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CompareAsiaGroup, a consumer finance startup backed by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, has appointed Sam Allen as its new chief executive officer. Allen previously worked at KKR, where he was a director on the private equity investment firm’s portfolio operations team. Read More... →

The world’s biggest game company is teaming up with the studio behind the game with the world’s biggest skill tree. Tencent has agreed to distribute and localize Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile in China. The gaming giant, which owns a majority stake in League of Legends maker Riot Games and a minority stake in […]... →

Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, fueled by the 11 million people who contacted the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in protest and 457 companies and more than 800 startups that signed letters vehemently opposing… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Q1 research from VentureBeat Insight shows that the venture capital landscape for martech shows no sign of slowing down. Join Ravi Belani, partner at Alchemist Accelerator, Adam J. Plotkin, partner at ff Venture Capital, and VB analyst Jon Cifuentes to learn about the current martech landscape and what’s getting analysts excited. Register here for free. Alchemist Accelerator, a […]... →

Most publishers have stopped making premium-priced massively multiplayer online games, but the industry still has a number of consumers who want to pay for that content. Korean developer Daum Games has sold more than 400,000 copies of its Black Desert Online MMO role-playing game after only a month on the market in Europe and North America. The […]... →

Posted by jocameron[Estimated read time: 12 minutes] Welcome to the newest installment of our educational Next Level series! Last time, we shared some advice on resolving duplicate content issues. This time around, we're rocking out to the tune of site audits. Read on and level up! Finding out what's hampering your site on its journey to the top of the SERPs can feel like a mystery sometimes. Why aren’t I ranking? Why are people bouncing off my page? Why, why, why? To stop you going 'round and 'round in cir... →

Posted by jocameron[Estimated read time: 12 minutes] Welcome to the newest installment of our educational Next Level series! Last time, we shared some advice on resolving duplicate content issues. This time around, we're rocking out to the tune of site audits. Read on and level up! Finding out what's hampering your site on its journey to the top of the SERPs can feel like a mystery sometimes. Why aren’t I ranking? Why are people bouncing off my page? Why, why, why? To stop you going 'round and 'round in cir... →

Everybody likes a good fitness tracker, but nobody is thinking about the children. The poor dears are being left out of the wearable revolution — looks like it’s up to Adidas to put a gadget on every wrist and a smile on every PE teacher’s face. Read More... →

Microsoft today announced that it’s releasing a 64-bit (x64) version of Windows 10 IoT Core Pro, a special flavor of the edition of Windows 10 designed for small Internet-connected devices that’s exclusively available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM). “This will enable OEM/ODMs (original design manufacturers) to move between Windows 10 IoT Core and Windows 10 […]... →

Posted by katykatztxHow often do you sit down to read a book and find yourself hooked within the first few sentences? Or even the first few words? I would venture to bet the answer is "not often."In fact, I find that the books which turn out to be my favorites typically take at 50-100 pages to “pick up pace.” But we expect that when we read a good book. We come to the table knowing what we’re signing up for. We’ve already made a commitment.We don’t have that luxury in digital marketing. And we definitely do... →

Massachusetts General Hospital is buying into deep learning artificial intelligence, and it will use Nvidia’s new DGX-1 deep-learning supercomputer that was announced today. Nvidia is partnering with the MGH Clinical Data Science Center, which wants to advance health care with AI to improve the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases. “Deep learning is revolutionizing […]... →

Collaborative Fund is launching a new fund today. Called the Collab+Consumer fund, it’s part of Collaborative Fund’s third $70 million fund that’s geared toward finding companies that make consumer goods — like food and clothing. To be sure, the space is heating up. There are emerging companies focused on single products and businesses, like coffee shops that… Read More... →

One of the biggest organizations representing game developers had some strong words for Nintendo’s recent actions. Today, International Game Developers Association executive director Kate Edwards issued a statement about Nintendo’s dismissal of Treehouse marketing employee Alison Rapp last week. She’s concerned that the company’s action sends a negative message to game developers and other employees that publishers won’t […]... →

How would you feel if a robot asked you to touch its butt? Maybe it sounds like a silly question (actually, there’s no maybe about it), but as robots proliferate and anthropomorphize, it’s actually something that needs to be considered. So scientists at Stanford considered it. Read More... →

GUEST: In the midst of the Apple-FBI dispute over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, countless tech companies took the rare step of publicizing views in “friends of the court” briefs, statements, and interviews. The sheer number, nearly 40, filing amicus briefs — Facebook, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft, as well as my own company, AVG — is […]... →

The sophisticated neural networks underlying systems like Google’s Deep Dream and all manner of interesting experiments require a great deal of computing power. Nvidia proposes to put all that horsepower in a single box, specially engineered to meet the needs of AI researchers. Read More... →

Amazon has hired nearly all of the people who worked at Orbeus, a small startup with technology for identifying items and people in photos and videos using deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence. Orbeus built an app for iOS and Android that could instantly tag photos, called PhotoTime, as well as the underlying Rekognition […]... →

Slack has a lot of functions, but end-to-end encryption isn’t one of them, which makes the platform a no-go for some users. Along comes ClearChat to serve the needs of the slightly more security-conscious teams, with chat, file transfer and more. ClearChat describes its service as “a combination of Slack and Dropbox,” except with some military-grade encryption thrown in. Read More... →

Car races are definitely fun to watch, but they’re certainly not very safe. So Nvidia chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang announced today that the company is creating a self-driving race car with an Nvidia-based supercomputer. The robot race car will have a Nvidia Drive PX 2 AI supercomputer, and it will compete in the Roborace Championship, the first global […]... →

You want to play virtual reality games, but you don’t want to rack up a $10,000 veterinarian bill because you stepped on the dog. That’s reasonable, and one of the headsets has a solution to this. HTC’s Vive, which it built in partnership with SteamVR creator Valve, has an outward-facing camera that can show you […]... →