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Facebook highlights the rising power of Europe's game industry
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 18:05
Facebook recently hosted a summit for 150 CEOs of European gaming companies that demonstrated just how important that industry has become in this region.
Facebook open-sources Infer, a code-verification tool that squishes bugs before mobile apps ship
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 17:59
Facebook has announced that it's open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships.
Digital gaming generated $979M last month in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 17:00
The Witcher 3 helped digital sales on both PC and consoles.
FCC net neutrality rules go into effect Friday as wireless industry court challenge fails
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 23:46
The court refused to issue a stay on the new rules to AT&T and a group of other net neutrality opponents as the court continues to review lawsuits intended to reverse the FCC's February order.
A thousand voices cry out on Twitter: Jack is back!
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 23:16
The best place to find great commentary about Twitter news is … Twitter. Duh. And people had lots of hilarious things to tweet about news today that Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, is stepping down. Some peo...
PlayStation 4 outsells Xbox One in May, according to NPD data
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 23:11
PS4 got its groove back.
Up close with the Oculus Rift VR headset and the Oculus Touch motion controller (photo gallery)
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 23:01
Here's some photos from the big Oculus event in San Francisco.
Everything Oculus VR announced at its pre-E3 Rift event today
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 22:35
No, we don't know how much it will cost you.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down on July 1, cofounder Jack Dorsey will be interim CEO
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 22:11
Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, is stepping down but will remain on the company’s board of directors. Costolo and Twitter’s investor relations Twitter account confirmed the news in tweets today. Dick Costo...
Thursday's Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs: Fixing Snapchat
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 21:58
Today's news and insights for business owners, including: Can a small business take Richard Branson's approach to employee benefits?
Twitter will increase DM character limit from 140 to 10,000 in July
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 21:56
The move doesn't remove Twitter's design choice of constraining tweets to 140 characters.
Top 10 Traits Of Self-Made Women: How Many Do You Have?
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 21:53
Oprah Winfey is a self-made woman. So is Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx. What makes self-made women tick? The list of top 10 traits of self-made women begins with "grit" and ends with...
It's complicated: unraveling the CMO - CIO relationship
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 21:09
SPONSORED: If the CMO and CIO would put a Facebook status on their relationship, it would be "it's complicated."
Will U.S. Congress Throw A Wrench In BEPS?
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 20:36
No sooner did the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publish its hotly anticipated guidelines for country-by-country reporting, and the U.S. is already signaling that it may not be in a hurry to...
Oculus Touch is the wireless input system for virtual reality
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 20:01
The new wireless hand controls were designed to work with VR from the ground up.
T-Mobile's Legere releases fiery video bemoaning AT&T and Verizon lobbying tactics ahead of FCC spectrum auction
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:58
"They're fighting like hell to preserve their unfair structural advantage," CEO John Legere said.
To Russia And The SCO, Without Much Love
Forbes - 11 Jun 2015 19:54
By Michael Moran
Oculus VR invests $10M for virtual reality indie games
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:53
Indies, here's your next project target.
Oculus shows off its first virtual reality games
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:36
Oculus has begun to reveal games for its Rift virtual reality headset.
Oculus Rift virtual reality headset comes bundled with an Xbox One controller
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:31
This is huge win for Microsoft, which already had a big following in PC gaming with the Xbox 360 controller, and it ties a prominent VR platform to Windows.
Oculus reveals the final design of its Rift virtual reality headset
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:20
Oculus shows the final design of its VR headset.
Virgin America improves in-seat touchscreens, adds surround sound & Game of Thrones
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2015 19:10
Virgin is upgrading from its old, Linux-based Red system to a new system, still called Red, that's based on Android and sports better content and more interactive features.