Many of the tech world’s top executives filled a 1,700-seat auditorium at Stanford University to commemorate David Goldberg, chief executive of SurveyMonkey. “We had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love, happiest marriage, and truest partnership that I could imagine,” Sandberg posted on Facebook. On their way out, guests were offered Minnesota Vikings baseball caps as a reminder of the Minneapolis-born Goldberg’s lighthearted nature and love of sports, according
(Reuters) – Virtual reality technology company Oculus said it would start shipping the much-awaited consumer version of its Rift headset in the first quarter of 2016. Pre-orders for Rift will start later this year, Oculus, which Facebook Inc bought for $2 billion last year, said.
In a clash of corporate titans over naming rights in a fast-changing industry, Microsoft and its Skype phone service came out on the losing side of an EU court battle on Tuesday with Rupert Murdoch’s television business Sky. Judges at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg upheld a complaint that the British broadcaster lodged a decade ago with the EU trademark authority in which it said the
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd has secured one of its largest investments yet from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that was an early backer of Internet pioneers such as Facebook Inc, Etsy Inc and Dropbox. The Shenzhen-based company, a global leader in selling commercial and recreational drones, said on Wednesday that Palo Alto, California-based Accel Partners had agreed to invest
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will conduct a comprehensive review this year of the role of web giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to decide whether it should regulate them more tightly, it said on Wednesday. The review, which had been expected, is part of a Digital Single Market Strategy unveiled by Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip on Wednesday. A wide-ranging policy paper, it lays out
Global enterprise applications company IFS has released the latest version of its extended business software suite, IFS Applications 9. Launching the product to kick-off its IFS World Conference 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm outlined the key new features and capabilities of Applications 9. Designed to help organisations “spot the signals that help [a] business change and create an advantage”, Applications 9 is an agile solution based on a partner-friendly
A big selling point for the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and Apple Watch is the fact they’re Apple Pay enabled, allowing users to pay using their smart devices. Seamless integration like this isn’t available on Android, the offerings are currently a little more fragmented – but that could change this year. NXP and Qualcomm have joined forces with the former’s NFC technology being integrated into the latter’s fleet of Snapdragon
Even though April Fools’ has come and gone, GoatZ has been announced as an expansion for the indie hit Goat Simulator. Riffing off the successful Arma mod, DayZ, it’s time to goad the living dead in hilarious fashion in this satirical expansion. Complete with zombies, craftable items, tons of trademark physics and hit detection bugs, GoatZ is a surprising addition, even for a crazy game like Goat Simulator. Goat Simulator
Microsoft has revealed a few more details about how Windows 10 will work on smaller screened tablets in the 7-inch to 8-inch ball park. First reported by Neowin, Joe Belfiore, executive VP of the operating systems group at Microsoft, showed just how Windows 10 works on the Lenovo ThinkPad 8-inch model where it is in tablet mode before being docked into a larger screen in which it acts like a
To the elation of the modern gamer, GOG is opening its DRM-free gaming platform, GOG Galaxy, to beta testing. GOG is known for its litany of classic games and is looking to challenge industry heavyweight Steam by offering community-based gaming, while boasting no DRM on offlined games. Galaxy is looking to bring people together with features like in-game chat, friend lists, and cross-platform multiplayer on a number of games, allowing
