Cloud optimization platform Spotinst closes $2 million round
Indiegogo partners with Dell and Girls in Tech to support female entrepreneurs
Comprendi’s social-marketing tech makes player acquisition cheaper for Zynga and Kabam (update)
Firefox 45 arrives with Hello tab sharing, removes Tab Groups, and warns Android Honeycomb support is ending
Financing startup Wunder raises $3.6 million to fund solar projects
Analysis
Skype kills its smart TV app because of smartphones
Google rebrands Skybox as Terra Bella, will launch ‘more than a dozen satellites’ over the next few years
Matcherino lets esports fans create their own grudge matches with crowdfunded prizes
Data from 100M smartphone sessions exposes a major mobile design flaw
Highlight’s new Shorts app lets you meet people based on photos they’ve taken
Internet gambling starting to emerge in Africa
Analysis
Amazon bets on universities as its brick-and-mortar expansion continues
Tovala launches Kickstarter campaign to accept preorders for its connected oven
Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge review: Impressive, but largely iterative
HP launches a whole new line of secure laser, office, and professional printers
Google Docs now lets you export files as an EPUB ebook
Microsoft’s Skype Translator now speaks Arabic
500 Startups launches a $10M micro fund to back Vietnamese startups
Truecaller app gets a dialer and new smarts as the company phases out standalone Truedialer app
Japan’s mobile analytics and marketing tool Repro gets $2.6 million to expand to US
Canadian mechanic builds a ski car
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Did Apple play favorites to offer more movies/music in the Middle East?
Mac ransomware caught before large number of computers infected
Fears about implications of unlocking an iPhone are ‘far afield,’ U.S. attorneys say
Minecraft fans are trying to guess the game’s next enemy
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It’s 2016, and we’re still not using HTTPS properly
Paradox Interactive plans to parlay successful strategy-games biz into an IPO
Watch teens react to using Windows 95 for the first time
Xbox Live down again for some as Microsoft confirms sign-in issues
Facebook is using AI to decide where to beam its free Internet
SEC charges Rhode Island and Wells Fargo Securities with fraud in 38 Studios collapse
Valve returns to Portal’s beloved world with free virtual reality … something
VB Event
Kik’s Michael Roberts to discuss the coming chatbot revolution at Mobile Summit
VB Webinar
ID unification: Dun & Bradstreet and Mozilla CMO’s show how to create a single customer view (webinar)
Some Nvidia users report Blue Screen of Death crashes following update for GeForce driver (update)
Anyone in the U.S. can now sign up for Google’s Project Fi
You can now Skype in Office Online and OneDrive
Exclusive
Microsoft now plans March Windows 10 Mobile rollout
Blizzard confirms Overwatch launches May 24 with a ‘head start period’ on May 3 for preorders
