
U.S. Secretary of Defense on Apple encryption: ‘I’m not a believer in backdoors’

Analysts and investors react well to Zynga’s new CEO Frank Gibeau

Here’s how HTC Vive’s front-facing camera works while you’re in virtual reality

Nintendo fends off more patent trolls in Wii victory

VB Event
Freshdesk exec discusses how customer service drives mobile growth at Mobile Summit

U.S. military invites vetted experts to ‘Hack the Pentagon’

Star Wars: Battlefront’s next expansion brings new (slightly obscure) heroes

Google Docs gets 6 new templates courtesy of QuickBooks, Reading Rainbow, others

U.S. Secretary of Defense: Kill ISIL with tech

FlexReceipts leverages digital receipts for targeted retail promotions

Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt to chair Pentagon’s new ‘Defense Innovation Advisory Board’

VB Webinar
VC Q1 Martech Review: What’s hot, what’s not, and how to get noticed in 2016 (webinar)

Funding Daily: GoTenna catches $7.5 million to connect phones when they’re off the grid

Pathmatics raises $3M to tell companies where ad dollars are really going

CareerBuilder expands into background screening and drug-testing with Aurico acquisition

Exclusive
SessionM triples down on mobile messaging, because that’s how we reach customers now

Google pilots Hands Free payment app that lets you pay using your face or by saying your initials

Feature
How the Pokémon cartoon and games form one of media’s best symbiotic relationships

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2016 update coming in Q2 with technology from Adxstudio acquisition

Mark Pincus and Frank Gibeau talk about the future of Zynga and social mobile gaming

Meta starts taking orders for high-end augmented reality dev kit

Social casino game creator FlowPlay launches in-game fundraiser for the American Cancer Society

DxO drops the price of its iPhone-connected camera to $499

Rocket League enters the esports world with Twitch-backed championship series

Spotify’s Fresh Finds playlists automatically surface up-and-coming artists by genre

Inside the $250M Uber is spending on its new San Francisco and Oakland offices

VB Insight
AdRoll launches SendRoll, an email retargeting product with huge potential

Augment raises $3M to bring augmented reality to sales pitches

Analysis
As Tumblr’s value heads to zero, a look at where it ranks among Yahoo’s 5 worst acquisition deals

Facebook probed for market abuse by German anti-cartel watchdog

Glispa closes 2015 with a $100M run rate for performance-based marketing

Augmented reality startup Blippar raises $54 million to infiltrate the physical world

NSA chief warns ‘when, not if’ a foreign country will hack U.S. infrastructure

PlayStation Network down for maintenance

Yahoo capitalizes on its well-regarded Yahoo Sports with new esports push

Smartphone revenue growth stalled in Q4 2015, projected to be flat in 2016

Cooking Fever gets a dash of the world’s top soccer club to widen its appeal

Zynga stock price jumps 7% as new chief executive replaces Pincus

Pokémon’s best spinoff games: As picked by two Pokénerds
