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Microsoft’s M12 joins $12 million funding extension for fintech startup BlueVine
Fintech startup BlueVine has added $12 million to its recently announced series E round of funding, bringing Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) unit M12 onboard alongside the VC arm of finance giant...
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Netgear launches Armor service to protect your home’s networked devices
Netgear is launching a new serviced — dubbed Netgear Armor — to protect your home’s networked devices. Powered by Bitdefender, the Netgear Armor service can provide network security for any device...
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Cloudcade forms game studio and invests in Pakistan as a tech hub
San Francisco’s Cloudcade has done well with games such as Shop Heroes in the past five years. And now the company is expanding in a big way with the announcement of its Cloudcade Pakistan studio. The...
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Skyline raises $18 million for AI-powered real estate predictions
Real estate is a tough market to crack, but Tel Aviv, Israel-based Skyline AI thinks it’s up to the task. The startup today announced an $18 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital and TLV...
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Zillow can now field applicants and collect rent
Zillow Group, the company behind Zillow, Trulia, and StreetEasy, wants to ease the burden of hunting for properties and paying rent on time. It announced a new service today that allows landlords to...
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Cred app lets you ‘micro-invest’ in cryptocurrencies
Cred is launching a mobile app that allows people to invest small amounts of money in cryptocurrencies. The iOS and Android app is aimed at solving problems around access and transparency associated...
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Developers report Facebook’s revised app review is slow and confusing
When news broke in March that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly used tens of millions of users’ data for ad targeting, it became clear that Facebook would have to make significant...
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PlayStation 4 sales pass over 82 million, nearing PS3’s lifetime numbers
Sony released its financial results for the first quarter of 2018, revealing that lifetime sales for the PlayStation 4 are now at 82.2 million. The PlayStation 4 launched in 2013. The console is on its...
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Magic Leap One’s field of view leak signals another AR disappointment
Though Magic Leap has shared more information on its augmented reality headset in recent months, its latest revelations have been somewhat disappointing. Add this one to the pile: Developers have...
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Dremio raises $30 million from Cisco Investments and others to streamline...
EXCLUSIVE: Managing and processing data is hard work, especially for businesses with unwieldy databases. San Francisco-based startup Dremio offers tools that help streamline and curate that data, and...
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DefinedCrowd raises $11.8 million to create bespoke datasets for AI model...
Gathering data on which to train machine learning models is no walk in the park. Well-trained algorithms require well-labeled, high-quality sources, which is why collating a dataset can take nearly as...
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RR Donnelley reveals role as Apple’s photo printer, debuts Motif plug-in
When Apple announced plans to discontinue its photo printing service, it guided users to several third-party alternatives. But one option has an advantage over the rest: Top commercial printer RR...
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Facebook suspends 32 more suspicious accounts and pages ahead of U.S. midterm...
As Facebook is determined to prove that it can proactively stop election meddling on its platform, the company announced today that it has suspended a group of pages and accounts involved in...
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Donut County rolls onto PC, PlayStation 4, and iOS on August 28
Ben Esposito’s latest game is Donut County, which combines an adorable aesthetic with zany gameplay in which you’re a hole in the ground. With the help of publisher Annapurna Interactive, it launches...
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China blames Apple for gambling and porn texts as trade war escalates
Growing economic tensions between the United States and China have begun to affect Apple, the Wall Street Journal reports today, as Chinese government agencies and state-controlled media have initiated...
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Waymo partners with Valley Metro for last-mile rides to public transportation
Self-driving cars aren’t just great for delivery, highway driving, and long-haul trucking. As researchers at MIT posited in 2011, they have the potential to fill gaps in local transportation — the...
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Jon Peddie: Computer graphics hardware will dip to $124.5 billion in 2018
Video games have become a $137.9 billion market in 2018. And computer graphics is expected to hit $124.5 billion this year, according to market researcher Jon Peddie Research. But while games drive...
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Lucah: Born of a Dream unleashes its nightmares August 21
Lucah: Born of a Dream is an action role-playing game that’s set in a hellish world scratched from scraps of neon and wriggling darkness. It’s indie developer Colin Horgan’s latest title, and it will...
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Apple reports record $53.3 billion revenue in Q3 2018, led by iPhone
Apple today announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2018, reporting quarterly revenue of $53.3 billion on sales of 41.3 million iPhones, 11.553 million iPads, 3.72 million Macs, and...
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Apple’s Q3 2018 earnings call: iPhone X and subscriptions drove growth
After releasing record third-quarter financial results today, Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri hosted their quarterly live question-and-answer session for financial analysts. We are covering the...
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