The leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter faced sharp questions about misinformation’s role in the attack and the mental health of children who use their products. WASHINGTON — Lawmakers grilled the leaders of Facebook, Google and Twitter on Thursday about the connection between online disinformation and the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, causing Twitter’s […]
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, went public today in a direct listing, where employees and investors finally get a chance to sell shares on the market. The initial price was far higher than the reference price of $ […]
Coming July 16 to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Excuuuuse me, princess. Nintendo Swipe with your hands in real life… Nintendo … or use the right analog stick to emulate that kind of motion. Nintendo Putting the “skyward” in Skyward Sword. Nintendo Gosh, we’d almost forgotten about this weirdo. Nintendo Depending on the angle shown, the game […]
User-generated game platform Roblox has raised $ 520 million in a new round of funding, and it will still go public through a direct listing where the company’s existing shareholders directly sell shares to investors. The private funding deal values Roblox at $ 29.5 billion. The direct listing offering, or DPO, circumvents the usual initial public […]
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now GamesBeat Decides hosts Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti are flying the friendly skies on this week’s episode. The pair are getting a surprising amount of enjoyment out of Microsoft Flight Simulator. They both also really like the Xbox beat-’em-up Battletoads from developers […]
The logos of Airbnb are displayed at an Airbnb event in Tokyo, Japan, June 14, 2018 in this file photo. Airbnb may be considering a direct offering instead of an IPO, according to a Bloomberg report. (Issei Kato/Reuters) October 1 at 7:04 PM Home-sharing company Airbnb may eschew an IPO in favor of a direct […]
Enlarge / Send copies of files with Dropbox Transfer. Dropbox Dropbox is adding a new option for how its users can share files. Dropbox Transfer introduces a way to send files between people rather than simply sharing access for collaboration. Files can be dragged and dropped directly from your computer or from within Dropbox storage. […]
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After experimenting with a dedicated messaging app, Instagram is shuttering its stand-alone Direct app. Tests of moving Direct to a separate app never reached Messenger-level status, which likely mixed with Facebook’s new focus on privacy and potentially merging messaging tools in the decision to shut down the separate app. Instagram confirmed that the Direct app […]
When you send a direct message on Twitter, you expect the information to be kept private between you and the intended recipient; unfortunately, Twitter revealed today that due to a software bug, some direct messages might have ended up in the wrong hands. The error may have affected communications between some of Twitter’s user base and […]