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From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. Ten years ago today, eBay announced an acquisition that might rank as

To be successful in social media and community management you need to keep track of the constant changes to that ecosystem. That's because everything you know about Facebook, Twitter, and other social spaces today will somehow be different in six months. Layouts will be altered, features will be added or removed, and new social networks may pop up. So how should you keep track of all these moving

[brightcove video="1725206176001" /] In the battle for your mobile wallet one company has been noticeably silent: Apple. Google has its own mobile payment service: Google Wallet, and Microsoft even announced in June that it would be adding a digital wallet service with NFC capabilities to Windows Phone 8 that would store credit card and mobile payment information. So, where is the world’s favorite

Tabletop Forge Lets You Play Games In Google+ Hangouts [VIDEO] [brightcove video="1723991031001" /] Tabletop Forge is a Google+ application that allows you to play online board games inside a Google+ Hangout. It allows users to play a variety of dice games and strategy games with players around the world, while using the video chat feature. Users can also create and play on user-generated boards,

[nggallery id=6375] It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released each week. But you’re in luck: We take care of a lot of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of some of our own new and updated app highlights from the week. This week we found a few water-based games that require you to come up with a little strategy in order to win, and we found an old favorite game that has f

Ex-Nokia guys start mystery company to build Linux-based phones GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here. A six-man group of open-source diehards from Nokia have teamed up to form Jolla M

'Text from Dog,' Other Accounts Imagine What Pets Might Say [brightcove video="1725173881001" /] The web is home to many animals who have been personified on various social media accounts. An imaginative Tumblr account called "Text from Dog" posts SMS conversations between a dog and his owner. Apparently, if your dog could text, he might ask about bacon or if he can chase the postman. The account'

GamesBeat Next is connecting the next generation of video game leaders. And you can join us, coming up October 28th and 29th in San Francisco! Take advantage of our buy one, get one free pass offer. Sale ends this Friday, August 16th. Join us by registering here. Do you get the feeling apps are getting dumber? They are, and that’s a good thing. Behind the surprising simplicity of some of today’s t