Student.com raises $60M (and its profile) to help international students find somewhere to live
Guest
The world doesn’t need another Tableau
FanDuel shuts down Florida game studio and lays off 55
Tesla expects to become profitable in 2016, shares rise
Zynga pins hopes on ad revenue potential and high-end Dawn of Titans strategy game
Mark Zuckerberg responds to investor Marc Andreessen’s colonialism tweets
Twitter is fixing that thing where you type “.@” for everyone to see your tweet
Twitter brings in $710M in revenue as mobile advertising falls to 86%
Twitter reports 320 million users in Q4 2015, flat for the first time and down when excluding SMS
Zynga beats Q4 financial estimates and announces 10 games for 2016
VB Event
GrubHub, Intuit, Pandora, Tinder to speak at VentureBeat Mobile Summit
Every Oculus Rift owner will get a Unity Pro trial to help them (and Palmer Luckey) make more money
Sony: ’36 million PlayStation 4 owners’ are ready for PlayStation VR
Exclusive
Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S packaging will double as VR goggles
Unity demonstrates new way to develop games inside virtual reality
Unity game-making tool gets native support for Google’s 5M Cardboard virtual reality devices
Unity Technologies and Valve team up to make VR development easier
Funding Daily: Smart gardening startup Edyn raises $2 million seed round
Apple is hiring engineers to coach Siri about sports
Watch Unity’s virtual and augmented reality Vision Summit right here
Opinion
Twitter’s real problem: Silicon Valley’s misguided ‘real time’ fetish
Pantomime lets VR headset and smartphone users share a virtual space
VB Webinar
Social media management: How to win back unhappy customers (webinar)
Feature
Hearthstone designers discuss Standard, Wild’s relevancy, and putting off new classes
Robit launches crowdfunding campaign for home helper robot that runs apps
Funding Daily: Riskified nabs $25 million to fight ecommerce fraud
Skype is rolling out 10 love-themed Mojis with music from Paul McCartney
Transformers: Earth Wars requires Hasbro, Backflip, and Space Ape to come together like Devastator
The world’s ‘first bionic knee brace’ launches for consumers today
Mobile games hit $34.8B in 2015, taking 85% of all app revenues
The app economy could double to $101 billion by 2020
Twitter just got a little bit more like Facebook with new algorithmic timeline
VB Event
How to lead digital transformation, Marketing.FWD
Studio chief wants players to show their assassination creativity in Hitman
Preview
Hitman reboot takes ‘assassination tourism’ to new heights (hands-on)
Shasta Ventures adds Doug Pepper as a managing partner to focus on application startups
YouTube Red’s first 4 original shows are available now as part of $10 monthly subscription
Opera accepts $1.2B offer from Chinese firms hungry for its booming mobile ad business
Hauck & Aufhäuser Acquires Share in the Naga Group AG
