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Chinese online retailer JD.com files for $1.5B U.S. IPO
JD.com Inc. (formerly 360Buy), one of the largest online retailers in China, just filed with SEC for an IPO to raise up to $1.5 billion in the U.S.. The company started as a business-to-customer...
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YouBetMe will turn you into a bookie before the Superbowl
Keeping track of all your casual bets while watching sports can be a pain in the ass, and handshakes don’t exactly guarantee your friends will pay up. New mobile betting startup YouBetMe thinks there’s...
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Flappy Bird hits No. 1 on the app stores. But why?
Flappy Bird has topped the charts of free mobile apps in the iOS and Google Play app stores. It is a silly free game, and that fact that it has climbed so high in the past week is a sign that we’re all...
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Lenovo president on why Motorola Mobility will be better off in its new home...
Lenovo is no stranger to major acquisitions — and that’s good news for Motorola Mobility. Before it was the world’s top PC maker, Lenovo was a Chinese third-party computer maker without much of a brand...
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U.K. working to unblock charities, educational sites barred by its web filters
The U.K.’s “child safety” firewall is coming into full effect. And it’s a disaster. See, the Internet filters don’t just block porn: The ISPs have cut off access to a whole host of charities,...
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The DeanBeat: Zynga’s new strategy reveals the agony and the ecstasy of...
Zynga’s new strategy from chief executive Don Mattrick shows that the future of games is mobile. Zynga paid $527 million for mobile game maker NaturalMotion. And Mattrick said that 75 percent of all...
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Great tabletop games for video gamers: Pathfinder Adventure Card Game
This ongoing series covers tabletop board or card games that video gamers should dig. Check here for more. Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Video games that Pathfinder Adventure Card Game reminds us of:...
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Twitter acquires over 900 patents from IBM after infringement dispute
Like many other tech companies, Twitter has decided to buy some of IBM’s patents rather than go to court. Just days before Twitter’s IPO last November, IBM claimed that Twitter was infringing on three...
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That’s a lot of naked survivalists: Rust sales surpass 750,000 since launch
The best-selling game on Steam right now isn’t finished and features a startlingly amount of naked people. It’s called Rust, and developer Facepunch Studios revealed today that it has sold more than...
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The 5 stages of big data grief
GUEST: Big data got glamorous in 2012, and vendors rushed to slap the words on their products. Project managers begged to be assigned to big data projects. Investors and board members asked management...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Zynga layoffs, Nintendo’s future, and Microsoft...
Let’s send off the miserable month of January the same way we end every week here at GamesBeat: with a collection of our gaming coverage from the last seven days. This week, Flappy Bird takes the app...
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GrowthHackers is a community news site for startup marketing guerrillas and...
“Growth hacking” has evolved into one of those contemptible startup buzzwords, but underlying the jargon is a real marketing movement. Sean Ellis, whose claim to fame is coining the term in 2010,...
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The 6 hottest startups in London in 2014
FEATURE: Silicon Roundabout, the still-gritty tech cluster in East London, is bustling with fast-growing startups. Investors from both sides of the Atlantic are paying attention. But it wasn’t a...
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Big data for dummies: Gigya’s new Consumer Insights tool makes mass...
What can big data do for marketers? How about letting them know each of their 10 million customers’ individual favorite sports teams? Or where they like to go on vacation? Or how they prefer to spend...
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Ouya releases new 16GB model for $130
Ouya’s Android-console revolution now has extra space for games. The company is now selling a 16GB version of its microconsole for $130. This means that gamers can now download and store more games....
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Vinted’s mobile app turns your unwanted clothing into cash
Women have billions of dollars worth of unworn clothing in their closets. Vinted is a mobile marketplace for secondhand clothes that puts those forsaken garments to use. Today, the startup announced it...
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Heyzap is bringing HD video ads to mobile games
The advertising interludes during your free-to-play gaming sessions are about to get some audio-visual sizzle. Heyzap, a mobile-gaming services platform, revealed today that it will begin rolling out...
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A 4-year-old top-grossing game? How Kingdoms At War is still making money...
In the fast-paced world of mobile games, you usually sink or swim — fast. And even if you swim, it’s only for a short while. So how has A Thinking Ape‘s Kingdoms at War stayed so high for so long?...
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Zynga chief operating officer Downie describes its new gameplan (interview)
Zynga pioneered social gaming on Facebook, and it has been trying for a couple of years to replicate that magic on mobile. That path has been much more difficult than anyone thought. Yesterday, it...
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Y Combinator limits partner investments to give all its startups a fair...
Y Combinator startups are already an elite bunch, but those with backing from the firm’s partners? The crème de la crème de la crème, if you will. But that is exactly the idea (and the bad analogy) Y...
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How a Korean mobile studio uses messaging apps like Line and Kakao for global...
A Korean company that once topped the worldwide mobile-game market is back on a trajectory for global success after years of ignoring foreign markets. Devsisters, a Korean game studio, recently...
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Wayfair said to be raising $150M to change the way you furnish your house
The battlefields for beds and bath towels is getting fierce. Home goods giant Wayfair is raising a $150 million round with a valuation of $2 billion, according to a report in Reuters. This news comes...
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Video camera GoPro opens an extreme sports video channel on Xbox Live
Video camera maker GoPro is launching its own channel on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold online entertainment service today. GoPro will have its own app for Xbox Live Gold subscribers on the Xbox One and...
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ZappRx lands $1M more to manage specialty prescriptions on mobile
Health startup ZappRx launched with a promise to become your electronic boarding pass for the pharmacy. It was an ambitious goal, which required partnerships with leading drug companies, doctors, and...
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In filing for IPO, Coupons.com reveals a pattern of losses
Coupons.com is going public. Today, in filing its S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — a crucial step on the road to an initial public offering (IPO) — the digital-coupons...
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10X growth in 18 months: StartApp hits 1.5B downloads, 70K installs, and 200M...
Eighteen months after it reached the 150 million download plateau, mobile ad platform StartApp announced today that it has now hit over 1.5 billion downloads. And while the official release says the...
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How Optimizely helped Code.org sign up 15 million students in 5 days
Code.org got more than 15 million signups in five days for its Hour of Code campaign, with the help of Optimizely’s A/B testing tools. It took Facebook three years to get this many users. Optimizely...
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O Canada, did you spy on airline passengers’ metadata?
If the antics of Toronto mayor Rob Ford weren’t enough, a new report about spying on airline passengers raises questions about whether Canadians fully deserve their reputations as the most trustworthy...
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Funding daily: Big commerce
E-commerce is making a comeback, with investors pouring gobs of funding into fast-growing online retailers. Earlier this week, home goods seller One Kings Lane landed a massive $112 million in...
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