After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today’s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests, and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app is openly available for users to download on Windows 7… Read MoreDaily Archives: November 1, 2016
After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today’s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests, and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app is openly available for users to download on Windows 7… Read More
Score one for the consumer against the indefatigable force of growth hacking. Ever, the photo storage app that we called out in September for spamming SMS contact lists (it rebranded from Everalbum shortly after), has found its way back into Apple’s App Store after getting temporarily banned for its practices. Ever has had a lot of negative feedback — and even a couple of… Read MorePhoto app Ever removed its spammy SMS feature after Apple ...
While Jack Dorsey’s other company Twitter might be struggling, Square continues on a roll that’s keeping Wall Street happy. There’s going to, as always, be a big question mark for Square because of Dorsey’s tenure at Twitter — which is hardly going well. While the company’s latest quarter showed a flash of optimism, the company’s efforts to close a… Read MoreJack Dorsey gets another break with a strong third quarter ...
Gigster is launching the Gigster Fund, comprised of $700,000 raised from Bloomberg, Felicis, and China’s CSC as LPs, plus 1% of Gigster’s own equity. Each month it will invest $50,000 cash in one of Gigster’s top clients in exchange for 1% of that company at a $5 million valuation. Gigster will also provide them with advice, connections, fundraising help, priority access to… Read MoreGigster’s crafty plan to give freelance developers equity
Google has announced exactly when you’ll be able to get your hands on Daydream View, the new headset it created for Daydream-ready Android phones, including the Pixel and Pixel XL. The View headset will arrive in the Google Store online, and at retailers in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia on November 10 for $79 US. Pricing in the other countries varies, but is mostly in… Read MoreGoogle’s Daydream View VR headset arrives in stores November 10
Ever since Warby Parker gave fancy accoutrements the old ecommerce treatment everyone from bag manufacturers to watchmakers have gone high tech. This is especially true in the realm of shaving where you can either pay a dollar for a razor or $299...
OneBlade strips shaving down to the bare minimum
Instagram’s app and website have been struck by a service today. At around 11:06am, users in the US, Europe, India and elsewhere began a downpour of “Is Instagram down?”. Instagram confirmed the downtime with the statement on Twitter: [Update: However, Instagram soon deleted that tweet as it managed to get its app and site back online around 10:35am PT] The outage came at… Read MoreInstagram goes down [update: crisis averted]
Whenever a new developer and compute platform comes along — whether that’s the mobile phone or a VR headset — games are quick to follow as one of the first ever use cases. That’s the case now with Blackstorm, a development platform that’s geared toward different platforms like Messengers and the browser that can easily be accessed without having to download a… Read MorePost-App Store developer platform Blackstorm launches a games studio
Whenever a new developer and compute platform comes along — whether that’s the mobile phone or a VR headset — games are quick to follow as one of the first ever use cases. That’s the case now with Blackstorm, a development platform that’s geared toward different platforms like Messengers and the browser that can easily be accessed without having to download a… Read MorePost-App Store developer platform Blackstorm launches a games studio
The league will broadcast one game every Tuesday through the NextVR app on Samsung Gear VR. We caught the first game last week in Sacramento. The post Go Behind the Scenes of the NBA's In-Your-Face VR Broadcast appeared first on WIRED.