


IBM and AT&T team up on network security to ward off cyber threats

Confirmed: Former Nokia chief Stephen Elop will run Microsoft’s Xbox and tablet businesses

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Do accelerators help startups? Here’s what we found

Now you can jam like Timbaland, thanks to Open Labs’ StageLight app

Angry moms urge Facebook and Instagram to get out of the gun business

Smartphone users ‘can’t seem to put them down,’ Nielsen reports

IBM embraces openness with its Cloudant acquisition

Funding Daily: February 24, 2014

Laforge Optical pulls its stylish smart glasses Indiegogo campaign

Oracle buys BlueKai to build out new cloud tools for marketers

Analysts: Titanfall bundle and Xbox One price cut ‘reveal the importance’ of Respawn’s shooter

Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit: A familiar smartphone and surprising health tracker (hands-on)

Storage marketplace SpareFoot closes $10M funding

Local delivery startup Deliv raises $4.5M

Mobile game Shapist was inspired by ancient Asian block games

Samsung’s new Gear Fit is part health tracker, part smartwatch

Samsung’s Galaxy S5: More of the same — but with a 16MP camera and fingerprint sensor

Confirmed: Dropbox is raising a huge round, and it’s even bigger than the rumors

Mozilla’s $25 Firefox phone is a direct threat that Nokia never saw coming

Google debuts a calculator to predict public cloud costs

Stealthy MIT wearables startup Quanttus takes $19M

China’s Twitter-like Weibo is prepping for a U.S. IPO (report)

The Dutch want gaming startups to sprout like tulips (interview)

Zuckerberg: Carriers should give developing countries free Facebook access

Gmail adds easy unsubscribe button to stem the tide of promotional email

IBM buys Cloudant to add database appeal to its cloud

Xbox One getting Titanfall bundle on March 11 — includes game and console for $500

Ad tech startup AdStage raises $1.1M

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg to direct a movie about how Sega took on Nintendo

MasterCard dives into in-app payments with its MasterPass platform

Game changer: VC Chris Dixon talks about Oculus and his occasional forays into gaming (interview)

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Why Steam matters: Valve’s ambitious plan for the future of the PC

Nokia X: With a combination of Android, style, and strategy, Nokia justifies Microsoft’s buy

Wolfenstein: The New Order brings the franchise into the Call of Duty gen (by way of Tarantino)

DayZ creator plans to leave developer Bohemia Interactive

Thief pilfers some needed improvements but forgets to steal a personality (review)

WhatsApp’s killer upcoming feature: Phone calls
