From Instagram to WhatsApp: A Timeline of Facebook's Acquisitions (Infographic)

Take a look at this infographic to learn more about the companies Facebook has purchased, and determine for yourself which you think were worth the money. Even more, learn about some of the rising and falling trends that have taken place in the tech industry since 2005. | Continue reading


@digitalinformationworld.com | 7 years ago

One of the best iPhone games gets a long-awaited update

There aren't many mobile games that can stand the test of time. That's why many consider Tiny Wings, a whimsical yet infuriatingly addictive game that came years before Flappy Bird, one of the best games to ever land on the iPhone. On Thursday, Tiny Wings' developer gave fans an … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

Dauntless is a co-op RPG about hunting magical dinosaurs

Have you ever thought games like Diablo and Torchlight would be better if only they had dinosaurs? Well, Dauntless might just be for you.The upcoming action role-playing game takes place in a fantasy realm threatened by massive, dinosaur-like beasts called behemoths, and puts you … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

More cloud storage options available for Office for Android

Microsoft brings good news for Android Office users: you can now save and update your Office files on more cloud storage platforms like Dropbox. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy game is official, and coming in 2017

Last month news of a Guardians of the Galaxy game from Telltale leaked out, and now the game is official. Telltale unveiled its latest project at the 2016 edition of the Game Awards in Los Angeles, though we don’t know much about the game itself. The teaser is less than a minute … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

RPG Reload Developer Spotlight 003 - Kepa Auwae from RocketCat Games

It's time for the next installment in our monthly series of articles looking at the developers and publishers behind some of our favorite games. The aim here is for you readers to get a sense of the person, so the tone is more conversational than we usually use in interviews here … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Watch a creepy new Death Stranding trailer featuring Mads Mikkelsen and Guillermo del Toro

Hideo Kojima took the stage at The 2016 Game Awards to unveil a new cryptic trailer for Death Stranding, the first game from the famous game developer after leaving Konami last year to turn Kojima Productions into an independent studio. Death Stranding is also the first game from … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Moto Mod smart car dock from Incipio announced for Moto Z

Incipio will launch a Moto Mod smart car dock for the Moto Z family of smartphones. It will go on sale sometime next week for $64.99. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Death Stranding's second trailer is even stranger than its first

Hideo Kojima just revealed a second trailer for Death Stranding at The Game Awards tonight.The new trailer confirms what we pretty much already knew: that Hannibal and Men & Chicken actor Mads Mikkelsen will star in it alongside Norman Reedus.What we didn't know is that the game … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Bulletstorm remaster due in April via Gearbox

People Can Fly's brilliant first-person shooter Bulletstorm is getting a remaster on 7th April for PS4, Xbox One and PC, via publisher Gearbox.Dubbed Bullestorm Full Clip Edition, Gearbox decided to Gearbox it up by adding Duke Nukem as a playable character with iconic voice acto … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Star Wars holochess-inspired AR game Hologrid: Monster Battle hits closed beta

You can now let the Wookie win. Happy Giant and the Tippet Studio announced that HoloGrid: Monster Battle is now on sale on mobile and is entering a closed beta in which you can play the game with cutouts as you wait for the boxed product to arrive. Phil Tippet is behind the visu … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Minecraft Pocket Edition celebrates its 5th birthday with new info on 1.0 update

Mojang is celebrating the 5th anniversary of the launch of Minecraft Pocket Edition today with new info, and a trailer, on the upcoming 1.0 update. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Shigeru Miyamoto Will Talk 'Super Mario Run' on Dec. 8th in NY

If you live around New York City and want to get an early taste of Super Mario Run [Free], go here quickly to RSVP (although chances are it's already full). On December 8th, the Apple Store at SoHo will be hosting Shigeru Miyamoto for a conversation about everything Super Mario R … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Intel and Amazon to release a smart speaker reference design

Intel and Amazon plan to work together on a series of smart home initiatives in the near future, the companies announced today in conjunction with Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. Most notably, the companies plan to create a reference design … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

ESPN app updated with Chromecast and live streaming support

The ESPN sports news and video app has been updated for Android, adding support for casting live games via Chromecast along with new live streaming support. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

November 28 Content Chat Recap: Taking a Data-driven Approach to Your Content Planning Process

Allen Gannett, CEO of TrackMaven, shares his perspectives on how to use data insights in your content marketing planning process with #ContentChat. | Continue reading


@erikaheald.com | 7 years ago

AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner likely to be approved under Trump

Will Trump violate another campaign promise? During his campaign for President, Donald Trump declared that he would not approve a proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner on the grounds the deal represented “too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.” But as wit … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Facebook quietly tests fake news flagging

Signs of Facebook’s much-anticipated war on fake news are bubbling up into the newsfeeds of some users. The fake news flag tests appear to have been around for over a week, though seem to be vanishing as quickly as they appear. That behavior is in line with the way Facebook regul … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

Snapchat Spectacles, Oculus Touch and Product Hunt: Listen to TCBC 10 with Fitz Tepper

Spectacles are all the rage, but me and this week’s guest Fitz Tepper have already stopped using ours pretty much. Maybe we’re just not cool. Still, the hardware from Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. is the most interesting gadget created in recent memory, and Snap’s future plays in ha … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

We're Streaming iOS Games Live on Mobcrush [Hearthstone: New Gadgetzan Cards]

We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

5 ways to create more persuasive blog posts

For a blog post to be truly effective, it must be persuasive. This is especially true when you’re marketing a product, brand, or business online. You must persuade the reader that your idea, opinion, or business offering is superior to that of your competitors. Once you have lear … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Blizzard fixes Hearthstone: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan pack bug and will compensate players

Your luck is terrible, but it’s probably not as bad as you think it is if you just finished getting an abnormal number of duplicate cards from the new expansion in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment has confirmed that a bug caused certain cards to drop at a h … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Prescription lenses for Snap Inc.’s ‘Spectacles’ are now a thing, apparently

If you have a ‘four eyes is better than two’ approach to, you know, seeing; the Christmas season jut got a lot less blurry. Thanks to Rochester Optical, a lens manufacturer in Rochester, New York, you can now cop prescription lenses for your brand new Spectacles — if you can find … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

GizmoTab is a tablet made with both kids and parents in mind

Verizon Wireless has started selling the GizmoTab, a new 8-inch Android tablet that's been designed for kids, but can also be used by their parents as well. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

William Grant & Sons curates Scottish winter terrace

William Grant & Sons whisky brands Glenfiddich and The Balvenie have partnered with Knightsbridge restaurant The Rib Room and Terrace to create a cosy Scottish retreat. | Continue reading


@eventmagazine.co.uk | 7 years ago

Twitter buys startup Yes, Inc. and scores a new VP of product in the process

One-hundred and forty-three. That’s not the new character limit or the number of heads of product Twitter has employed over the few years (though close). That, rather, is the amount of times the new fellow filling that role has tweeted over the course of the past nine years – a n … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

PlayStation VR headsets in Japan live in cute little prisons

To fully appreciate virtual reality, you have to try it yourself. That’s why retailers have demo stations set up for HTC Vive and PlayStation VR headsets throughout the United States. But that’s not what is happening for PSVR in Japan. Sony Interactive Entertainment has released … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

Deal: grab a ZTE Axon 7 Mini for just $199 at Best Buy this weekend (US)

Looking to buy an affordable smartphone that’s still pretty to look at? You're in luck, because Best Buy is offering a discount on the ZTE Axon 7 Mini! | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Blog: 'Grammar School' response

Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading


@thersa.org | 7 years ago

Bullpen closes its third fund at $75 million to back post-seed stage startups

Bullpen Capital, a venture firm that specializes in post-seed stage deals, has closed its third fund at $75 million. The firm invests in companies that previously closed a seed round of investment, showed solid signs of traction, but have been dubbed too early for traditional VC’ … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 7 years ago

'Detective Pikachu' Pokemon Film Gets 'Goosebumps' Director

It seems everyone is talking about Pokemon again, although this time it's primarily about Pokemon Sun and Moon rather than Pokemon GO. In addition to those two very popular games, there's also a Pokemon film on the way, as we've talked about in the past. After getting Nicole Perl … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Transformers: Forged to Fight will roll out on Android in Spring 2017

Developer Kabam will release Transformers: Forged to Fight, a fighting-RPG title based on the "robots in disguise" franchise, in the spring of 2017. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Twitter has a new head of product who barely uses the product

Twitter’s ceaseless search for someone to tell the social network where to go and how to get there has come to a momentary pause. The company announced today, on Twitter of course, that it has hired startup founder Keith Coleman as vice president of product. Coleman, according to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Verizon begins rolling out Nougat update to LG G5

Verizon Wireless has quietly become the latest US wireless carrier to begin rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update to the LG G5 smartphone. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Blizzard Fixes 'Gadgetzan' Tri-Class Pack Bug, Open Your 'Hearthstone' Packs Freely

If you haven't been watching, the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs from Hearthstone's [Free] latest expansion came with an unintentional bug that made the drop rate of tri-class cards higher than intended. Well, Blizzard has just announced that a hotfix has been rolled out to all … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

Watch us get a little silly as we open 59 Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card packs in Hearthstone

Everyone, get in here — to open some card packs! This morning, Blizzard Entertainment released Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, the fourth expansion to Hearthstone. It adds 132 cards to the leader in the $1.2 billion global digital card-game market, and it introduces new features as we … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 7 years ago

MapReduce - munching through Big Data

How Google tackled the problem of processing enormous amounts of data, and how you can do the same with Go. | Continue reading


@appliedgo.net | 7 years ago

L4 Digital: First Impressions

This week was my first week at L4 Digital! | Continue reading


@blog.cassidoo.co | 7 years ago

US secretary of energy: to stop nuclear tests abroad, the US should ban them at home

The United States needs to keep its nukes but put an end to nuclear weapons tests worldwide. That’s the advice that Ernest Moniz, the outgoing US secretary of energy, has for the upcoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. It’s possible to test nuclear weapons withou … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

'Marvel Puzzle Quest' Adds Medusa and Releases Silly Commercial

Marvel Puzzle Quest [Free] has been adding new characters frequently, and this time around we are getting Medusa, Queen of the Inhumans. As producers Josh Austin explained, Medusa won the poll that the developers conducted over the summer, so it looks like the players really want … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 7 years ago

You can drive underwater with this sportscar-like submarine

'The Undersea Aquahoverer' is a personal submarine that looks just like a sportscar. And it requires no other skill than knowing how to drive a real car. James Bond would have loved this invention. Read more...More about Mashable Video, James Bond, Underwater, Real Time Video, an … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

This Week in Native Ads 12/1

After a break, through Thanksgiving, it's a double whammy mega edition this week. Fake news is the big topic, with Zuckerburg unable to articulate their approach, made worse by Ev Williams's post on Medium. A lot of informal discussion around how it impacts the companies that rel … | Continue reading


@giveitanudge.com | 7 years ago

Bitcoin Price Keeps Breaching $750

Bitcoin surpassed $750 on 1st December, rising past this key psychological level but failing to reach $755. Source | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 7 years ago

Ixoost's $21,000 speaker is the sickest Lambo I've ever seen

As anyone knows, the pinnacle achievement for any vehicle is to be a sick Lambo. Whether a motorized arm chair, or an amphibious faux-Lamborghini Countach, any car can be a "sick Lambo" if it has enough spirit, drive, and confidence.But did you know that speakers can also be sick … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 7 years ago

Watch nine minutes of The Signal From Tölva gameplay

Open-world sci-fi shooter The Signal From Tölva has received a nine-minute developer walkthrough showing off some of its niftiest features.Developed by Big Robot, the folks behind Sir, You Are Being Hunted, The Signal From Tölva follows the exploits of a robot investigating a mys … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 7 years ago

Screen-on time: Why is it important, and how can I extend it?

Screen on time has become one of the most popular metrics when it comes to reviewing devices, but why is that? And are there any downsides? Good question. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 7 years ago

Facebook wants to teach you all about how AI works

Pay attention, everyone: Facebook is trying to teach you something. Since you probably let the social network distract you from just about every other educational opportunity that comes your way, you should at least learn a bit now.  SEE ALSO: Facebook to roomful of journalists: … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 7 years ago

How to Sell Content Strategy to Your Boss

You're not the only one who's struggled with this. Take a few tips from a marketer who's done this both in-house, and at an agency. | Continue reading


@portent.com | 7 years ago