Products sales don’t account for all of the $111 billion that the video game industry generates, eSports play a big role as well, a big enough role that ESPN brought eSports to primetime. Obviously this is a massive step forward for the world of eSports, but EPSN’s decision has received
Less than a fourth of American adults use Twitter, far less than the 71% who use Facebook. While trailing behind Facebook in user numbers doesn’t really mean much, the fact that only 36% of Twitter’s users actually use the service daily is much more meaningful. In order to change this, t
Remember that prolonged cyberattack that GitHub suffered last month, the one that was suspected to have been conducted by the Chinese government? Well, researchers are suggesting that this wasn’t an ordinary attack, it was the first target for what’s being called the Great Cannon, a type
It looks like the NSA isn’t the only government agency in the United States that’s collecting vast amounts of data on American citizens, the DEA is doing it too. In fact, the DEA has been doing it for more than two decades and on staggering scale, well before the NSA began its own such p
It doesn’t look like any tech company is safe from the explosion of gender discrimination lawsuits in Silicon Valley right now, not even Twitter. Hot on the heels of Facebook’s own legal issues, Twitter may be facing a lawsuit of its own courtesy of Tina Huang, a former employee who clai
It’s nice to know that the human touch is still needed in a world where robotics and artificial intelligence are gaining momentum. CrowdFlower, which has five million so-called on-demand contributors cleaning up data, has raised $12.5 million in a Series C round of financing, led by Canvas Ven
Sr. Pago, one of the two largest mobile point of sale services in Mexico, today announced the launch of the Sr. Pago Card System, the first service in the Americas that combines a smartphone chip credit card reader with a debit card that can be reloaded with payments accepted through the card reader
Vox Media, the online publisher that runs SB Nation sports blogs, launched its general news site Vox.com Sunday, providing a forum for renowned blogger Ezra Klein’s experiment in broadening explanatory journalism. Klein, who led The Washington Post’s public policy blog, Wonkblog, left to
Popular home rental website Airbnb will start paying San Francisco’s 14% hotel tax, addressing a key regulatory concern. David Hantman, Airbnb’s head of global public policy, said in a blog post that “we’ll soon be collecting and remitting taxes on behalf of our hosts in San Franci
Several apps out there can turn your smartphone into a smart remote control with the help of some other hardware. One of those apps is the Peel Smart Remote app. Peel has announced some interesting new milestones for the application. Peel announced this week that the Smart Remote app has passed 50 m
Shares of Coupons.com gained 88% in their first day of trading Friday, as the investor shopping spree for IPOs continues. The company, which provides digital coupons for consumers, saw its shares jump $14 to close at $30 apiece, a strong showing especially considering the IPO price range had already
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit announced that it has recommended that HarperCollins Publishers modify its information collection practices on its Ruby Redfort child-directed website to better protect the privacy of children under 13 and that the Company has agreed to do so. CARU is the