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What's Behind Microsoft's Acquisition of Activision, Gaming? The Metaverse? Both?
Microsoft may have ideas about the metaverse with the Activision buy, but this deal is mainly about gaming. Here's why.
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News Bites: Updates on Google Analytics, AvePoint Meetings
Mid-summer week's news: Google Analytics releases a case history, Kenshoo culls gaming stats, AvePoint adds new features to Meetings, FileTrail and Doculabs offer webinars on info governance and Concept Searching expands into governance and compliance. Google Analytics' Data Import Google Analytics has released a case history of its new data
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What History Can Teach the Tech Industry About Public Backlash
Frequent the mainstream media and you may have noticed occasional snippets about our growing fascination with mobile computing, digital cultures and social media.
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Twitch's $20 Million Investment Shows the Opportunities In Gaming Tech
Twitch TV was created to cast live footage of PC and video games across the web.
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Apple Looking Beyond the iPhone with iOS 7 to Cars and Games
With the smartphone rapidly becoming an accessory that fits into other areas of our lives and between other pieces of our technology, Apple is using iOS 7 to get the iPhone into cars and onto your TV for gaming and other purposes.
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Microsoft's Xbox One Console Runs Three OSs Including Windows 8
What is Xbox One? Is it a games machines, a media center, or an app player? Microsoft wants it to be all three, with near instant-on, voice activation, Skype and many other features, but to do this, it runs a version of Windows 8, a gaming hyper-OS and a media
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How Apple Can Put the Wow-Factor Into iOS 7
With the announcement of its Worldwide Developer Conference for June, Apple has set the wheels in motion for the reveal of iOS 7, a monumental event if Apple is to keep up with the ingrained social-media-friendly, music-streaming and up-front services that users now expect.
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Sony's PlayStation 4 Launch: The Battle for the Integrated Home
We've covered plenty of PC, phone, tablet and other device launches recently, but can a mere games machine show the way forward for true home device and content integration? Can Sony's new console play nicely in a world of gadgets attempting to defend their own turf? Busting Down Walled Gardens
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Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Updates Bring Game to the Browser
While many might still believe that games are just for the kids, the ever-evolving web is now increasingly capable of running advanced games-class technologies within the browser, and they can be deployed for much more than Angry Bird clones.
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Microsoft Windows Phone 7 'Tango' China Release Doesn't Include Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft is gearing up to launch its Windows Phone 7.5 "Tango" update starting in March, and will be making a special edition for the Chinese market. In lieu of the expected Facebook and Twitter integration that international markets will carry, Microsoft's WP7.
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Google+ Adds Games to Challenge Facebook
Google's (news, site ) has added a new games icon with a number of popular titles to add some stickiness and engagement on its fledgling social site.
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Zynga Files for US$1 Billion IPO
As expected, online gaming vendor Zynga (news, site) has filed for its IPO, meaning we get another round of "It's another bubble!" "Is not!" "Is too!" articles from the financial press. IPOville The company, known for its FarmVille and CityVille line of social media games, filed on July 1 that
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Is iCloud Coming to Big-Screen Apple TV? How About Console Gaming?
Among the many rumors surrounding Apple (news, site ), one of the most persistent has been its move onto big screens. Well, that could be happening soon, providing a new surface for Apple's media empire and your data and apps.
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Zynga Prepares for IPO by Month's End
Following a strategy that has brought success to companies such as LinkedIn, Zynga (news, site ) -- the maker of online social games such as FarmVille and CityVille -- is preparing for a limited initial public offering by the end of this month.
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