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Samsung finds evidence of child labor at a supplier’s China factory and suspends business with it

Jul14
by on July 14, 2014 at 2:49 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, supplier

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Samsung was “urgently” looking into fresh allegations of child labor at a supplier’s China factory last week, after New York-based watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) accused the Korean company of employing underaged workers at Shinyang Electronics. Now Samsung has just announced that it has “temporarily suspended business with the factory in question” after it indeed found evidence of child labor at the factory. This comes despite Samsung earlier saying that it didn’t find any cases of child labor even after conducting audits on three occasions since 2013, with the latest one ending June 25 this year. “In the separate investigation following the…

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Google’s Ingress augmented reality game quietly launches for iOS devices

Jul14
by on July 14, 2014 at 2:35 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google

Google is inviting iPhone and iPad owners into its augmented reality game Ingress after it finally launched an iOS app. The Android version opened to all last December, and now it has quietly made its way into the App Store without an official announcement from Google — save this Google+ post from gamer Fevenis Silverwind of Niantic Labs, the Google-run company that operates the unique game. For those who are unaware of it, Ingress is a mobile-based alternate reality game in which players are part of either the resistance or enlightened teams battling to collect and control the powerful ‘Exotic Matter,’ which is virtually located…

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How we increased our activation rate from 2% to 30% in 10 steps

Jul13
by on July 13, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, How-To's

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David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo, helping teams organize using simple #hashtags. This post originally appeared on the Twoodo blog. One of the greatest lessons of the past few months is that when building a SaaS company you shouldn’t overlook the soft data just because it’s not hard data. This is especially true when following lean methodology. Talk to your customers, always. Especially if you are serious about increasing your activation rate. Okay, so that’s easy to say, but what does it actually mean and how do you implement it? I’d like to share with you the tips, tricks and…

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How to get maximum TNW in your life

Jul13
by on July 13, 2014 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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If you’re an occasional visitor to TNW, you might not be aware of all that we’ve got to offer. It’s time to change that! Here are the many ways to follow our reporting: Via our site | TheNextWeb.com / tnw.co / tnw.to It doesn’t matter whether you have a desktop PC, a tablet or a smart phone; our website is optimized to look good and handle well on all platforms. Give it a try! And while you are at it, why not bookmark it so it will be easier to get back to? Our RSS feeds | feeds2.feedburner.com/thenextweb  We have a nice RSS feed that always…

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Disruption? Not if you are making the same people rich…

Jul13
by on July 13, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Marty Puranik is the CEO of Atlantic.Net. Disrupt. Disruption. It seems this has now become the raison d’être for this generation’s startup scene. TechCrunch proudly uses the moniker to describe its two coastal events: Disrupt NY and Disrupt SF. It’s a brand that has now expanded to Europe and China. Quod erat demonstrandum. We all love the story of ‘Joe Everyman Twenty Something’ stumbling upon internet gold, swashbuckling across the bow of capitalism with a trendy new website which turns into a multi-billion dollar IPO. It could happen to you, or your kids, or at least your kids’ friends, you know, the smart ones… right? But what…

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