Microsoft today announced that it has stopped working on Windows Bridge for Android, a tool for turning Android apps into universal Windows apps that can run on all types of Windows devices. Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference last year that Android would be an … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Personalization is key to tapping into customer loyalty, but you’re leaving them cold if you’re not working with unified data. Join Dun & Bradstreet CMO Rishi Dave along with Mozilla’s Jascha Kaykas-Wolff and VB’s Andrew Jones as they share how to construct a comprehe … | Continue reading
Weeks before he got on stage in front of investors at a Y Combinator demo day, entrepreneur Brian Liou made a massive change in his company. Leada originally set its sights on helping students apply their data science knowledge to real-world examples, but in a pivot, it switched … | Continue reading
Apple today filed a motion to vacate U.S. Justice Department attorneys’ order to compel the tech company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone 5c that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The attorneys filed the 35-page motion in the U.S. District Court’s Central Di … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: When she joined GrubHub as chief marketing officer nine months ago, Barbara Martin Coppola realized that building loyalty through mobile phones was one of the company’s most important mandates. The vast majority of customers who use the $1.88 billion-valued food-orderin … | Continue reading
Niantic, the former Google division that is working on a Pokémon Go location-based mobile game, has raised $5 million in an expanded seed funding round. The new investors include Alsop Louie, former Havas boss David Jones (and his new venture You and Mr Jones), Fuji Television, L … | Continue reading
Pac-Man is one of the first gaming franchises that fans turned into a phenomenon. But these days, the yellow pizza-shaped hero is spending more time chasing other hit games than his own power pellets. Bandai Namco released Pac-Man: Puzzle Tour for iOS and Android today. It is the … | Continue reading
Evil is ready to reside in 2016. Capcom announced today that Resident Evil 6, RE 5, and RE 4 are coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One throughout the year as digital downloads. They’ll each cost $20. The series has sold over 66 million copies, making it one of Capcom’s most import … | Continue reading
Network security and visibility startup ThousandEyes announced today that it closed a $35 million investment led by Tenaya Capital. The startup said the investment will be used to expand in North America its technology, which “gives modern businesses the ability to see their now … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON (By David Morgan for Reuters) — The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday said it would develop drone regulations allowing some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to fly over people, an authorization eagerly sought by a range of industries including real estate and … | Continue reading
Few bands could probably inspire a mobile role-playing game, but Iron Maiden has always been special. Since forming in 1975, the heavy metal group has created 16 studio albums, including The Book of Souls just last year. It was the 10th best-selling metal album in 2015. In total, … | Continue reading
Google today announced the launch of a smart feature people can use once they’ve uploaded videos to YouTube. Now you can draw a box around the thing you want to blur in a video, and YouTube will automatically keep that thing from being seen clearly, even as it moves elsewhere in … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the launch of multiple products that are meant to make companies more secure online. Perhaps the most compelling new feature is a more intelligent way to spot threats that could affect applications and data that companies are running on Microsoft Azure. … | Continue reading
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that Facebook will work in lock step with the academics; Facebook will actually giving out 25 powerful servers powere … | Continue reading
Before he worked on Civilization with legendary game designer Sid Meier, Bruce Shelley was a board game designer at companies such as Avalon Hill. He designed games on paper back in the 1980s and 1990s, and it was easier to keep revising until the game was right. That’s a lot lik … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: At a time when email volume has increased by almost 25 percent year over year, you simply can’t afford to not be testing and determining what will make your customers click. | Continue reading
You’re going to need a big ol’ pile of cash if you want to get into high-end virtual reality on the PC, but that is creating an opportunity for Samsung and Google to sweep up entry-level consumers. Mobile VR is on track to reach $861 million in revenues this year, according to da … | Continue reading
andai Namco Entertainment America has teamed up with Jordan Weisman’s Harebrained Schemes to bring Necropolis, a permadeath dungeon-action game, to home gaming consoles. Longtime game creator Weisman, the chief creative officer of Seattle-based Harebrained Schemes, told GamesBeat … | Continue reading
Word processing app startup Quip is announcing today a redesign aimed at improving everyday usage. The team has cooked up an inbox to track updates to all of your documents, and it has new filters that can help you more quickly find what you’re looking for. Folders have also been … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: MNectar came up with unique way to get players to view ads on mobile by creating playable segments of games that could be streamed directly to users. No downloads were necessary just to try out a game. Now mNectar is announcing Spectra, a cross-platform app-streaming n … | Continue reading
Twitter is getting ready to roll out an update for how embedded timelines look, following up on the announcement the company made during its Flight developer conference in October. On March 3, Twitter will roll out a refreshed design for the timeline display that has a modernized … | Continue reading
Three years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin set out to tackle the issue around rising healthcare costs in the United States. He started Glow with the aim of improving women’s reproductive health and its first app launched to help them conceive. Since then, the company spun out … | Continue reading
In the world of fitness, it’s estimated that 35 million people train in sports like boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts. And while there are many wearables and sensors aimed at ensuring that the right number of calories are burned or if we’re doing the exercise right, Hyks … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: How much would it matter to you if all of a sudden your company’s Internet traffic started going somewhere else? Maybe to your competitor, a criminal organization, or a foreign government? Sound bad? | Continue reading
The University of Michigan is taking on the challenge of driverless innovation. The institution’s Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) has teamed up with its Mobility Transformation Center (MTC) to launch TechLab at Mcity, which will foster collaboration between university researche … | Continue reading
Revl announced today it has received $2 million in investments for its smart action camera. The company’s seed round was led by Bill Tai and will be used to accelerate production of its signature device and also development of a companion iOS app. Other investors joining this rou … | Continue reading
Overnight announced today that it has raised $2.5 million for its last-minute travel app. The seed round was led by Accomplice and CrossCut Ventures and also comes at a time when it officially launches to the public in Los Angeles, Calif. The company has already set its sights on … | Continue reading
BARCELONA, Spain — In the search for new ways to grow, the mobile industry is placing a large stack of chips on virtual reality even if the wisdom of these bets are far from clear. Virtually reality has dominated nearly every corner of the gargantuan Mobile World Congress 2016 th … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: If you’re not pursuing organic installs with app store optimization, you’re leaving money on the table. Join our powerhouse panel of ASO experts to learn how to boost those installs by up to 20 percent. Access our webinar on demand right here. The mobile app market, … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: AppCard, a mobile-first loyalty marketing program for small and medium-sized retailers is announcing $20 million in Series B funding, led by Alexander Rittweger, founder of Loyalty Partner and PLDT capital. PLDT Capital is the strategic investment arm of Philippine Lon … | Continue reading
Google has announced that it’s opening its anti-DDoS Project Shield technology to all online news websites as First announced back in 2013, Project Shield has been in testing for more than two years now with a select group of organizations. The service aims to counteract attempts … | Continue reading
PARIS (Reuters) – France is seeking 1.6 billion euros ($1.76 billion) in back taxes from U.S. Internet giant Google, criticized for its use of aggressive tax optimization techniques, a source at the finance ministry said on Wednesday. “As far as our country is concerned, back tax … | Continue reading
A new ranking of European Union member states by their technical progress has produced some surprising winners and losers that are bound to provoke some heated dissent. Most notably, France, which has been investing loads of money to promote itself as a forward-thinking, tech sav … | Continue reading
Two European fintech startups are teaming up to give a glimpse of what the bank of tomorrow could look like. Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a tie-up with London-based peer-to–peer money-tran … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Sharp has agreed to a takeover by Taiwan’s Foxconn, sources familiar with the matter said, the largest acquisition of a Japanese tech firm by a foreign company and one that will bolster Foxconn’s position as Apple’s biggest supplier. The Taiwanese firm, known formall … | Continue reading
Speaking on national television in his first public remarks since the rapid ascent of the Apple-FBI iPhone encryption debate, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said today spoke out against the notion that the controversy is boils down to the cause of privacy versus the cause of nati … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: PlayRaven announced today that it has released its Robocide free-to-play mobile game today as part of an effort to expand the genres of the PC to mobile devices. The Helsinki-based startup has created a “micro real-time strategy” (RTS) game. In doing so, it is trying t … | Continue reading
Sony and Naughty Dog dealt with a major goof with their otherwise brilliant Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End story trailer released today. Ubisoft’s Azaïzia Aymar noticed that the video contained an image lifted from Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag video game, and he said so on … | Continue reading
AMSTERDAM — If you spend millions of dollars on something, you would hope that you know exactly what that something is. But that was not the case for one of the biggest publishers in Eastern Europe. Wargaming, the publisher responsible for the online multiplayer shooters World of … | Continue reading
GUEST: This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas showed the world a ton of nominally “smart” new tech. And now, with spring approaching, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has folks from around the globe marveling at how interconnected we are with all our smart stuff and … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Don’t miss this opportunity to join VB analyst Jon Cifuentes and guest panelist Move Inc. CMO Nate Johnson as they drill down into the most important things you need from an email marketing platform — and which vendors are in greatest demand, and why. Register here fo … | Continue reading
In the United States, companies spend more than $800 billion each year on salesforce compensation, making it one of the largest marketing investments for any enterprise business. But the ways for managing this model are antiquated and time-consuming, which makes it prime for a dr … | Continue reading
Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Keyboards are hot lately. Microsoft bought one earlier this month for a quarter of a billion dollars, and then released another just yesterday. Why? One reason: Keyboards are the one thing that tie all apps together. Tying things together is not a big part of one of th … | Continue reading
Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that it has hired Martìn Casado — cofounder and chief executive of hot software defined networking (SDN) startup Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012 — as a general partner of the prominent venture capital firm. An … | Continue reading
It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy role-playing game (read our review) has surpassed 300,000 copies sold in the United States in its first week, according to th … | Continue reading
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) group today unveiled a new industry-specific program called DeepMind Health. A new website for the division reveals that Google has been working with multiple health care organizations, including National Health Service and the Royal … | Continue reading
Following years of rumors, Microsoft has acquired Xamarin, a company that aids cross-platform development of mobile applications. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “With today’s acquisition announcement we will be taking this work much further to make our world class developer … | Continue reading