Well here’s a blockbuster acquisition for you. Gaming mothership Activision Blizzard has entered into an agreement to acquire King.com, maker of the wildly popular game Candy Crush and probably other games that I haven’t and will never play. Mobile. Games. It’s all of the hot things. Oh, and King says it had 474 million monthly active users in the third quarter this year.… Read MoreDaily Archives: November 2, 2015
Well here’s a blockbuster acquisition for you. Gaming mothership Activision Blizzard has entered into an agreement to acquire King.com, maker of the wildly popular game Candy Crush and probably other games that I haven’t and will never play. Mobile. Games. It’s all of the hot things. Oh, and King says it had 474 million monthly active users in the third quarter this year.… Read More
Following the bell, Fitbit announced its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $409.3 million, and earnings per share using normal accounting methods of $0.19. The company’s adjusted profit totaled $0.24 per share.
The results are notably strong. Investors had expected the company to report a far-slimmer $0.10 adjusted per-share profit off of revenue of just $350.97. Read MoreFitbit Crushes Expectations In Q3, But A Follow-On Equity Offering ...
Today, Google shared their self-driving car project monthly report. Good news, there were no accidents. There were however, some interesting learnings that the team shared about how they’re training their software. Apparently, Halloween was a big help: Halloween’s a great time to get some extra learning done. This week, lots of little ghouls, superheroes and even robots were… Read MoreGoogle Self-Driving Car Update From October: No Crashes, Halloween Helpful
By now you have probably seen the WSJ report that says Google plans to fold its Chrome operating system into Android and phase it (and the “Chromebook” name) out over time. Google today published a story on virtually every blog it owns that denies this. “While we’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems, there’s no plan to phase… Read MoreGoogle: Chrome OS Is Here To Stay
When the Visigoths burned Library Of Alexandria you can bet that old Ptolemy I Soter would have loved to have had a Czur (pronounced “Cesar”) scanner in his palatial marble-clad staterooms. The Czur is basically a book scanner on steroids that allows you to scan a 300-page book – or priceless scroll of ancient knowledge – in about five minutes. The Czur is a sort… Read MoreThe Czur Scanner Can Build A Digital Library Five Minutes ...
SoundCloud, a top 5 Music app on both iOS and Android, has today released a new mobile application aimed specifically at artists and creators. Called SoundCloud Pulse, the app allows its users to share their sounds publicly and privately, track their stats and performance, reply to comments, and follow other users. The company says a more advanced feature set is already in the works, and… Read More
SoundCloud Rolls Out A Dedicated App For Creators
Developers have been digging into the Apple TV App Store data in the absence of category listings and a Top Charts section on Apple’s newly launched version of its media player device, which now, for the first time ever, has opened up to third-party applications. Apple had “hundreds” of applications live at the time of the TV App Store’s launch, though apparently not… Read MoreApple TV App Store Tops 1,000 Apps: Games And Video ...
Imagine you’re a squishy cube. Imagine you need to climb a hill. How do you do it? With your tongue(s), of course.
Researchers at CSAIL at MIT have created a little cube robot that can propel itself around by swiping at surfaces with metal tongues. The tongues turn around an axis and stick out briefly, jettisoning the robot into space for a moment as it rolls over obstacles. While the… Read MoreThis Cube Robot Can Climb Up Little Hills Thanks To ...
Social media company Sprinklr has acquired Booshaka, a company aiming to give businesses a better understanding of their audience. Specifically, Booshaka has built “one-click connectors” to pull customer data from services like Marketo, Shopify and Stripe, then use that data to build audience segments for ad campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. Simon Mansell, Sprinklr’s… Read MoreSprinklr Acquires Booshaka For Smarter Audience Targeting
Can the problem of tech gobbling up too much of your attention be fixed by buying more technology? Vinaya, a U.K. startup which started out back in mid 2013 — and is now announcing its first full product launch, fleshing out its business philosophy and detailing $3 million in seed funding — reckons so. Read More