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The Sims 4's audience grows 35% from 2017
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 23:15
Electronic Arts’ The Sims 4 continues to go strong, thanks to content updates that add fluffy friends and changing leaves. As part of its Q1 of fiscal year 2019 report, EA noted that The Sims 4’s players have grown 3...
Slack acquires HipChat and Stride from Atlassian
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 23:08
Slack announced that it has acquired Hipchat and Stride, two workflow productivity apps designed for large enterprises, from Sydney, Australia-based company Atlassian.
EA's stock drops 6% as it signals slower quarters and fewer games ahead
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 22:55
Electronic Arts‘ stock price fell 6 percent in after-hours trading as the big video game publisher signaled that it wasn’t as bullish about the coming quarters as investors thought it should be. EA managed to beat Wa...
Amazon revenue grows 39% to $52.9 billion in Q2 2018, AWS up 49%
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 22:46
(Reuters) — Amazon.com dwarfed estimates for quarterly profit on Thursday and forecast operating income above Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter, as the company earned far more from its higher-margin clou...
Intel: 'Data centric' chips takes center stage as client PC chips grow slow
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 22:25
Now in its 50th year, Intel continues to be the world’s biggest maker of processors for personal computers such as desktops and laptops. But in a sign of shifting growth trends, Intel said in its earnings announcement ...
Canalys: Apple Watch tops Q2 chart, LTE model helps carriers keep users
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 22:10
A Canalys report says the Apple Watch has maintained its global leadership position for the second quarter of 2018, and its LTE model is even helping some carriers retain their customers.
Jeff Minter interview: Tempest 4000 VR plans, tricky levels, and curry text explained
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 21:01
Jeff Minter has made great games for decades, but his reboot of Atari's 1980 arcade game Tempest made him an international icon -- and gave Atari a killer app for the "64-bit" Jaguar console. Now that Atari itself is reb...
South Carolina is producing more engineers by tapping into its auto manufacturing roots
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 20:15
ANALYSIS: The Midwestern and Southern U.S. are home to a number of cities and states with a strong manufacturing history that are trying to leverage their factories to become R&D leaders — think Wisconsin trying to rec...
HTC answers 'death of VR' stories with record Vive sales
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 19:41
A blog post from HTC's Vive team says that "news of the so-called death of VR comes once a year and is greatly exaggerated," then rebuts the claims with a surprising new detail: Vive headsets recently sold out while expe...
Star Trek Online warps into Discovery
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 18:10
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online is starting a new saga this fall based on the latest show from the series, Star Trek: Discovery. This includes a new character startin...
WeWork China raises $500 million from SoftBank, Temasek, others
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:55
WeWork has raised yet another gargantuan round of funding, as the shared working hub this time focuses on growing its Chinese business. WeWork China has grabbed a $500 million series B investment from SoftBank, the SoftB...
Apple releases app design templates for macOS Mojave and watchOS 5
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:48
macOS Mojave and watchOS 5 are close enough to final that Apple is ready to give developers new downloadable templates for designing Mac and Apple Watch apps.
Masterworks offers fractional ownership of fine art through the blockchain
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:30
EXCLUSIVE: As recently as this week, the art world has been finding new ways to leverage technology and using new modes of commerce — such as blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies — to make itself relevant to mo...
Ni no Kuni II gets free content ahead of paid DLC
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:20
Bandai Namco today revealed downloadable content plans for its Japanese role-playing game, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. This includes a free Adventure Pack that releases today. Two paid DLC are coming this winter and...
The IndieBeat: Tehran Game Convention shows global politics won't stop gaming's growth
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:05
The nonprofit Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation (IRCG) has wanted to bring international game developers to Tehran for over a decade, and it finally succeeded with the first Tehran Game Convention in 2017. The ina...
Review: Lenovo Smart Display gives Google Assistant a better home, but there's room for improvement
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 17:00
REVIEW: Google Assistant has spread over the past year or so from Home smart speakers with no visual aid to Android smartphones, televisions, tablets, the Google Assistant iOS app for iPhone and iPad, and more. Now comes...
Bidalgo uses AI to make mobile advertising more creative
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 16:25
Bidalgo is applying artificial intelligence to the art of creating effective ads for mobile apps and games. The company is launching Creative AI, a technology that makes it easier for advertisers to design ads that perfo...
Alexa Cast offers playback control on Echo speakers and Alexa-enabled devices
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 16:20
Alexa Cast allows you to control playback on Alexa-enabled devices like Amazon's Echo speakers.
Watch Samsung's 'unbreakable' phone screen withstand repeated blows
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 15:36
Even though Samsung’s latest video is decidedly amateurish, it spotlights a potentially important technological advance — an “unbreakable” OLED screen that can withstand military-grade punishment without damage. ...
Sleep Tight aims to rule bedtime shooters
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 15:30
The developers at We Are Fuzzy was once a bunch of kids who feared the monsters under their beds. But now they’ve created a game where the kids are empowered to fight back against those nighttime beasts. We Are Fuzzy�...
Tito's Homemade Vodka partners with Allrecipes on Barkeep, a mixologist chatbot
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 15:00
Tito's Homemade Vodka is partnering with Allrecipes to launch a mixologist chatbot with Drizly integration.
Microsoft VC arm M12 announces $4 million female founders competition
Venture Beat - 26 Jul 2018 15:00
Microsoft has announced a new competition designed to support funding for female-lend enterprise technology startups. M12, Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) arm that rebranded from Microsoft Ventures a few months back, ...