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A new women’s boutique will open in Green Spring Station in April, replacing a shop that has been there for 36 years, one of the center’s owners said Monday.
Carole Halverstadt, the longtime owner of Craft Concepts, is closing the store at the end of February. Boutique W., which purchased the business,…
Samsung’s New Galaxy S7 Phones: Improved Looks, Power, And Low-Light Photos
Samsung’s new flagship phones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, go on sale through the major U.S. wireless carriers March 11.
Samsung today unveiled its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge, which extend and refine the curved-glass motif of the S6 line released last year.
Samsung’s New Gear 360 Camera Is Ideal For Shooting VR Video
The new device features a pair of fisheye lenses and lets users post video straight to YouTube or Facebook from a mobile app.
Samsung today unveiled a stand-alone consumer camera that shoots 360-degree still photos and videos that, among other things, are ideal for virtual reality headsets, including the Korean company’s own Gear VR.
Facebook Signals It’s All-In On VR
Facebook has created a Social VR team to help figure out how best to help people use the technology to connect with each other.
Facebook wants the world to know that it’s all in on virtual reality.
Facebook Says It Has Created The Most Accurate Population Density Models Ever
Facebook analyzed 14.6 billion satellite images to create the models. It plans on making them available to anyone.
Leveraging in-house data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence expertise, Facebook has come up with what it says are the most accurate and scalable population density models ever assembled.
4 Success Secrets Startups Can Learn From eBay
He helped grow eBay into an e-commerce powerhouse, and now he’s investing in startups. Here are the four characteristics he looks for.
Startups that are looking for funding might think an innovative product or service is what will wow investors, but Erik Rannala, cofounder and managing partner of the seed-stage venture fund Mucker Capital, says that’s just one piece.
BuzzFeed’s Quest For Impact In The Viral News Era
BuzzFeed is committed to building a world-class news organization, but measuring its effectiveness is no simple task.
When BuzzFeed CEO and founder Jonah Peretti announced the company’s distributed publishing strategy nearly a year ago, it was accompanied by a new metric with which to measure BuzzFeed‘s reach across multiple platforms. A few weeks later, BuzzFeed announced it had surpassed 5 billion “content views.” In a post last week, publisher Dao Nguyen revealed that time spent and engagement are now equally important ways that her team measures the success of their content across the globe.
