If you’re looking to buy a slim, light, and premium laptop, you might want to consider the 2019 Huawei MateBook 13 or the 2018 Apple MacBook Air. While there are newer models of each, these older configurations aren’t outdated Stone Age laptops just yet. They’re still relevant and cheaper than their fresh-off-the-press 2020 siblings. Here we […]
Apple has reportedly identified a logic board issue in a “very small number” of MacBook Air units, and is offering a free replacement for components of affected computers, according to internal documents that were distributed to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers. The documents, obtained by both 9to5Mac and MacRumors, refer to the main […]
Pokémon Go reminds us that just because a game isn’t dominating the news as it once did doesn’t mean it can’t still pull in more bucks than can fill the Easter Bunny’s basket. Mobile market research firm Sensor Tower said today that it estimates Pokémon Go brought in $ 65 million worldwide in April, a […]
Riley Young/Digital Trends As the standard MacBook has gotten slimmer and lighter, the MacBook Air — once the gold standard for super-slim laptops — doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of love in recent years. The second generation Air was originally released in 2010, and although it got some hardware upgrades over the years, […]
Market researcher Newzoo reported that the top 25 public game companies account for nearly 80 percent of the global market, and they generated $ 107.3 billion in revenue out of a total $ 134.9 billion market in 2018. That was the first time the top 25 have exceeded $ 100 billion in annual revenue. Tencent […]
Minecraft‘s mobile version earned $ 110 million on in 2018, according to market analysis firm Sensor Tower. This is best year ever for the iOS and Android versions. That is an increase of 7 percent compared to 2017, when Minecraft made $ 103 million mobile. The the mobile version has made almost $ 500 million worldwide since […]
Investments in game companies hit a record $ 5.7 billion in 2018, or more than twice the previous record for investment in game companies set in 2017, according to advisory firm Digi-Capital. Game acquisitions also happened at a blistering pace. Digi-Capital’s Games Report Q1 2019 reported that Epic Games’ $ 1.25 billion raise was the […]
Rockstar Games One of the best-selling games of 2018 was “Grand Theft Auto 5” – a game that originally launched way back in 2013. It came in at No. 11 on 2018’s best-selling games list, which is published annually by US-based marketing research firm The NPD Group. “There’s nothing else like it,” NPD Group video […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Microsoft President Brad Smith said the tech industry is changed forever after a “watershed” 2018 when privacy became embedded into the global consciousness thanks to Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal. He said new US federal privacy laws are inevitable, and could come into force as early as this year, potentially borrowing heavily from […]
Europe recorded a bumper year for venture capital (VC) investment in 2018, even though the overall number of deals fell by more than a quarter. The findings were published as part of data and research company PitchBook’s annual European Venture Report, which revealed that a total of €20.5 billion ($ 23.3 billion) was invested across 3,384 […]
It was another Merry Christmas for Mixi, as Monster Strike once again led the revenue estimates from December according to Sensor Tower, a mobile market research firm. Supercell also partook in this holiday cheer, with its latest game, Brawl Stars, leading the download estimates. And Fortnite just keeps chugging along. Mobile gaming should’ve raked in more […]
Enlarge / Who doesn’t love some new Windows? Peter Bright / Flickr The ill-fated Windows 10 October 2018 Update has hitherto been offered only to those Windows users that manually sought it, either by using the dedicated upgrade and media creation tools or by manually checking for update in Windows Update. Three months after its […]
In its annual diversity report, Pinterest continues to hit its hiring goals for women in engineering and underrepresented minorities in non-technical roles, while struggling to reach its goals for underrepresented minorities in engineering roles. At the end of 2018, Pinterest’s employee base was 47 percent female, compared to 45 percent female last year. Also, 47 […]
Players of King’s Candy Crush series of mobile puzzle games spent an average of $ 4.2 million a day in 2018, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. That is a growth of 6.5 percent over 2017. The franchise’s total revenues for 2018 reached $ 1.5 billion. The series began with 2012’s Candy Crush Saga. That free-to-play game […]