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More bad news for blood analysis startup Theranos – Walgreens has suspended use of the company’s Newark, California lab, following news the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said that lab posed “immediate jeopardy” to patients. Walgreens partners with Theranos, allowing the startup to collect blood draws out of many of the drug store’s Arizona locations… Read More... →

VB INSIGHT: In 2015, marketing tech swelled in deal sizes, frequency, and valuations like never before. 2016 is off to a similar start. In a new MoneyTree Report from PWC and the National Venture Capital Associate, VCs cooled on later-stage growth investments, particularly in tech at the end of last year. Whether that’s due to fluctuating financial markets, markdowns from […]... →

Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading experience. Co-founder Sanghoon Kwak led the development of the new Trends feature, and he said that previously, if you were reading news on Slidejoy, you saw one article at a time, and they came from about a dozen publishers. Slidejoy Trends, on… Read More... →

Компания Яндекс, владеющая сервисом Кинопоиск, перенесла новую версию сайта на другой домен и изменила логотип сервиса. Новая версия сайта, которая ранее была расположена на домене beta.kinopoisk.ru, теперь находится по адресу plus.kinopoisk.ru. Доменное имя, как видим, поддерживается новым логотипом — вместо значка «бета» теперь находится плюс. Напомним, портал Кинопоиск был перезапущен Яндексом 8 октября. Ресурс получил новый дизайн, обновленный функционал и новые возможности по покупке билетов и просмо... →

Electronic Arts is reloading. Andrew Wilson, chief executive of EA, said in a conference call with analysts that EA has a new Battlefield game coming in the next fiscal year, as well as a new Titanfall game from developer Respawn Entertainment. That was the first glimpse of new games coming from EA, which beat earnings […]... →

Here’s a surprise: Facebook is closing its Parse developer platform. After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a After acquiring the service, which at the time mostly focused on mobile developers, for a reported $85 million in 2013, Facebook turned Parse into one of its key developer services. Parse will still operate until January 28, 2017,… Read More... →

Facebook today announced that its Parse mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) cloud is shutting down. It will stick around for exactly 365 days and will no longer be available on January 28, 2017. We’re proud that we’ve been able to help so many of you build great mobile apps, but we need to focus […]... →

Publisher Electronic Arts is taking a small beating on Wall Street. EA’s stock is at $64.70 in after-hours trading, which is down more than 7 percent from its closing price of $69.79 when the closing bell rang earlier today. Investors are spooked that the publisher, coming off a big win with Star Wars: Battlefront, doesn’t have quite […]... →

Xerox is reportedly gearing up to announce that it will break itself apart and form two new companies, bowing to pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn. The news is supposedly scheduled to be announced on Friday during the company’s fourth quarter earnings. The well-known business and digital printing company will divide itself into two entities: one centered […]... →

Both Bank Of America and Wells Fargo are working on integrating Apple Pay into their ATMs, according to a source familiar with the teams on the projects. Engineers at both companies have been placed on multi-month assignments to build the Apple Pay options. I’ve confirmed the identity of at least one engineer who publicly lists themselves as a Bank Of America employee. Wells… Read More... →

Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Read More... →

It looks like Star Wars was a wise investment for Electronic Arts. Star Wars: Battlefront, the multiplayer shooter from developer DICE, surpassed 13 million copies sold to gamers, according to the publisher’s quarterly financial results. This helped once again push EA to take the spot as the No. 1 publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox […]... →

Amazon made more money last quarter — $482 million in profit for the fiscal Q4 2015 — than it did during every previous quarter combined since Q3 2011. That $482 million figure exceeds Amazon’s previous quarterly record, when, in Q4 2010, it earned $416 million in profit. So why, then, did the company’s stock tank by more than 13 percent […]... →

Big video game publisher Electronic Arts charmed investors again as it reported third fiscal quarter earnings that hit/missed expectations for the three months ended Dec. 31. The company’s results are widely watched as a bellwether for the $90 billion global market for all things gaming. But for some reason, investors aren’t happy. In after-hours trading, EA’s […]... →

Microsoft doesn’t share its hardware numbers anymore, but it sure does have a lot of people using its online gaming service. Xbox Live has 48 million monthly active players, according to Microsoft’s report for the second quarter of its fiscal 2016. That is up 30 percent year-over-year. “It was a strong holiday season for Microsoft […]... →

Amazon is down 11% after-hours after reporting stronger-than-expected sales. The Seattle-based retail company reported net sales of $35.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015 with diluted earnings of $1.00 per share. The street was expecting a gain of $1.56 per share on sales of $35.98 billion. North America continues to be the company’s bread-and-butter with net sales of… Read More... →

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

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $25.26 billion. In the year-ago quarter, the… Read More... →

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2016, including revenue of $25.69 billion and earnings per share of $0.78. Analysts had expected the company to earn $25.26 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.71. Microsoft’s stock was up 1.63 percent in regular trading. In after-hours, however, the company is up […]... →

Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana and Nigeria. Why Ghana and Nigeria? Well, the founding team (pictured above) has members from both Ghana and Nigeria — two African markets they’re familiar with and have a need for this kind… Read More... →