Hollywood and social games are forging an alliance as both pursue wider audiences. The latest link between the two is Zynga’s appointment of DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katezenberg to its board of directors.
Katzenberg is the first member of …
GameStop, the world’s biggest video game retailer with 6,600 stores, plans on generating $1.5 billion in digital online revenues by 2014.
That means the company is trying to create a hybrid digital/physical retail business, following its customers online so that …
Zipline Games is launching a new game development platform today that allows game makers to craft a single game that’s capable of running across both Apple and Google mobile platforms.
Game developers’ resources are getting stretched thin adapting games to …
Aiming to do good with a good game, game startup Talkie is rolling out its Facebook game Ecotopia today in a private beta test. This game has some extra oomph from its allies: actor Harrison Ford and nonprofit Conservation International.…
Larry Page takes over Monday as chief executive of Google, one of the most successful tech companies of all time. As co-founder, Page has been instrumental in the company’s success from the very start. But the company must overcome a …
New Enterprise Associates has appointed former Sun Microsystems chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos as a partner.
The leading venture capital firm continues a trend among VCs of hiring high-profile technology executives in Silicon Valley. The hope is that they can …
Bigpoint has made a big splash in Europe with its online gaming business. In the past year, it has also begun an ambitious expansion in the U.S., a move spearheaded by its chief executive Heiko Hubertz.
Hubertz (pictured right) moved …
Joshua Topolsky, former top editor at AOL’s Engadget tech blog, has set up a competing tech site with the backing of a new media company called SB Nation.
It’s a little odd on the surface, since SB Nation is a …
The internet “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous has launched a cyber attack against consumer electronics giant Sony, according to a post on Saturday. The group has launched an attack called #OpSony in retaliation for its pursuit of hackers George “GeoHot” …
Advanced Micro Devices said Sunday it has revised the contract with its major chip contract manufacturer, Globalfoundries, so that it can pay a predictable amount for its silicon wafers.
Having a stable source of silicon wafers is important for AMD, …
IBM and a research group in Singapore have engineered a new kind of synthetic, biodegradable nano particle that could be used to attack bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics.
The researchers believe that the nanomedicine breakthrough could eventually be …
Game maker Rovio announced that its Angry Birds Rio game hit 10 million downloads on mobile phones in just 10 days. That’s a new record for the company, whose Angry Birds mobile game has catapulted past 100 million downloads in …
Epsilon, the world’s largest provider of permission-based email marketing, has suffered a huge data breach. That means hackers may have swiped customer data belonging to the world’s biggest brands.
Epsilon sends more than 40 billion emails a year on behalf …
Social game maker Zynga is rolling out the first major expansion for its uber-popular FarmVille game, which debuted back in June 2009 and has been played by hundreds of millions of Facebook users.
We reported last month that Farmville was …
A ton of web pages have been compromised by a huge malware attack dubbed LizaMoon.
The attack shows that malware is a bigger menace than ever and that many web sites aren’t protected.
More than 500,000 pages have been compromised …
The initial public offering market for venture-backed companies in the first quarter was the strongest since 2007, according to a report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
Fourteen VC-backed IPOs occurred in the first quarter, with companies …
Online games giant Oberon Media has decided to shut down in-house production, resulting in the elimination of an undetermined number of jobs, according to Oberon CEO and president Bob Hayes in an interview.
The change comes as the web-based online …
Tech companies keep on creating great new technologies that raise a lot of privacy concerns. The latest example is Google’s upcoming mobile app that will identify people’s faces in order to access their personal information.
CNN profiled Hartmut Neven, director …
Bessemer Venture Partners has raised a $1.6 billion fund, according to the New York Times. That’s a hefty amount that puts the venture fund in the big leagues alongside other premier VCs.
But to put that in perspective, that amount …
Even as Eric Schmidt steps down as chief executive at Google on Monday, he can leave with the satisfaction that his employee approval rating is at an all-time high. There’s an art to quitting when you’re on top.
Schmidt has …
