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Cloud gaming lives on. Utomik said today that it struck a deal with game distributor Plug In Digital to add 200 more games to Utomik’s subscription cloud gaming service. The copmany is the latest of many to try to exploit cloud computing and create an innovative new gaming service with it. Utomik’s strategy is to stream […]... →

The Witness is brutally difficult at times (read our review), but it is also fair. If you don’t understand something, it’s probably because you haven’t fully explored the island — or read our tips or full guide. Off the coast of The Witness’s gorgeous island (through the back of the castle/hedge tower) is a shipwreck […]... →

Following last summer’s restructuring, custom T-shirt shop Teespring has laid off under 10 percent of its workforce and is shutting down its Providence office entirely. The company had around 300 total employees ahead of the layoffs, but not all those who work in Providence are out of a job, we understand. Instead, some have been offered the opportunity to relocate to Teespring’s… Read More... →

IBM is taking another step to expand its Watson AI business and build its presence in areas like IoT: today the company announced that its acquisition of the Weather Company — the giant weather media and data group — has now officially closed. IBM is not disclosing the value of the deal: it was originally reported to be in the region of $2 billion, but sources close to IBM tell us… Read More... →

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play 12 virtual reality games on the HTC Vive headset, one of the upcoming competitors to Oculus VR’s Rift tech, and we examine the up-and-downs of game industry investments in 2015. We also offer you plenty of help with The Witness, the crushingly difficult puzzle game […]... →

Apple has reportedly acquired Flyby Media, a startup that developed technology for mapping spaces using smartphones. This technology could be useful for tracking head-mounted displays in virtual reality or augmented reality systems. And that fits with Apple’s current interest in virtual reality, including the recent Metaio and Faceshift acquisitions. News of the Flyby acquisition was […]... →

VB WEBINAR: What keeps 1/3 of Playboy’s registered mobile users coming back every day? Join the superstar CMOs from Playboy, Gamestop, and Tune for a lively roundtable on what it takes to win mobile audience loyalty. Register here for free. “Everyone knows Playboy,” says Robin Zucker, SVP of Digital Media Marketing. “Twenty-year-olds know Playboy. But is it […]... →

Intel announced eight executive promotions today, but seven of those are white and Asian men. The lone person who would qualify as a diverse candidate within that group is Christina Min, who was promoted to corporate vice president and group controller for the corporate finance group. Intel has committed to hiring 40 percent of all […]... →

Apple втайне сформировала большую команду специалистов в области виртуальной и дополненной реальности для создания устройства, которое может стать конкурентом Oculus Rift или Microsoft Hololens. Об этом сообщает Financial Times со ссылкой на источники, знакомые с ситуацией.... →

Часть клиентов «Рокетбанка» не может получить доступ к деньгам из-за трудностей банка-партнера «Интеркоммерц». При этом за последний год в России закрылось больше ста банков. Петербургское издание «Бумага» рассказало своим читателям простым языком, как понять, что у банка начались проблемы, кто отвечает за вклады клиентов и как физическим и юридическим лицам получить деньги обратно.Редакция vc.ru приводит материал целиком с разрешения его авторов.... →

Компания Google закрыла принадлежащий контент-агрегатору TVPartners аккаунт, партнерами которого были участники Caramba Media: Максим Голополосов (шоу +100500), Дмитрий Иванов (kamikadzedead), BadComedian (Евгений Баженов) и Кирилл Данильченко (проект KuTstupid). Об этом сообщает Roem.ru, в распоряжении которого оказалось письмо юридического департамента «Google Ирландия» в адрес владельца TVPartners Александра Абашкина. В результате агрегатор остался должен блогерам более $30 тысяч.... →

We tossed around toys like kids. We played tetherball; I instantly sank back in time to elementary school, the last time I knocked a ball, tied to a string, around a rusty steel pole. I didn’t feel it — the ball — resting in my holographic hand. But I sensed it there with my eyes. […]... →

Apple’s VR ambitions continue: according to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple has acquired an augmented reality startup called Flyby Media, which developed technology that allows mobile phones to “see” the world around them. The company, notably, had worked with Google in the past, as it was the first consumer-facing application to use the image recognition… Read More... →

2015 was not a good year for IPOs — it was actually the worst year for tech IPOs since the financial crisis in 2009. More and more startups are opting to remain private for longer periods of time. And while we still haven’t seen any IPOs in 2016, the slowest start since 2009, eventually venture-backed companies need to go public — if only to raise additional financing to… Read More... →

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For a brief moment yesterday, it looked like Jeff Bezos could finally thumb his nose at those who’ve been doubting him all along. His expand-at-any cost, low-margin frugality and take no prisoners, thrifty-bootstrapping strategy for Amazon had at last paid off. The company announced record quarterly profits of $482 million, more than the cumulative total of […]... →

Агрегатор TVPartners остался должен около $30 тыс Максиму Голополосову и Дмитрию Иванову .... →

Spotify’s foray into video has gone live on iOS a little earlier than expected. On Monday, The Wall St. Journal reported that Spotify had begun to roll out its video product to all users, beginning with its Android app this week. The iOS launch of the new “Shows” section, however, was not expected until “the next week or so,” a spokesperson told us at the time.… Read More... →

“Capitalists both in the Old World and the States, even now, have but little faith in California. They regard this country and everything relating to it as one grand bubble, liable to burst at any moment…. This is how it should be. The wealth of California is thereby passing into the hands of young, active, enterprising men, who in an older country and with these same old capitalists… Read More... →

SPONSORED: There is a big problem brewing in the Internet. You may have noticed that big attacks that disrupt networks or servers’ ability to deliver traffic, called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), are showing up in the news more often.... →