Month: February 2020
Gaming-focused investment firm Bitkraft closes in on at least $140 million for its second fund
Esports, video games and the innovations that enable them now occupy a central space in the cultural and commercial fabric of the tech world. For the investment firm Bitkraft Esports Ventures, the surge in interest means a vast opportunity to invest in the businesses that continue to reshape entertainment and…
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Adobe Acrobat now works with Google Drive
Working with PDF files in the cloud just got a whole lot easier as Adobe has announced that Adobe Acrobat is now integrated with Google Drive. This means that the over one billion people who use Google’s cloud storage solution to store more than 2tn digital files can now use…
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A Borderlands movie is on its way from horror director Eli Roth
Making films based on video games is often a career death wish for filmmakers, so what better director to tackle a live action adaptation of 2K Games’ loot-shooter series Borderlands than Death Wish director Eli Roth? As reported by Deadline, Roth will direct the adaptation for Lionsgate with production set…
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How much should a startup spend on security?
One of the questions I frequently ask startup founders is how much they’re spending on security. Unsurprisingly, everyone has a different answer. Startups and small companies are invariably faced with the prospect that they’re either not spending enough or are spending too much on something that’s hard to quantify in…
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The debut of electric pickups signals a new EV era
Several companies rolled out electric pickups in 2019. Tesla’s Cybertruck got most of the attention, but don’t sleep on General Motors and Ford — bringing electric pickups to market is critical for the viability of electric vehicles. Automakers build vehicles around shared components. These platforms, the underpinnings of the vehicles,…
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Organizations remain highly vulnerable to IoT-based attacks
New research from Extreme Networks has revealed that more IoT devices are making their way to the enterprise but organizations still remain highly vulnerable to IoT-based attacks. The firm surveyed 540 IT professionals across industries in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific to compile its report which found that 84…
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