Scott Moffitt is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nintendo. He’s got a tough job because video game marketing is changing. Nintendo is trying to sell its 3DS gaming handheld in the face of huge competition from …
It’s been a tough morning for the professional network LinkedIn when it comes to security. A hacker has stolen and published around 6.5 million hashed passwords from the company, following security revelations regarding the way LinkedIn’s mobile app handles your …
Yellow cabs are everywhere in New York. You stand on a corner, hold up your hand, and suddenly one appears to take you wherever you need to go. Israel-based GetTaxi still sees room for improvement, however, and has raised $20 …
Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a-total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights like Battery, Greylock, and Lightspeed to the table.
This …
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Can a mobile app help the homeless? The U.S. government thinks so, and it has drafted a few good developers to compete on just such a project for a $25,000 grand prize.
Today, the VA Innovation Initiative announced the five …
If someone were to layout all the important organizations, factions, companies, and components of the war on online piracy into a comprehensive battle map, it would look like the infographic below.
The “map” is basically visualized as a region of …
Guest Post
“Discovery” is a hot topic these days. The curse of a new buzzword is that it’s difficult to come to a shared mental model in the early stages. Instead of tackling that large problem, I’ll start with something simpler: defining …
The Founder Institute, an early-stage startup accelerator, graduated its 500th company recently.
The milestone occurred almost three years to the day after the organization first started. In that time, it has helped launch companies in 26 different cities on five …
Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning’s new social video startup Airtime launched today with a celebrity-studded event, but no matter how many times Jim Carrey praised the service it was clear that it liberally borrowed the basic idea of Chatroulette and …
Online game publisher Trion Worlds will publish the highly anticipated Warface free-to-play online game from Crytek. The deal is the first in which Trion makes its online game publishing platform available to an outside third-party developer. The two companies haven’t …
Editor's Pick
My first Airtime video chat lasted all of two seconds. My second featured some dude listening to music way too loud, looking stoned out of his mind (I clicked next). Several calls later, I was finally able to have …
Animal rights organization PETA launched its .XXX domain website Tuesday. The site combines traditional porn and shocking images of animal cruelty, ready to turn you on and then make you feel guilty (so, really no different than any other porn …
The Nasdaq has begun its process of issuing compensation to Facebook investors after the stock exchange’s technical issues botched the first half hour of the social network’s trading on IPO day.
Facebook went public on May 18, to a faulty …
HTC’s awesome One X smartphone with a 4.7-inch screen and an incredible camera will finally hit AT&T stores on June 10 for $200 with a 2-year contract, the company announced today. You can also order one online now.
The One …
Sprint-owned wireless carrier Virgin Mobile will soon offer Apple’s incredibly popular iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Virgin Mobile will become the second prepaid carrier to get the iPhone, after Cricket Wireless. Starting June 22, Cricket’s service will run …
While security experts are still getting to the bottom of Flame‘s true capacities, recent findings suggest the malware is one of the most perplexing and complicated programs of its kind.
Flame is the name given to a particularly formidable bit …
Everybody wants big data, but nobody wants to muck around in SQL queries. And while Hadoop is a hot topic, most people have no clue what it really does, let alone have the skill to use it.
That’s where business …
Yahoo Mail is officially DMARC compliant today, meaning your inbox is now part of a revolution in armoring email against phishing attacks and spam that spoof unsuspecting users into giving up personal and financial information.
In January, Yahoo joined the …
Lara Croft was one of the most iconic video game characters of the past 15 years. But we never really learned how she came to be. In Crystal Dynamics’ remake of Tomb Raider coming in 2013, we’re going to find …
