Toy-Robot Maker Raises Millions In Second Funding Round
Wonder Workshop Inc., which makes toy robots that teach kids how to code, said it raised $20 million in its second round of funding and was looking to expand into new markets, especially China. The San...
View Article8 Cool Gadgets You’ll Want In Your Hot, Little Hands This summer
Image Credit: Shutterstock Whether you’re flying somewhere you’ve never been before, hitting the road to see some sights more locally, or having a “staycation” to get a bit of R&R, check out...
View ArticleVR/AR/MR Predictions For The Future Of Communications
How will we be communicating in 2020? When a new platform emerges in the consumer world, new ways of communication are usually created. The PC and internet first led to email, followed by social...
View ArticleFacebook Offering Refunds For Kids' In-App Purchases
Parents have a lot of worries when it comes to their kids. Will little Timmy make it into a top college? Will Jamie make the team? Will you ever get a refund for the $3,000 your smaller child blew on...
View ArticleDon’t Try To Create A Category
Avoid it, or know what you’re signing up for. “We have no competition. We’re creating a whole new category!” I hear it spoken proudly by entrepreneurs all the time. My first thought is “You poor,...
View ArticleWhat Does And Doesn’t Work With Chatbots today
Above: TARA, a chatbot to automate hiring freelancers and manages projects. Credit: TARA. Sometime around Christmas, when we look back at the year 2016 in tech, one of the biggest trends will be...
View ArticleSekaikan — Studying Game Creation In Japan
This is a translation of the article, Sekaikan — Estudiando La Creación De Juegos En Japón, originally published in El Botón Select by Keinart. It’s no secret that there is a big difference between...
View ArticleGameChangers 500’s Quest To Herald The Era Of Ethical Business
For-benefit, the melding of for-profits, non-profits, and government. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYAQISAQKoc How do you measure success? For most people, it’s the amount of money in the...
View ArticleAndroid N’s First Developer Preview Is Dropping Soon W/ Split Screen Mode,...
Update: It’s out! If a now-pulled Arstechnica report is to be believed, Google is set to release the first preview build of Android N to the public soon. This seemingly confirms a tip we received a...
View ArticleKanye Babies
The world after 808s If it weren’t for FWMJ aka Rappers I Know (RIK) aka Frank aka The Chief Hater’s Facebook post, I would have never stumbled across this Lil Uzi Vert's Hot 97 interview. I’ve...
View ArticleOne Year Into Startup Life: Here’s What I’ve Learnt So Far
Sunset views from Ento HQ in Cremorne, Melbourne This morning, I woke up to a LinkedIn notification on my phone — one of my colleagues, Daniel Jones, had sent me a message. “Congrats on the...
View ArticleGamesBeat 2016 Explores How To Take Games Between Asia And The West
Above: In the hot Shanghai sun, fans take a break during ChinaJoy 2015. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi China has become the biggest gaming market, surpassing the U.S. quite easily in the past couple of...
View ArticleWho Cares About Innovation?
First looks are usually deceiving. Take our global approach to innovation, for example. By way of observation it seems as though the whole world is obsessed with innovation. Innovative products,...
View ArticleAvoid This Startup Business Mistake
Sage startup advice out of the mouth of Daymond John from the recent Sage Summit in Chicago. Our team had the pleasure of attending the Sage Summit in Chicago this past week and gained insights from a...
View ArticlePokémon Go, Hearthstone Show The Importance Of Community In Mobile games
Above: The phenomenon is rich. Image Credit: The Pokemon Company There is a meme that the mobile game market is mature and that growth is slowing. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. According to...
View ArticleHow To Pitch Early Stage Investors With A Believable Startup Valuation
This article first published on Funding Note One of the worst things you, a startup owner, can do is to leave an accurate valuation out of their pitch deck presentation. Nobody, not even your most...
View ArticleDamn It Feels Good To Be A Star Trek Fan
Star Trek Beyond was shaping up to be a trainwreck. Director J.J. Abrams had given up the director’s chair for the second sequel to his 2009 reboot to go make Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and his...
View Article10 Historic Photos That Will Destroy Your Perception Of Size
It’s easy to believe that we live in the age of the bigger and better, and in many cases, that’s true. But one thing you can’t discount is history’s ability to overwhelm us when we least expect it....
View ArticleEthereum’s Hard Fork Lesson For Bitcoin
A fork in the road, I will take the one less travelledEthereum made crypto-history this week by being the first PoW blockchain to execute a hard fork. They claimed it was done after getting unanimous...
View Article7 Tools To Automate Your Marketing Tasks (Without Blowing Your Budget)
Join us for a free, live webinar and learn how to drive revenue with content marketing. Tune in 8/4 at 10:30 a.m. PT. Register Now » These days, marketing is as much a science as an art. The marketing...
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