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Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo’s earnings fall a little short of expectations, someone builds a calculator inside Super Mario Maker, and Uncharted 4 gets its own PlayStation 4 bundle. Happy reading, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Fallout, Skyrim director Todd Howard earns lifetime achievement […]... →

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Tech companies have gotten better about disclosing their diversity data, but there are still a ton of companies that haven’t done so. In the reports that do exist, what’s often missing are insights around retention rates, which can be good indicators of a company’s culture and what it’s like to actually work there. I recently sat down with CODE2040 CEO Laura… Read More... →

Todd Howard isn’t a big guy, but he’s going to be honored as one of the giants of the video game industry. Howard, creator of blockbuster games such as Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, will be given the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the annual Game Developers Choice Awards in March. This is a […]... →

ANALYSIS: The mobile landscape is littered with manufacturers who lost their way, from Palm to BlackBerry to HTC to Danger.... →

It’s here! 1st and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and your favorite tech blog, TechCrunch, is tomorrow! We’ve scoured fields, courts, arenas and stadiums around the world to find the most promising startups bringing technology to sports. These companies help athletes move faster, stay safer and ultimately perform better. Read More... →

Wiper announced today that it has raised another $2 million, bringing its total seed round to $4.5 million as the messaging app expands into entertainment. The company has also launched a $4.99 monthly streaming service for independent films, along with an Apple TV app. The latest infusion of capital comes from the company’s existing investor […]... →

For the past couple of weeks, a newcomer has been at the top of the iOS app store. Color Switch is one of those free downloadable games like Flappy Bird that came out of nowhere and hit the top. It’s games like Color Switch, which tests your skill at moving a ball through color-coded obstacles, that […]... →

So you decided to finally ditch your cable package this year. Great! But now the Super Bowl is rolling around and you’re wondering how you’re going to watch Cam Newton dab all afternoon? Luckily, we’ve put together a guide of all the ways you can stream the big game. CBS, the network that is broadcasting Super Bowl 50 this year, is streaming the game for free across a bevy… Read More... →

Акции профессиональной соцсети LinkedIn на Нью-Йорской бирже упали на 40% после публикации прогноза на первый квартал 2016 года. Капитализация основанной в 2002 году компании сократилась на $10 млрд, отмечает CNBC.... →

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Правительство РФ учредит в форме НКО агентство технологического развития, которое будет содействовать созданию в России рынка технологических брокеров. Объем финансирования работы организации из бюджетных средств в текущем году составит 200 млн рублей. Об этом сообщает ТАCС, со ссылкой на заявление главы Минпромторга Дениса Мантурова. По словам Дениса Мантурова, в правительстве уже есть понимание того, как обеспечить финансирование при балансировке федерального бюджета на текущий год. Предполагается, что аг... →

It’s been a big week for Amazon’s connected speaker Echo. First the company rolled out a way to order pizza just by asking Echo’s virtual assistant to place an order for you. It then added the much-requested Spotify to the list of supported streaming music services. And today, Amazon has announced integration with on-demand car service, Uber. The feature is being made… Read More... →

Malware may be the scourge of the Internet era, but it may be useful to have record of how it evolved — or perhaps you would simply like to reminisce about the good ol’ days of MS-DOS viruses. For this, there’s the Malware Museum. Courtesy of online security guru Mikko Hypponen, the Malware Museum is […]... →

Imagine Dragons, the rock band behind mega hits like Radioactive and Demons, is jumping into mobile games with a title that will help fight childhood cancer. The title is one more example of the search for a magical hit in the $30 billion mobile game business. In this case, the formula involves a famous rock […]... →

Microsoft’s Bing is trying to carve out a niche for itself on mobile by focusing on the types of common searches and information requests people need to access while on the go. To that end, the company this week rolled out new iOS and Android applications with features like a barcode scanner for price comparisons, a tool to find the cheapest nearby gas prices, and, on iOS to start, a… Read More... →

Machines matter to people. But, they “matter” only because they affect people. It’s widely supposed that today’s machines themselves cannot be “affected” — because they have no feelings, no conscious thought, no sentience. Interestingly enough, it might not always be that way. While biology has held a relatively firm monopoly on… Read More... →

2 февраля 2016 года сервис по заказу поездок Uber представил свой новый логотип и фирменный стиль. Издание Wired опубликовало материал о том, как разрабатывался стиль компании. Редакция vc.ru публикует адаптированный перевод заметки.... →

Our deadline expires at the end of today for speaker submissions for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. This event is about the global business of gaming, which is growing in so many ways and becoming a bigger […]... →

Один из трёх соучредителей компании SwiftKey Крис Хилл-Скотт обменял свою долю на велосипед спустя несколько месяцев после запуска сервиса в 2008 году. 3 февраля 2016 года стало известно, что компанию купила корпорация Microsoft за $250 млн. Разработчик мог заработать на этой сделке $36 млн, пишет The Guardian.... →