Y’all are spending some serious cash on in-game purchases in Activision games. The Call of Duty and Destiny publisher reported the results of its fiscal third quarter today, and it revealed that its games saw a record of nearly $1 billion in revenues from spending on in-game cont … | Continue reading
Reports that China may soon take actions to limit domestic bitcoin exchanges caused notable market activity today.Source | Continue reading
Starship Troopers is one of the best-known and most divisive works of science fiction, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, a reboot is in the works from the writers behind the upcoming Baywatch movie.THR reports that the film will be written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, … | Continue reading
Twilio ($TWLO) has released its earnings for the third quarter, reporting that it generated $71.53 million in revenue with a non-GAAP net loss of 4 cents per share. Revenue was up 62 percent year over year. Wall Street analysts had expected that the company would have $66.77 mill … | Continue reading
"Rhapsody in white" is a 92 sqm attic flat renovated by Slovakian studio at26. The flat is located at the top of block of flats dating back ... | Continue reading
Binh House is a single-family home designed by Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects in 2016. The house stands out with wide openings ... | Continue reading
There’s no shortage of competition in the housing space, but Apartment List is making a dent in rentals. With over 5% of America’s listings already on the site, the startup is raising $30 million in a round led by Canaan partners to take the business to the next level. “Our goal … | Continue reading
Expectations were incredibly low for GoPro this go around and yet somehow the company managed to out do even analyst’s worst fears. The company’s stock trading was halted prior to releasing results that missed revenue expectations by 23 percent and nearly $75 million. When tradin … | Continue reading
For those who have been following the developments in cryptocurrency sector from past couple of years, the BitLicense fiasco is quite familiar. The cryptocurrency industry was in for a shock last year after the New York Department of Financial Services decided to implement regula … | Continue reading
Activision Blizzard, one of the world’s biggest game publishers, beat earnings expectations for its third quarter ended September 30. The company said non-GAAP revenues for the third quarter were $1.57 billion, up 58 percent from $990 million a year earlier. Non-GAAP earnings per … | Continue reading
From robot cookie makers to lightbulbs that double as phone chargers, Silicon Valley is great at selling us random gadgets we didn’t know we need. And while it’s cool if you’re into automated pita bread warmers of the future, it’s what happens after you put these devices through … | Continue reading
Ubisoft beat its guidance for the first half of the company’s fiscal 2017, but it is taking a conservative outlook for the rest of the year because it isn’t sure how gamers will react to Watch Dogs 2. Through the six-month period ending September 30, Ubisoft has generated $312 mi … | Continue reading
Zarget announced yesterday that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Arvind Parthiban said Zarget’s goal is to build a full suite of products for small businesses to track and optimize websites — one that could be used by “a tech-savvy marketer like me … | Continue reading
Lenn “Gio” Fraraccio normally spends his days selling printers to schools, but today, the Florida-based sports fan is already on his 10th interview — a first for the 47-year-old father of two and husband for 20 years. You see, in 2014 Fraraccio correctly predicted the Cubs and In … | Continue reading
More than 90 percent of all phishing emails are now ransomware. The average amount paid via ransomware has grown from $40 in 2009 to $1,000 in 2016. This amount will grow even faster as ransomware moves to enterprise. Read More | Continue reading
Meet the finalists of Cisco's Innovation Grand Challenge, who will compete live at Web Summit. | Continue reading
TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening in SF on November 15th! Vanessa Larco, Pete Sonsini and Rick Yang of NEA will join TechCrunch to provide advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities … | Continue reading
Lenovo announced that it sold 14 million smartphones during the third quarter of 2016, while sales from its Motorola division got a big boost. | Continue reading
An international body of regulators and government officials created in the wake of the 2008 financial panic is expanding its work on blockchain.Source | Continue reading
Standalone virtual reality headsets tend to come in only one flavor. Typically, your smartphone slides into a pair of goggles, and from there the headset becomes a single unit relying on the phone’s display. This means there are no cords keeping you tethered to a computer, but it … | Continue reading
Google today announced a few new features for developers building apps for the Google Play Store. For one thing, Google will be providing a new option for subscription pricing for apps that are available through its Android app store. Ultimately, the change will let end users tak … | Continue reading
Zynga has had a long march over the past five years as it has tried to recapture a position in mobile games that mirrors what it once had in Facebook social games. As Facebook desktop games have declined, the company has launched new games in its CSR, FarmVille, and social casino … | Continue reading
At its Playtime event for Android developers today, Google announced that apps on the Play Store will soon gain a new option that could have huge implications for subscriptions: temporary promotional pricing. "Coming soon, you'll be able to create an introductory price for new su … | Continue reading
The NES Classic is coming out next week, and the early impressions of the diminutively packed collection of Nintendo history are extremely positive. But — as my colleague Andrew Webster noted in his initial hands-on — there’s one problem with the NES Classic. Along with the origi … | Continue reading
November 3, 2016, London, England – Inchain, the decentralized insurance platform built on blockchain technology invites the cryptocurrency community to take part in the ongoing ICO campaign. The four-week long ICO involving Inchain value coins kicked off on October 27, 2016, and … | Continue reading
China has always been the driving force behind Bitcoin, as cryptocurrency is largely unregulated in the country. That situation is coming to change, as the country is looking to impose their version of capital controls on Bitcoin. It was only a matter of time until the government … | Continue reading
In many ways, virtual reality is still a moonshot. The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus by Facebook in 2014 lent the neo-futurist hobby a decidedly shortened timeline for consumer adoption. To the tech titans operating alongside it, the purchase was a signal. Mobile’s most promin … | Continue reading
Battlefield may shed its reputation as a fun series with broken multiplayer features thanks to the latest release in the franchise, and developer DICE is planning ongoing support to establish further goodwill among fans. The studio published a blog today that details what it has … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: How do you deliver hyper-relevant, cross-channel customer experiences that boost loyalty, increase average order value, reduce churn, and turn browsers into buyers fast? Programmatic CRM can make it all happen. Don’t miss our VB Live event that shows you how to get the r … | Continue reading
Key Facts: Blockchain technology can change the dynamics of elections, instilling trust into the voting process. Expanse has developed a voting system prototype that eliminates the possibility of vote “rigging.” This innovative voting dApp demonstrates an easy, accurate and tampe … | Continue reading
Fish oil. Protein shakes. Vitamin D pills. The packages look alike. Does it matter which you buy? It certainly does, according to Labdoor, a four-year-old, South San Francisco-based startup that tests about 50 supplements and energy drinks each month that it buys off retail shelv … | Continue reading
The carbon dioxide emissions I produce as an average American destroy about 650 square feet of Arctic sea ice every year. That’s according to a new study that directly links the amount of annual CO2 released in the atmosphere to the amount of disappearing sea ice in the Arctic. “ … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg’s drive to “put video first” is also putting money in Facebook’s pockets. The more organic videos Facebook users watch, the more high-priced video ads Facebook can slip into the feed. Now Facebook’s strategy around auto-play video, paying Live content producers an … | Continue reading
WSJ’s car critic Dan Neil takes a test drive in the 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio and discovers why it is the quickest, best-handling mid-size sedan on the market. | Continue reading
Tokyo police have arrested a man accused of buying bitcoin with stolen money. Source | Continue reading
Streaming is becoming so popular that it’s changing how people make games. A new beta version of Amazon’s game engine Lumberjack is now out. The 1.6 build has over 337 new features, fixes, and improvements, but Twitch Metastream is its biggest addition. With it, developers can gi … | Continue reading
Amazon’s investment in its own private label products has been paying off, according to a new report out today. The retailer now competes with vendors via its own products in over a dozen categories, including computer accessories, home goods, pet supplies, grocery items, and mor … | Continue reading
Starting this month, the NFL is bringing a 9-part series filmed in 360-degree VR to YouTube. It’ll be available to watch with Google’s Daydream View headset sometime later this year. NFL Films is currently producing the series using Google Jump, the company’s 360-degree capture s … | Continue reading
Cider brand Rekorderlig is staging its Scandi-style cider lodge at London's Southbank Centre for the third year running. | Continue reading
Microsoft has been promising smaller updates to Windows 10, through various methods, for what feels like years, but the company is now starting to test a new Unified Update Platform (UUP) that will make a big difference. "One of the biggest community and customer benefits of UUP … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This is the first build released since the Windows 10 event in New York City, where the company announced the Windows 10 Creators Update coming in “early 2017.” It’s surprisingly light on new features. Windows … | Continue reading
Like for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations can gain substantial benefits by monitoring the wealth of data available from both traditional and social media sources. Locating positive media coverage can demonstrate the impact of marketing and public relations work. Identif … | Continue reading
Senator Al Franken has some questions for Uber and Lyft about racial discrimination following the recently-released study that says some of those companies’ respective drivers racially discriminate against passengers. The study, conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Resear … | Continue reading
Nominations have opened for Event's annual Experiential It List of the 100 most influential people in the industry and, for the first time, will include the top 30 industry professionals under the age of 30. | Continue reading
David Meerman Scott is available to present at at sales kickoff meetings to share how other successful organizations are reaching buyers and growing business. | Continue reading
Google has now formally responded to two antitrust charges brought against it by Europe’s Competition Commission, rebutting charges of exploiting the popularity of its search engine to boost its price comparison service, Google Shopping, and its ad placement service, AdSense. Rea … | Continue reading
CoreOS introduced a new container management concept today known as Operators, which they say will advance the Kubernetes project by offering more automated container management. What’s more, they are open sourcing the technology. “We are introducing the concept of an ‘Operator.’ … | Continue reading