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(Reuters) — Under Armour said on Thursday that data from some 150 million MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app accounts was compromised in February, in one of the biggest hacks in history, sending shares of the athletic a...

Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen has had some spectacular successes in mobile games since starting the Helsinki company in 2010. His team of 240 people has created games such as Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Roy...

The Nintendo Switch is the fastest-selling console in the United States through the first 12 months of its life , and that has led to a wave of third-party peripherals. This includes a bustling segment of external-batter...

Whether you're fundraising or dating, there will be a lot of frogs before finding your proverbial prince. For women, what's harder? Fundraising? Overcoming bias in a 94% male dominated investor landscape? Or dating? Navi...

GUEST: Artificial intelligence is already making our devices more personal — from simplifying daily tasks to increasing productivity. Emotion AI (also called affective computing) will take this to new heights by helpin...

Amazon today announced updates to Alexa’s Video Skills API, which will allow users of TiVo, DirectTV, DISH, and Verizon television services to record their favorite shows using their voice on an Alexa-enabled device. N...

GUEST: It's hard to believe that not even 75 years have passed since ENIAC, that room-sized, 30-ton calculating machine, was the number-crunching hero of World War II. Since then, technology has evolved and converged int...

Following stinging criticisms of its poorly performing digital assistant, Apple has recently ramped up hiring for its Siri division, the data analysts at Thinknum discovered. Siri-specific hiring is currently said to be ...

OPINION: Terry Myerson is out. Microsoft lists his full title as “executive vice president and the former leader of the of the Windows and Devices Group (WDG).” Yes, Microsoft needs shorter titles. In short, the chie...

Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch has confirmed to GamesBeat that it has laid off a number of employees. Twitch reportedly cut more than 25 people from its Twitch Studios and marketing teams, according to esports-...

Google unveiled a slew of updates to its popular TensorFlow machine learning framework today, aimed at making it useful for a wider variety of developers and providing data scientists with new ways to get started buildin...

We’re getting a double-dose of Electronic Arts’ top leaders as our latest speakers for GamesBeat 2018, which will examine the future triple-A games and the technology required to make them and deliver them to consume...

FEATURE: When Brad Ferguson left his home state of Utah to pursue a PhD in statistics at North Carolina State University in 2011, he figured he wouldn't return. Not because he didn't want to live in the state — but as ...

The game industry is booming, with global revenues expected to hit $125.4 billion in 2018, according to market researcher Newzoo. But if you look under the surface, not everything is great. We can see winners and losers ...

Anime streaming site Crunchyroll is publishing its first mobile game, Memoria Freese. It’s based on the popular anime series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, otherwise known as “Dan-Machi,” which ...

VB EVENT: GamesBeat 2018 is almost here, and we’re thrilled to announce that the fabulous Andrea Rene will be our emcee this go around! You can also catch her chatting with Janina Gavankar, from Star Wars Battlefront I...

Jam City has grown to more than 500 people in Los Angeles and San Francisco, rising to become one of the most successful mobile game companies. It scored big with titles like Cookie Jam, and it is working on a highly ant...

(Reuters) — Customs officers in southern China’s technology hub Shenzhen busted a group of criminals using drones to smuggle 500 million yuan ($79.8 million) worth of smartphones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, the offic...

Free-to-play console games led the digital games market’s growth in February -- in particular, Epic Games’ standout hit Fortnite: Battle Royale. The market grew 6 percent globally year-over-year last month, and free-...

In recent weeks, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published Apple patent applications for several fascinating virtual reality concepts, but the latest one takes the cake: Apple has applied to patent a VR system f...

ANALYSIS: Standing in Paris’ picturesque Grand Palais, Huawei’s Richard Yu didn’t seem like a man worried about the storm of controversy his company was facing in the U.S. The CEO of the Chinese giant’s consumer ...