Tag: Phones and Tablets

Fresvii has raised $4 million from Japan's Nissay Capital to expand its mobile gaming social networking service AppSteroid. Above: Fresvii's AppSteroid platf

When I think about the excitement around virtual reality, I sometimes imagine a large group of investors and designers leaping on a careening bandwagon in which

Virtual reality is invigorating startup economies around the globe. Unity Technologies, the San Francisco-based maker of the Unity game engine, wants to fuel th

FEATURE: I'm still fairly new to the game gadgets beat here at VentureBeat, clocking in just at six months, but I've seen a surprising amount of weird and cool

Apple and Samsung have inked deals with UnionPay to enter the mobile payments space in China by early 2016, according to a report by Bloomberg late Thursday. We

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are relatively new concepts in the U.K., but it would seem that the Brits have taken them to heart. These two retail-frenzy behemo

Microsoft Translator, the iOS and Android app which enables people speaking different languages to hold a smartphone-assisted conversation, has been updated to

Microsoft today announced that it will now ship Windows 10 phones, such as the Lumia 950, with Office Mobile apps preinstalled. The announcement gives phones Wo

Mobile By Ryan Whitwam Dec. 17, 2015 1:32 pm HTC was one of the top smartphone makers just a few years ago. Its phones were considered some of the best…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company was considering an online poll for choosing how the next version of Android will be branded, according to ND

Social-sharing and scheduling tool Buffer has acquired fellow California-based company Respondly, a startup launched in 2014 by Favstar founder Tim Haines. Term

Search your feelings, and you might remember that Konami released a mobile Star Wars card game in 2013. Well, that app, called Star Wars: The Force Collection,

FEATURE: Try sharing that new iPad with the family this holiday; you might be surprised how fun it can be. Mobile games lag behind their console counterparts w

Mobile gaming developers have a new tool in the viscous fight for user-retention. Monetization platform Tapjoy announced the launch of Personalized Currency Sal

Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additio

Games By James Plafke Dec. 16, 2015 5:01 pm Any hardcore mobile gamer can tell you that both iTunes and the Google Play store are inundated with shallow collec

Google may be poised to remove SMS and MMS functionality from Android's Hangouts messaging app, according to a report in Phandroid (via Android Police). No rea

If you like the idea of free data-only SIM cards that are now available through Google's Project Fi mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) program, just know th

ANALYSIS: Late last year, Samsung revealed that it was planning on releasing significantly fewer handsets in 2015 than it had in 2014 — 25 to 30 percent less

EXCLUSIVE: The chief marketing officer of Booking.com, which is reportedly the largest spender of advertising on Google, says his company is working intensively