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 …
Surfacing the long-lost tips from people you trust is the promise of newly launched startup HashTip.
HashTip is a social network and content aggregator that collects, stores, and categorizes the tips previously posted by your friends on other services. The …
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NetworkClean, a new tool that scans your Facebook profile and flags anything it finds that could damage your reputation, thinks I should tone it down with the booze talk, aggressive and offensive lingo, and naughty adult-content on my Facebook profile. …
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 …
On the social web, memories take the form of check-ins, photos, videos and comments. But, because it’s the social world, your memories get fragmented across different profiles. LiveAll wants to save you the ginkgo biloba and bring them all together.…
Business people have LinkedIn, journos and techies have Twitter, most of the world has Facebook, and now athletes have their very own social network. It’s My Play, from Max My Play, connects professional athletes with coaches, agents, and sports employees.…
Smurks, an iPhone and iPad app for non-verbal expression by way of malleable emoticons, has quietly become a powerful communication-aid in the autism community. Today, its makers are ready to transform the app into the next great tool for …
Everybody likes getting presents. The idea behind Ticlr is pretty simple. You’ve got a professional network, and it would be great if all those folks in your Rolodex felt kindly towards you.
The company has been running in beta for …
In 2009, Seuk Weon Song of Seoul, Korea, realized the Internet had a fundamental flaw: Google.
The dominant search engine for the majority of Internet users was giving websites top billing for all the wrong reasons — SEO, keyword stuffing, …
PositiveTalk is a web-app that attempts to accentuate the positive social chatter in your life. It eliminates the negative with a somewhat messy and crowded Facebook-esque interface, peppered with graphs and charts obsessively calculating positivity.
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Eager amateur photographers with the desire to practice their craft should take notice of new startup Rawporter.
“We are creating an army of cameras, on location, on demand,” said co-founder Rob Gaige at the DEMO Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., …
As part of its continuing effort to make video production easier, YouTube is rolling out a new set of audio editing tools, the website announced on its partners blog today.
Previously, YouTube offered an AudioSwap feature that let you replace …
Amazon has launched a new online marketplace that Amazon Web Services customers can use to buy software from many top cloud vendors, the company announced today.
“Using the new AWS Marketplace, you can easily find, compare, and start using an …
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced this morning that the state has filed suit against Sprint Nextel for more than $300 million over tax fraud concerns.
He claimed that Sprint deliberately failed to charge customers more than $100 million …
Online marketplace and merchant eBay saw its stock hit a five-year high this morning, as its shares rose 12 percent in early trading following a strong first quarter report late last night.
eBay reported that net income climbed 20 percent …
Just what the heck is Planetary Resources? Set to debut next Tuesday, the new company will "overlay two critical sectors -- space exploration and natural resources," according to a media alert from yesterday.
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 …
Verizon is starting the year off in a good place with its first quarter earnings.The telecom announced today that it saw revenues increase 4.6 percent to $28.2 billion, up from $26.9 billion, with net income of $3.9 billion, an almost …
