Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 16 at 9:55 am PT
While Facebook is slowly working out the kinks to bring more games to mobile, there’s a small company in Menlo Park, Calif., that has beat them to it.
News Byte
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 11 at 9:05 am PT
BBC Worldwide has invested in
spaceport.io, which is building a platform that enables games to play across both mobile devices and the Web. Details of the investment were not disclosed. Burlingame, Calif.-based Spaceport.io will use the capital to hire additional employees and to develop its HTML5 and Flash-compatible technology. BBC Worldwide plans to use the technology to lower the cost of delivering HTML5 games and apps across iOS, Android and TVs.
Kara Swisher in Media on February 8 at 6:44 am PT
Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on January 24 at 10:20 am PT
Apple has been the world’s largest consumer of flash memory for years.
Now it has become the leading buyer of chips, as well. The company spent some $17 billion on semiconductors in 2011, giving it a 5.7 percent share of chip purchasing for the year, according to Gartner. That’s more than Samsung, which spent $16.7 billion for a 5.5 percent share, and Hewlett-Packard, which spent $16.6 billion for a 5.5 percent share. Driving Apple’s ascension in rank: The iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on January 11 at 10:00 am PT
Apple has finally confirmed reports that
it has acquired flash-memory outfit Anobit. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told
AllThingsD and
Bloomberg Businessweek that the company had made the purchase, though he declined to provide a price. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” Dowling told
AllThingsD.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 29, 2011 at 9:30 am PT
While many are offering their tech predictions for 2012, we thought we’d take a moment to remember those that have gone to the tech-product graveyard.
John Paczkowski in News on December 13, 2011 at 11:17 am PT
A potentially large acquisition, but one that makes sense.
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 21, 2011 at 11:38 am PT
While devices running Ice Cream Sandwich can’t currently run Flash via the browser, Adobe said that will be fixed with the final update to its plug-in, which should be out before the end of 2011.
Ina Fried in Mobile on November 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
Photoshop Touch is one of six new apps that Adobe is releasing for Android tablets. It’s a bit of a win for Google, which has struggled to get apps written specifically for its large-screen devices.
Voices
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on November 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
