Cloud-gaming startup Otoy is making some big moves in advance of next week’s Game Developers Conference, including its first acquisition: the animated film technology firm Refractive Software.
In an exclusive interview, Otoy chief executive Jules Urbach said that this move …
Discovery is still a huge problem on the Apple App Store, with 578,716 active apps and no sure-fire way to stand out. Iddiction hopes to tackle this problem with its App-o-Day promotional app.
Making one app to promote another app …
As the lingua franca for the web, HTML5 is becoming the format of choice for making cross-platform apps. But when it comes to games, HTML5 apps run too slow. So Ludei, a San Francisco company with a team in Spain, …
Rewards-network Kiip is about to kick off a big effort to get more game developers to use its mobile program. The company is announcing a new $100,000 independent-developer fund to get companies to use Kiip’s rewards in their games.
With …
Foursquare ditched its corporate overlords and showed some love to a little startup this week. After Google raised the price on its Maps API, Foursquare began looking for new options. It liked OpenStreetMaps, a sort of Wikipedia for geography, but …
In Microsoft's vision of the future, Kinect sensors are everywhere: In your living room, your kitchen, at school, and even in the supermarket, above the fruit display.
And why not? The $150 motion-sensing device provides a cheap way to add gesture and voice controls to any application.
In a gigantic strategic step, Zynga announced today that it is launching a new Zynga.com destination website where users can play its social games without going directly through Facebook.
The move has big implications for the entire social-game industry, and …
Being indie ain’t easy. Without the safety blanket of a publisher or the wallet of an angel investor, many indie devs rely on personal loans, credit cards, and scrape by on the meager profits of their last game month-to-month. Cipher …
Viximo, a platform for cross-platform social games, is broadening its distribution reach today with the launch of its Social Zone platform which helps make mobile apps more social.
The company is attacking the problem of discovery, which is more difficult …
Remember that scathing letter the Readability team penned to Apple back in February of 2011, when they were first rejected from the App Store? Well it seems like Apple is finally ready to forgive, approving the Readability app, which goes …
Kabam is launching its first hardcore game for mobile devices today. The new Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North game will be available on the Apple App Store on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch as a free-to-play mobile …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage Tuesday evening and many customers are still without full access, according to the Azure Service Dashboard.
Azure is used by many companies to host and build web applications through Microsoft’s own data …
Whether you’re a company in need of development work, or someone with an open source project that needs contributions, leveraging a developer community can seem like a simple and cost-effective solution.
The promise of having hundreds or even thousands of …
As the world’s biggest ticket search engine, New York based SeatGeek has built the mother lode of data about live events, everything from sports to concerts. Today it’s announcing the launch of a SeatGeek developer platform that will allow anyone …
VentureBeat spent some time this weekend at the Spotify music apps hackathon, 48 hours of coding, ping pong and pizza in New York. It was an interesting chance to see what is possible on Spotify’s platform, and we picked up …
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and with the help of more than 30 device manufacturers, carriers, and developers, Facebook is willing the creation of more applications built expressly for the mobile web.
The social network announced two mobile …
We blasted Battlefield 3 when it was released last October, not only for having drastically unreliable server issues, but also for its overall sense of brokeness and unbalanced gameplay. Now, four months after its release, developer DICE has revealed a …
Guest Post If you are a struggling artist or developer working on the next great mobile app, you need a strategy for drawing in users. Keep in mind that buying traffic to convert to users doesn’t always add up. Developing for the mobile platform is vastly different from e-commerce, where the potential average revenue per user (ARPU) is considerably smaller, and in many cases non-existent. At the same time, there’s a limited amount of advertising inventory, and discoverability remains poor...
Twilio launched “Twilio Client” for mobile today, giving mobile developers an easy way to introduce calling features into their iOS applications.
“There are a bunch of apps [that allow you to make calls] today” said Twilio’s director of product management …
Longtime cyborg anthropologist Amber Case has spent the better part of a the past several years researching how people connect to computers; now, she’s launching a startup to make those connections more seamless than ever.
“I’ve been talking about the …
