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Alibaba eyes digital content as its founder and other partners shell out $1b for Wasu Media stake
Apr09
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba developed a smart TV operating system last year and started working with a number of partners to come up with smart TVs, set-top boxes and services to run inside them. Now, the company is stepping up efforts to boost digital content as it seeks to engage users and conquer the living room of the Chinese — via an affiliated $1 billion investment deal, as well as a strategic cooperation agreement. Alibaba Chairman and founder Jack Ma and co-founder Simon Xie, along with Chinese billionaire Shi Yuzhu, are shelling out CNY6.54 billion ($1.05 billion) for a 20 percent stake in digital media…
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Daniel Glickman is CMO of PowToon, an animated videos & presentations platform. In this brilliant digital era, consumers are watching more videos now than ever – in fact by 2016, the number of people who watch online videos is expected to reach 1.5 billion. Standing out in the crowd is remarkably difficult and growing harder by the minute. Analyzing data of 2 million videos created in a well-known platform, here are 3 facts that you need to know about using Videos to generate conversions in your landing page. Fact #1: Landing pages with video are likely to convert You did your…
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Hands-on with Glowdeck, a beautiful 3-in-1 wireless charger, speaker and notification center
Apr08
on April 8, 2014
at 7:25 pm
Notification centers, Bluetooth speakers, and wireless charging docks are nothing new – but the concepts find a common place in the Glowdeck, a Kickstarter project that combines all three functionalities in one package – and a single price tag. Until now, we’ve seen these three types of gadgets designed for various consumer types. The Quirky Nimbus clock is a cute tool for data nerds, the Jawbone Jambox (and other iterations of sleek wireless speakers) target the design-obsessed, and inductive chargers like the Duracell Powermat want to help do away with cable wires. The problem? To own all these devices, you’re looking to spend…
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Google today released Chrome version 34 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new version includes support for responsive images, an unprefixed version of the Web Audio API, and importing supervised users. You can update to the latest release now using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. First off, Google is introducing the “srcset” attribute to let Web developers provide multiple resources in varying resolutions for a single image, in the hopes of speeding up page load times, reducing wasted bandwidth, and ending improperly formatted content. In short, support for responsive images means the browser picks…
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