Gamers spend a lot their time online and communicate often with friends. That’s why everybody wants to rope them into a social network. But gamers have proven to be an elusive and fragmented bunch of tribes. Whoever succeeds at creating …
Kurtosys Systems is raising a new round of venture funding for its financial compliance software business.
The London company was founded in 2002 with the aim of creating reporting and information management software for financial services companies. It creates software …
Home video game consoles became so good at 3-D graphics that they nearly wiped out the location-based electronic entertainment business. But Total Immersion believes that it’s still possible to offer theme-park style visual entertainment to thrill even jaded gamers.
The …
BitGravity is a bit player in the world of moving video through the web. But it believes in rounding up some powerful partners.
The Burlingame, Calif.-based company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million from media dealmaker Allen …
[D.T. note: I'll be leaving today for the Black Hat and Defcon conferences in Las Vegas. Be sure to check for a variety of security stories during the week.]
Microsoft is launching two initiatives aimed at improving its reputation among …
The discovery of water on Mars might spur a lot of interest in the science fiction dream of terraforming the Red Planet into a habitable place. That could be good for Avatar Reality, a virtual world company in Honolulu that …
Tabula Digita has raised $6 million in a second round of funding to make educational games. The New York-based game company is the latest in a crowd of companies — such as Lumos Labs and Vivity Labs – aiming at …
Intel is in that part of the James Bond movie where the bad guy talks about how he’s going to eliminate Bond, which in this case is that pesky little company, Nvidia.
Intel has disclosed more details on Larrabee, the …
The music labels haven’t made it easy for unauthorized web sites to stream music on the web. But David Porter, the founder of 8tracks, has figured out a way around the copyright law obstacles to deliver a useful and legal …
Forgive Otis Chandler if he still believes people read paper artifacts like books. His grandfather and namesake, after all, was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times.
But this 30-year-old Chandler knows that books are still close to our hearts …
The hardest thing about starting a chip company these days is the cost. A big team of engineers has to work for 18 months or more to create a custom chip. Then it takes $1 million for the templates, or …
With any luck, Avvo is going to make finding lawyers and getting legal advice a lot less intimidating.
That’s because the company, which formally launched its site today after more than a year of beta testing, applies Web 2.0 techniques …
Tracking photos on the web isn’t easy. And getting paid a royalty each time a photo is viewed? Fuggedaboutit.
Well, GumGum says it can do just that. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based start-up has an analytics technology that tracks photos across …
Paying for goods with a cell phone has been a pipe dream for a long time. Paymo is the latest company that enables merchants to set up a cell-phone payment system. The company has raised a $5 million seed round …
John Schappert is the corporate vice president who runs pieces of Microsoft’s game business such as its Xbox Live online gaming service. One of the new front men for Microsoft’s game efforts, Schappert is a seasoned game developer who started …
iPhone games publisher Ngmoco has raised a first round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Kleiner Perkins partner Bing Gordon, the former chief creative officer of Electronic Arts, will join the San Francisco company’s board. The amount …
It’s painful to get satellite TV service installed at your home because technicians have to spend a lot of time wiring multiple set-top boxes to a single dish antenna.
Entropic Communications has a solution that eliminates that problem. And today, …
Google is the sleeping giant when it comes to advertising in video games. While the company dominates search advertising, it has yet to make a big splash in video games. That could change soon, as the company has been quietly …
Earlier this year, SHU YOSHIDA became president of Sony’s worldwide game development studios. He is a natural to lead that job since he ran the U.S. game studios before taking the worldwide job and was among the original Sony staff …
Richard Garriott is one of the most famous game designers on the planet and he has been inducted into just about every gamer Hall of Fame. Now he wants to be famous off-planet.
At a personal cost of more than …
