IGT Not Deterred by Zynga Scrapping Real-Money Gambling Plans
In its Q2 earnings report earlier this week, Zynga said it has abandoned its plans to pursue real-money gambling in the U.S. But Nevada-based IGT, which makes both physical and virtual casino games,...
View ArticleOrchestra To-Do, the Predecessor to Mailbox, Will Be Shut Down
Orchestra, the to-do list app that never took off but helped inspire its creators to make Mailbox, the innovative mobile email client now owned by Dropbox, is going away. It will effectively stop...
View ArticleeBay’s Third-Quarter Earnings May Shed Light on New Cassini Search Engine
360b / Shutterstock.com When eBay reports its third-quarter earnings after market close today, growth in its auction business may play a bigger role than it has in the past, according to data compiled...
View ArticleStationery Startup Minted Raises $41M for Larger Crowdsourced Design Push
A few years ago on the crowdsourced design site Minted, an unknown designer from Galena, Ohio, asked for feedback on a wedding invitation design that had fireflies flying out of three Mason jars....
View ArticleCo.Lab Accelerator Gives Its First Class a Lesson in Pitching Educational Games
At Zynga’s headquarters in San Francisco last night, the NewSchools Venture Fund and the games company’s charity spinoff, Zynga.org, showed off the early fruits of the two nonprofits’ partnership,...
View ArticleSignifyd Fights Fraud With Online Sleuthing
Signifyd today launches tools for online merchants to fight fraud. It helps sellers make better choices about whether to accept or deny sales by piecing together online identities that match up with...
View ArticleSoftBank to Pay $1.5 Billion for Supercell Majority Stake
HELSINKI – Japanese telecom and investment group SoftBank Corp. will team up with the Japanese game developer GungHo OnLine Entertainment to buy 51% of the Finnish mobile-game developer Supercell Oy in...
View ArticleNeed to Talk to a Doctor, Pronto? Now There’s an App for That, Too.
These days, the list of things you can do with your phone is a long one. Now you can add visiting the doctor to that list. American Well is launching an app for iPhones, iPads and Android devices that...
View ArticleDigital-Ad Vet Mike Barrett on Facebook, Ad-Tech IPOs and a Cookie-Free Web...
Mike Barrett hasn’t had a job since December. But, before that, he had a lot of jobs in a fairly short time, with top ad-sales gigs at AOL, Myspace and Yahoo. There was also a stop along the way to run...
View ArticleHTC Unveils Fingerprint-Reading One Max Phablet, Says Coming Later This Year...
HTC on Monday is confirming its much-leaked One Max, a large-screen addition to the One family. The device is similar to the HTC One, with the addition of a fingerprint reader on the back and, of...
View ArticleA Camera Lens and a Smartphone Hook Up. Hilarity Ensues.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em: That seems to be Sony’s motto with its newest digital-imaging product, a camera that looks like a lens and physically attaches to your smartphone to snap prettier...
View ArticleDespite Tough Market, IBM Looking Solid Ahead of Q3 Results
Tech earnings get under way this week, and among the companies reporting is computing and services giant IBM, on Wednesday. Though global IT spending remains under pressure, especially in Europe, IBM...
View ArticleGoogle Suggests Web-TV Thingies You Can Buy Instead of Google’s Sold-Out...
Google has not only sold out of Netflix giveaways to bundle with its Chromecast device, but it doesn’t have any Chromecasts to sell right now, period. If you place an order on Google’s site, you’ll be...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg to Speak on Immigration Issues at S.F. Film Premiere
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to deliver an address on immigration issues in early August, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the first time he has spoken publicly on the matter. The speech...
View ArticleL.A. Unified School District Wants iPads for All 640,000 Students
Back in June, the Los Angeles Unified School District awarded Apple a $30 million contract to provide its students with iPads. Under its terms, the company will supply about 31,000 iPads to 47 LAUSD...
View ArticleU.S. Weather Computers Are a Little More Super Today Than Yesterday
If it seems, over the course of the next few weeks, that weather predictions are a little more accurate, then it’s probably not your imagination. It’s just that the computers that the U.S. Federal...
View ArticleT-Mobile’s Latest Promo Offers Entire Lineup of Phones for No Upfront Payment
T-Mobile is continuing to shake things up. The No. 4 U.S. carrier on Friday announced a promotion that will offer its entire lineup of phones for no upfront payment. It isn’t really dropping the price...
View ArticleActivision to Buy Back Most of Vivendi’s Controlling Stake
Activision Blizzard Inc. said it has reached an agreement to buy back nearly $6 billion worth of Vivendi SA’s holding in the company, ending months of negotiations over the fate of the videogame giant....
View ArticleSamsung Accounted for a Third of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter, While Apple’s...
Samsung’s second-quarter smartphone shipments hit 76 million last quarter – up 56 percent from the prior year, and giving the company a 33 percent share of the global market. iStockphoto | aluxum...
View ArticleGoogle’s Answer to the Great Chromecast/Netflix Giveaway Mystery: There’s No...
Why did Google kill its Chromecast/Netflix promotion a day after it launched? It didn’t, exactly. And neither did Netflix. Here’s a new statement from Google on the end of the deal, which gave...
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