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Former Nintendo president Satoru Iwata received a posthumous lifetime achievement award tonight at gaming’s equivalent of the Oscars. The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences gave Iwata one of its highest honors at its annual DICE Awards event for his many achievements such as introducing the Nintendo Wii video game system and the 3DS handheld […]... →

The tech world was stunned last week when Zenefits — the unicorn that had once been called “the fastest growing SaaS business in history”– announced that its founding CEO Parker Conrad was leaving the company and that it was under investigation in California. The company cited regulatory compliance problems as a factor in the decision. David Sacks, who is replacing… Read More... →

Twitter’s founder and Facebook have joined a growing chorus of voices from the tech community supporting Apple as it opposes a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Read More... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has released a few updates for Flurry, the data and app analytics service it acquired in 2014. The company not only announced today the redesign of its metrics portal, but also the release of a tvOS developer kit, and new apps for Flurry Analytics. At its mobile developer conference, Yahoo sought to convey […]... →

Pivotal, a company that sells cloud and big data software and offers agile software development services for other companies, announced today that it has acquired Neo, a small independent software development agency. This is Pivotal’s third acquisition in just two months, following Slice of Lime, a user experience design agency, and CloudCredo, a company that […]... →

Apple has received an extension in the timeline that it has to reply to a court order to modify an iPhone for the FBI. The deadline, originally Tuesday, has been pushed out to Friday, February 26th, TechCrunch has learned. Read More... →

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is usually opposed to new regulation, but he thinks there should be a law to eliminate confusion in the next Apple security controversy. While he applauds Apple for standing up to the FBI and refusing to break into the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino terrorists, he suggests that going forward, there should be a ruling that would clarify when a… Read More... →

Try to figure out exactly where fresh products come from in a grocery store. The stickers may say “Mexico” or “Colombia,” but those are big places, and labels like this don’t give much insight. Research online; the information isn’t there. Try with a few other products, and you’re likely to find the same thing. Companies are not always forthcoming… Read More... →

VB EVENT: I’m delighted to announce that Ethan Smith, chief growth officer at Yummly, the online recipe recommendation company, is participating in our upcoming Mobile Summit on April 4-5. Ethan oversees brand and growth marketing for Yummly, which says it has grown to more than 15 million monthly unique visitors and is registering nearly 1 million new users each month. […]... →

The more highly technical the basis of a story, the more likely it is that some key detail will get jacked up by a journalist trying to translate it for the public. Call it Panzer’s Law. It’s only natural, especially when it comes to stories about security and privacy, like the FBI vs. Apple. There are a myriad of complex technical mechanics at play, fiercely difficult Gordian… Read More... →

Posted by randfishCan a new friend you connect with at a conference be as strong of a ranking signal as a quality backlink? Can it be stronger? The power of indirect ranking signals is something that can often be overlooked or brushed aside in favor of what we know as hard truth from Google, but doing so is a mistake. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about the importance of broadening your perspective and tactics when it comes to considering both direct and indirect ranking signals in your SEO.Click... →

Imgur is Internet dude paradise. The underhyped image sharing and commenting community has 150 million active users and saw 900 billion page views in 2015. Thanks to silly GIFs, science experiments, cute cats, and crazy inside jokes, Imgur has become the #1 web destination for millenial men according to comScore. Now it’s time to turn the adoration of that army of guys into a real… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: New tech trends have transformed the business of lending. Learn how leading lenders are using big data and predictive models to slash risk and boost revenue in our free webinar.  Register here for free. Lending in the personal loan space has traditionally been a very forward-looking leap of faith, where the lender does their best to create […]... →

Posted by Daniel-HochuliI'm a big believer that every good content marketing strategy begins with a comprehensive audit of the website’s current performance. The simple reason is that you cannot plan ahead if you do not already have a great understanding of where you currently are.In this article, I will show you how a content audit with six important Google Analytics reports can help you make some smart decisions about the health of your current site, what your audience wants from your content, and how you... →

Two of the rock stars of entertainment, Metal Gear Solid video game creator Hideo Kojima and Pacific Rim film director Guillermo Del Toro talked about being a creative person in a conversation at one of gaming’s elite events today. Kojima, who spoke on stage for the first time since leaving Konami and his Metal Gear […]... →

GUEST: When I decided that I would try out coding again in the summer after high school, I had no intention of it going further than a simple hobby. Somehow, learning Swift led to registering as an Apple Developer, leading to a published app. I fell in love with how infinite software is and how limitless […]... →

Guillermo Del Toro, director of films such as Pacific Rim, took a big jab at the money people who rule the worlds of entertainment and video games. Del Toro made the comments as he and Metal Gear Solid game creator Hideo Kojima were interviewed by game broadcaster Geoff Keighley, president of Gameslice, at the DICE […]... →

The space propulsion company Accion Systems has announced that they will officially start taking orders for their micro-propulsion systems designed for CubeSats and other small satellites. The company is selling miniature electrospray ion engines that generates thrust by accelerating charged particles to very high speeds. Accion’s engine, about the size of a small coin, uses 480… Read More... →

Today, The Dallas Business Journal is reporting that ModoPayments completed a $2 Million funding round by a group of individual angels that includes Tim Keith, John Beletic, and Jay Kassing among others. We first reported on ModoPayments way back in 2011 but a lot has changed since those salad days for the Richardson, TX startup. Read More... →

LAS VEGAS — Todd Howard deserves a bit of a break. His Bethesda Game Studios and parent ZeniMax shipped 12 million copies so far of Fallout 4, the blockbuster postapocalyptic role-playing game for PC and home consoles. But he teased today at the DICE Summit that the studio is working on three different projects for the future. The […]... →