The rule of 78 is a revenue formula for subscription-based companies. Put simply, if you close a deal in January, you earn that recurring revenue every month throughout the year (assuming you keep that customer for the full 12 months). When you close in December, you only realize one month of revenue. The sum of all numbers between one and 12 is 78, hence the name. As a SaaS company, Sprout’s team keeps the rule of 78 top of mind as we plan for a new year....

Back in the late 1990s, director Joel Schumacher’s film Batman & Robin left the Batman movie franchise dead in the water, for nearly a decade. Thankfully, there soon arrived a filmmaker worthy of resurrecting the Caped Crusader on film: Christopher Nolan. Then still-rising through the Hollywood ranks - but already known for films like Memento and Insomnia - Nolan eschewed Schumacher’s colorful aesthetic, in favor of grounding both Batman and his home city of Gotham in gritty, brutal realism....

Days Gone is at it’s best when giant hordes of Freakers are running to the get their next meal, you. Set in a post-apocalyptic Oregon almost two years after the world has been overrun a zombie-like virus. Days Gone follows the story of Deacon St. John, a former member of a biker gang. Deacon must fight off “freakers” and help his small area of the world while searching for his missing wife....

The return of Hal Jordan to the title role of The Green Lantern was anything but a nostalgia trip, as the rise of the Blackstars saw Hal turned to their side, and the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps. Thankfully, he’s back to being a Lantern… but things definitely aren’t back to normal. After a cryptic tease of his new ring offering new abilities and technology, Hal has finally shown just what could be possible in The Green Lantern: Season Two....

The deadline for the TikTok sale ordered by the Trump administration has slipped again. It was earlier extended until November 27, and has now been further extended until December 4 … Bloomberg reports. TikTok has also filed a number of legal challenges to the forced sale. A US court delayed a scheduled ban on the app back in September, and other cases are yet to be heard. The Trump administration has given TikTok’s Chinese owner another week to complete a sale of its popular video-sharing app in order to resolve U....

Marvel Comics artist Joe Quesada shares new artwork for The Defenders Netflix series. Now that Iron Fist is out, Marvel and Netflix are all ready to bring together The Defenders to face a threat bigger than the individual heroes. So far, we’ve only had hints as to what we should expect. We know there will be a corporate element to the battle, teased in a recent video for The Defenders. It’s also been alluded to in a batch of headlines from the Daily Bulletin on the show’s viral website....

Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we’re rounding up the best or most notable projects from around the crowdfunding web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup. If there’s a project that you’ve backed – or even a project that you founded – be sure to leave a link below so it can be considered for the next roundup. Check out our complete list of roundups here....

The developers behind Cuphead would be eager to see characters from the game appear in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - but it’ll ultimately come down to fan demand. In a surprising twist, it was recently confirmed that the smash-hit indie game Cuphead will be arriving on Nintendo Switch this April. The game was previously an Xbox console exclusive, but Microsoft and developer StudioMDHR opted to bring the game to Nintendo’s platform....

The CW’s Nancy Drew pilot has cast Freddie Prinze Jr. as Nancy’s estranged dad. Prinze was arguably one of the most well-known teen stars of the 1990s and early 2000s, starring in a host of popular rom-coms and horror films, including a stint as Fred in the Scooby-Doo live-action films and a small role on Friends. Based on the long-running series of novels about a young girl who excels at solving mysteries, the Nancy Drew TV adaptation will follow the famous teen sleuth as she works to crack a harrowing murder case that holds her back from her first year at college....

30 Rock is filled with insane cartoon-like characters that you’d find nowhere else. Each back story is complicated and outrageous to the point where it sounds both believable and completely fantastical in a “They must be lying,” sot of sense. It makes it a curious thought on what their Alignments would be considering most of the characters are mostly out for themselves in their crazy world of immortality and pets as father figure replacements who also die horribly....

Daybreak season 2 has an interesting path, and here’s what fans can expect from a potential second season. Based on Brian Ralph’s graphic novel series, the post-apocalyptic dramedy premiered in October 2019. Director Brad Peyton and comic writer Aron Eli Coleite developed Daybreak season 1 for television. Daybreak season 1 stars Colin Ford (Under the Dome) as Josh Wheeler, a Los Angeles outcast who explains in-universe survival rules to the audience, and hopes to locate his long-lost girlfriend Samaira Dean (Sophie Simnett), otherwise known as Sam....

The new ransomware for Microsoft Exchange servers globally takes advantage of the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities and the exploits are then published on several resources on the internet. According to Michael Gillespie, owner of the ID-Ransomware platform, a new ransomware note and encrypted files were submitted on March 9 into the online platform, and after an analysis of the files, he discovered that users submitted almost all of the files from Microsoft Exchange servers....

The Death Stranding ending will have fans talking for years. Hideo Kojima’s first game since his departure from Konami way back in 2015 delivered on the hype in a big way, eliciting a number of perfect scores from reviewers. It also divided Death Stranding critics, however, with some taking umbrage with the fact that it featured lengthy gameplay loops of brutal traveling - or that the game features a canteen that converts water into Monster energy drink to help replenish Sam Bridges’ stamina....

If you use an Android phone or have been on the internet for a while, you probably have a Google account. There’s no denying the fact that Google collects a massive amount of user data. To make matters worse, most users aren’t aware of this. Fortunately, Google gives users the option to view all the recorded activity from their devices. When you sign in to an Android smartphone with your Google account, almost everything you do on that device is recorded....

In the film A Dog’s Purpose, beloved dog Bailey finally reunited with his “boy” Ethan, (played by Dennis Quaid) after many years (and many lives as other dogs). In the follow up film, A Dog’s Journey, we catch up with Ethan and his wife (played by Marg Helgenberger) as the story continues on as Bailey has a new purpose, making sure Ethan’s granddaughter CJ is safe. Dennis Quaid returns to the role of Ethan for the sequel and Screen Rant got the chance to talk to him and co-star Marg Helgenberger about the new film....

The next sourcebook for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition will take players to Wildemount, the setting of the popular roleplaying show Critical Role. Recent crossovers have mashed up Dungeons and Dragons with Magic: The Gathering, the Acquisitions Incorporated actual play show, and even Rick and Morty. Starting as an actual play show in 2015, Critical Role has grown over the years into a massively successful enterprise with a devoted legion of fans who call themselves Critters....

Paradox Development Studio and Paradox Interactive have come up with the latest historical grand strategy-based video game called Crusader Kings III which is set to Middle Ages. It’s the second part of the Crusader Kings & Crusader Kings II. Though the game is available to purchase for Windows, some of the unaware macOS and Linux PC users are asking when will the Crusader Kings 3 come to Mac or Linux or what will be the release date....

Today night city districts and maps will be explained here. The map of cyberpunk 2077 is divided into two different kinds of settings: the City and the Wasteland. After the climate change of the mid-90s of this universe, most parts of America became a desert, many small towns were abandoned, like local farms, businesses, and the bank collapsed in the wake of the drought, famine, and economic chaos. As it was impossible to grow crops in the post-climate change soil unless you were a huge corp with lots of resources, farmers were forced to leave their field for the cities or became nomads....

1. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized The DarkSide ransomware gang announced it was closing up shop after its servers were seized and someone drained the cryptocurrency from an account the group uses to pay affiliates. The farewell message includes passages apparently written by a leader of the REvil ransomware-as-a-service platform. Read more » 2. STRRAT RAT masquerading as ransomware Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan tracked as STRRAT....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian will have panels at this year’s D23 Expo, and here are the dates and times fans should mark down before the event. 2019 is going to be one of the most significant years for the galaxy far, far away. Not only does Star Wars 9 officially end the Skywalker saga after 42 years, The Mandalorian marks the franchise’s first foray into live-action television....