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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on the advantages of being a founder CEO: “Everything is easier with social capital”
There is no question that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most recognizable company heads alive today, and not just because he was the subject of the Academy Award winning film The Social Network. Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 a few months shy of his twentieth birthday, and within a decade it became one of the world’s ...
Mend reimagines house calls for the smartphone age
Sometime between the 1960s and the 1980s the house call all but disappeared in the U.S., and these days the idea of a doctor coming to your home might seem as quaint and outdated as beehive hair-dos and rotary telephones. But in an age of convenience services like Uber or any of the dozens of food ...
Facebook users in the U.S. can now send money through Messenger
Facebook is finally rolling out its Messenger payment features to all users across the U.S., now making the old “I’ll pay you back later” excuse obsolete. Facebook first began testing Messenger payments in March in a few select locations, and it later expanded them in May to New York City and the surrounding areas. Now everyone in ...
PlayStation 4 is Europe’s most popular game console by far
While the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One seem to be more or less neck and neck in the U.S., the console race has already been decided in Europe, and PlayStation is the clear winner. According to Jim Ryan, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, PlayStation controls an overwhelming majority of the European game console market. ...
Pokemon Shuffle is not the mobile Nintendo game you have been waiting for
Nintendo Co Ltd pleasantly surprised its fans earlier this year when it announced that it would finally be making its way into mobile games through a partnership with Japanese social game studio DeNA Co. Nintendo later revealed that it would be releasing five new mobile games by 2017, and fans have been eagerly awaiting news ...
Facebook makes News Feed smarter at suggesting videos
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it no secret that he believes the future of the social network lies in video, and today Facebook is rolling out more algorithm tweaks to make News Feed smarter at picking what videos you see. According to Facebook Engineering Manager Meihong Wang and Software Engineer Yue Zhuo, not everyone wants to like or comment on the ...
Minecraft creator Mojang abandons development on Scrolls
Nearly every developer would have trouble trying to match the incredible success of a game like Minecraft, including Minecraft’s own creators, Stockholm-based Mojang AB. In 2012, the then-independent studio began working on a card battling mobile game called Scrolls, and after lengthy alpha and beta phases, the game was released in December 2014. Today, less than a year after its ...
Watch pro-gamers speedrun some of your favorite games for charity
It is always nice to see people turning their passions into opportunities to help others, and this week gamers from around the world are coming together to speedrun some of their favorite games for charity. The European Speedsters Assembly (ESA) is a loose coalition of gamers who throw a weeklong event once a year to ...
Miyamoto opens up on the Wii U failure, says he is not involved with NX development
The days of Nintendo Co Ltd’s reign as the king of console gaming are long past, and the continued mediocre sales figures of the Wii U are made all the more disappointing when compared to the runaway success of the Wii. Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of powerhouse Nintendo franchises like Mario and Zelda, discussed the Wii U’s failure ...
What the Fallout 4 devs can learn from The Witcher 3
There has been no shortage of “open world” games in the last few years, whether they are Bethesda Game Studios’ sprawling landscapes (Fallout 3, Oblivion, Skyrim) or Ubisoft Entertainment’s climb-things-to-unlock-maps simulators (Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry). The first two games of CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher series were mostly linear stories with a little extra room for exploration and side quests, ...