
Tehran will host its first regional Middle East game conference

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with ebooks, automatic recycle bin emptying, power slider

U.S. gaming industry earned $30.4 billion in 2016, up from 2015

PitchBook: 2016 saw more private equity tech investments than in past 15 years

2016 NPD: Call of Duty No. 1, Battlefield No. 2 on 2016’s list of best-selling games

Twitter testing new layout for Moments

December 2016 NPD: Final Fantasy XV shows it has a new recipe for franchise’s sales

Wooden Sugr Cube speakers to get Amazon’s Alexa

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4 areas ripe for making money with AI

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New players look to dominate e-commerce in 2017

ModDrop hopes to reignite interest in the Torchlight games through mods

IBM quarterly revenue falls 1.3% to $21.77 billion despite growth in cloud-based services

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How AI helps marketers invest in the right ads

Atlassian expects Trello to generate just $4 million in revenue this fiscal year

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Customer support: Unleash your superpowers with AI (VB Live)

Super Mario Run drops from U.S. top 50 grossing iOS apps (update)

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3 questions marketers should ask before investing in AI

Westworld is full of sex and violence, but the show’s Google Home bot won’t talk about it

Silicon Studio adapts Graphine’s texture software for console, PC, and VR development

Stripe hires former Obama global entrepreneurship advisor to lead Atlas outreach

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Apple’s AirPods are a no-brainer — if you have the latest iPhone

Derek Jeter’s Players’ Tribune raises $40 million to beef up video production

Ubisoft hires an Oscar winner for The Division movie: Traffic’s Stephen Gaghan

XCOM 2’s Long War 2 fan mod is now available for PC

Halo Wars 2 shows how The Creative Assembly is adapting its PC chops for consoles

Two Bit Circus raises $15 million to build next-generation micro-amusement parks

Fig raises $7.8 million to expand game crowdfunding platform

Meet the ride-sharing app being used by thousands attending the Women’s March

Amplero adds machine learning to help pinpoint and leverage influential customers

AdStage adds support for Salesforce and HubSpot, launches a one-stop data API

Inside LinkedIn’s desktop redesign rolling out now

Tapjoy: Mobile games are more engaging and fun than social networks

Oracle acquires API development startup Apiary

DigiLens raises $22 million to make ‘eyeglass-thin’ augmented reality displays

How Creative Assembly tried to make Halo Wars 2 more accessible on Xbox One

Facebook to build third international data center in Denmark
Nimble Named #1 CRM by G2 Crowd for Customer Satisfaction in Latest 2017 CRM Rankings for the Fourth Year in a Row

With Trump and Brexit closing borders, France opens its doors wider to startups and entrepreneurs
