Neowin News Feed for: Purchases

Sony faces backlash over blocking cross-play and progression in Fortnite on PS4 and Switch

Usama Jawad — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 06:38:01 +0000

Sony is currently facing a lot of backlash for blocking cross-play and progression between the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Owners of both consoles can't sync their purchases as well. Read more...

Xbox 360 games cannot be purchased from an Xbox One.. yet

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:26:01 +0000

You can play Xbox 360 games on your Xbox One, but purchasing backwards compatible games on the newest console is a function that's missing in action. Fortunately, Microsoft knows about it. Read more...

Amazon and irony

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:25:12 +0000

Popular for its massive website which originally provided the world with literature, and now just about everything, Amazon has hit news again today regarding its ebook reader the 'Kindle'. Sadly, not in such a good... Read more...

47% of PC game purchases are digital

Sam Symons — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:17:24 +0000

A recent survey at Rock Paper Shotgun has shown that 47% of all PC games purchased are digital downloads. According to the survey, 93% of PC gamers have bought a game via digital download over... Read more...

British Telecom Purchases Dabs.com

Joe Cashman — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:43:27 +0000

BT, Britain's biggest fixed telecom player has purchased online retailer Dabs.com. While the fee has not been disclosed sources state the deal was worth Â£30million. The move is part of BT's strategy to strengthen... Read more...

NTL Purchases Virgin Mobile

Tom Warren — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:24:32 +0000

Ending months of speculation, NTL Telewest has reached an agreement to takeover Virgin Mobile. The deal, estimated at more than Â£900 million will boost NTL allowing them to offer TV, internet access, fixed line phones... Read more...

Epic purchases Reality engine, ends development

Todd Tanner — Thu, 12 May 2005 18:04:09 +0000

RALEIGH, May 12th, 2005; Epic Games, one of the world's leading developers of cutting-edge computer and video games and the pioneer of the award-winning Unreal Engine, today announced that it has completed the purchase of... Read more...

Yahoo Purchases E-Mail Search Company

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:36:50 +0000

Yahoo has quietly purchased e-mail software company Stata Labs, in what could be an investment in a coming PC search tool to rival Google and Microsoft. Stata Labs sells an e-mail application called... Read more...

Ask Jeeves purchases Tukaroo

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:16:40 +0000

Ask Jeeves, a popular online search website, have purchased San Jose based Tukaroo, a search technology company. Tukaroo make desktop search software which could prove invaluable to Ask Jeeves. Google and Microsoft, two big... Read more...