Computers

A number of Athlon X4 chips for the FM2 socket have silently surfaced on numerous retailers and sellers.

Looks like Nvidia wants to be in every computing device known to man.

More of an investment, is it?

Mark Zuckerberg is in South Korea. He flew in yesterday and met with Samsung's head of mobile, as well as its co-CEO. Then he met with South Korea's president. Facebook is looking to partner with Samsung on the manufacturing front. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly asked if Samsung would consider building Facebook an Android phone using its Home software, but was turned down. Here are some pictures of Zuckerberg's meetings abroad. Zuckerberg arrived in South Korea on Monday, June 18. He zipped over to Seoul for a meeting a Samsung's headquarters with vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Jay Y. Lee. Here is Zuckerberg with Samsung's co-CEO, Shin Jong-kyun. Here's another photo of Shin Jong-kyun seeing Zuckerberg out. And one more. Then it was over to meet the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye. The pair met at the presidential house in Seoul. Join the conversation about this story »

From stakeouts to burger orders, tablets are taking charge. And Windows 8 could add even more use cases.View the full article HERE.

Electronic equipment can represent a serious threat to the environment, and the population, if disposed of incorrectly. View the full article HERE.

Despite strong growth in customers' units shipped and revenues, profit declined at processor licensor Imagination in the 2013 financial year as it spent on R&D. View the full article HERE.

Joyent’s CTO Jason Hoffman looks for future trends where industries converge. At GigaOM’s Structure conference he pointed out how the internet and computing were transformed when the network and the computer began to converge into one. Likewise, network storage emerged when data and the network converged. Hoffman said today he is keenly interested in examining what will happen when data and compute converge — that’s the next big disruptor. Hadoop represents the beginning of this trend, as Hadoop enables compute directly on top of the data. But Hoffman is also eager to see how to make this trend “democratized” or accessible to not just the internet behemoths of the world like Facebook and Google. What could smaller companies, founders, and developers do with this brand new opportunity? Whatever will come out of that convergence, it could dictate the next several decades. Hoffman thinks that the convergence of data and compute is so important that “every profit pool will be up for grabs over next 30 years.” Check out the rest of our Structure 2013 live coverage here, and a video embed of the session follows below: Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlookContinuous delivery and the world of devopsUnderstanding and managing the cost of the cloud

Skillz launched its real-money tournament platform on Android back in April, and the startup has won some cash of its own in the form of a $5.5 million Series A round led by Atlas Venture. Since launch, the company has reached over one million users across games that have embedded the Skillz platform. The funds will be used to expand Skillz’s marketing and customer service teams and reach out to more developers. Skillz founder and CEO Andrew Paradise said: We’re expanding rapidly based on the success of our early developer partners…We always knew cash tournaments would significantly boost revenue for mobile games, but developers have been impressed by how much Skillz has increased retention of their hard-earned players. Atlas Venture Partner Jeff Fagnan remarked that Skillz is “transforming an industry” by tapping into gamers’ competitive natures. The startup’s platform works by providing Android game developers with multiplayer functionality for their titles, allowing players to compete for virtual currency or real money. The catch, however, is that Skillz-enabled titles must be games of skill, rather than games of chance. Skillz’s latest round comes after a $1.3 million seed round, bringing its total funding to $6.8 million. Real-money gaming on mobile has the potential to be big time. Play money gaming is already plenty addicting, so adding in the promise of cash prizes makes things even stickier. Considering that money begets money, it makes perfect sense that VCs would show an interest in Skillz. Image credit: iStockphoto

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