The Nancy Drew series has been around for 80 years. But game maker Her Interactive is trying to make it relevant for the age of the iPad with a new app launching today called Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries: Shadow Ranch.…
Hewlett-Packard is announcing today a new family of laptops for business users with new industrial designs and one very interesting feature: a battery life of up to 32 hours.
The battery life number is getting interesting because most laptops range …
If social media can inspire people to engage in peaceful revolutions, why couldn’t a video game do it too? After watching the peaceful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, game designer and researcher Jane McGonigal suggested that someone create a game …
Every year, a video game stirs passions to the boiling point because it hits too close to home. This year, that dubious honor goes to Ubisoft’s Call of Juarez: The Cartel, which depicts first-person combat in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez in …
Fuse is launching a game publishing company on the App Store today with an interesting proposal for game developers: deep data-driven marketing and proprietary real-time analytics.
The Toronto company promises its developers real-time analytics that can be easily interpreted with …
LOLapps has had a big hit with its social game Ravenwood Fair, which has grown to 10 million monthly active users since its launch in October. So the company has done what game publishers always do with a hit: launch …
Smartphones are supposed to be easy to develop apps for. But as new versions of mobile operating systems proliferate, fragmentation is wrecking that hope.
That’s why Israeli firm MoMinis is launching a new game development and distribution platform today. The …
Apple is reportedly planning to introduce new MacBook Pro laptops this week, based on stories leaking from retailers. The company may also use a new high-speed connection technology.
The latest moves show that, try as it might, Apple can’t really …
Twitter said it has reinstated two of several UberMedia apps that it had shut down on Friday because of alleged privacy, monetization and trademark violations.
The incident shows that platform owners have to be diligent about protecting their users from …
Alibaba.com said that its chief executive David Wei has resigned after an investigation found evidence that more than 2,000 subscribers engaged in fraudulent sales.
Bloomberg said that Wei (pictured) and chief operating officer Elvis Lee quit to take responsibility for …
Gilt Groupe has built a big business from flash sales, where consumers converge on a particular shopping deal for a limited time. And now the company is shopping for its own investment deal.
Silicon Alley Insider reported today that Gilt …
Wireless chip maker CSR has agreed to merge with consumer chip maker Zoran in a deal valued at $679 million.
The deal creates a new powerhouse in consumer electronics and wireless technologies. CSR is a leader in personal wireless technologies …
Latin America isn’t a great place to get social game players to pay for goods with credit cards. But gamers there are avid fans of social games and are willing to pay with prepaid cards.
That’s why social game maker …
European streaming music startup Spotify is raising a big round of financing from Russia’s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Groupon and Zynga.
If it is raising a big round, then the company may very well join the …
The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, set off by social media, have inspired protests in Bahrain, Libya, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan and even faraway China.
The protests have been spurred by extensive use of social media such as Facebook and …
It’s a whale of a chip. Intel is announcing today the 10th generation of its Itanium chip, which is a 64-bit microprocessor aimed at the very high end of the corporate computer market.
The chip is a modern miracle in …
Apple has had modest success with its Apple TV set-top box for streaming movies and music into homes. But the company might be exploring getting into the business of selling televisions.
If Apple does it right, it could disrupt yet …
Barack Obama has named Intel chief executive Paul Otellini to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Intel also said it plans on building $5 billion chip factory and hire 4,000 employees in the U.S. this year.
While Otellini is …
Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is rarely seen without a T-shirt or a hoodie. But Zuckerberg brought out a suit for his dinner with President Obama on Thursday. That says a lot about what happens when you combine …
BilltoMobile is announcing today it has partnered with Sprint to allow mobile phone users to purchase goods online via their mobile phone accounts.
The deal is much like similar deals that the startup has struck with AT&T and Verizon. It …
