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European legislators concerned about data privacy bill before U.S. Congress
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (By Dustin Volz and Eric Auchard for Reuters) — A U.S. Senate panel approved measures on Thursday that were causing concern in Europe among negotiators hammering out a new...
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Dropbox became even more white and male in 2015, appoints head of diversity
Cloud file syncing and sharing company Dropbox today released its diversity numbers for 2015, and the numbers show that a greater share of its employees are white and male than in 2014. In addition to...
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IBM is buying digital marketing agency Resource/Ammirati
IBM today is announcing that it’s buying Resource/Ammirati, a digital marketing agency with offices in Columbus, Ohio, and New York. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The odd name of the company...
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GamesBeat 2016 is moving to L.A. on Aug. 1-3. And we’re kicking it off with a...
We’re pleased to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 is heading south to Los Angeles. And it’s going to have a new one-day event dubbed VR Pulse to zero-in on the excitement of virtual reality games...
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Amazon Web Services brings in $2.4B in revenue in Q4 2015, up 69% over last year
Amazon today disclosed that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud infrastructure provider that companies use to run applications, brought in $2.4 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter...
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Star Wars Battlefront helps EA beat Wall Street’s quarterly expectations
Big video game publisher Electronic Arts charmed investors again as it reported third fiscal quarter earnings that beat expectations for the three months ended Dec. 31. The company’s results are...
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Amazon tanks 13% despite record $482M profit — more than it made in the...
Amazon made more money last quarter — $482 million in profit for the fiscal Q4 2015 — than it did during every previous quarter combined since Q3 2011. That $482 million figure exceeds Amazon’s...
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Star Wars: Battlefront surpasses 13M copies sold-in as fans can’t repel hype...
It looks like Star Wars was a wise investment for Electronic Arts. Star Wars: Battlefront, the multiplayer shooter from developer DICE, surpassed 13 million copies sold to retailers, according to the...
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Xerox will reportedly split, bowing to pressure from Carl Icahn
Xerox is reportedly gearing up to announce that it will break itself apart and form two new companies, bowing to pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn. The news is supposedly scheduled to be...
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Electronic Arts’ share price plummets 7% as it offers conservative outlook...
Publisher Electronic Arts is taking a small beating on Wall Street. EA’s stock is at $64.70 in after-hours trading, which is down more than 7 percent from its closing price of $69.79 when the closing...
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Nokia-Samsung patent verdict expected within days
(Reuters) – Nokia and Samsung are expected to settle their two-year patent dispute within days, with analysts forecasting a one-time payment of hundreds of millions of euros for the Finnish company....
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Halo character teased for Killer Instinct
Microsoft and developer Iron Galaxy are keeping the teases coming for the new season of downloadable content for Killer Instinct. It looks like the Halo character Arbiter is coming to Microsoft’s...
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Google’s U.K. tax deal sparks criticism
(Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour party demanded on Sunday that the finance ministry explain how it arrived at a back tax payment by Internet giant Google that has put the government on the back...
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Hands-on with Owlchemy’s silly Job Simulator virtual reality game for the HTC...
If you don’t like your job in real life, maybe it will be better in virtual reality. That outlandish notion is the idea behind Job Simulator, a virtual reality game that lets you perform familiar...
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A new breed of ‘data-first’ tools could soon dominate the enterprise
GUEST: We are about to witness an upheaval in the enterprise software market that will put billions of dollars of IT spending up for grabs. In the old world, enterprise applications were primarily...
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Elite: Dangerous shows you can get sick from a VR game on the HTC Vive
For almost a year, Valve chief executive Gabe Newell and other company representatives have been saying that the HTC Vive won’t make you seasick from motion-sickness, as happens with other virtual...
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Depth-sensing cameras will open up a whole new frontier for smartphones
GUEST: [Full disclosure: Body Labs is backed by Intel Capital and is working with Intel RealSense to develop 3D body scanning software for smartphones.] 2016 marks the beginning of a fundamental leap...
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Adtech isn’t in trouble — it’s just misunderstood
GUEST: Adtech took a very public beating in 2015 – falling stock prices throughout the year and an IPO market that has effectively been shut since mid-2014 have led to speculation about the state of...
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Cloudlands: VR Minigolf is a zany way to experience virtual reality with the...
Golf games are usually a standard kind of sports title on a new video game platform. But it only works so well when you’re pretending to swing at a ball with a 16-button controller. But in virtual...
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VR startups: 4 lessons to learn from the AR hype cycle
GUEST: Back in 2008, augmented reality (AR) could do no wrong. There was unbelievable hype around the technology and a growing amount of interest from just about every brand, company, and investor....
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