Technology

Last week, Scopely launched Scrabble Go, a new mobile game based on its alliance with Hasbro and Mattel on one of the world’s most popular word games. This could be a big deal in the $ 100 billion mobile game business. The Culver City, California-based Scopely took over the 80-year-old Scrabble …

If you were looking for signs of health in the ad tech market, you might look at the performance of the handful of publicly traded ad tech stocks — Criteo, The Trade Desk, Rubicon, etc — and you would get one, cautionary view on the segment. Or you might look …

If you go to AvaCare Medical‘s website, you’ll see that hand sanitizer and surgical masks are out of stock. It’s a sign of the times, driven by fears of COVID-19, the coronavirus that has caused a global panic, and it’s not clear when those items are going to be in …

Venture capitalists investing in AI and robotics startups suggest they reassess their business plan amid economic uncertainty spreading alongside COVID-19. Jocelyn Goldfein, managing director of Zetta Venture Partners, said the current climate might mean startups have to achieve higher proof points to raise their next round. Her company is helping …

Markets go up, then they go down. That is the way they have always worked, but we always seem shocked when the pendulum swings the other way. Even before the coronavirus started to put intense pressure on global markets, the tech startup sector was heading for a rude awakening. For …

Valve Index VR kits will be available to purchase again on at 10 a.m. Pacific time on Monday, March 9. The restock timing was reported previously as a “leak” by some, but UploadVR confirmed the plans directly with Valve. It sounds, however, like it will be very hard to order …

Global cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus surpassed 100,000 today. As President Trump signs into law an $ 8.3 billion emergency aid package to address the coronavirus, the chief of the World Health Organization said yesterday that this is “a time for pulling out all the stops.” There are coronavirus cases …

Out of the Park Developments makes some of the most beloved sports games in the world. But Out of the Park Baseball and Franchise Hockey Manager have little to do with actively swinging bats or sticks. Instead, you control stats and spreadsheets in an effort to make high-level decisions for …

In a Bleeding Edge brawl, four cyber-human players will meet four cyber-human players for melee combat. The ensuing fight is pure chaos, fought at a short range and as unpredictable as any street brawl. It seems crazy, but it took a lot of thinking to bring this game about. The …