December 5, 2017
The company behind Dots is changing CEOs
Playdots, the company that lets gamers play with Dots, will soon have a new CEO as co-founder and current COO Patrick Moberg takes over for co-founder Paul Murphy.…
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December 5, 2017
Consumer spending across app stores worldwide to top $110 billion in 2018
Consumer spending on all mobile app stores will surpass $110 billion in 2018, according to a new report from App Annie, out today, which forecasts the state of…
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Nvidia’s Shield TV offers Wii and GameCube games in HD in China
Nvidia just rolled out a very interesting selection of software for its over-the-top Shield TV box in China – Wii games, running in 1080p resolution, including New Super Mario…
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Revolut merges mobile banking with cryptocurrency trading
Revolut is merging traditional banking and cryptocurrency to let you buy, sell, trade, and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ether alongside 25 world fiat currencies. The $90 million-funded mobile…
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IBM’s new Power9 chip was built for AI and machine learning
In a world that requires increasing amounts of compute power to handle the resource-intensive demands of workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning, IBM enters the fray with…
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Google’s lightweight OS Android Go launches as Android Oreo (Go Edition)
Google’s made a number of tweaks since announcing Android Go back at I/O in May. The lightweight version is finally ready to launch, albeit with a slightly altered…
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Apple Pay Cash starts rolling out to iPhone users in the US
Apple Pay Cash is finally starting to roll out to users in the States, bringing the ability to send other iOS users payments directly through iMessage. The update…
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Meet the five finalists at the Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield
Disrupt is back in Berlin, where 15 teams have just taken the stage as part of the Startup Battlefield. Each startup demonstrated their product and answered questions from…
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Target launches its own mobile payments system with debut of ‘Wallet’
As promised earlier, Target today launched its own mobile payments system with the introduction of “Wallet” in the Target app. Wallet, as the name implies, allows Target shoppers…
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Justin Kan’s Atrium is starting a boot camp to help founders raise money
Raising a Series A is hard for a founder. Especially when you consider they’re usually doing it for the first time, while the VCs on the other side…
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