Online media giant IGN has acquired Humble Bundle, the indie games storefront best known for its pay-what-you-want bundles that raise …
Benchmark just funded a stealthy AI company founded by Qualcomm’s former head of R&D
Nayeem Islam has spent the last eight years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D facility, recruited …
Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites
Politifact is the latest and perhaps most high-profile website to have hosted code that secretly hijacks visitors’ CPUs to mine …
Fandango is acquiring rival online ticketer MovieTickets.com
A consolidation in the advance movie ticketing space is happening today, with Fandango’s announcement that it’s acquiring rival MovieTickets.com for …
Qualcomm fires another shot at Apple with a new lawsuit in China
Qualcomm has filed a lawsuit against Apple in its continuing legal battle over patents, this time looking to block the …
Red Hat continues steady march toward $5 billion revenue goal
The last time I spoke to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, in June 2016, he had set a pretty audacious …
Games developer Supersolid raises $4M Series A round led by Index Ventures
Supersolid, a London-based mobile games developer with more than 50 million downloads under its belt, is best known for the …
PartyWith’s new app is part event-finder, part friend-finder
Having just returned from an overseas vacation where I “partied with” a number of locals met spontaneously while out at …
Airbnb’s home-hotel hybrid will open in Florida next year
While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a …
Twitter users join 24hr boycott to protest online harassment
A number of Twitter users are joining in a 24 hour boycott of the platform today, organized around the hashtag …