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It looks like Foxconn has won the race to buy troubled electronics maker Sharp after Japanese news agency Nikkei, which has a track record of getting major scoops right, reported a deal worth 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion) has been agreed. Samsung and state-backed Japanese fund Innovation Network Corp are also said to have lodged bids. Read More... →

According to a 2015 study of more than 4,000 designers conducted by Subtraction.com and Adobe’s Khoi Vinh, 64 percent of designers still prefer pencil and paper to begin the creative brainstorm process. Paper is virtually always accessible and offers simplicity. Plus, pen on paper has been the traditional medium budding artists are taught from the beginning, making it easy to generate… Read More... →

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 national security. “I know people like to frame this […]... →

Drawbridge isn’t just an ad-tech company anymore. We’ve written about how the company, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, has built technology to determine when the same person is using multiple devices — so data from one device can be used (in an anonymized way) to target ads another. However, CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan said that… Read More... →

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 to take a genre of games that have millions of fans […]... →

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 Twitter. An embarrassed Naughty Dog issued an apology and took down […]... →

Posted by KelseyLibert[Estimated read time: 15 minutes] Is the saying “any press is good press” really true? Whether it happens as part of a carefully orchestrated PR stunt or accidentally, the potential payoffs and drawbacks when a brand dominates the news can be huge. In our latest collaboration, Fractl and Moz explored how a surge of media coverage impacted seven companies. By looking at brands that dominated headlines within the last year, we set out to answer the following questions: Does positive pres... →

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 Tanks, World of Warplanes, and World of Warships, has spent […]... →

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 proselytizing about how much more connected and smart all […]... →

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 for free. Email marketing continues to be one of […]... →

Welcome back to another episode of Bullish! This time, I sat down with Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford to talk about LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) inclusivity in the workplace. Although some tech companies have released data around people of color and female representation in their workforce, only one company, Slack, has actually released data around LGBTQ… Read More... →

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 drastic shift. Compgun is banking on that, launching a service today to transform sales […]... →

Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them in the future. So much so that he decided to take a second crack at the premise with Forge, a new service entering beta today that helps gamers find short clips of the action and share them on different networks. Read More... →

Google announced plans today to bring its lightning-fast Google Fiber service to “some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties” in San Francisco, notably utilizing existing fiber instead of building their own fiber-optic network as they have in the past. A blog post detailed that the move was done in an effort to bring the service to residents more quickly. San… Read More... →

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.... →

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 the newest entrants on the keyboard stage, Air, created by Vancouver-based […]... →

At Roger Lee’s last startup, he wanted to set up a 401(k) plan for his employees after they started asking for one — only to realize how frustrating and outdated the process was, which required stacks of paperwork and even faxing documents. That’s what prompted him to start Captain401, a service built for quickly spinning up 401(k) plans for small- to medium-sized… Read More... →

Following a unanimous vote by the Chicago Public School Board of Education, computer science will become a graduation requirement for all high school students in what is the nation’s third largest school district. Starting with next school year’s class of freshmen (class of 2020), students in Chicago Public Schools will be required to complete curriculum around computer… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

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. Andreessen Horowitz backed Nicira when it was still a secretive […]... →