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Liftoff: Mobile users are embracing subscription app economy
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 18:00
Mobile users are embracing the subscription model, with considerable momentum gained from last year, according to the Mobile App Engagement Index produced by performance mobile user acquisition firm Liftoff and mobile en...
Sensor Tower: Nintendo's mobile RPG Dragalia Lost makes $25 per Japanese player
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 17:03
Dragalia Lost has made $28 million since its Android and iOS debut a month ago.
Apple requires devs to support iPad Pro 3 or iPhone XS Max by March 2019
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 20:21
Apple's newest devices hit the market during September, October, and November 2018 -- now developers must get their apps to support them by March 2019.
Amazon makes Music Skill API publicly available
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 22:50
Amazon's Music Skill API, which enables developers to connect streaming services to Alexa voice apps, is now publicly available.
Alexa can now talk about the midterm elections
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 22:21
Amazon's Alexa is teaming up with Ballotpedia and the Associated Press to share info about ballot measures and candidates and results on Election Day.
SoundHound brings music recognition to Houndify platform
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 22:15
SoundHound today announced that it'll provide developers using its Houndify platform access to its music recognition technology.
Zynga ramps from 'fix it' mode to 'grow it' mode as Q3 revenue hits $233 million
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 22:06
Zynga is shifting gears from its "fix it" mode to "grow it" mode as the company reported strong earnings results for the third quarter ended September 30.
Zynga announces new Harry Potter, Game of Thrones mobile games
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 22:05
Zynga is investing in casual titles based on the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones licenses. CityVille and FarmVille games are coming too.
iOS 12 hits 60% adoption in 42 days, Android Pie still under 0.1%
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 21:56
iOS 12 is rapidly gaining share within the iOS user base, entirely at iOS 11's expense, while Android Pie continues to struggle.
Blizzard president J. Allen Brack interview -- Designing a company to last for generations
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 20:30
J. Allen Brack has been president of Blizzard Entertainment for just a few weeks. But I wouldn’t call him a whippersnapper, as he has worked in games for 24 years and he’s a black belt in a Korean martial art. Brack ...
Facebook's VideoStory dataset trains AI to 'automatically tell stories'
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 20:15
Researchers at Facebook compiled a dataset -- VideoStory -- of clips and captions they say might help train auto-captioning AI models.
Adblock Plus update reduces memory usage by 50%
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 18:48
Adblock Plus 3.4 for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera reduces memory usage by 50 percent and redesigns the user interface a little bit.
Baidu and Ford team up to develop driverless cars in China
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 18:43
Ford and Baidu will test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous car technology.
Leap Motion reportedly screwed up Apple acquisition talks, twice
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 18:08
Augmented and virtual reality startup Leap Motion was close to being bought out by Apple, but killed both deals, and may now be teetering on the edge.
September 2018's top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: 1.35 million downloads
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 17:21
After MineCon Earth, players flocked to the Minecraft Marketplace. We've got the top 10 most downloaded creations for the month and more.
iRobot partners with Google to improve smart home devices with indoor maps
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 16:45
Google and iRobot will team up to improve smart home devices with the help of spatial mapping data collected by the latter's robot vacuums.
If iPad Pros are computers, Apple should become transparent with specs
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 16:36
ANALYSIS: One of the big themes at Apple’s “More in the Making” event yesterday was the iPad’s emergence as a major computing platform — a rival to the notebook industry, and computers as a whole. Apple CEO Tim...
Starship Technologies launches commercial package delivery service using autonomous robots
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 16:00
Starship Technologies has launched what it claims to be the world's first commercial autonomous ground-based robotic package delivery service.
Imagination Technologies launches visually lossless image compression for GPUs
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 16:00
Imagination Technologies has unveiled the PowerVR PVRIC4, the new generation of its powerful image compression for better image quality.
Red Dead Redemption 2 could hit 20 million in sales -- and turn a profit -- by December
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 15:45
Red Dead Redemption 2 could move 15 million or 20 million copies sold by the end of the holidays, and that may make it profitable by the end of the year.
Bitcoin turns 10 years old, hasn't grown up yet
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 15:10
On its 10th birthday, Bitcoin is still leading a year-long crypto market crash. But as it continues to mature, it is seeing growth on other fronts.
SiFive launches RISC-V processor cores for real-time applications
Venture Beat - 31 Oct 2018 15:00
SiFive wants to exploit the commercial opportunities of RISC-V, starting with the availability of its SiFive Core IP 7 Series.