What The Heck Is A Grocery Store Doing Buying A Music Streaming Service? | Our latest round of GamesBeat 2012 speakers | This Is What a Portal Gun Looks Like in Real Life--Sort Of | PopCap And Wooga Pull Games From Google+ | Windows 8 and the art of UX compromise

What The Heck Is A Grocery Store Doing Buying A Music Streaming Service?

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One pint of milk, one loaf of bread, and a music streaming service. That will be �10.8 million.Yesterday?s news that We7, which aimed to be the Pandora of Europe, has sold to the supermarket giant Tesco probably raised a few eyebrows. What?s a grocery store to do with a music streaming service? Selling to Tesco is unlikely to have been in We7?s original deck under the section titled “exit strategy.”[...]
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Our latest round of GamesBeat 2012 speakers

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VentureBeat is pleased to announce the latest speakers added to our roster for�GamesBeat 2012�in San Francisco on July 10-11. We?re inviting 500 movers and shakers from throughout the games industry ? social, mobile, online, and console — to talk about the “Crossover Era”.�The game industry as we know it is changing. We?re seeing established companies cross over from one market to another, where once they faced barriers. As companies adapt to change, we are witnessing disruption, change, consolidation, innovation, and the arrival of big money. We?re talking billions of dollars that are at stake.
Our newest speakers are:
Jamie Berger, vice president of digital at Activision[...]
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This Is What a Portal Gun Looks Like in Real Life--Sort Of

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Love the game Portal? Then you really need to watch the gun in action around a typical home[...]
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PopCap And Wooga Pull Games From Google+

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Less than a year after the debut of gaming on Google’s social platform, Google+, two game developers are pulling their titles. Bejeweled Blitz, a popular game owned by Electronic Arts‘ Pop Cap divsion, and several titles from�Wooga, the maker of games for children, will no longer be available on the Google+ social network.
You can visit Wooga’s Monster World here on Google+ and discover that it has already gone offline. Although the page still exists, if you try to load the game, you’re instead directed to a message reading “Monster World Says Goodbye.” According to the message, the game was officially shut down on May 1st, although it appears many are jus[...]
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Windows 8 and the art of UX compromise

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Microsoft is cleverly promoting Windows 8 with the tagline “no compromises.” The idea is that you get both a desktop/laptop operating system (OS) and a tablet OS in one package and a “best of both worlds” experience on any device.
In reality, the decision to meld the traditional mouse-and-keyboard Windows with a new, radically different kind of interface designed for touch devices is itself a compromise ? a choice with understandable business and engineering rationales, but one that is likely to introduce significant challenges for the Windows user experience (UX) in the months ahead.
Related: Why Windows 8 could be the next Vista
The unique dual-personality design of[...]
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