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00:35 19.02.2016

Digital Payments Startup ModoPayments Raises $2 Million

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... →

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00:35 19.02.2016

Fallout 4 maker Bethesda is working on 3 new games

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 […]... →

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00:19 19.02.2016

Facebook releases 1.6GB of children’s stories for training its AI

Facebook today announced that it has released the data it used to train its artificial intelligence software to understand children’s stories and predict the word that was missing from a given sentence in a story. The data set (.tgz) comes out to more than 1.6GB, and it’s affiliated with a recently published academic paper called […]... →

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00:16 19.02.2016

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Says Company Is Profitable In U.S.

Uber is officially profitable in the U.S., Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told Canadian publication BetaKit earlier this week. H/t to Fortune for peeling out the buried news in that story, which was titled “Travis Kalanick Speaks Out: Uber’s CEO On Risk, Regulation, and Women in Tech.” Here’s the key chunk, straight out of the horse’s mouth: “We’re profitable… Read More... →

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00:06 19.02.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: February 18, 2016

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

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23:25 18.02.2016

Kanye West is reportedly considering legal action against The Pirate Bay

Kanye West apparently has a new mission: to sue The Pirate Bay. Last weekend, West announced that his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to number one on the U.S. Apple App Store, so […]... →

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23:20 18.02.2016

Tomb Raider’s writer shows the rise of storytelling’s importance in gaming

LAS VEGAS — In 33 years of playing video games, writer Rhianna Pratchett has seen the value of story go through its own creative arc. Back in the day, Pratchett noted, game guru John Carmack noted that story in games was as necessary as story in porn movies. Now, games like Rise of the Tomb Raider, which she co-wrote, […]... →

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23:03 18.02.2016

Делицын: Как мы [в ФИНАМ] прогнозировали выручку «Яндекса», и почему это было бессмысленно?

Что поможет Аркадию Воложу во второй раз "сделать свой первый миллиард долларов?", — объясняет Леонид Делицын, аналитик Группы компаний «Финам».... →

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23:00 18.02.2016

Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Messenger

A leaked document Facebook gave one of its biggest advertisers reveals that Facebook will launch ads within Messenger in Q2 2016. The document, obtained by TechCrunch but kept private to protect its source, says businesses will be able to send ads as messages to people who previously initiated a chat thread with that company. To prepare, the document recommends that businesses get consumers… Read More... →

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23:00 18.02.2016

Indigo Is Mapping Plant Biomes To Produce Next Generation Crops

David Perry thinks the secret to agricultural challenges like drought resistance might lie in the bacteria that live in a bunch of grass on the beach. That’s just one example that Indigo, a company that analyzes the micro-biomes of plants to produce seed coatings that impart various attributes, is looking into as a way to combat difficult conditions for various crops. Indigo is… Read More... →

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23:00 18.02.2016

Silicon Valley Keeps Winning Because Non-Competes Limit Innovation

Talent plus capital. Whether you’re building a company, a city or a national economy, these are the raw materials that make it possible to do things that others can’t. Silicon Valley is the world’s most magical mixing chamber for these two simple ingredients, home to the most exciting, creative and valuable companies on the planet. Every city in the U.S. — and around… Read More... →

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22:53 18.02.2016

Yahoo warns of industry-wide ‘pause’ in mobile growth for 2016

SAN FRANCISCO — In the midst of turmoil within the Yahoo organization, the company held its second mobile developer conference in the San Francisco Bay Area. While there were several announcements in terms of product updates with Flurry, the feeling in the room wasn’t that rosy at least concerning the future of the mobile development space […]... →

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22:48 18.02.2016

InnoGames’ mobile stable sees 100% growth in 2015 thanks to Forge of Empires

Someone’s been striking the mobile forge for a nice profit. InnoGames announced today that it achieved revenues of $111.14 million in 2015, a growth of 25 percent from 2014. InnoGames, which has offices in Hamburg and Dusseldorf, attributed the increase to its successful cross-platform strategy game Forge of Empires, which is available on mobile an browsers. […]... →

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22:31 18.02.2016

LG places massive bet on G5 launch at MWC to revive flagging smartphone business

ANALYSIS: BARCELONA, Spain — While thousands of companies are about to descend on this seaside city for Mobile World Congress, arguably none has more at stake than LG Electronics. The South Korean electronics maker plans to unveil its new premium phone, the Android-based G5, at the world’s largest mobile trade show next week. The goal for LG […]... →

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22:30 18.02.2016

Even Barbie Has A Smart Home And Hoverboard Now

Consumers may have been slow to adopt smart home technology, but that’s not the case for Barbie. At the recent New York Toy Fair, Mattel unveiled a newly upgraded – and now tech-enabled – Dreamhouse for its iconic doll. The house lets kids control its various elements – from the lights to the elevator and other appliances and even the music – using voice… Read More... →

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22:20 18.02.2016

Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1 billion hours played, and 66 versions

LAS VEGAS — Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991, and now at 25, it has become one of the cultural touchstones of the game industry, something that everyone recognizes or has played in the past. Few game […]... →

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22:01 18.02.2016

Facebook Lures Video Creators With Minutes Watched And 10-Second View Metrics

The better the videos are on Facebook, the more people will watch and the more lucrative video ads Facebook can show. So today it’s giving video makers more metrics that will teach them what works and what doesn’t. Facebook Page insights will now show the total minutes spent watching each of their videos, and the number of times people watched a video up to the 10-second mark,… Read More... →

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21:53 18.02.2016

Hinge May Start Charging Users As It Zeroes In On Serious Dating

Given the extent to which I cover dating apps, you may be surprised to know that I’m not much of a digital dater. In fact, I’ve only ever had monogamous, exclusive relationships with people I’ve met offline, with one booty call exception. Shout out to the man I now refer to as “Tinder Tim.” I met my current girlfriend at a BBQ, and the one before that through… Read More... →

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21:50 18.02.2016

Apple rolls out iOS update to restore devices bricked by ‘error 53’

Apple today announced that it’s coming out with an update to iOS 9.2.1 that’s intended to fix the “error 53” issue that disabled some iOS devices. Apple is directing people to an explanation on a new support page about the issue, which first came to light earlier this month: After you try to update or […]... →

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21:36 18.02.2016

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs with improvements to Cortana, Edge, and Skype

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a slew of improvements. The latest build includes tweaks to Cortana’s music feature, the Edge browser, and Skype integration. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft is still building Windows 10, this means Windows Insiders are […]... →

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