Top crypto unicorns in 2024
Friday, August 2, 2024 by Austin Harris
The number of unicorns, or privately held startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more, has been growing over the past few years, reshaping our understanding of success, innovation, and entrepreneurship. With four recent newcomers in 2024, cryptocurrency companies are some of the youngest members of the exclusive club. Using data from the business analytics platform ...
PGC London 2024 celebrates 10 year anniversary
Thursday, November 30, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Pocket Gamer Connects will celebrate its 10th anniversary this upcoming January at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2024. Hosted at the city's familiar Brewery venue, this conference will be the ultimate knowledge-sharing and networking event for the games industry.
Starting in the UK in 2014, the Pocket Gamer Connect event series has transformed from its modest...
Why you should pace yourself with application modernization
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 by Snjezana Cvoro-Begovic
In business and in life, it’s natural to set goals. Like many of us, you probably establish goals based on what you can accomplish in the short term, while gauging what it will take in terms of resources, assets and time.
But you may also embrace the idea of stretch goals, which help with motivation and permission to be ambitious, sometimes enabling us to...
Mobile mesh networking apps via new SDK from RightMesh
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
A big hurdle for software developers is how to reach the estimated 4 billion people, who currently lack Internet access. Without an Internet connection, huge swaths of potential users are unable to discover, download, and use their applications. The majority of these unconnected people live in developing countries, but approximately 96% of the global population live in ...
Pocket Gamer Connects Vancouver Game Developer Conference is June 28 and 29
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
Pocket Gamer Connects Vancouver is a mobile gaming conference offering five tracks covering global strategy, monetization, future technologies, funding/deal making and indie survival. The event will be held on June 28 – 29 at the Vancouver Convention Centre.The conference offers access to more than 100 speakers from the mobile games and technology industry. It provides ...
Apache Big Data North America Conference Will Be Held May 912 in Vancouver
Monday, March 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Canada’s Vancouver, British Columbia will be the center of the Big Data universe on May 9-12 as the city hosts the Apache: Big Data North America conference bringing together people and technologies working in Big Data, ubiquitous computing and data engineering and science all gathering for education and collaboration.From Hadoop and Spark to Kafka and Bigtop, Apache pr...
App Camp For Girls Launches New Locations
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
App Camp For Girls is launching two new locations in Summer 2015. Camp sessions will take place in Vancouver, BC, and Martinsville, NJ, along with established locations Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA. Campers receive a broad introduction to the process of iOS app development, from brainstorming and designing ideas to building and pitching their apps. The girls use Mac co...
GREE Launches Rage Of The Immortals Game Exclusive To Android
Saturday, March 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
GREE announced the release of Rage of the Immortals this week, an all-new
free-to-play role-playing game where winning means becoming the toughest
fighter on the block. Available exclusively on Android devices, Rage of the Immortals takes players to a
dark universe where people have superpowers and must use them to fight Hyperion,
Inc., an evil enterprise focused on...
Facebook Entices Gaming App Developers With Cross Platform Unity3D SDK
Friday, August 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
The big hits keep coming at Unity’s Unite Developer Vancouver, Canada with Facebook’s announcement of its new cross-platform SDK for Unity games.
Web, iOS, and Android gaming app developers can now use Facebook's social and identity features to enhance their gaming experience. The formidable partnership between the world’s largest gaming platform in terms of developers...
Unity3D Steps Out With App Marketing Monetization Unity Cloud Service
Thursday, August 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
Unity is rapidly becoming a one stop app developer shopping experience with the announcement of Unity Cloud, a proposed collection of online services designed to help mobile game developers acquire new players, promote their games, and monetize their products successfully.
Announced at its Unity 2013 Conference in Vancouver Canada, Unity Cloud is now in beta, enabling...
Big Announcements During First Day of Unity3D Technologies Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
It’s warming up at Unity 2013 in Vancouver, Canada as Unity Technologies announces new 2D Gaming Tools, Unity Cloud, and its own Unity Games publishing entity. And it’s only just the first day! (see related news announcements posted here).
Unity is stepping out into the mobilesphere in a big way with its announcement of its foray into app user acquisition, marketing an...