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Google Earth tapped to view Bay Bridge in 3-D — Google’s mapping software proves useful in visualizing what the remade San Francisco iconic bridge will look like. [photo credit | CNET]A bitter Twitter battle rattle — Sounds like Dr. Seuss. David Carr of the New York Times sings the praises of [...]
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Game developers are shifting their attention to the iPhone and starting to ignore the Nintendo Wii, according to Game Developer Research.
Developers creating games for mobile phones increased to 25 percent of all developers, up from 12 percent a year ago. Of those mobile developers, 75 percent are [...]
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Facebook rolled out a new redesign to 80 million users tonight at its 6th birthday party, and the company’s vice president of product just prepped employees for potential negative reactions by telling the story of the original news feed launch.
After the new features went live, the company [...]
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Roel Schouwenberg is a senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based antivirus company that has grown into the fourth-largest in the business. Kaspersky, which entered the U.S. market in 2005, protects 250 million users from cyber threats. It has to analyze tens of thousands of files each day to figure [...]
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We’ve known for the longest time that Apple was planning something with mobile advertisements, particularly after they purchased mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, but the company has been mum on specifics. As the company behind the phone that built the mobile ad market, I would imagine that it [...]
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Almaz Capital Partners has purchased a 23 percent stake in Russia’s casual web-based game publisher Alawar Entertainment.
The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. On the strength of its Russian-speaking audience, Alawar has risen to become one of the top 10 casual game publishers worldwide.
Almaz Capital [...]
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Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes [...]
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On its sixth birthday, Facebook launched a host of new features as it crossed the 400-million user mark.
The most interesting of them may be its revamped search. When you type in names, it auto-completes for people who are the closest to you by [...]
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Kongregate, which operates a web site for indie games, is announcing today it has had good success with its app platform for browser-based games. What’s more, it’s sharing some metrics so it can show potential developers how it can make them money.
The San Francisco-based company launched its [...]
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We’re excited to unveil our latest speakers for GamesBeat@GDC, our executive game conference that takes place at the Game Developers Conference on Wednesday, March 10, at the Moscone convention center in San Francisco. We’ve created a Facebook group for the conference where you can chat with fellow attendees and see who’s [...]
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