The WordPress team worked hard to produce the ultimate in website builders. Their hard work paid off. The ultimate builder, in this case, is a platform featuring an abundance of tools and plugins. They allow website builders to create, tweak,…
There’s something so intriguing about people’s stories. Whether it’s a tale of success or struggle, storytelling is the most effective tool when it comes to engaging an audience. The good news is that there are spellbinding stories all around us…
When it comes to building a strong brand and setting your company apart from your competition, an impeccable level of customer engagement is essential. To build your brand’s reputation and increase sales, it’s important to put engaging with customers at…
Alternative health products can be difficult to market, thanks to a healthy dose of consumer skepticism. Regardless of how well-supported your alternative health product is with evidence or customer reviews, health claims are frequently met with disbelief. Still, the alternative…
If you’re a music lover like me, you can probably relate to the excitement I feel every year when the summer music festival lineups are announced. Going to a music festival in the summer is probably one of the best…
When you’re an attendee at a festival or market, your job is simple: Have fun, eat good food, and shop. When you’re a market vendor, your job is infinitely more complex. Figuring out what you need to prepare in advance…
How much would you spend on a premium domain? Well, entrepreneur Erik Bergman recently dropped almost $1 million on his perfect domain — great.com. To be exact, Erik spent $900,000 in a domain auction to win his dream domain name. “I’m…
When you make the decision to create a website or blog for your business, you have a lot of choices to make. However, one of the most important decisions you can make will be whether or not you will hire…
Computer-aided engineering (CAD) is a $9 billion industry, and Onshape wants to shake it up. So the cloud-based CAD tool maker is using Magic Leap’s augmented reality glasses to enable engineers to collaborate when designing products in 3D. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based…
Iron Fist, Marvel’s least-loved Netflix series, has been canceled after two seasons. With pretty poor reception of the first season in 2017 and mixed reactions to its recent second season, the immortal Iron Fist (a.k.a. Danny Rand) will no longer…
If you own a smartphone, chances are you know Candy Crush and maybe even the game’s latest incarnation, Candy Crush Friends Saga. What you may not know is the story behind the franchise: How an Italian entrepreneur put all his…
(Reuters) — The Trump administration defended the Federal Communications Commission repeal of landmark open internet rules known as net neutrality, urging a federal appeals court to reject a challenge. In a 167-page court filing late on Thursday, the Justice Department…
Virtual reality is an excellent tool for horror game because when you wear a VR headset, it feels like you’re transported to another world. You can look and move around in full 360-degrees, reach out and touch things, and hear…
FEATURE: Paradox Interactive‘s new CEO, Ebba Ljungerud, sits in a small conference room just above the chaos of the publisher’s second public convention. Below, around 1,000 fans — including World War II soldiers and medieval nobles — wander between booths,…
GUEST: The bulk of AR/VR startups aren’t selling outside their own backyards, at a time when growing revenue and extending financial runways have become critical to survival. So while there is money to be had internationally, many are simply leaving…
If you’re a frequent Venmo user, you might want to double-check your settings because the company just changed up their fee structure for instant transfers and it may result in more of your balance slipping away. The fee for instant…
A judge today denied Lime’s request for a temporary restraining order that would block Skip and Scoot from deploying their electric scooters in San Francisco on Monday. This means San Franciscans will be able to use electric scooter services again…
Fact of life: Everybody loves Costco. The free samples around every corner are reason enough to go; throw in the $1.50 hot dog-and-drink combo, and it’s a veritable wonderland. Loyalists of the wholesale retailer know what to shop for (bacon,…
A lack of time and over scheduling are roadblocks to having more focus and moving forward for your personal brand. In order to grow your business it is important to recognize that the right mindset and discipline are two key…
Stephen Hawking<a href=”https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/13/stephen-hawking-has-died-at-76/”> passed away earlier this year at the age of 76, but his incredible intellect isn’t yet done contributing to the scientific community. The acclaimed physicist’s final paper is now online for anyone to read and it revisits…
In an age where it seems nearly every major internet service is looking to hawk your personal data, one pro-privacy search engine is experiencing massive growth. DuckDuckGo, which bills itself as “the search engine that doesn’t track you,” has just…
There’s arguably no company that knows more about e-mail security than Google. Its online account, primarily tied to its e-mail service, Gmail, is used by more than a billion people to log into a myriad of other online services. The…
You’ve had a long day. You and Joe Rogan smoked some weed, then you tweeted a bit, and now the SEC wants $20 million. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk has to pay $20 million to settle with the S.E.C. It’s time…
Today, Facebook gave users an update on a recent data breach that allowed hackers to steal users’ access tokens — the tokens that allow users to login to Facebook. Facebook now says that 30 million users had their access tokens…
Separating a single person’s voice from a noisy crowd is something most people do subconsciously — it’s called the cocktail party effect. Smart speakers like Google Home and Amazon’s Echo typically have a tougher time, but thanks to artificial intelligence…
Facebook has announced a relatively small but significant purge of bad actors from the platform: 810 pages and accounts that have “consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” It may not seem like a lot, but it…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Friday in a tweet that the Tesla-branded tequila called “Teslaquilla”—the bottle of liquor that co-starred in his April Fool’s Day joke about the automaker filing for bankruptcy — is “coming soon.” Musk’s tweet was a response to…
In April, TechCrunch broke the news that some of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook messages were deleted from recipients’ inboxes in what some saw as a violation of user trust. Then, Facebook suddenly announced that it would actually build this Unsend functionality…
Facebook has finally shared an update on the massive hack that affected millions of accounts. Of the 50 million thought to be “directly affected,” Facebook now says that only 30 million accounts were impacted. More importantly, Facebook says it plans…
Metastatic tumors — cancerous cells which break away from their tissue of origin, travel through the body through the circulatory or lymph systems, and form new tumors in other parts of the body — are notoriously difficult to detect. A…
FEATURE: About two months ago, I started working on a story about building a new PC in 2018. The whole point of that story was that the good times are here again. After the cryptocurrency debacle of 2017, prices have…
Canadian wearables company Thalmic Labs has announced that its ceasing sales of its gesture- and motion-guided Myo armband, as it looks to put all its efforts into an as-yet-undisclosed new product. Founded in 2012, Ontario-based Thalmic Labs has raised north of $135 million…
Facebook has now detailed what data was scraped and stolen in the breach it revealed two weeks ago. 30 million users, not 50 million as it initially estimated, had their access tokens stolen by hackers. Users can check Facebook’s Help Center…
Are you one of the 30 million users hit by Facebook’s access token breach announced two weeks ago? Here’s how to find out. Facebook breach saw 15M users’ names & contact info accessed, 14M’s bios too Visit this Facebook Help center…
Get ready for another royal wedding: Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are getting married on Friday, October 12. Fans of the royal family might have been initially worried that they wouldn’t be able to watch Princess Eugenie’s wedding because the…