If you just look at the data, it paints a very grim future for marketing… at least in the short run. For example, we may go into a global recession as the Federal Reserve continually increases interest rates and it has caused businesses to cut back. Especially on the advertising front. Just look at the…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Mac revenue is set to take a significant hit in the first fiscal quarter of 2023, Apple CFO Luca Maestri said during today’s earnings call. Maestri was providing guidance on December quarter earnings, and he said that Mac sales will be down year over year next quarter because of the strong December 2021 Max lineup….
If your remote team can’t get together for the holidays this year, you can still plan an epic festive event with the right virtual holiday party ideas for work. Updated: October 28, 2022 The most festive time of the year is quickly approaching, and this celebratory season has probably got you mulling over virtual holiday…
Aug X Labs has raised $1 million in seed funding to use AI to democratize video creation by content creators.Read MoreRead More
Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge See if this sounds familiar: You are in a weird part of town and get cash from a sketchy ATM. The next day, you pay for gas at a pump-side terminal that doesn’t look quite right. A few days after that, you get a call from your bank…
The Sense 2 that’s $80 at Amazon in the black colorway. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge The black color scheme of Fitbit’s brand-new Sense 2 smartwatch “premium fitness tracker” is selling for just $79.95 at Amazon. Other colors are priced at $199.99, which itself is a $100 price cut. The Verge’s Victoria…
A jaybird eating. Steffi Wacker / Pexels Scientists have repeatedly proven that it is hard to say no to a tasty treat if it’s sitting right in front of you. Psychologists have used the Stanford marshmallow experiment since the early 1970s to study how delayed gratification and self-control work. In the experiment, scientists offer a child…
Like many “solopreneurs,” home service professionals have to balance doing the work while also managing a business. Topline Pro wants to take some of that burden off the shoulders of professionals so they can concentrate on customers. New York-based Topline Pro, formerly ProPhone, does this by leveraging generative artificial intelligence to provide a way for…
The concepts of life and death in most games are represented by the ability to keep playing, or the need to stop and start over. In Supermassive Games’ most recent lost-in-the-woods monster adventure The Quarry, death is an intrinsic part of the fun, like in a horror movie. “It’s less of a game that you…
Natalie Curtis was traveling from Singapore to Bangkok with the Australian budget airline, Jetstar. Suparat Chairatprasert/Shutterstock A woman says she was forced to crawl off a plane after staff couldn’t provide a wheelchair for her. Natalie Curtis was traveling from Singapore to Bangkok with the Australian budget airline, Jetstar. A spokesperson for Jetstar said the…