Chinese Version of Windows 8 Release Preview Leaked Online
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Based on screenshots posted by users and a brief preview video, the leak appears genuine and offers some improvements over the original Windows 8 beta[...]
Continue ReadingGame Closure Poaches Zynga’s CTO Of Mobile To Lead HTML5 Game Development
Posted by TechCrunch
Last we heard from Game Closure, the young startup had just turned down offers from Zynga and Facebook on its way to a $12 million raise from Highland Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, General Catalyst, and more. Even in spite of $100 million-plus offers, Game Closure CEO Michael Carter tells us that the startup is not eager to sell — not now, and not in the future. Yet, stealing high-placed executives at the big gaming companies? Not a problem.
Today, Game Closure, which is building a game development environment and SDK that makes it easy for developers to create, host, and deploy HTML5, cross-platform, multiplayer games, is announcing that it has poached Laurent Desegur away from Zynga,[...]
Continue ReadingToday, Game Closure, which is building a game development environment and SDK that makes it easy for developers to create, host, and deploy HTML5, cross-platform, multiplayer games, is announcing that it has poached Laurent Desegur away from Zynga,[...]
Amazon Instant Video Comes to Xbox 360
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Amazon just announced that its Instant Video service is now available on Microsoft’s Xbox 360. With the Amazon Instant Video app for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, Xbox users can now access the roughly 120,000 movies and TV episodes available for renting and purchasing on Amazon’s streaming video service. The app also offers access to the more limited Prime Instant video selection, Amazon’s video service for its $79/year Prime members.
The Instant Video app also supports Amazon’s Whispersync syncing service. This allows Amazon’s users to start watching videos on their TVs and then finish watching them on their Kindle Fires, for example. The app obviously also gives[...]
Continue ReadingThe Instant Video app also supports Amazon’s Whispersync syncing service. This allows Amazon’s users to start watching videos on their TVs and then finish watching them on their Kindle Fires, for example. The app obviously also gives[...]
Russian search engine Yandex may sell its share of Face.com to Facebook
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Facebook’s rumored interest in purchasing facial recognition startup Face.com may become a reality thanks to some help from an unlikely source.
Russian-based search engine Yandex is said to be mulling the sale of its share in Face.com to the social giant, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti (Google Translate). Yandex, along with investment firm Rhodium, invested $4.3 million in the startup for a 18.4 percent stake of Face.com and an arrangement to add Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh to its board of directors.
Yandex is interested in a combination of cash and Facebook stock for its stake in Face.com, according to Vedomosti’s report.
Earlier reports indicated that Facebook wa[...]
Continue ReadingRussian-based search engine Yandex is said to be mulling the sale of its share in Face.com to the social giant, according to Russian newspaper Vedomosti (Google Translate). Yandex, along with investment firm Rhodium, invested $4.3 million in the startup for a 18.4 percent stake of Face.com and an arrangement to add Yandex’s CEO Arkady Volozh to its board of directors.
Yandex is interested in a combination of cash and Facebook stock for its stake in Face.com, according to Vedomosti’s report.
Earlier reports indicated that Facebook wa[...]
Avoiding the Microsoft Borg, Skype nears 250M users
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Microsoft still doesn’t have much to show for its $8.5 billion Skype acquisition — except for a lackluster Windows Phone app — but Tony Bates, the former Skype CEO and now president of Microsoft’s Skype division, has at least managed to keep his ship independent of the software giant.
“We’ve kept our identity and our autonomy,” Bates told the New York Times in an interview.
How so? He’s based out of Silicon Valley (Skype also has offices all over the world); he demanded Skype-specific ID cards for his employees, instead of Microsoft cards; and perhaps most daring, he uses a MacBook Air in his office.
Skype now has nearly 250 million users, a 26 percent jum[...]
Continue Reading“We’ve kept our identity and our autonomy,” Bates told the New York Times in an interview.
How so? He’s based out of Silicon Valley (Skype also has offices all over the world); he demanded Skype-specific ID cards for his employees, instead of Microsoft cards; and perhaps most daring, he uses a MacBook Air in his office.
Skype now has nearly 250 million users, a 26 percent jum[...]
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