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On paper, Asmau Ahmed could easily be typecast in the role of promising tech startup founder: honors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, MBA from Columbia University, patent holder and co-deve...

Games generated approximately 85 percent of mobile app market revenue in 2015, representing a total of $34.8 billion across the globe, according to a report on the app economy by market researcher App Annie. The data is ...

The app economy consists of everybody who makes money and has a job thanks to mobile apps. By 2020, the app economy could double in size to $101 billion, according to market researcher App Annie. The growth will be drive...

Twitter disclosed today a decline in monthly active users. Now the company knows it’s got to do better. One way it will do that is to adjust the way that users reply to each other’s tweets. “We are going to fix the...

Emi and Mika Onishi have launched UPTOGOOD, an online platform for documentary filmmakers to use for building and funding social movements.

Twitter today released the results of its fourth quarter 2015 earnings. It announced that in the prior three months ending December 31, it had revenue of $710 million and an earnings per share of $0.16. Much of its reven...

Twitter’s user growth just hit a wall. In its fourth quarter 2015 earnings announcement today, Twitter revealed it now has 320 million monthly active users (up 9 percent year over year). But that’s not the full story...

Zynga beat Wall Street’s estimates for bookings for its fourth quarter, and it also announced 10 games that will launch in 2016. The slate is heavy on social casino slots games, FarmVille, and CityVille titles, but it ...

VB EVENT: Love, money, food, and music: We entrust our most critical needs to mobile devices. Companies that can use these devices to meet and surpass our needs are disrupting their industries and winning against their c...

Rand Fishkin coined the term “10x content” in a Whiteboard Friday video episode for Moz that was titled “Why Good Unique Content Needs to Die.”  

Sony is positioning itself as one of the best ways for developers to reach a massive audience of people ready to spend money on virtual reality. PlayStation VR chief Dr. Richard Marks took to the stage at the Vision Summ...

EXCLUSIVE: For the fifth largest cellphone brand in North America — up from 13th as recently as 2014 — Alcatel OneTouch isn’t nearly the household name that competitors Huawei and ZTE have become. Part of that has ...

Unity Technologies has announced a virtual reality scene editor for its Unity game engine, enabling developers to create their own 3D games while moving around inside the 3D environments. The move shows that VR, which te...

Google wants to keep the momentum it has with its virtual reality products going by supporting one of the most popular developer tools in the world. Unity, the game-making tool from Unity Technologies, is getting native ...

Two video game titans are getting together today in support of virtual reality. Valve and Unity Technologies are announcing today that the Unity Platform will have native support for SteamVR, which is Valve’s tech behi...

Smart gardening startup Edyn announced today that it harvested a $2 million seed round. The Oakland, California-based startup also announced plans for an international expansion, starting with Japan. Edyn built a smart g...

Apple has published four job postings that reveal the company’s intent to make its Siri personal digital assistant more capable when it comes to fielding queries about sports. Potentially, that could make Siri a more e...

The gaming industry is already moving into a battle to decide how we’ll build virtual and augmented reality products, and one of the leaders in the game-making tool space is holding an event today to show off what it h...

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OPINION: Just when it seemed Twitter was going to take one of its boldest steps toward reinvention ever, it turns out that the company hasn’t ventured as close to the cliff’s edge as we thought. Today, Twitter offici...

A startup called Pantomime came up with a nifty system of enabling people to peer into animated virtual worlds without the need to wear virtual reality headsets. And now it is adding support for VR headsets so that multi...

VB WEBINAR: Leading social media expert and author Jay Baer joins VB analyst Stewart Rogers in this quick 30-minute webinar. Together, they’ll cover off social media essentials to keep customers and turn them into top-...