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They may have the latest gadgets, but the men and women of Silicon Valley are rarely thought of as superheroes. Joseph Floyd, an Emergence Capital investor, wants to change that. Floyd noticed that many of the mainstream role models children look up to are athletes and celebrities, while many founders and engineers shy away from the media. He hopes with his upcoming graphic novel,… Read More... →

The BlackBerry Priv is here — we reviewed the phone but there’s a lot more to say. This is BlackBerry’s first Android device. I had the opportunity to talk to Dave Kleidermacher, BlackBerry’s chief security officer, and pick his brain about the Priv and more broadly about the company’s decision to finally go Android. First […]... →

Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by being singularly committed to making the world’s biggest video game franchises and putting everything behind them. That’s the company’s continuing strategy to dominate gaming and the larger entertainment industry, and it […]... →

A new Star Wars trailer appeared on Disney’s Japanese YouTube channel this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. The biggest surprise? It wasn’t just a bunch of previously seen footage rearranged. While we’d seen plenty of it before, there’s tons of new footage within. As is tradition now, we’ve torn the new trailer apart scene-by-scene as GIFs ready to be watched… Read More... →

Launched last month, Perfecto is a bike marketplace that verifies buyers, sellers, and bicycles, essentially eradicating the potential of stolen bikes. As bicycle commutes becomes a larger trend in cities worldwide, the market for secondhand bikes is skyrocketing. Traditional marketplaces like Craigslist are exacerbating this problem, as there is no safeguards in place to detect and stop… Read More... →

Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improve the user experience for those who can’t stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supported version of Hulu less painful as well. This week, Fox and Hulu announced a new type of ad format would be arriving on Hulu for the first time: engagement ads. Viewers who opt for this sort of… Read More... →

This week, Prop F was struck down, Facebook reported continued growth and Twitter traded in stars for hearts. TC Cribs visited the Love Nest, a Palo Alto co-living space that’s part commune and part startup incubator. On Bullish, we talked with Joyce Kim of Stellar about the impact of non-profits inside the tech world. These are the tech stories to catch you up on this week’s… Read More... →

Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos. The way the service works is that signed-in users will see desktop search results that offer a combination of Flickr’s top public photos, images from people you follow on Flickr, and a selection of… Read More... →

The hype around Call of Duty: Black Ops III couldn’t be bigger today as the game formally launches. Players around the world attended midnight store openings so they could be the first to get the adrenaline rush of the latest Call of Duty experience, which Activision touted as a “Call of Duty game like no […]... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, November 24th at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Everyone loves free things. How can you not? It’s free! So, of course when it comes to the mobile gaming market, free-to-play games currently rule the roost. A win for consumers looking for 15 minutes of […]... →

Сервис доставки продуктов с рецептами «Шефмаркет» приобрел конкурирующий сервис Katerina.ru. Об этом Firrma сообщил основатель «Шефмаркета» Сергей Ашин. Детали сделки не раскрываются. Основатели Katerina теперь сфокусируются на развитии кейтеринга, который они продвигают под брендом Bankatering. Сервис был запущен 8 месяцев назад в Швеции, гражданкой которой является Катерины Кронстедт, основатель Katerina.ru. Проект работает в сегментах В2В и В2С. Вырученные от продажи Katerina.ru деньги будут направлены н... →

Activision Blizzard has finally gone Hollywood. The world’s No. 2 video game publisher is announcing today the launch of Activision Blizzard Studios, a new in-house film and television studio devoted to creating original movies and TV shows based on the company’s video games. In doing so, the company has embraced the “transmedia” strategy of extending […]... →

We are looking for an experienced marketer to write four to six in-depth posts for SEJ each month. Ideally, posts will be between 800-2,000 words in length. The post SEJ is Hiring! by @wonderwall7 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The “Shopping” category will be available worldwide, and will feature apps that span across omni-channel, auctions, price comparison, product reviews and more. These applications were previously listed in the App Store’s… Read More... →

Garry Tan is leaving the accelerator and investment firm Y Combinator after a four-year stint with the outfit. Tan had previously cofounded the easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, which was backed by Y Combinator and acquired by Twitter in 2012 and later shuttered. Tan joined Y Combinator back in 2011 as a designer in residence but was quickly to promoted to partner. He said in… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Watch this webinar now on-demand. Access it for free right here. For Jesse Grittner, one of the biggest pitfalls mobile marketers fall into is the shiny penny syndrome. It’s the idea that there’s always something new emerging in the space, with new technologies, and marketers can jump on the newest, shiniest thing without properly evaluating its fit for their […]... →

Yahoo is expanding its search results to pull in photos that you’ve uploaded to your Flickr account. If you’re signed into your account on the photo social network and happen to run an image search on Yahoo, the system will display the publicly available photos you’ve taken that match up with that criteria, along with […]... →

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively expanding the number of different geographic regions it offers its services in. As Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced today, the company plans to launch a UK region by the end of 2016 (“or early 2017”). That’s Amazon’s third region in the European Union. Amazon’s facilities in Dublin were long the only option for… Read More... →

China plans to lift its moratorium on IPO listings before the end of the year, the official news agency Xinhua said earlier today. The country had instituted a ban on IPOs back in July, after roaring along for the first half of the year, bolstered by numerous moves by the Chinese government. Among them, it cut benchmark interest rates, reduced stock market transaction fees and even… Read More... →

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision-Blizzard sent shockwaves through the gaming industry this week when it bought King for $5.9 billion. We also covered the quarterly earnings for tons of gaming companies. Happy reading, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: The top 25 public game companies have changed […]... →