YouTube is launching a new suite of products for advertisers under the umbrella name of YouTube Director. Collectively, these products are supposed to make it easier for businesses (particularly the smaller ones that don’t have their own production capabilities and aren’t going to hire an ad agency) to shoot and edit video ads that can […]
Microsoft has been searching for ways to strengthen its flagging Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) tool, and it made a couple of moves this week (one quite significant) with an eye toward making life easier for sales people and enhancing its marketshare in the process. For starters, you might have heard that Microsoft bought LinkedIn on Monday for […]
After months of pre-announcements, Samsung Pay has finally cemented a launch date for Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The mobile payment service will debut there on June 16 for people who have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Samsung Pay has rolled out in South Korea, the United States, China, and Spain so far. In […]
ClearTax, which helps Indians file their tax returns online with minimum stress, is on a roll this year. The Bengaluru-based company, which graduated Y Combinator two years ago, announced a $12 million Series A round today, just one month after closing a $2 million seed round following an initial $1.3 million raise. ClearTax CEO and founder Archit Gupta […]
459,000 years. That’s how long Twitch users spent watching other people play video games last year, and Facebook wants a piece of the pie. It might sound weird, but e-sports are wildly popular, and Facebook is getting serious about owning those video views. A source tipped us off that Facebook has hired e-sports super-connector and […]
John Koetsier Crunch Network Contributor John Koetsier has built technology, written about it at VentureBeat, and researched it while spearheading a research venture. He now studies mobile as TUNE’s mobile economist. How to join the network Yesterday will be remembered as the day that the messaging war started. In the immense game of thrones that […]
(Screenshots: ZDNet) Developer Andrew Wiik tweeted screen grabs of what appears to be a Dark Mode within the first beta of iOS 10. The complete Dark Mode wasn’t running on a mobile device, but rather an iOS 10 instance within Xcode. We found it on by default within the alarm app. Dark mode was previously […]
Patent No. 9,367,095 recently granted to Apple describes an iPhone that has a transparent body with a display that wraps completely around the device. This augments the display on the front of the device with a full display on the back. To prevent the need to have the entire display running all the time, face […]
The Queen of England decided to wear a solid green outfit for her 90th birthday celebration last Saturday, and Photoshoppers across the Internet all smirked in unison before taking full advantage of this “green screen” opportunity. Nick Ut’s ‘Napalm Girl’ photograph is one of the most iconic conflict images of all time, and this short […]
Anyone even remotely interested in cameras knows that Zeiss lenses are the gold standard. But the 170-year-old company’s lenses can cost thousands of dollars each, making them pretty inaccessible for amateur photographers. But that is now changing, as the company has teamed up with the ExoLens brand to release three Zeiss lenses for the iPhone 6/6s and […]