Booking and comedy entertainment firm Levity Entertainment Group has acquired comedy club brand The Improv, a 54-year-old comedy chain and video company owned by Budd Friedman and Mark Lonow. Azoff MSG Entertainment owns 50 percent of Levity Entertainment Group, buying a stake of the firm in 2014shortly after music manager and mogul Irving Azoff formed a joint venture with MSG Chairman James Dolan. Purchasing The […]

Woodpeckers repeatedly whack their heads against trees with a force 10 times that of a concussion-inducing football tackle, yet they seem no worse for the wear. That has inspired some athletic companies to model helmets and neck collars on the head-banging birds. But woodpeckers may not be immune to head trauma after all. A new study […]

Alphabet has more than a dozen different businesses, but it’s still an advertising company through-and-through, as this chart shows. The company reported fourth quarter earnings on Thursday, which revealed that it still makes 84 percent of its revenue from advertising, with 14.5 percent coming from the likes of its cloud unit and hardware, and 1.2 percent coming from […]

At the recently concluded annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that brought together world leaders and top thinkers in different fields, a panel on the dangers of emerging technology raised some strong alarms. The January 25th panel “Future Shocks: Rogue Technology” featured the chairman and CEO of Salesforce Marc R. Benioff, the director of […]

Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn’t want to censor the news on Facebook because users are best-positioned to judge the credibility of content. “What we try to do is get our community to tell us what matters to them. … People are smart. They know what they want and what’s good. And they can tell us that […]

Called PathWave, the aim is to have a common software platform for product development, supporting design and manufacturing. It is based on a suite of interoperable design and test tools with associated data management. PathWave is a scalable and an AI-based predictive software platform that combines design software, instrument control, and application-specific test software in […]

On January 29th, 2018 (PXT), Bitigex release conference was grand held in Los Angeles, USA, attracting fans from cultural industry, game, and blockchain community.  The Bitigex core founding team introduced the features of Bitigex to the guests, and shared the advanced concept of Bitigex’s “cultural industry + blockchain”. Bitigex is the first global digital assets exchange platform […]

Online hair and beauty bookings system JOLYY plans to build a Blockchain-powered platform, in a bid to increase its efficiency and lower costs for salons and clients alike. The company believes that the beauty industry is one of the noticeable few markets yet to tap into the enormous potential of digital …

The European Commission announced in a press release today, Feb. 1, the launch of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum in a major step aimed at “uniting” the economy around Blockchain. In the most hands-on step to leverage the promise of the technology to date for the EU, the project will …

Online Travel Agents are declining in popularity as people are looking elsewhere for real choice. Can Winding Tree rewind this? Does airfare make any sense to you? Are you completely flummoxed at how complex it is to really find an airline ticket at a decent price? Sometimes flying from an airport further away from your […]