In Bid for Ad Revenue, Foursquare Opens Up Home Screen to Big Brands
In a bid to boost revenue, Foursquare will now let brands that don’t have a physical location advertise on its most prominent real estate: the app’s home screen. MasterCard is the first business without a brick-and-mortar presence to place an ad on Foursquare’s home screen as part of a month-long…
Locations with WiFi must decide on NJ gambling
Harold Brubaker, Inquirer Staff Writer Last updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 2:01 AM Posted: Friday, November 29, 2013, 3:37 PM Coming soon to a Starbucks in New Jersey: Five guys huddled around a corner table with laptops open, playing poker online? That was a scenario discussed at an Internet gambling conference last month in Philadelphia. "You’re…
Montgomery County Community College to Host FIRST Robotics Eastern …
WHITPAIN On Saturday, Dec. 7, students from 36 high school robotics teams from around the region will converge at Montgomery County Community Colleges Central Campus in Blue Bell to battle for first place in the FIRSTRobotics Eastern Regional Qualifier event. The competition will be held in the Colleges Physical Education The FIRST(For…
Robberies down in Denver, but iPhone heists still rise, police say
Even as robberies decline across Denver, thieves are continuing to snatch iPhones at a growing rate. Robberies overall are down by nearly 16 percent so far this year, from 1,120 between January and November of 2012 to 941 during the same time period this year. But an iPhone was stolen During the same span…
A robot kicked off the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year
The historic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade got something of a 21st century update this year. The unofficial kickoff to the holiday season was launched not by a New York City official or rosy-cheeked reveler but by a robot instead. Named "SONIC," the robot was devised by students from The Woodlands…
Twisted iOS hit ‘Badland’ now on Android
The dark and beautiful Badland was one of our favorite mobile games when it hit iOS earlier this year (we even named it a Best New App), and now Android gamers can finally see what the hype is about. Developer Frogmind had previously announced its Android intentions back in August,…
Thanksgiving online sales up, mobile up — and Facebook converting 84% better …
In between chowing down on turkey, slurping up cranberry sauce, and sucking down a cold beverage or two with friends and family, we’ve been busy shopping. At least 10 percent busier than last year, according to IBM. According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, which tracks millions of real-time transactions and…
Encrypted social network vies for disgruntled WhatsApp, Facebook users
With the look of Google Plus and Facebook-like elements, a new social network named "Syme" feels as cozy as a well-worn shoe. But beneath the familiar veneer, it’s quite different. Syme encrypts all content, such as status updates, photos and files, so that only people invited to a group can…
The rise of the machines: It is okay to torture a robot?
MIT researcher asks if we become attached to our robots, can we avoid having human emotions towards them?Experiments involved torturing toys after letting children play with themThe kids found it incredibly difficult to destroy the toys as they became attached even after a short timeResearchers are converging on the idea…
Twitter Continues Tweet Recommendation Experiments With Fav Happy …
Twitter continues to pull the string on personalization and recommendation with a new account called @magicstats. The account, whose description reads ‘I favorite the best tweets I see in real-time’ appears to be doing just that. Though the account is protected and its activity closed down, we’ve been tracking it…
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