
Google Maps gets fare estimates and pickup times for 99Taxis, Ola Cabs, Hailo, Mytaxi, and Gett

After IronSource merger, Supersonic unveils combined ad monetization for mobile apps

ARM Enlighten creates stunning lighting effects in open world games

How to hack a sex toy: Tech companies warn public on growing cyber-risks

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Instagram interaction rates dropped 40% last year, and other bad news

Microsoft launches two Azure data center regions just for the U.S. Defense Department

For $2K, Razer gives you a super-thin gaming laptop

Uber’s food delivery service opens in San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston

Google AI beats South Korean Go pro, puts humans in their place by winning series 4-1

Uber gets green light to continue in Moscow, but can only use licensed taxi drivers

Next Insurance secures $13 million to sell insurance to small businesses

Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is Industrial Light and Magic’s new virtual reality game

U.K. P2P mortgage platform LendInvest raises $24m from Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström

Japan’s Yamap raises $1.5 million to gamify hiking

Lyft and GM say new rental program lays ‘infrastructure’ for self-driving car network

Security firms claim Chinese hackers are behind U.S. ransomware attacks

Meal delivery startup SpoonRocket is shutting down (Updated)

Forge raises $4.5M to make editing and sharing gameplay clips easy

AMD throws its support behind VR and demos next-gen graphics chip

VB Webinar
Pep Boys shows how their marketing cloud scored triple-digit ROI (webinar)

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See Hideo Kojima and other game devs pose like awkward stock photo models

KPCB’s John Maeda: 3 types of design every company needs to know

VB Webinar
Yext’s CMO joins peers to talk about allocating resources across the customer journey (webinar)

Microsoft still accepts Bitcoin, apologizes for ‘inaccurate information’ on its site

Check out these trippy holograms from Microsoft’s Actiongram app for HoloLens

Nokia’s $60,000 Ozo VR camera starts shipping and it can also be rented through resellers

Google to urge Congress to help get self-driving cars on roads

Google lets Android developers build video recording and livestreaming into games

Google beefs up ads, analytics, and updates for Android game developers

After 0 successful submissions, Google doubles top reward for hacking a Chromebook to $100,000

Google Play gets ‘Indie Corner’ to promote games from smaller studios

Sony’s PlayStation Vue Internet TV service arrives in the U.S. for $30 a month

Xbox One touts cross-network play with PC for indie games like Rocket League — and could add PS4

VB Event
Marketing and engineering roles dominate the tech industry, but that’s all they have in common

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Kit CRM’s new API brings us one big step closer to AI ’employees’

Skype for Web gets phone calls, YouTube embeds, guest accounts, and notifications

The humble USB Type-C connector can deliver amazing 4K video to screens

Global games market forecast to hit $100B by 2019

Analysis
Did Google and HTC really sign a 3-year Nexus deal?
