Three startups came out on top today in a bake-off at the Plug and Play International Expo event in Sunnyvale, where companies gave 2-minute pitches to a crowd of investors and entrepreneurs.
If there was a theme today among the …
GameStop is the world’s biggest retailer of video games with 6,670 stores in 17 countries. But the company is hedging its bets when it comes to digital distribution. Today, it announced it would acquire Spawn Labs and Impulse to bolster …
Applifier helped small game publishers get millions of new users last year by creating a cross-promotion tool for Facebook games. Now it is creating a portal-like app for games on Facebook and other platforms so that consumers can find what …
Sony Online Entertainment confirmed today that it will cut 205 jobs and close three studios as part of a restructuring effort.
The company is the online game arm of Sony and it publishes massively multiplayer online game worlds such as …
GameSalad, a maker of game development tools, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding. The company’s goal is to enable anyone to make mobile and web games.
The Austin, Texas-based company has made a suite of tools …
The tech industry still has a lot to do if it wants users to pay for goods with smartphones and tablets.
To get consumers to convert to mobile payments, the payment system needs to go digital, says Google VP of …
Baseball fans will be happy couch potatoes today with the opening day of Major League Baseball. But for fans who get fidgety in between the action, a startup called Game Time Live Sports Services has created a social online game …
IBM says it monitors 13 billion real-time security events every day for more than 4,000 clients. That’s about 150,000 events per second, which include anything from phishing attacks to false alarms.
Those events are part of a growing problem. IBM …
Gamification, the practice of adding game-like mechanics to non-game applications to improve engagement, is going through a hype cycle. And one of its leading experts, Amy Jo Kim, added to the push by outlining seven core gamification tricks today at …
Jennifer Lynn Aaker, a professor at Stanford University’s business school, gave an unusual talk about social media at the Web 2.0 Expo show in San Francisco today. She shared a story about one of her students turning an assignment where …
Immersion, a pioneer in force feedback technology, announced today that it’s formed a new app and game studio to develop and publish apps with touch feedback technology.
The studio’s first game is a pinball game for smartphones and tablets that …
It isn’t easy for a friendship to survive the co-founding of a highly successful company. That’s evident in the relationship between Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates. In a new memoir, Allen showed his lasting bitterness from Gates’ alleged …
Nintendo said that its U.S. launch of the new 3DS gaming handheld — which lets players see images in stereoscopic 3D without special glasses — was the best it ever had.
The initial launch figures aren’t available, but getting record …
Measuring emotions isn’t as hard as it sounds.
Researchers have shown they can use technologies to measure your emotional state of mind for market research, educational, and medical purposes. The technology could ultimately become part of a larger set of …
India is growing fast as a modern entertainment market. That has enabled Games2win to raise $6 million in a second round of funding for its casual online game business.
Since being founded in 2007, the Mumbai-based company has built a …
Microsoft is reportedly working on a version of its Windows Phone software that lets users buy goods by waving a handset over a reader at a checkout counter, Bloomberg Business Week reported.
Citing two unnamed sources, the publication said that …
Android app developers can rejoice now that Google has launched a new mobile billing system that will help them make a lot more money.
Today, Google launched the Android Market’s in-app billing system –similar to what’s been on Apple’s iPhones …
Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired (and now its senior maverick), kicked off the Web 2.0 Expo conference today with a talk about what he called the “six verbs of the web.” In attempt to describe the latest tech trends, …
About a third of the cost of Nintendo’s new 3DS portable game player is in its two high-end displays, according to a product teardown by market analyst IHS iSuppli.
The teardown gives a window into one of the latest mobile …
Finishing a big conversion effort, Sony Online Entertainment today launched its fantasy-themed Free Realms online game on the PlayStation 3. The title is the first free-to-play massively multiplayer online game launched on any game console, and it means that Sony …
