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Marketing campaigns don’t have to cost a fortune. Get a custom one for $49.

{$inline_image}Viral Loops is dedicated to helping e-commerce stores and other online businesses generate more customers through the oldest form of marketing there is — word of mouth. Viral Loops has analyzed some of the most impactful viral and referral programs around, then distilled them into easy-to-deploy templates to fit your specific marketing need. Marketing campaigns

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Spotify beats Q3 expectations with premium subscribers rising 31% YoY to 113M, MAUs growing 30% YoY to 248M, on revenue of €1.73B, up 28% YoY (Spotify)

Spotify: Spotify beats Q3 expectations with premium subscribers rising 31% YoY to 113M, MAUs growing 30% YoY to 248M, on revenue of €1.73B, up 28% YoY  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the third fiscal quarter of 2019 ending September 30, 2019. Spotify beats Q3 expectations with premium

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Fairmarkit, a platform that automates enterprise procurement of goods like office or cleaning supplies and services, raises $11M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Fairmarkit, a platform that automates enterprise procurement of goods like office or cleaning supplies and services, raises $11M Series A  —  Tail spend — the purchases enterprises make outside their large, ongoing expenses — is a tricky business.  While direct spend is usually well managed … Fairmarkit, a platform that automates

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Rural China added 3M internet users in the first half of 2019, bringing the total number to 225M, or 26% of China's total internet population (Celia Chen/South China Morning Post)

Celia Chen / South China Morning Post: Rural China added 3M internet users in the first half of 2019, bringing the total number to 225M, or 26% of China’s total internet population  —  Rural China added 3 million more internet users in the first half, taking the total number to 225 million, or 26.3 per

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Oops — Adobe leaves 7.5 million Creative Cloud accounts exposed

Earlier this month, Adobe was the victim of a serious security incident that exposed the personal information of nearly 7.5 million users belonging to the company’s popular Creative Cloud service. Per security firm Comparitech, the software giant left an Elasticsearch server unsecured that was accessible on the web without any password or authentication. The leak, which was

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Making A Bronze Cannon From Scratch

Casting metal at home is somewhat tricky, but there’s no denying the results can be quite rewarding. [FarmCraft101] put his incredible craftsmanship on display, and learned a few new things in the process, by scratch building a scale replica bronze cannon and carriage. Starting with a sufficient quantity of scrap metal, he first produced bronze

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