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The House of Mario is laying out its plans for making the leap to iPhone and Android, but it’s going to need more time. During a meeting with investors in Kyoto, the publisher revealed it will not have a new smartphone game before the end of this calendar year (via Wall Street Journal). Instead, it […]... →

Nintendo’s holiday tentpole game, Super Mario Maker, is already out, but the publisher is not finished with support for its Wii U or 3DS consoles this calendar year. Nintendo chief executive officer Tatsumi Kimishima announced today that it will have more games for its consoles to help them get a boost through the gift-giving holidays (via Wall […]... →

Google has made some enhancements to its Google Photos and Snapseed Android apps. Among the updates: face matching becoming more widely available, improvements in app performance, and an option for you to hide photos with specific faces in them. Additionally, if you’re a fan of Snapseed, you might be happy to know that the latest […]... →

Posted by rMaynes1You are exposed to an average of 362 online display ads a day. How close are you to buying anything when you see those ads?Online display ads have been around for over 20 years. They’re nothing new. But over the past 2 decades, the content, format, and messaging of display ads have changed dramatically—because they have had to! The click-through rate of that first banner ad in 1994 was 44%. CTRs have steadily declined, and were sitting at around 0.1% in 2012 for standard display ads (video... →

Google today announced that its Project Loon initiative for providing Internet access from balloons is heading to Indonesia. Google is partnering with three Indonesian telecommunications companies — Indosat, Telkomsel, and XL Axiata — in the effort, Project Loon vice president Mike Cassidy wrote in a blog post today. “Loon balloons act like floating cell phone […]... →

Starting next year, the top three mobile network operators in Indonesia will begin testing Project Loon balloon-powered Internet . Over the next few years, we're hoping that Loon will help put high-speed LTE Internet connections within reach of more than 100 million Indonesians, giving them access to the limitless educational, cultural, and economic opportunities of the Internet. From left to right: Ririek Adriansyah, CEO of Telkomsel; Dian Siswarini,... →

In Silicon Valley and beyond there are several companies that are working to change the systemic problems with our government, and it’s worth highlighting their efforts. Read More... →

Admit it: When you think of online research, it’s usually just fancy way of saying you’re going to Google something — I’m guilty, anyway. Los Angeles-based Edtwist isn’t trying resist that, exactly, but it has created what founder and CEO Julie Lee said is a more collaborative and “learning-centric” environment where students and other researchers can… Read More... →

PayPal is finally breaking Venmo out beyond peer-to-peer payments. During its Q3 earnings call, the company announced an upcoming service called “Pay with Venmo,” which will let any Venmo user pay at any PayPal merchant with Venmo. This means Venmo will become its own payment method at PayPal-supported digital stores. Instead of paying with PayPal, you can soon Pay […]... →

In today’s tech climate – where financing sources are plentiful and investor optimism is generally high – many believe that there has been no better time to get funded and realize their startup ideas. But Todd McKinnon would tell you that the best time to start Okta was in 2009 – just a few months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the beginning of the great… Read More... →

The Ethereum project and Consensys, the company created by one of the project’s co-creators, have received a huge vote of approval from one of the world’s biggest enterprise software providers — Microsoft. Read More... →

After staying relatively quiet on the future of virtual reality, Apple has made its first foray into the space via a 360-degree U2 music video made available on the Vrse app. The music video is part of a larger Apple Music partnership with U2 called “The Experience Bus,” which is basically an environment at concerts for U2 fans to come strap on Oculus headsets and pairs of Beats… Read More... →

GoPro is working on a drone that’s scheduled for release in early 2016. The company just posted a sneak peak of footage captured from the new drone. Spoiler: It’s silky smooth. Read More... →

The chief marketing officer in most companies is turning into a data scientist, but the actual results of data-driven marketing remain mixed. Still, the trend toward data is likely to continue as most companies believe that, used correctly, data could have lasting positive effects on sales. That’s the gist of a new study that appeared today […]... →

U.S. regulators today announced new exemptions to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that will make it possible for nerds to tinker with cars and gadgets without breaking copyright laws. Read More... →

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete, a significant milestone in the history of the Internet and web application development. In this past year, HTML5 adoption has gone into overdrive, with more and more companies moving to HTML5 to deliver rich cross-platform web applications. Read More... →

VB INSIGHT: Email has a tremendous ROI: a return of $38 for every $1 spent, according to VB Insight’s research. Yet at the same time, consumers are blocking marketers out — by blocking cookies and ads, turning off notifications, and yes, unsubscribing from emails. How can today’s marketers get the most out of email? In a word, personalization. […]... →

What does it truly take to achieve greatness? In this episode of Youpreneur.FM, host Chris Ducker and the School of Greatness founder, Lewis Howes, discuss the launch of Lewis's new book, relationships, and why you become what you envision yourself being. Being a student of great leaders is the best way to become one yourself, and here to share how he's done that is Lewis Howes. Lewis is the founder of School of Greatness,... →

After first announcing a split from eBay more than a year ago, PayPal today reported quarterly earnings for the first time as an independent company. The company reported adjusted earnings of $0.31 per share on revenues of $2.26 billion which beat average earnings estimates of $0.29 cents per share but slightly missed revenue estimates of $2.27 billion. The mixed report caused shares… Read More... →