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Pokemon Go rolls out 50 new characters and real-time weather system

By : CIOL Writers

The global phenomenon Pokemon Go has got major updates including 50 new characters to collect and dynamic weather system. The real-time weather system impacts the kinds of Pokemon you can find and battle buffs you’ll receive based on what’s the weather

Niantic raises $200M ahead of Harry Potter game launch

By : CIOL Writers

Pokémon Go creator Niantic has raised $200 million in funding, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Series B funding round was led by Spark Capital including participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, You & Mr. Jones and NetEase. Spark partner Megan

Will Harry Potter be the next Pokémon Go for Niantic?

By : CIOL Writers

Pokémon Go was a life-changing moment for both its maker- Niantic Labs as well as its many die-hard fans. The augmented reality mobile game turned real-world streets, neighborhoods and cities into a global game board bringing many people together in a

Playing Pokemon Go in a church may land you in “Jail”

By : CIOL Writers

We wish this was a faking news, but this is a brutal twist of fate that a 22-year-old committed the deadly sin of giving in to his ‘desires’ within the sacred walls of Church and could now serve a ‘jail-term’

Nintendo posts $569mn Q3 profit on the back of Pokemon Go sales

By : CIOL Writers

Nintendo, the Japanese gaming company, is now churning profits from its popular augmented reality game Pokemon Go, released last year. Beating analyst’s expectation, Nintendo has reported a $569 million profit on revenue of $1.5 billion for the third fiscal quarter

Pokemon Go has finally made its way into Apple Watch

By : CIOL Writers

Now Apple Watch owners can catch digital Charmander, Snorlax, Bulbasaur and other Pokemon from their wrist! Niantic Labs, the inventor of Pokemon Go, launched an app for the Apple Watch enabling users to manage most of the in-game actions without

Will Super Mario Run be the next Pokemon Go?

By : CIOL Writers

Nintendo gave us Pokemon Go and created all the rage that you can see here. Now, the Japanese company is all pumped with next game which is bound to bring back the nostalgic moments of childhood, Super Mario Run. The

Top 10 social media highs of 2016

By : CIOL Writers

From Pokemon Go to Reliance Jio to Demonetization, social media had a lot to discuss, debate and gush over in 2016. If politically, the biggest news of 2016 was Brexit and US Presidential election, economically, demonetization detonated like a bomb

Pokémon GO finally releasing in India tomorrow, thanks to RJio & Niantic partnership

Reliance Jio is now bringing the sought-after, first-of-its-kind, Augmented Reality game ‘Pokémon GO’ to India in a partnership  with Niantic – publisher and developer of the game. From tomorrow onwards, thousands of Reliance Digital Stores and select partner premises in

How Pokémon Go captured the focus back on Data

By : Pratima Harigunani

Manish Choudhary Pokémon Go is undoubtedly an augmented reality phenomenon. As the most popular mobile game in history, it has left Twitter in the dust after attracting more users in just three days than the social media giant had attained

Harry Potter Go, a new augmented reality game expected to hit our mobiles soon

By : CIOL Writers

Another good news for Potterheads. Google is not the only one who understands our love for the wizardry world; Niantic, the game developer who created Pokemon Go is also rumored planning to bring ‘Harry Potter Go’ into our smartphones. The

Kaspersky discovers a new PokemonGo malicious app downloaded over 500000 times

By : CIOL Writers

There was a sudden rage in the gaming industry that had its origin in the launch of PokemonGo. Thus, arrived the growing number of related apps and, inevitably, amplified interest from the cybercriminal community. Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company,

Wass Up Tech: Leaking Out, Blowing Out, Running Out

INDIA: When a hacking group gets a hand into passwords for the Rio Olympic database and spills

Is Pokemon Go IT’s new BYOD Monster?

By : Pratima Harigunani

Pratima H CA, USA: Meteoric – the word – finally gets the right place to describe

Google Duo is topping charts on Google Play store

By : CIOL Writers

Within a week of its launch, Google’s new video calling app Duo is topping charts on

Pokémon Go triggers 100pc rise in battery packs sales

By : CIOL Writers

We all know that Pokémon Go is raking in moolah for its makers. But do you

Pokémon Go: The game is still on

By : CIOL Writers

You cannot deny the unprecedented rage and fervor that Pokémon Go has generated across the world.

Pokemon Go creator Niantic’s CEO is OurMine’s latest victim

By : CIOL Writers

Hacker group OurMine at its notoriety once again! In another high-profile online breach, OurMine hacked into

Social media apps ruled the roost in the first half of 2016

By : CIOL Writers

Despite the unprecedented gaming fervor – courtesy Pokémon Go – the social media apps dominated the

Good and not so good news from Twitter’s earnings

By : CIOL Writers

The tech and social networking giants have announced their quarterly earnings. It includes everyone from Facebook