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Ubisoft won’t release the next Assassin’s Creed during its fiscal 2017, but it will have something new. The French publisher revealed today that it has five big-budget blockbuster games planned for the 12-month perio...

In May of 2013, sitting across from one another in an office above a fetid seafood market in Manhattan’s Chinatown, two competitors looked one another over and were equally unimpressed.

It looks like Blizzard has another hit on its hands. The open beta for its team-based shooter Overwatch — which lasted from May 5 to May 10 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC — attracted 9.7 million players. That’s...

Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported earnings for its fIrst fiscal quarter ended April 30 that beat Wall Street's expectations. Nvidia's results are a bellwether for the PC industry, as the company is one of the largest m...

Advanced Micro Devices announced today that board member John Caldwell has been appointed chairman. Caldwell succeeds Bruce Claflin as chairman of the board. Claflin had been chairman of the board since March 2009 and wi...

Once a person has expressed an alignment with a brand, they tend to feel a sense of obligation to later buy from that company. Here's why and how to use this principle in your marketing initiative.

VB EVENT: We just finished our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, and we were pleased with how that went. Now we’re happy to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 will use as its theme “The Platform Awakens: A new hope for th...

Jason Nazar set out to make work better with Comparably, and while he started with people’s salary and benefits, one area that hadn’t been addressed is equity people receive at their company. While this may not seem ...

Google today is open-sourcing SyntaxNet, a piece of natural-language understanding (NLU) software that you can use to automatically parse sentences, as part of its TensorFlow open source machine learning library. The rel...

Microsoft today said it’s expanding the preview for GigJam, an application that lets people briefly share parts of what they’re working on with colleagues in order to get their input. GigJam first appeared last summe...

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese manufacturer ZTE is working on the third large-screen Zmax Android handsets, to be called the Zmax Pro. It will feature spec bumps in nearly all categories over the current Zmax 2, as well as the addit...

Today the term "cross channel marketing" is old news for marketers. At least it better be. According to one report, in this year alone successful marketers are nearly 35 times more likely to use cross channel marketing...

The company behind the world’s most popular publishing platform is trying to make .blog happen. WordPress.com owner Automattic announced today that it has “secured the rights to oversee and operate the sale and regis...

February and March hits have helped Ubisoft’s numbers. Ubisoft released its earnings for the financial year of 2015-’16 today, beating its target of $1.548 billion sales with a final number of $1.587 billion. That fi...

Ubisoft’s latest Tom Clancy shooter has caught on with quite a large crowd. The Division has 9.5 million registered player accounts, according to the publisher’s fiscal 2016 financial report. That helped the company ...

Ubisoft Entertainment said today that its Hungry Shark World has topped 10 million downloads on mobile devices in just six days. The French video game publisher made the announcement as part of its year-end earnings anno...

Evernote and Google today announced a partnership that lets you access your Google Drive files directly in Evernote. The new integration, which is still in beta, is available in Evernote for Android and in the Web app, b...

Pinterest is no longer banning affiliate links on its service, after decreeing more than a year ago that it did so to prevent spammers from abusing those links. The company today updated its policy to reflect this change...

British broadband operator TalkTalk said it had bounced back from a customer data theft in October, stabilizing its customer base in the final quarter after 95,000 subscribers left following the breach.

Jane Chen takes inspiration from a surprising place--the great cathedrals of Europe. This is surprising because Chen is CEO and co-founder of Embrace Innovations, creator of cheap and portable infant warmers to incu...

Ever wonder what the world would be like without patents? Take a look.

VB INSIGHT: Paul English, former CTO and cofounder of the travel website Kayak, is today launching an iOS travel app called Lola, which is backed by a $19.7 million investment. English’s promise is to reinvent the high...