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Nintendo’s underappreciated StarTropics series comes to the Wii U

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Adtile launches an interactive 360-degree video platform that works everywhere

Product Hunt launches Kittybot, its first Slack bot

WorldViz creates ‘warehouse-scale’ motion-tracking for VR headsets

PlayStation 4 sales worldwide pass 40 million

Berlin’s Contentful raises $13 million to grow its API-driven content management system in the U.S.

New York financial regulator prepares to probe online lenders
Virtuozzo Partners with Bitnami to Offer Service Providers of All Sizes Access to Major Applications

Cost of acquiring app users drops in April as the spring lull hits mobile
Kollective Closes 12.25 Million Series C Round to Fund Massive Market Expansion

The ‘.game’ domain extension officially opens for business

GoDaddy launches Flare, a community app for sharing and rating business ideas

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Tapjoy and IronSource to offer monetization services to mobile game and app devs

Snapchat raises $1.81 billion in new funding round

Skyscanner launches Facebook Messenger bot to automate flight search conversationally

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Ride sharing deals between Detroit and Silicon Valley may offer new way to sell cars

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Starting your life as an engineer: My advice to the Class of 2016

Facebook’s Windows 10 app will soon let you broadcast live video from your desktop

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Doom keeps terrifying TV viewers, as Uncharted keeps charting in game ads

Overwatch is shockingly playable on a laptop without a dedicated graphics card

Google reportedly considering Android partner ‘list of shame’ to expedite updates

PayPal to discontinue Amazon Fire, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone apps on June 30

Intel’s diversity fund driver Lisa Lambert leaves for Westly Group

Storm8’s Candy Blast Mania adds tournaments, bringing innovation to match-3 games
Machine Learning Radiology Startup Zebra Medical Vision Announces a $12M Funding Round

Chrome 51 arrives with new APIs and more efficient page rendering

Salesforce chooses AWS as ‘preferred’ public cloud provider, will run Sales Cloud on it

How Naughty Dog created the ending of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

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What if a bot could run a country?

Samsung will reportedly leapfrog Note 6 branding with a curved-edge Galaxy Note 7

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‘Captain America: Civil War’ gives Marvel’s games and media a big spike

Microsoft will reportedly unveil smaller Xbox One and 2 streaming devices at E3, more powerful console in 2017

Slack passes 3 million daily active users, 930K paid seats

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Power up your analytics: Turning data into real action (VB Live)

Twilio’s Notify API unifies delivery of SMS, app, and messenger push notifications

Pokémon Go beta test starts today — here’s how battles work

Osmo Coding teaches kids to program using blocks and an iPad
