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Sony's YouTube subscribers nearly triple after Interview release -- and other early stats
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 22:22
While we don't yet know how many people purchased The Interview online, early numbers make it seem like releasing the movie was a very good idea.
Y Combinator's Paul Graham wants way more great devs to immigrate to the U.S.
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 22:06
Graham appears to believe that action is urgently needed.
The 10 best tech movies of 2014 (and a couple of the worst)
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 22:00
None of the tech-flavored movies that came out in 2014 will make the all-time best list. After all "Her" came out last year. But some respectable tech movies were released, and these are the best (and worst) of them.
Joyride believes its new crowdfunding platform will make podcasting profitable
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 21:09
Thanks to sister show Serial from the folks that brought you This American Life, podcasts are gaining some much deserved, renewed attention from listeners. Of course the two biggest setbacks to the medium have always bee...
Minecraft for iOS made more money on Christmas Day than Clash of Clans or any other app
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 20:15
Minecraft is one of the few "premium-priced" games making millions of dollars on mobile.
So many task-management apps, so little time
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 20:00
If you're like me, you have a lot of things to do -- and you may very well have trouble remembering them all. Which is why task-management tools could be a great help. But oh, there are so many....
The Open Bay helps launch 372 'copies' of The Pirate Bay in a week, becomes GitHub's most popular project
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 18:45GamesBeat weekly roundup: Christmas network outages and games for your new mobile devices
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 18:45
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The DeanBeat: The $2B mobile game and other bold predictions for 2015
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 18:00
We're still trying to get them right, but here are some predictions for 2015.
The year in security: How 2014's failures will help us prepare for 2015
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 18:00
Data breaches were on the rise this year, with no clear indication of slowing down. Both 2013 and 2014 were dubbed the year of the data breach, indicating that these are becoming the norm rather than isolated incidents. ...
IBM: Christmas online sales up 8.3%, iOS numbers nearly quadruple Android's
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 17:48
Christmas is a religious and cultural celebration for billions of people, which means it’s also a big day for online shopping. Online sales grew by 8.3 percent over 2013, according to the latest figures from IBM. Mobil...
Real-world stores that know you, and other ways that tech is changing how we buy things
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 17:00
We're now half way through the second decade of the 21st century. But, somehow, it feels like this century, when the future takes hold, is just beginning.
Amazon added 10M new Prime subscribers over the holidays, could make up to $1B in annual revenue
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 16:37
Correction: Updated 7:05 a.m. PT to clarify that the company could make as much as $990 million. Amazon today announced that over 10 million people “tried Prime for the first time” — the company’s $99 annual subs...
Automotive HUD Market Could Be $8.3b By 2020
Forbes - 26 Dec 2014 15:46
The automotive Heads Up Display (HUD) market could be worth $8.3b in 2020.
Sony confirms PSN problems for PS4 but doesn't comment on hacking reports
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 15:26
Sony confirmed today that its PlayStation Network has been having technical issues since yesterday. "We are aware that users are having trouble accessing our network services since Thursday morning Tokyo time," a Sony sp...
In tragic new twist, critics say 'The Interview' is actually a pretty terrible movie
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 14:38
The irony of the whole Sony hacking episode may turn out to be that ‘The Interview’ got far more attention and far more viewership than it would have if it had lumbered into movie theaters as originally planned. That...
Flying Frenchies and Parrot invent new sport: Catching drones while jumping off cliffs
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 13:15
The Flying Frenchies and Parrot have teamed up to create a new extreme sport that involves jumping off cliffs to catch drones.
Is Entrepreneurship Always A Force For Good?
Forbes - 26 Dec 2014 12:54
Entrepreneurship is widely touted as one of the best ways to grow and improve a country's economy. But is it always a positive? And if so, how would governments go about implementing it?
5 questions VCs are thinking after your first meeting
Venture Beat - 26 Dec 2014 02:00
Guest:People tell me all the time that their VC meeting went very well and that they crushed it. Most don't realize that their potential funder is thinking something altogether different.