The NBA’s Latest Attempt to Promote Competition: $200-Million Contracts

What does it take to keep a basketball player from leaving his team? Some Utah Jazz fans are hoping a billboard will help. With the team’s season over, its  27-year-old star Gordon Hayward is eligible to enter free agency and likely to entertain enormous contract offers from several teams in July. In anticipation, some Salt […]

Everyday Curation – Using Ordinary Tools To Promote 1000 Game Developers

Making games is a daunting process. Releasing them even more so. Managing to survive both of those things, only to be met with indifference and silence, can be crushing. This happens all the time in this industry, though. Games, large and small, are met with no fanfare when they release, finding small audiences and few […]

A former Google exec explains why bosses at the company can’t fire, hire, or promote their employees

Sam Rega/Business Insider Being a manager at Google is a bit different from being a manager anywhere else. That’s because the company makes nearly all decisions by consensus, explains Kim Scott, the bestselling author of “Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.”  Scott once led Adsense and YouTube at Google. These days, […]

This plus-size woman posts semi-NAKED pictures online to promote larger bodies

The blogger, who refers to herself as a “plus size influencer”, on her account with almost 10,000 followers, posts the half naked images of herself online to help women embrace being larger. Jasmine Grimes, a 24-year-old from San Francisco, believes posting images of herself in her underwear will encourage other larger women to feel better […]

Kim Kardashian launches Facebook Messenger bot to promote her mobile game

Kim Kardashian West launched chatbots for Facebook Messenger and Kik today to connect them with her game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood available for iOS and Android smartphones. The virtual Kardashian will ask you what it should wear (Latex dress or lamé jumpsuit?), and asks you to help solve a set of riddles from Kim’s mom Kris Jenner that ends up […]

Lithuania caught using images of OTHER countries to promote itself

The Baltic European country has been ridiculed on social media after the bizarre scandal.  Lithuania’s tourism board created a Facebook page called “Lithuania. Real is beautiful” to entice visitors to the country.  There was just one problem – the photos weren’t real at all.  They instead depicted scenes from other countries including Slovakia and Finland.  […]

California utility companies pulling out all stops to promote electric vehicles

Three major investor-owned California utility companies submitted proposals in support of clean air mandates aimed at increasing EV adoption. Proposals included fast-charging infrastructure build-out, fleet deployments, and consumer incentives. The post California utility companies pulling out all stops to promote electric vehicles appeared first on Digital Trends. Cars–Digital Trends