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Jaguar's venture fund InMotion invested $25 million in Lyft as part of self-driving car partnership
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 07:00
Jaguar Land Rover's InMotion Ventures announced that it has joined Lyft’s recently announced $600 million fundraising round in an effort to bolster both companies’ self-driving car efforts. InMotion said it has inves...
Ubisoft E3 2017: Every trailer and announcement
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:32
We may never get used to seeing a Raving Rabbid in Princess Peach cosplay, but life comes at you fast. Today, Ubisoft started its event ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles by inviting Nintendo’s S...
Ubisoft's Space Junkies is another bold jump into sci-fi VR
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:18
Ubisoft continues to be aggressive in grabbing the early lead in virtual reality games. Its latest project is Space Junkies, a new multiplayer shooter game where you can fly around in VR with a jet pack in space. The Fre...
Beyond Good & Evil 2 finally returns, and it's now a prequel
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:10
Ubisoft finally showed Beyond Good & Evil 2 today during its event ahead of this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Ubisoft announced the sequel way back in 2008, but we hadn’t seen much of anything...
Customer service should mimic the 5 levels of autonomous cars
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:10
GUEST: In 1900, 41 percent of the U.S. workforce was employed in agriculture. By the year 2000, that number had dropped to 1.9 percent. This massive shift in labor was mostly due to advances in technology and mechanizati...
Steep is getting an Olympics expansion this Decemeber
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:03
Steep is going to the Olympics this December with its first expansion. Ubisoft announced Steep: Road to the Olympics during its Electronic Entertainment Expo event in Los Angeles today. The snowboarding game’s new cont...
Ubisoft unveils Starlink video game with toys that attach to your controller
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 23:00
Ubisoft is coming a little late to the toy-game hybrid craze started by Activision’s Skylanders in 2011. But the French video game publisher has something we haven’t seen before with Starlink: Battle for Atlas, a sci...
Far Cry 5 hands-on: Same verbs, different country
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:59
The GamesBeat crew is in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, one of the biggest events on the video game calendar. Between getting stuck in traffic on the 101 and doing a wheat-grass cleanse with the other...
Just Dance 2018 is coming this October
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:53
Ubisoft announced Just Dance 2018 during its Electronic Entertainment Expo event in Los Angeles today. Just Dance is one of Ubisoft’s biggest franchises, which the publisher releases annually. The dancing game series h...
Transference is VR's 'Being John Malkovich' from Ubisoft
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:38
Ubisoft is getting weird with its virtual reality games, but what else do you expect from a game studio called The Funhouse? Ubisoft Montreal’s The Funhouse studio announced a game called Transference today. You enter ...
The Crew 2 brings boats, planes, and bikes together with automobiles
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:37
Ubisoft’s next racing game will expand beyond four wheels. The Crew 2 is due out in early 2018, and unlike the original it will feature more than just automobiles. Now, players can go by land, air, or sea on a motorbik...
Why The Rest Of The Tech Press Is Wrong About Essential And Sprint
Nibletz - 12 Jun 2017 22:35
Andy Rubin Is Taking Essential To Sprint, This May Not Be Such A Bad Idea When I think about writing pieces like this I have to keep in mind that most of the tech press out there today was in high school or perhaps even ...
Shigeru Miyamoto comes onstage at Ubisoft for the unusual Mario and Rabbids crossover
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:16
One of gaming biggest icons, Shigeru Miyamoto, was onstage today at Ubisoft’s event ahead of this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo event in Los Angeles. He joined Ubisoft’s chief executive officer Yves Guillemo...
Ubisoft E3 2017: Watch it live right here
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 22:00
The French have taken over a theater in Los Angeles, and it’s time to talk about some more video games. Watch the Ubisoft livestream right here:
How Jake Paul Is Changing The Influencer Game
Forbes - 12 Jun 2017 21:32
Jake Paul is much more than your average YouTuber. He has a VC fund, a social media company, and an influencer incubator.
The War On Cannabis Heats Up
Forbes - 12 Jun 2017 21:15
War on drugs heats up - Wynn Resorts bans a CEO from gambling because he works in the legal cannabis industry, while Customs seizes cannabis packaging.
How AI can cut health care costs
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 21:10
GUEST: Companies spend a fortune to provide health insurance for their employees. In the U.S., 57 percent of all people get their health care through an employer-provided plan. In the past 10 years, employers have seen t...
Why Social Media Keeps Brands Accountable (And 5 Key Lessons For Marketers)
Forbes - 12 Jun 2017 21:05
In light of the recent social media missteps by United Airlines, it's worth reviewing social media's role in brand accountability - and five key lessons marketers need to learn.
BlackBerry lets developers embed BBM in Android and iOS apps
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 21:00
EXCLUSIVE: Enterprise application developers have a new choice for secure messaging systems, thanks to today’s launch of BlackBerry’s BBM Enterprise SDK. As the name implies, the tool allows developers to embed a ver...
What were the coolest games at E3 so far? GamesBeat Decides
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 20:57
We’re at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles, and we want to start giving you an idea of what we’ve experienced so far. For our first GamesBeat Decides podcast of E3 2017, hosts Jeffrey Grubb ...
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition highlights Microsoft's renewed PC push
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 20:46
Microsoft has brought all of its games to both Xbox and Windows 10 since last year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow. Now, prior to this year’s event in Los Angeles, the company revealed how it’s further un...
Don't Starve creator blends D&D with Guardians of the Galaxy in Griftlands
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2017 20:45
Klei Entertainment announced its new sci-fi role-playing game Griftlands at today’s PC Gaming Show before the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in Los Angeles. Klei previously developed Don’t Starve and Oxygen ...