Tens of thousands of broadcasters, game developers, and fans converged on San Francisco's Moscone Center during TwitchCon 2015 — Twitch's inaugural celebration for the videogame streaming community. Since its launch in 2007, Twitch has grown into the world's most popular streaming platform for video game and electronic sports Internet streaming, ranking fourth overall… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
While a lot of the US was out and about shopping for themselves or others for the holidays, Cards Against Humanity ran their own Black Friday campaign, asking for $5 and in return the buyer would get nothing. Nada. Zip. And the buyers (all 11,248 of them) LIKED it. Today, the team shared that they'd made a grand total of $71,145 in one day and let us in on what they would be buying…
Today, as you nurse your wounds from Black Friday stampedes outside your local mall, or sit in traffic as you make your lengthy travel back home from the holidays, here's a reminder that life doesn't have to be so hard. Forget UberBLACK. This weekend, the who's who of wealthy people chilling in Dubai are grabbing UberCHOPPERs to take them on the 130km journey from Dubai…
Founders soliciting venture funds quickly get comfortable revealing details about their operations, vision and finances. They may also need to be willing to step on a scale and get a blood draw. Investors try to ensure that the startups they're funding are healthy, and, strange as it might seem, they like to know that critical founders are in good shape, too.
The Gillmor Gang — Matt Mullenweg, Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Matt Mullenweg joins the Gang for a deep dive on Calypso's update of WordPress, complete with social, notifications, and a native Mac client. Plus, the latest G3 with Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. From Gillmor…
The first two days of the holiday sales period have netted $4.45 billion in U.S. online purchases, with mobile devices — led by smartphones — accounting for a record $1.5 billion of that amount, with $2.72 billion spent on BlackFriday and $1.73 billion on Thanksgiving. The figures come from Adobe, which has been tracking some 4,500 sites, including 80% of the top 100…
Over the last several years at Emergence Capital we have seen an exciting new set of companies emerge that offer cloud solutions within a specific industry vertical — collectively known as "industry cloud" companies. The opportunity is enormous. In fact, many people don't realize that vertical-specific software represented the largest segment of the worldwide…