Amazon Game Studios unveils first three games that feature deep Twitch integration
Amazon Game Studios is at TwitchCon showing off three new games. Jeffrey Matulef / Eurogamer.net : Introducing Breakaway: Amazon's esports game by the Killer Instinct devs Lucas Siegel / WWG : Amazon ...
Amazon Game Studios announces BreakAway, the first game to use Twitch's Stream+ currency; teaser shows viewers will be able to wager on matches
New sports-brawling game Breakaway will “integrate directly” with Twitch in many ways. — TwitchCon, the annual convention dedicated …
Amazon announces Twitch Prime with ad-free streaming and other perks for Amazon Prime members; Twitch adds video uploads, loyalty badges, HTML5 support, more
Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off …
Exploit broker Zerodium triples bounty to $1.5M for iOS, and doubles bounty for Android to $200K
Zerodium triples price for iOS exploits, doubles Android bounties to $200,000. — A controversial broker of security exploits is offering $1.5 million (£1.2 million) …
Google opens Waze Rider pilot program to all San Francisco users; drivers and riders limited to two trips per day, with drivers making $0.54/mile
Waze Rider, the ride-sharing version of the popular Google-owned navigation app, is now open to the general public in the Bay Area.
Nutanix closes up 131% on its first day of trading after raising $238M in an IPO, now valued at around $5B
SAN JOSE — Nutanix wowed the market on its first day of trading Friday, ending the day with shares trading at more than twice their initial public offering price.
Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime, other applications infringed on patents
A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty
Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope …
Facebook tests “Messenger Day”, an in-app feature for sharing ephemeral photos, in Poland, where Snapchat isn't popular
Josh Constine, Natasha Lomas and John Biggs — Sep 30, 2016, 9:10 amSep 30, 2016, 10:39 am — Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn't popular yet.
Sources: Google is telling home audio vendors they won't be allowed to add competing smart assistants like Alexa if they want to continue to use Google Cast
At its press event in San Francisco next week, Google is expected to not only unveil new flagship phones, but also officially launch Google Home …
AT&T ends its Internet Preferences program, which analyzed user browsing habits to better target ads
Controversial traffic scanning program, Internet Preferences, meets its demise. — AT&T is getting rid of Internet Preferences, the controversial program that analyzes home Internet …
Sources: Travis VanderZanden, Uber's VP of Driver Growth and ex-Lyft COO, is leaving Uber
Uber's VP of Driver Growth, Travis VanderZanden, is leaving the company after nearly two years to spend more time with his daughters and family, according to an email sent around to Uber team members ...
Remitly raises $38.5M Series D led by World Bank's IFC for its P2P international money transfer service, bringing total raised to just under $100M
Today Remitly, the largest independent … Erin Hobey / Crowdfund Insider : US Fintech Platform Remitly Secures $38M, Expands into Latin America Iris Dorbian / PE Hub Blog : Remitly nabs $38 mln from IF...
The CW TV Network releases new Apple TV app that eliminates cable subscription login, but limits content to only five episodes from most recent season of shows
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Amazon unveils “Alexa Prize”, an annual university competition to advance conversational AI; first challenge is to build a bot conversing coherently for 20 mins
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Google Apps for Work rebranded as “G Suite”, to get several machine learning-powered features; “Team Drive” brings team-level content management to Google Drive
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HTC's Viveport VR marketplace focused on non-gaming content for the Vive expands beyond China to 30 new countries
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How a startup called Augmedix, which has raised over $36M, is enabling hundreds of doctors in the US to use Google Glass for remote medical scribing
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Jim Andrews is in a medical office wearing just a hospital gown, staring at his doctor of 11 years … Tweets: @tom_weaver , @erictopol , @geofutures and @cpmcinsf Tweets: Tom Weaver...
Mozilla accuses Chinese certificate authority WoSign of back-dating SHA-1 certificates and other violations, proposes no longer trusting WoSign certificates
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Sources: NXP Semiconductors hired Qatalyst Partners to help find a buyer while Qualcomm is exploring other large acquisition options in addition to NXP
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Music app Shazam announces 1B downloads, turns an operating profit as more brands use its audio and visual identification software
But Not From Music Cara McGoogan / Telegraph : Shazam reaches profitability as it hits one billion downloads Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch : Shazam is finally profitable after a billion downloads Alphr : ...
Alibaba's Ant Financial launches Alipay Everywhere app in Shanghai that allows users to find and order a specific service or task from strangers nearby
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European food delivery startup Takeaway.com raises $368M in IPO, valuing it at $1.1B
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