Berlin-based travel tech startup Distribusion has raised €6 million (about $8.7 million) in a series A funding round from Northzone, Creandum, and HR Ventures. Travel industry-focused angels Thomas Döring, Chris Hitchen, Richard Chen, Bo Mattsson, and Marc Mogalle as well as exis … | Continue reading
As promised yesterday, Microsoft has added new features and made a series of tweaks to its Windows 10 Maps app. Users of the updated version of the app will be able to view multiple search results on the same map, follow redesigned turn-by-turn instructions when driving, and see … | Continue reading
News of yet more movement among on-demand food startups: Rocket Internet-backed Foodpanda announced today that it has acquired Delivery.com’s Hong Kong business and will take over its operations there. Read More | Continue reading
Microsoft is making good on its promise to bring support for extensions to its Edge browser. The latest preview build includes this capability and Windows Insider testers can try it now. Edge currently supports three extensions: Microsoft Translator, which automatically translate … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price moved a few points higher and then found sellers for a downside move. My idea of selling in the short term worked perfectly and all targets were hit intraday. Yesterday’s highlighted bearish trend line on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken) worke … | Continue reading
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OPINION: I read the news today, oh boy, that Twitter is turning on its algorithmic timeline by default. I pulled up Twitter.com and opened up the settings page. There it was, “Show me the best Tweets first.” Sure enough, the checkbox was checked. A few hours later I was checking … | Continue reading
Over the past year, digital video viewers in the UK have increasingly turned to YouTube for consuming content via mobile, and they are spending significantly more time perusing videos. eMarketer spoke with Debbie Weinstein, director of brand solutions and innovations for EMEA at … | Continue reading
Every advertiser wants to know where its customers, and potential customers, are spending time online. Social networks in particular are a focus for marketers keen to monitor the current buzz. | Continue reading
A good or bad customer experience can effect whether consumers will buy from a store again. Indeed, nearly half of US digital buyers said that it’s unlikely they’ll make another purchase if they had a bad experience, according to February 2016 research. | Continue reading
Mobile is making up a greater share of digital purchase in Brazil, according to research. And in H2 2015, that share grew rapidly. Most mcommerce sales in the country are transacted on mobile phones. | Continue reading
Smartphone users across Southeast Asia are continuing to download a few new apps each month, according to 2015 research. Social networking, along with utilities apps, are likely drivers of this. | Continue reading
CEOs today are anxious to harness the power of digital platforms and the data they generate to stay competitive and drive future growth. As a result, marketers that have embraced a data- and tech-driven approach are being tasked to spearhead digital initiatives that cut across th … | Continue reading
Virtual reality gives people the chance to enter incredible make-believe worlds … but the results of that are often unsettling instead of wondrous. Playful, the studio behind the working on the 3D platformer Lucky’s Tale for the Oculus Rift headset, revealed that even the cutest … | Continue reading
If your content marketing strategy is stale, ineffective, or incomplete, your social media campaigns will follow down the same path. To avoid this, check out these 7 tips for making your social media strategy better. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights After previously trading inside a rising wedge, bulls pushed harder and allowed bitcoin price to form new highs. Price created an ascending channel pattern on its 1-hour time frame and just tested the resistance. The recent bounce could pave the way f … | Continue reading
Once again, poor Australians have been forced to suffer massive Internet outages Thursday thanks to Telstra.The outage resulted in many customers without data for hours, spreading to services reliant on the Internet such as ATMs, EFTPOS machines and Uber apps. You couldn't get a … | Continue reading
Last year Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski revealed his new studio's debut project, a free-to-play multiplayer shooter called LawBreakers. But today he announced a big change: LawBreakers is no longer free. A price wasn't revealed, but the developer says that it will be les … | Continue reading
After years of hearing the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. And no organization exemplifies that notion of harnessing private industry tools for public good m … | Continue reading
After a months-long delay, Microsoft is finally rolling out Window 10 to older handsets.Windows 10 Mobile, the mobile version of Microsoft's newest operating system, is beginning to roll out to more than a dozen handsets. Though the update will likely come as welcome news to thos … | Continue reading
We all remember the horrors that followed the failure of the subprime. All of a sudden, we faced a collapse of the entire financial system. Surrounded by bankruptcy and devastation, even the optimists struggled to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It appears that the loss o … | Continue reading
So now the Clippers are going to have to be quicker with their planes, trains and automobiles emojis. Coach Doc Rivers and Blake Griffin will have to get the sofa barricaded in front of the door faster. In plugging what has long been an annoying, unnecessary — and last summer an … | Continue reading
Next Tuesday, Orbital ATK will launch their Cygnus cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS). Cygnus will bring the astronauts on station food, water, and a 3-D printer, among other supplies. Normally, after supplies are unloaded from Cygnus, the crew would fill the … | Continue reading
Kevin Durant's free-agency decision may now come a few days earlier. | Continue reading
Friday didn't start well for Australians already struggling with a huge mobile and Internet outage.Amazon Web Services, a cloud services platform that supports the websites and data storage of companies around the world, suffered issues on Friday morning following a nationwide T … | Continue reading
Quora revealed today that it is seeing 100 million monthly unique visitors to its Q&A social network, an increase of 22 percent from January when it acknowledged having 80 million. The company declined to comment on where most of the growth is coming from, but it could be attribu … | Continue reading
According to sources who spoke with 9to5Mac, the incoming iPhone SE will not be a smaller iPhone 6 — at least aesthetically. It seems there will be some holdovers from both the iPhone 5s and 6 in the SE, though. The overall dimensions are said to be the same as the iPhone 5s, but … | Continue reading
When Netflix first started making its own television shows it may have seemed like a lark, but the company has nearly single-handedly changed the way we watch television. People started binge-watching with DVDs, sure, but releasing an entire season of an original show at one time … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we kill a lot of big bees. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the hazy mists of App Store time to see how it's doing in the here and now. As the guy with the spikiest hair, I | Continue reading
Carter got a chance to see Looty Dungeon back at PAX South which got people around here really excited. Well, we actually got to see the game in action today and I'm thinking the ol' TouchArcade crowd is really going to dig this one. Check out Looty Dungeon in all of its looty du … | Continue reading
Most of the VR experiences we've had thus far can be measured in minutes — a short film here or tech demo there — but that isn't because of technical limits or health concerns. According to Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, you'll likely end up spending more time in the virtual world … | Continue reading
EVE Online is one of those games I wish I had time to play, but I've sort of reached a point in my life where I just don't have it in me anymore to get involved in a super-complex PC MMORPG. Well, at GDC we ran into the guys from Blackjack Studio, who are working | Continue reading
Among the bucket of games we saw today was Rival Gears, a game which on the box might seem like a pretty standard free to play racer. Getting a little deeper, it has some really cool mechanics which makes it stand out from the pack. First off, instead of CSR-style minimal gamepla … | Continue reading
Before the release of the N.W.A. film ‘Straight Outta Compton,’ Facebook and Universal Pictures teamed up to create custom trailers for the film — two variations for people of color and another for white audiences. Facebook then used its collected data to display the ‘appropriate … | Continue reading
Our focus around here is definitely more gamer-y games, and what's cool about GDC is when you run into games like this that are totally outside of what you usually cover. Hearts Medicine is a massive female-targetted game series that combines a lot of familiar mini games and time … | Continue reading
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According to several reports, Apple is quietly working on its own cloud infrastructure. Codenamed ‘McQueen,’ Apple’s initiative is said to be a means to wean itself from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Specifically, Apple is reportedly dismayed by AWS, which loads images … | Continue reading
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
Tim Hardaway Jr. is making his first start of the season for the Atlanta Hawks as Kent Bazemore is held out with a bone bruise in his right knee. | Continue reading
One of the highlights of GDC for us so far is meeting all four of the Foursaken Media brothers. Aside from being supremely cool dudes, they've also got a game on the horizon. It's called War Tortoise, and the way they're pitching it is as a active clicker/shooter of sorts which s … | Continue reading
Extension support has long been one of the weaker features in Microsoft’s browsers. With Edge, the company now offers a new, more modern browser, and starting today, users who signed up for the Windows Insider program can try the first preview release of Edge with support for ext … | Continue reading
In their own words, the NYU Game Center "is dedicated to the exploration of games as a cultural form and game design as creative practice. Our approach to the study of games is based on a simple idea: games matter." They expand on that mission statement on their website, but the … | Continue reading
We've posted quite a bit about King Rabbit, the game formerly known as Furdemption 2. They changed the name and are barreling towards their release date which is coming very soon. We got a quick look at GDC, and like most sequels, it seems like a really strong iteration of the or … | Continue reading
As an American, cricket is one of those sports that I know absolutely nothing about. My main frame of reference for the sport is the cricket scene in King Ralph, which I can only assume is hyper-representitive of what playing cricket is actually like. But, if you are into cricket … | Continue reading
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Stronghold Kingdoms is a massive online strategy free to play game which previously was only available on the PC which is on the fast track to mobile devices. Cooler yet, the whole thing is going to be totally cross platform. Effectively, the game already exists and it's getting … | Continue reading
It was a long, lonely night for some Telstra customers across Australia Thursday night.The largest telecommunications service went down on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. local time. At least 8 million customers and 50% of calls were affected by the downtime that reached into Friday m … | Continue reading
Universal Pictures and Facebook teamed up to create custom trailers for white audiences to promote the N.W.A. film Straight Outta Compton, scrubbing any mention of the rap group and instead focusing on the rise of Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. Universal marketing chief Doug Neil and Jim … | Continue reading