
In an embarrassingly botched attempt to play it coy, budding blockchain startup Waltonchain got busted rewarding its own employees with cryptocurrency from a public giveaway that was supposed to go to its users. But here is the cringiest part: the company accidentally outed itself… on Twitter. The China-based...
Before we’re even fully used to having voice assistants listening for commands around the house, Piccolo is keen on taking things a lot further: using cameras that watch for gestures and controlling your connected appliances, lights, and gadgets so you don’t have to. Essentially, the San Francisco-based firm is...
Following a year-long beta, Google is now rolling out Hangouts Chat – its team messaging service that rivals Slack – to G Suite customers across the world over the next week. For those out of the loop, that means anyone who’s paying for Google services like Gmail and Google Drive to use with their own domain. As...
From humble beginnings as a blog for a pet food venture, in four years LittleThings accrued millions of followers and views on its social platforms through feel-good content. But the publisher announced that it would be no more on Tuesday, putting the blame largely on Facebook's algorithm changes in an email to all...
Vero is a three-year-old app that's suddenly become a popular alternative to established social media platforms. It has a platform that promises to show you what your friends and network are posting, in chronological order — and with no ads. It does sound alluring. Tons of users signed up for the...
Some tweets have always been worth saving for future reference. But Twitter has never offered a formal way to do that, forcing everybody to come up with their own workaround. (Lots of us use the Like button, thereby probably leading some people to think we like tweets that we actually hate.) That era ends today...
“I don’t know if I understand it more than halfway myself,” says Tom Scocca. Last year began what could only be described as a time of reckoning for the media industry. It certainly seems to be continuing this year. With the digital ad space being constantly squeezed by the ever-growing market...
Samsung’s Galaxy S9 was announced with one primary goal: amp up the camera. Armed with an F1.5/F2.4 lens – the first variable phone aperture we’ve seen in modern times – Samsung aims to reclaim the camera throne from the likes of Google and Apple. I’ve had the device for a little over two days and have spent...
Patrisse Cullors has had a major influence on the Black Lives Matter movement ever since it began in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Here she explains what many people get wrong when it comes to how they think about Black History Month and where the focus should be. Read more...More about Mashable...
On Twitter, a like is a like — unless it's not. Over the years the "like" button has come to embody several distinct uses on the social media platform: a way to designate appreciation for a tweet, show agreement, or, confusingly, to essentially bookmark the tweet in question for later reading....
Fooling robots into seeing things that aren’t there, or completely mis-categorizing an image, is all fun and games until someone gets decapitated because a car’s autopilot feature thought a white truck was a cloud. In order avoid such tragedies, it’s incredibly important that researchers in the field of...
Over the last few days, the social network Vero has grown like a wildfire. It flew to the top of the App Store charts–and it is still number two today. As Fast Company‘s Melissa Locker wrote earlier this week, the mobile app has actually been around for a few years, and it promises to give …...
Don’t Call Me Oscar is an unbelievably cute tribute to Oscar-nominated films, with a bunch of small children replacing the adults in the room. What: Moments from Oscar-nominated movies, but with small children in place of the actual performers.Read Full Story
A model who needed to breastfeed her son during a photoshoot resulted in a wonderfully human ad from the mass retailer. What: An ad featuring a mother breastfeeding her child.Read Full Story
Twitter today announced it’s rolling out a new Bookmark option for tweets, as well as a new way of sharing them with friends. First spotted last October, the Bookmark option lets you save tweets in a private list. This way, you can save tweets, links, and threads for later perusal — particularly useful if you’re...
Few things are more frustrating than not being able to find your phone right as you’re heading out. An app called ‘Clap to Find My Phone‘ wants to save you from that frustration. Take a wild guess how it works. The app is currently Android only, and it seems unlikely to be any use on iOS, where you’d likely...
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