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Stop adding Stories to every app
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 23:33
OPINION: Every few months, it seems like there's another eager to copy Snapchat's Stories feature - where users can create approximately 10-second-long videos that are available for all of their followers to view, and di...
App publishers: Here's a way to minimize ad revenue loss from GDPR
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 16:15
GUEST: The mobile apps industry, especially companies based in the EU, have watched General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) draw closer over the last two years. With such lead time, did the industry meet Friday's deadl...
Stablecoins: Brilliant idea or ticking time bomb?
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 21:10
GUEST: If you have been in crypto for more than two minutes, you know one simple fact: Coin prices are really volatile. And that volatility isn't just tough on investors. It's also tough on those who provide services to ...
Should European startups look to scale in China or the U.S.?
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 17:35
GUEST: Every spring I moderate startup events across Europe where budding entrepreneurs from Berlin, Zurich, and Munich meet investors from Europe and the U.S. Frequently, the entrepreneurs in the audience ask the VC spe...
What Sony's PlayStation 4 'end-of-life' means for PSVR and PSVR 2
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 15:00
ANALYSIS: When Sony executive John Tsuyoshi Kodera told investors this week that the PlayStation 4 is entering the “final phase of its life cycle,” there were two ways to parse the news. You could disbelieve it — i...
Why Facebook engineered the Half Dome Varifocal VR headset
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 12:34
At Display Week in Los Angeles, Facebook revealed why its researchers and engineers built a varifocal VR headset. Over the last few years researchers at Facebook's Reality Labs (formerly known as Oculus Research) develop...
Archangel: Hellfire is an epic mech game experience for VR
Venture Beat - 27 May 2018 04:03
We weren't big fans of the single-player Archangel experience when it released last year. While not terrible, it just didn't do enough to stand out as a must-have VR mech game due to its uninspired story, on-rails moveme...