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Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and they have begun to preserve the history of the tech industry as it becomes more and …
Online casino games are hot. So much so that we’re renaming our site Casino GamesBeat. Just kidding, but The United States Playing Card Company (owner of the Bicycle playing card brand) and Digi117 aren’t. Those two companies are partnering to …
The tiny startup Whiteman Technology unveiled a Windows-based set-top box that will handle many living room entertainment tasks, which are various enough to include displaying cable TV programming and playing 3D games for the PC.
The Clovis, N.M.-based startup made …
Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices reported today that its first quarter results beat expectations, but the company had a big loss of $590 million. While AMD is very competitive with its product line-up, the results show that it’s not easy …
Lots of tool makers claim they can enable anyone to build games, but that usually just applies to professionals who already have development experience. With today’s introduction of Jumala, Blade Games World wants to extend game creation to just about …
NComputing, a desktop virtualization and thin-client computing firm that is driving the costs of operating computers toward zero, has raised $20 million in a new round of funding.
In February, the maker of thin-client shared computers announced a system that …
BBC Worldwide is announcing a partnership with social games publisher 6waves today to publish BBC-branded games on Facebook and other platforms.
The Los Angeles, Calif.-based BBC division, BBC Worldwide Digital Entertainment and Games unit, will use 6waves’ successful publishing platform …
The consolidation of companies in the social game market has begun, according to first-quarter data gathered by game-focused investment bank Digi-Capital. In the first quarter of 2012, 30 merger and acquisition deals generated $1.7 billion in transaction value at an …
It was inevitable that World Golf Tour would have to rebrand itself as WGT. After all, a company can’t live on golf games alone. So the company is announcing it has changed its name and is revealing a new baseball …
Touchscreen user interfaces look pretty cool, but why does every device have to come with a different one? With Bluega’s pieOS, you can get a well-designed touchscreen interface that’s usable on every one of your mobile devices.
The secret to …
Dynamics has been shaking up the credit card and payment industries since it debuted and won a top $1 million prize at DEMO Fall 2010. Now it’s being disruptive again as it launches a way for developers to get direct …
Lots of travel sites are vying for your attention. Georama hopes to grab you by simplifying the process of planning, booking, and sharing your travel plans.
The site uses a map of the world as its user interface, and users …
Edutainment, or the melding of education and entertainment, has been around for a long time, but it has never really worked that well. Hoping to change that, startup FriendsLearn is working on what it calls a “learnification” platform, where it …
NetSuite was founded as a cloud-based enterprise company way back in 1998. But Zach Nelson (pictured left), chief executive of the company, has plenty of advice for startups in the enterprise market, where social, mobile, and cloud technologies are all …
The Game Marketing Summit is where marketers go to fill up on inspiration when it comes to marketing video games to the largest audiences possible. This year’s summit was bigger and better than in years past, even though the hardcore …
Aeria Games announced today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sony's So-net Entertainment subsidiary. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of multiplayer online games will use the money to expand further in the fast-growing free-to-play segment.
MoMinis, an Israeli mobile game firm that has a mega portal on Android devices, has raised $4.5 million in a new round of venture funding from BRM Group and Mitsui Ventures.
In December, MoMinis launched PlayScape, a “Mega-Game” with 50 …
AdSafe Media has raised $10 million in funding to make sure your company’s ads don’t intentionally wind up in potentially embarrassing places such as porn or pirating sites.
The New York-based company has created automated “ad safety” solutions for advertisers, …
As both a filmmaker and a ex-projectionist, Justin Evans (pictured) knows that movie theater projectors are screwed up. So he co-founded Brytewerks to create the world’s most powerful digital projector that is much simpler to use than existing equipment.
If …
The problem with most diets is that nobody is really watching you all the time. But with a monitoring device and new remote software to go with it, BodyMedia has proposed a way for a coach or fitness trainer to …
