Hawken update to add support class, dramatically rebalance weapons
So far, Hawken has focused exclusively on warrin’ mechs. Understandable – giant robots and big explosions are both pluses in a video game – but there’s a whole mech ecosystem to draw on. Assistant...
View ArticleRubicon Author Mark Long Explains How The Cloud Is Changing The Game Beyond...
Mark Long wears a lot of different hats. Before he became CEO of Meteor Entertainment he was the founder of game developer Zombie Studios and a New York Times bestselling graphic novel author for The...
View ArticleA Facebook Fan Is Worth $174, Researcher Says
A Facebook fan is worth $174 to a brand, up 28% since 2010, according to Syncapse, a social media marketing firm. Syncapse worked with research firm Hotspex on a survey based on data collected from...
View ArticleBehavioral Push Comes to PlayRM Platform
Playnomics, the global leader in predictive marketing and data science for games, today announced the availability of PlayRM Behavioral Push for iOS and Android developers. A key feature in the...
View ArticleRick Heitzmann discusses his investment strategy with Deirdre Bolton on...
FirstMark Capital Founder Rick Heitzmann discusses his investment strategy with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television’s “Money Moves.” (Source: Bloomberg) The post Rick Heitzmann discusses his...
View ArticleTeachers first: How Schoology is changing the way schools buy technology
Edtech is a tricky beast for many reasons. One major challenge I’ve focused on during our online education month is the business model. Plenty of edtech startups have built brilliant products that...
View ArticleTraceLink Life Sciences Cloud Wins Edison Innovation Award
TraceLink Inc. announced today that the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud has been named a 2013 Edison Award for innovation by the internationally renowned Edison AwardsTM. TraceLink was named a bronze...
View ArticleTapad CEO Are Traasdahl on CNBC’s Squawk Box
CNBC’s Squawk Box features Tapad as one of its Disruptors, saying that Tapad is “changing the world of advertising.” Andrew Ross Sorkin interviews Are Traasdahl, Tapad’s CEO and Founder. The post Tapad...
View ArticleLot18 Tasting Room Is The First Wine Club To Get It Right
Unless you’re really into wines, the thought of joining a wine club probably hasn’t occurred to you. (If you don’t even know what a wine club is, it’s typically a service that sends you bottles of wine...
View ArticleA Meditation On How Best-Selling Products Get That Way
Luxury is one of those words that instantly conjures a mental image: an exercise in decadence, perhaps some champagne and caviar aboard a yacht in the Mediterranean. But AHAlife founder and CEO Shauna...
View ArticleAn Ex-Googler, Ex-Yahoo Really Good At Putting Himself In Money-Making...
The biggest sector in New York tech remains ad tech. One of the biggest names in New York ad tech is Michael Barrett. He made his name running ad sales at MySpace (back when that was still a big deal)....
View ArticleCNBC Names Aereo, Shopify, Pinterest to its Disruptor 50 List
From hundreds of nominations made by venture capitalists, industry analysts, startup investors, academics at top business schools, and beat reporters, CNBC has created the ultimate list of 50 private,...
View ArticleStudy shows that Lumosity brain games can rehab your brain
Did you know that playing video games is not only good for you, but that they can make you a better person? No, this is not a plug for Steven Johnson’s 2005 book “Everything Bad is Good For You,”...
View ArticleGreenphire CEO Selected as Finalist in Greater Philadelphia Region Ernst &...
Greenphire, the leading provider of payment technologies for the clinical trials industry, today announced that the company’s CEO, Sam Whitaker, has been selected as a finalist for the Ernst &...
View ArticleKnewton teams up with Macmillan to bring adaptive learning beyond K-12 and...
Education technology startup Knewton just inked another deal with a major education publisher. But, for the first time, the initial audience for its partnership with Macmillan isn’t high school or...
View ArticlePlaying Hawken On The Oculus Rift: Welcome To The Future
I had the good fortune of playing a few minutes of the excellent free-to-play mech game, Hawken, on the Oculus Rift VR headset. It’s an experience I can’t recommend highly enough. The Oculus Rift is a...
View ArticleWhat Does Yahoo’s Tumblr Deal Mean for Pinterest?
The moment that Yahoo’s board agreed to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for approximately $1.1 billion, the media shifted into overdrive, asking if Yahoo’s high-stakes gamble makes sense, what...
View ArticleAds That Follow You Home: Has Tapad Cracked The Code Of Cross-Device...
Tapad is having a growth spurt. From a modest corner office, the digital advertising startup has encroached on the entire 20th floor of a building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood–with the exception...
View ArticleAereo Hits Boston On United States Invasion
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View ArticleMaking Sense Of The Internet Of Things
The emerging Internet of Things — essentially, the world of physical devices connected to the network/Internet, from your Fitbit or Nest to industrial machines — is experiencing a burst of activity and...
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