GamesBeat recently held two “road show” events on mobile gaming influencers in New York and Seattle. At each event, we discussed the rise of influencers and their impact on marketing in the $34 billion mobile gaming market. The cost of user acquisition and the difficulty of game … | Continue reading
Josh takes the Huawei P9 and its dual camera setup out for a few little trips to see what the camera offers and if the monochrome/RGB combo can keep up. | Continue reading
Kanye West and Adidas just announced they are turning their Yeezy collaboration into a full-fledged partnership. The deal, which Adidas is calling “the most significant partnership ever created between a non-athlete and an athletic brand”, will result in the creation of a new bus … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: The innovations coming out of the bot and messaging space are starting to explode. How about a bot that turns your text into video? Or celebrity bots that can convincingly assume the personality of said famous person? Or a chatbot as your next best friend? (Hello Samant … | Continue reading
Ethereum entrepreneur Daniel Cawrey discusses the recent demise of The DAO and how that impacts the future of smart contracts. | Continue reading
HBO makes a television program called Game of Thrones, which is increasingly loosely based on a series of books called A Song of Ice and Fire. Both of these things have enormous fanbases, who are prolific writers of theories about the story's 10,000 characters.[Spoilers for all t … | Continue reading
Google's latest Project Zero report found multiple devastating bugs in Symantec and Norton products. You'll want to update immediately if you use them in enterprise or consumer flavors. | Continue reading
D-Link introduced three new Wi-Fi cameras today, all of which come with sound and motion detection, night vision, and local recording. The HD Wi-Fi Camera (DCS-936L) features a 720p camera with 4x digital zoom, and can record continuous, scheduled, or detection triggered video on … | Continue reading
New Orlando Magic coach Frank Vogel has finalized his staff. | Continue reading
Anti-immigration sentiments have fueled political movements around the globe, from the Brexit vote to the rise of Donald Trump in the U.S. WSJ chief economics columnist Greg Ip explains why national identity, not economic concerns, may be primarily fueling frustrations. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Amazon has a new deal for Android users starting July 12. If you’re willing to have your phone bootstrapped with ads, you can get deep discounts on unlocked devices — as much as 50 percent off. The deals For $49.99, you can get something called the BLU R1 HD, which is a basement- … | Continue reading
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a "firework" large enough to engulf our planet. The birth of a cluster of star in galaxy Kiso 6359 looks like a projectile from a Roman Candle, soaring through the night sky.NASA’s page includes a helpful from Debra Elmegreen, a lead resear … | Continue reading
‘Makers,’ as they’re affectionately known, are often innocent tinkerers that like to take things apart, hack them and put them back together. Drake Anthony is certainly a maker, but his focus on lasers that could probably kill you makes you wonder if he’s more Tony Stark, or Bond … | Continue reading
Jornaya, a sales insights data startup formerly known as LeadiD, announced today that it closed a $10 million investment led by Edison Partners. “The new corporate brand reflects the critical role Jornaya’s predictive analytics platform plays in providing real-time insight into t … | Continue reading
After four years as one of the show's highest profile correspondents, Jessica Williams is leaving The Daily Show. Entertainment Weekly reports that the comedienne is set to leave this Thursday to focus on a show she's working on with Comedy Central going forward."I feel so many e … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, we live in a world where games can come and go on a whim, and it feels like at least once every week there's some popular game that's getting pulled from the App Store and going permanently offline. However, if there's one brand that's got a bigger graveyard than t … | Continue reading
The developers of an effort to create a distributed network of servers called Urbit is hoping to help make it easier for users to run bitcoin nodes. | Continue reading
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Samsung’s Galaxy J2 will come with a new Smart Glow ring that tells users when they have a notification waiting to be addressed, SamMobile reports. That same ring will also be included in other upcoming devices. The ring surrounds the rear camera and acts in place of the blinking … | Continue reading
Rihanna's Star Trek Beyond soundtrack contribution "Sledgehammer" is a massive ballad, so it feels appropriate that the song's video is making an IMAX-sized debut tomorrow morning. The Floria Sigismondi-directed clip is the first music video ever shot entirely with IMAX cameras, … | Continue reading
The internet has been ablaze the past few weeks about Apple potentially removing the headphone jack from the next iPhone — a move that’s been heavily rumored for months, and has everything from blurry leaked case images to Wall Street Journal articles backing it up. We don’t know … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago we got word that a big update would be heading to NVIDIA's Shield Android TV. Today that update has arrived. | Continue reading
Over a year ago, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit announced the beta launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).While AWS already offers a number of cloud storage services in the form of S3, Glacier and Elastic Block Store, the idea behind EFS is to offer AWS users access to … | Continue reading
If you’re designing apps or Webpages for mobile, chances are you sketch ideas out before you commit them to Photoshop (or Sketch!). To help, there’s been an update to a piece of paper (yes, I’m serious). A dot-grid paper meant for iOS design is now ready for current hardware, and … | Continue reading
As the ethereum community debates a hard fork option to undo losses sustained by The DAO, ANZ is questioning the credibility of public blockchains. | Continue reading
As Demand Gen Report’s sister brand, the Content4Demand team always has access to a wealth of B2B buyer insights. Together, the annual B2B Buyer’s Survey and Content Preferences Survey provide an in-depth look into the content formats and approaches buyers prefer as they research … | Continue reading
DoorDash started off as a restaurant delivery company — but, like many on-demand delivery companies, its ambitions are certainly much higher than that. And it’s making one step beyond food delivery today by adding the ability to purchase alcohol through DoorDash. While DoorDash m … | Continue reading
Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens lets you play as the film's director, JJ Abrams. Abrams is one of more than 150 characters on the game's roster of m… | Continue reading
The battle to win the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is often based on how many awards a game company can receive from the show’s critics. And today, the Game Critics Awards group issued its nominees for the best of show. Among the big potential winners are Electronic Arts, f … | Continue reading
Box announced Box Shuttle today, a new service that combines software and consulting to help customers move large — as in millions or even hundreds of millions — of legacy files to the Box service. Previously, companies with files stored in network file shares or legacy content m … | Continue reading
You can now get alcoholic beverages delivered to you along with next meal from your favorite restaurant, courtesy of DoorDash. The on-demand food service not only lets you order alcohol from warehouses and stores, but also from restaurants and breweries that it already has partne … | Continue reading
If you want to know what can go wrong when police rely on equipment such as Tasers and pepper spray to combat petty crimes, look no further than the case of Bruce Kelley Jr.Around 3:30PM, on January 31st this year, Bruce Kelley Jr. and his dad, Bruce Kelley Sr., both African-Amer … | Continue reading
Hotjar offers free website analytics so they have a challenging mission: handle hundreds of milli... | Continue reading
All Def Digital (ADD), a three-year-old, L.A.-based web video platform and media company that was cofounded by hip hop impresario Russell Simmons, has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Third Wave Digital Partners. Other investors in the round include WPP Ventures, And … | Continue reading
Sony has unveiled its Instant Game Collection - i.e. PlayStation Plus freebies - for the month of July.Beginning on 5th July, PS4 users will receive Saints Row 4's standalone expansion Gat Out of Hell and boss fight only action game Furi. I recently played an early review copy of … | Continue reading
The leaders of the Canada, Mexico, and the United States unveiled a sweeping plan to reduce carbon emissions during this year’s trilateral North American Leaders' Summit, held today in Ottawa, Canada. The leaders issued an ambitious goal to generate half of North America’s energy … | Continue reading
The first Purge was about other people. In the ingeniously claustrophobic 2013 film, an upper-middle class family is horrified to find their neighbors and fellow country-club members have ganged up on them during the titular annual free-for-all, "purifying" themselves of their pe … | Continue reading
Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint are offering free calls and texts to Turkey following the terrorist attack at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport. | Continue reading
Today SanDisk unveiled its new 256GB Extreme MicroSDXC UHS-I card, which offers transfer speeds up to 100MB/s and write speeds up to 90MB/s. | Continue reading
The first thing you notice about the Aspire S 13: It’s not a MacBook Air. In a space in which Apple’s laptop has so dominated the aesthetic conversation around thin and light laptops, it’s worth noting when a company goes boldly in some other aesthetic direction. The primary way … | Continue reading
Think your company is immune from the power of digital marketing? Think again! IMA gives you the digital marketing pep talk you need to get in the game. | Continue reading
TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening this July! In New York, Taylor Green from Lerer Ventures and in San Francisco, Sergio Monsalve and Ed Yip of Norwest Ventures will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is Tech … | Continue reading
I'm based in the Chicago area, and I love everything about this part of the USA except for one very significant problem: When I'm craving Waffle House I've got to drive all the way to Indianapolis to get my fix of scattered, smothered, and covered hash browns. Sure, we have objec … | Continue reading
Uber has today announced new safety features for drivers within the driver-side app, including reminders to take a break when the drivers have been working for too long. These features are meant to fight against the four D’s of dangerous driving: drunk, drugged, distracted and dr … | Continue reading
BoJack Horseman has come a long way since his debut two years ago, and he's back in the first trailer for the Netflix series' third season. After starting out as the washed up former star of a '90s sitcom, he picked himself up last season to play Secretariat in his first dramatic … | Continue reading
There’s little question that we’re living in the midst of a hardware startup renaissance. Crowdfunding, low cost components, rapid prototyping, scalable manufacturing – the stars have aligned perfectly to facilitate a golden age for innovative hardware solutions – but roadblocks … | Continue reading
The Oklahoma City Thunder will play two preseason games in Spain as part of the NBA Global Games Europe 2016. | Continue reading