Jeff Bezos and Amazon: He who laughs last, laughs best
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The Great Network Forgery
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The DeanBeat: That Dragon, Cancer shows the emotional power of video games
The Witness is getting pirated big time — creator Jonathan Blow warns it’ll impact future projects
BloomReach lands $56M to deliver personalized marketing to every digital business
Google launches iOS AdWords app for marketers to manage their ad campaigns on the move
GM forms team for self-driving, electric cars
Let’s watch the Taipei Game Show
Google has paid security researchers over $6 million in 6 years
Sony sells 1M PlayStation 4 Star Wars: Battlefront bundles to retailers
Google Calendar now supports 41 more languages on Android and iOS
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323 marketing tech startups fetched over $11B from VCs in 2015 (research)
EA reveals new Battlefield and Titanfall games are coming in the next year (update)
Facebook is shutting down its Parse cloud service on January 28, 2017
Electronic Arts’ share price plummets 7% as it offers conservative outlook for 2016
Xerox will reportedly split, bowing to pressure from Carl Icahn
Star Wars: Battlefront surpasses 13M copies sold-in as fans can’t repel hype of that magnitude
Amazon’s stock tanks 13% despite record $482 million profit
Star Wars: Battlefront helps EA beat Wall Street’s quarterly expectations
Xbox Live now has 48M active players
Microsoft sees $25.7 billion in Q2 2016 revenue, $1.3 billion generated by Surface
Amazon Web Services brings in $2.4B in revenue in Q4 2015, up 69% over last year
Warframe’s new Nezha class highlights Ring of Fire update on PlayStation 4, Xbox One
GamesBeat 2016 is moving to L.A. on Aug. 1-3. And we’re kicking it off with a new VR day
IBM is buying digital marketing agency Resource/Ammirati
Dropbox became even more white and male in 2015, appoints head of diversity
Indiepocalpyse slays another: Starward Rogue studio cutting jobs due to low sales
European legislators concerned about data privacy bill before U.S. Congress
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Sam Clemens, CMO? Discover Twainian leadership tactics at Marketing.FWD Summit
Vive VR headset test: We try a dozen games — and one makes us sick
Narrative lets developers hack its wearable cameras
Corporate Venturing & Innovation Initiative Announces New CV&I Services at Summit
Facebook opens Live Video streaming to all iPhone users in the U.S.
Corporate Venture Capital Compensation Report released to support high performance teams and innovation programs
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HTC Perfume to offer QHD AMOLED display, laser-assisted 12 UltraPixel camera
Mixpanel launches an iOS app with dashboards to help you track data on the go
Kiip powers Taco Bell’s mobile loyalty program Explore
Funding Daily: ID Experts raises $5 million led by BlueShield Venture Partners
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