Star Ocean: Integrity & Faithlessness has been confirmed for a summer release in Europe and North America.The PS4-exclusive action-RPG follows the exploits of a man named Fidel who finds himself protecting a mysterious girl who's being hunted by unknown forces. Publisher Square E … | Continue reading
CUPERTINO, California — Apple customers looking to recycle iPhones will be awarded with a gift of thanks at retail stores, but don't expect to get credit to buy more stuff.As a part of a greater effort to help the environment and give old iPhones a second chance at life, the comp … | Continue reading
If it is too good to be true, then it probably is not true. Everyone should keep these words in mind whenever they are on a lookout for some investment opportunities. The same holds true for Bitcoin, for it has few additional drawbacks compared to centralized fiat currencies in t … | Continue reading
In an attempt to patent the term ‘Bitcoin’ in Russia, a Moscow-based firm called M-Group filed an application at the Russian patent office. The application was duly rejected. Rospatent, the Russian patent agency has recently confirmed the rejection of an application by a Moscow-b … | Continue reading
Although press releases have evolved, they have not disappeared; they remain a core public relations tool for businesses of all sizes. Polished publicity releases can be especially effective for smaller businesses and local businesses that don’t have outsize marketing budgets. … | Continue reading
A new service from the online wedding inspiration startup Loverly wants to put the capabilities of a wedding planner right in your pocket. Officially launching today, Loverly is unveiling a new chat-based “concierge” service that will send brides and grooms a list of vetted weddi … | Continue reading
Although Nintendo has continued to offer a wide range of programming for the Wii U — including but not limited to a sweet new ‘Starfox’ game — a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei indicates that this might be the last year of production for the four-year-old console. Although … | Continue reading
If SXSW has a heart, it’s somewhere on 6th Street. The historic Austin avenue becomes a 24/7 pedestrian playground during the festival’s second half, one stuffed to bursting with street musicians, enterprising vendors, and curious civilians. There’s a band inside every bar lining … | Continue reading
The life of the Wii U, Nintendo’s troubled home video game console, will be cut short. According to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo will cease production of the tablet/console hybrid in 2016. The end of the Wii U will likely align with the launch of Nintendo’s l … | Continue reading
T-Mobile may still offer unlimited data, but it seemingly is less integral to its marketing plans than it was in the past. | Continue reading
Apple is reportedly in talks to buy Imagination Technologies, its longtime GPU supplier. The move would shake up the mobile graphics market and give Apple ownership of MIPS as well as its own ray tracing division. | Continue reading
When it comes to cross-platform gaming between Xbox and PlayStation, gamers have been requesting it for a long time but with consoles running on different operating systems, that’s no easy feat. However, Psyonix, the indie studio behind hit game Rocket League wants to make gamers … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: On Thursday, VentureBeat will host an event in SF to showcase our research on how to best put together a fast-growth mobile strategy using data. Our research — based on thousands of surveys and other data — suggests that the best strategy is one where a company’s market … | Continue reading
Chinese game publisher Youzu Interactive has acquired German game developer Bigpoint for up to 80 million euros, or $89.68 million. The deal is one more sign of how the $99.3 billion game business has gone global and Chinese publishers are using their financial power to become pl … | Continue reading
Chevy’s entry level electric car, the Bolt, is entering pre-production. Today, the car manufacturer is announcing that its well-received electric car has graduated from the drawing board and being manufactured by hand to the production line. While this doesn’t mean Chevy is start … | Continue reading
Tesla is preparing to unveil its mass-market Model 3 on March 31 with production beginning in late 2017. Meanwhile, Chevrolet is already putting it's 200-plus-mile Bolt EV into pre-production.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Chevrolet … | Continue reading
HTC will unveil its next flagship phone on April 12.The company teased the new device — rumored to be called the HTC 10 — ahead of Mobile World Congress. On Tuesday, HTC sent out invites for the April 12 unveiling.See also: HTC teases its next flagship smartphoneImage: HTCThe ann … | Continue reading
In most arcade fighting games, a slow reaction or a mis-timed special move lead to a thorough ass-kicking by your competitor. ‘War of the Currents’ takes a different approach, not only is your character getting a beat down, you’re going to suffer a bit as well. The arcade cabinet … | Continue reading
There’s a prevailing idea within e-commerce circles that what customers really want is to buy things in more places. Shopify has doubled down on this theory with an update today that allows vendors to sell their goods in more places than ever before. Announced at the company’s de … | Continue reading
Houzz, the home remodelling site with a focus on giving you house envy, today announced that it is opening up its Commerce API for third-party developers. While you may mostly look at Houzz as a mobile app and website that features beautiful home remodelling photography in an eff … | Continue reading
Chevy just released a few images and a quick teaser video of its Bolt EV going through pre-production on its Michigan assembly line, one of the final steps before actual production. The Bolt is expected to be in at least some dealerships by the end of this year, promising a reaso … | Continue reading
ClicksMob and AppGrade are getting hitched. ClicksMob is a mobile-only performance advertising platform that delivers users to app developers and publishers. As a third-party broker, ClicksMob can access thousands of sources of traffic, making mobile advertising more efficient by … | Continue reading
David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his own new firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and it’s apparently targeting $50 million for its debut fund. Refactor, which was incorpo … | Continue reading
The Binding of Isaac developers Edmund McMillen and James Id have announced a new game entitled The Legend of Bum-boMcMillen called the upcoming project a "turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated" in its announcement on The Binding of Isaac's blog.He noted that … | Continue reading
Today Google finally told the world its real strategy for competing with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google first launched the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2012, but it has always been in the shadows of AWS. Google tried us … | Continue reading
Shadow Bug is a stylish upcoming platformer that was originally introduced on our forums way back in July of last year. Developer Muro Studios used our forum members to run a beta in August, and then did another round of beta testing in early January just to be sure to smooth out … | Continue reading
Total Mentions Over the last week, SXSW has generated hundreds of thousands of mentions. Broken down by film, music, and interactive, it logically was the crowd discussing technology and media that made the most noise over the first half of the festival. This is due to one large … | Continue reading
Known as one of the greatest American immigrant success stories to ever emerge from the ranks of Silicon Valley, Andy Grove, the former CEO and Chairman of Intel, died on Monday at the age of 79But in his wake, Grove left behind a wealth of technology and business insight that wi … | Continue reading
Roger Ver has offered presidential candidate Bernie Sanders $100,000 in bitcoin if he agrees to a debate on patriotism. | Continue reading
2016 is potentially the end of the road for the Wii U. Nintendo is going to end production of its latest home console, according to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will essentially put the struggling system out of its misery as the gaming company shifts from Wii U a … | Continue reading
It’s been a long time coming, but at last we seem to have a date for HTC’s next flagship phone to be revealed: April 12. The company sent out invites to the press today highlighting an event that will be streamed from its website. The phone, purported to be called the HTC 10 or M … | Continue reading
Shopify has launched a developer SDK that merchants can use to integrate the ecommerce platform into their websites and mobile apps. This new tool builds off of the integrations that were made with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The first companies to have incorporated the SDK … | Continue reading
After Disney acquired Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise, fans across the globe worried they may never see the return of universally beloved character Jar Jar Binks. Though Disney has been reluctant to provide official comment on Binks, it's rumored that the company worries hi … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for a new way to boost your brand online, consider the content-sharing site Medium. Here's how to tackle this platform. | Continue reading
I'll be honest: these days I'm just not so excited about new devices anymore. The problem? There are too many good ones, and that's getting...BORING. | Continue reading
With 1.44 billion mobile monthly active users as of Dec. 2015, Facebook is the most popular mobile app in the world.Unfortunately for BlackBerry users, they won't be a part of this statistic come year-end, as Facebook will stop supporting the BlackBerry and BBOS platforms at the … | Continue reading
Italian luxury automaker Maserati unveils its first luxury SUV, the Levante, with a starting price of $72,000. Maserati CEO Harald Wester joins Shelby Holliday to discuss the making of Levante and trends in the luxury car industry. Photo: Maserati | Continue reading
The mobile era has not been kind to Nintendo, but things may finally be turning around. On March 19th, the company announced on Twitter that its first mobile app, Miitomo, had been downloaded by a million users in just three days. The news sent Nintendo's stock up 8.2 percent in … | Continue reading
Stylish retro action-adventure Hyper Light Drifter is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on 31st March.There's even a Steam page set up and a glorious new trailer celebrating the impending launch.As for the PS4 and Xbox One versions, those are set for spring. Vita and Wii U versions wil … | Continue reading
When the Internet of Things (IoT) became a trending topic a few years ago, thought leaders inside and outside of tech knew that it would be a transformational concept. But as part of the larger tech discussion it took a backseat to more exciting advancements like electric vehicle … | Continue reading
So the European session has now come to an end in the bitcoin price, and it’s time to publish our take on what action throughout today’s session suggests about what we are looking at for tonight’s session. It has been a pretty interesting 24 hours, with action overnight kicking o … | Continue reading
Google Photos will now suggest a new album for you after your trip, featuring only your best shots. | Continue reading
CUPERTINO, California — When Apple launched ResearchKit over a year ago, the company believed letting developers create app tools for medical studies would be the end of its role. In theory, ResearchKit would let researchers collect data from study participants from nearly anywhe … | Continue reading
Twitter today is announcing an enhancement to its Crashlytics crash reporting tool. Once developers have turned on the Answers mobile analytics tool within Crashlytics, they can now receive special Velocity Alerts that are meant to stand out from all other alerts, because they’re … | Continue reading
The rapid web application development model helps to reduce the gross inefficiencies associated with the conventional ways of developing apps | Continue reading
The new model of BMW's flagship 7 Series sedan is getting support for controlling the Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Pandora apps on Android phones, making it possible to use the services through the car's user interface — no fiddling with the phone required. BMW has supported similar … | Continue reading
Der Orbital ATK Cygnus liegt fest eingepackt, vier Tonnen schwer und startbereit in der Spitze dieser Atlas-V-Rakete. Cygnus wird neben Vorräten auch einen 3D-Drucker von Made in Space zur ISS bringen, zwei Dutzend Nanosatelliten und - Funken... | Continue reading
Twitter wants to help developers fix issues quickly and easily, which is why Fabric now has a proactive issue reporting feature named Velocity Alerts. By using app crash data found in Crashlytics and usage statistics from Answers, Velocity Alerts lets you know early on what unexp … | Continue reading