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By Alex Wilhelm There’s been quite a bit of interesting financial commentary on Microsoft’s Surface line of tablet-hybrids published recently. The Surface project loses money. Understanding the magnitude of those deficits is important. The analysis led to the Verge’s Tom Warren asking the somewhat provocative question of whether Surface is the new Zune, a product…

By Catherine Shu WikiWand has raised $600,000 from angel investor Saar Wilf to give users of Wikipedia an attractive new interface for the popular site. Though Wikipedia is one of the ten most visited sites in the world and an important online repository of information, it still looks much the same as it did when…

By Darrell Etherington Wacky game creator Peter Molyneux took to Kickstarter to fund the development of Godus, a god sim and Populous spiritual successor designed for mobile back in 2012. Now, after an early access launch late last year, it’s finally available to all for free on the App Store. The iPhone and iPad-optimized game…

By Josh Constine “It makes what’s on Snapchat look old”. That’s the glowing review one teen gave Sup, a new app that let’s you video stream your life to a friend 10-seconds at a time. But the hook is that they tell you what direction to turn or walk, morphing you into a video game…

By Jonathan Shieber The experiment with e-commerce and delivery services that’s taking hold in the U.S. actually may see more traction in emerging markets, where big retailers had struggled because of infrastructure and logistics issues. Latin American and Asian e-commerce players are angling to become the dominant players in retail with same-day delivery for goods…