
Topic > editor’s pick


Indie devs: Quality content trumps following trends, free-to-play ‘is kind of a slum’

Patent trolls calling? Here’s how Build.com CEO Chris Friedland fought back

Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A

Betable’s potential jackpot: Bringing real gambling to social casino games

Portland hipsters raise $20K on Kickstarter to make leather handles for bikes

Amazon explains weekend outage, but Instagram, Netflix, & Pinterest stay mum

Apple’s crackdown on app-ranking manipulation: Confused developers caught in the dragnet

Document management startup Doo.net launches slick Windows 8 app (exclusive)

Disney and others bring disruption to movie-licensed games

Twitter marketers: why almost everything you know from Facebook is wrong

An Apple-lover’s take on the Nexus 7

VentureBeat reflects on five years of the iPhone

The DeanBeat: Zynga battles to dominate the red ocean, not the blue

Gmail finally blows past Hotmail to become the world’s largest email service

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What entrepreneurs can learn from Nigerian email scammers

Five Spotify apps that will change how you listen to music

Cheating and deception are at Reddit’s core, founder reveals

Microsoft betrays the trust of customers and partners in the name of progress

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube marketers: This is why you never, ever start campaigns on Friday

Reading Rainbow is back! Our in-depth video interview with LeVar Burton

Microsoft. Kicks. Ass.

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Why Microsoft’s purchase of Yammer is the smartest deal of the year

Why Windows 8 could be the next Vista

Why Reddit is cracking down on your favorite sites

Skype’s brilliant, passive-aggressive new monetization idea: “Conversation Ads”

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PrankDial: A small developer’s struggle with the Android Market

Korean startups still fight against the stigma of failure

How Starbucks is turning itself into a tech company

GamesBeat’s E3 2012 Game of the Show…plus staff picks

The coolest technologies we saw at E3 2012

WWDC predictions: A new iOS, Mountain Lion date, and iCloud updates

Japan’s Gree moves mobile gaming into the spotlight at E3 (interview)

Stunning NASA fan video highlights why we need to fund the space program

Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 could spawn a generation of games with awesome graphics

How a 1-man cat-drawing startup won a Mark Cuban investment

Microsoft isn’t leading the ‘Do Not Track’ revolution, it’s hurting it

Facebook’s feature-phone chat app has 40M downloads, zero revenue

DIY shoe service Shoes of Prey steps it up with $3M investment
