When Facebook advertiser Joshua Niamehr logged in to his ad campaign’s account, he knew he had an outstanding balance. He didn’t think, however, that he’d racked up a bill of $8.8 million.
Don’t believe what you read. That’s Google’s response to a New York Post article reporting that YouTube is about to launch a subscription streaming video movie rental service in Europe, as a trial for a similar service in the U.S.
It doesn’t take a genius to realize why web-based brain training website Lumosity grew 400 percent to 11 million users in 190 countries last year. That’s because the mentally stimulating website not only helps scientists understand how the brain works, but provides puzzles that help you use your memory and thought processes.
Google is tweaking its search results as part of an ongoing effort “to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible,” according to a company blog post.
Reports are coming in LinkedIn is now behind the Great Firewall of China. The social networking site for working professionals cannot be accessed within the country as of Thursday. A report on CNN said that the company is looking into situation and is “currently in the process of investigating the situation further.”
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about Fantastic Four #588 and Avengers #10.
Taking a cue from the likes of Bing and the latest foodie startups, Google has jumped on the recipe search bandwagon with its latest feature, Google Recipe View, which debuted yesterday.
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech links so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
So much for those late night gaming sessions in Vietnam. The country is placing a ban on all online gaming activity from 10 PM to 8 AM in order to protect the youth from wasting their brains, according to the Daily News.
In this kind of job market, it’s important to impress potential employers with whatever skills you have that set yourself apart from the rest of the pack. Like, for example, your ability to deep-dive into code on WordPress sites.
For those of you who followed the Jeopardy! IBM Challenge and were amazed by Watson, the supercomputer that cleaned the floor with the best contestants in Jeopardy! history, here’s your chance to build your own machine. Master inventor (yes that’s his official title) and senior managing consultant for the IBM System Storage product line Tony Pearson [...]
