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Samsung extends 'TV plus' service with Fandango deal
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 19:01
Samsung plans to introduce three new Smart TV offerings it hopes will give customers a more tailored and personalized viewing experience. Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company will announce it has teame...
Why chatbots will disappoint and messaging will thrive in 2017
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 02:10
GUEST: The year 2016 was pretty messy by all accounts — just look at what John Oliver has to say about it. Between Harambe, Brexit, Bowie, the American election, a Syrian refugee crisis, shootings, and, of course, the ...
GamesBeat's top 10 AR and VR stories of the year: Pikachu and porn
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 20:30
In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry that made the most noise when it comes to the next generation of computin...
2016's most overlooked games
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 03:45
You had plenty of amazing games to play in 2016, and that’s a problem because you probably missed out on some other amazing games because you just kept booting up Titanfall 2 and Overwatch again and again. But that’s...
Former Sony Online Entertainment boss's Pixelmage Games studio shuts down
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 02:10
The Hero’s Song isn’t over until the rubenesque hero lady sings. Pixelmage Games, the studio responsible for Hero’s Song, has shut down, according to a post on the company’s website. Hero’s Song was an open-wor...
Mobile ad trends to watch for in 2017
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 00:12
GUEST: In 2017, the digital ad space will grow in size and complexity, creating more opportunities for advertisers and new challenges for market players. We’ll see more opportunities for ad placements within mobile app...
What top Silicon Valley investors expect in 2017
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 09:01
The year 2016 was an interesting one for startups. Between high valuations and the glory of reaching unicorn status, entrepreneurs have been frenetically chasing private investors — who were more than willing to delive...
10 Alexa skills for your new Echo, ranked by popularity
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 21:15
It’s been a banner year for Alexa, Amazon’s AI assistant. Millions of Alexa-enabled devices were sold this holiday season, according to an announcement made by Amazon. And an estimate stated that more than 5 million ...
Swiss Fintech Needs Young Stars To Grow Wealth And Currency Startups
Forbes - 27 Dec 2016 13:20
Switzerland could become a player in the fintech sphere if it can convince bright young things that forging their own pathi is better than a cushy number in a traditional bank.
Savvy Millennials And The Way To Better Branding
Forbes - 27 Dec 2016 15:00
You can learn a lot about branding and social media from the millennials on your team.
GamesBeat Rewind 2016: The GamesBeat Decides podcast awards
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 00:45
The year is over, and we want to talk about what happened. And that’s why we have a podcast. It’s GamesBeat Rewind week on the GamesBeat Decides podcast. We’re posting new episode looking back on 2016 all throughou...
17 Pieces Of Advice That Will Turn Your Career Around In 2017
Forbes - 27 Dec 2016 21:00
2017 can be the year of big dreams and life-changing small steps, here are 17 quotes to help you stay anchored in your goals.
How AI and messaging are redefining customer service
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 22:10
GUEST: The past few months were full of exciting announcements around two key topics: artificial intelligence and mobile messaging. Both have made significant leaps in progress, and together will make a very exciting yea...
What Are The Most Important Latin America Stories To Follow In 2017?
Forbes - 27 Dec 2016 15:55
There are number of important trends unfolding in Latin America that will be important for investors to watch in 2017. Both U.S and Mexican flags fly outside of a factory in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo by N. Parish Flannery. ...
YouTube's biggest stars saw their numbers plummet this year
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 14:55
YouTube stars with more than 10 million subscribers have experienced a sharp drop in viewership since February, according to a new study. In the study commissioned by Kotaku, the social statistics tracker SocialBlade fou...
For publishers, Facebook is the devil
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 06:15
ANALYSIS: One might argue that Facebook behaved with imperious disdain, or callous indifference at best, in its treatment of publishers in the final month of 2016. The social media giant admitted misreporting publishers�...
The history and little-known facts of Pokémon Stadium
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 18:03
Before Pokémon made us go, it turned us into Nintendo 64 gladiators. YouTube channel Did You know Gaming‘s latest video looks at Pokémon Stadium, the Nintendo 64 series that let players battle with their pocket monst...
These were the top 5 bots to try in 2016
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 05:12
As the bot ecosystem grew in 2016, we were pleased to present 5 bots to try each week. We brought you the five most popular bots, as they appeared on Botlist during the previous week. And now, as we prepare to welcome a ...
Blurred Lines - How Tech Is Affecting The B2B Music Market
Forbes - 27 Dec 2016 14:19
When Audio Network launched in 2001 in London, founders Andrew Sunnocks and Robert Hurst were coming to the market with a deceptively simple idea. Having decamped from classical music publisher Boosey & Hawkes,their aim ...
Why tech merger mania is possible in 2017 under Trump
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 09:59
The past few years have been extremely busy in the world of mergers and acquisitions, setting records around the world. In tech, the semiconductor industry has rapidly consolidated while mid-sized players like EMC and Li...
Panasonic announces $256 million investment in Tesla's U.S. solar cell plant
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 14:25
(By Taiga Uranaka and Makiko Yamazaki, Reuters) – Panasonic Corp will invest more than $256 million in a New York production facility of Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to make photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, deepening...
Watch a historical rundown of the Super Game Boy
Venture Beat - 27 Dec 2016 23:57
Portable consoles are great and all, but sometimes nothing beats gaming on a couch in front of a big screen. YouTube channel Gaming Historian has done a video on the Super Game Boy, the Super Nintendo device that enables...