TheHollywoodReporter reports, "Turner led a $15 million investment into the digital publisher last week as part of a larger TV development partnership. Mashable has laid off a number of top editors as it pivots to focus on video development and production. Among those departing from the company are executive editor and chief content officer Jim Roberts and chief revenue officer Seth Rogin, according to Mashable founder Pete Cashmore, who wrote it in a memo to his staff that he subsequently posted on LinkedIn Thursday morning." Read More

TechCrunch reports, "Intercom’s products cover everything from website chat to marketing to customer support. When the company raised funding last year, co-founder and CEO Eoghan McCabe (pictured above) said integration is one of the big elements of the company’s strategy — integration across a company, integration with your product and integration with your data." Read More

Variety reports, "The New York-area cable operator has integrated Hulu into Optimum TV, letting subscribers access the streaming TV service directly from the interactive program guide on all current-generation set top boxes. The move means Hulu is now on virtually the same footing for Cablevision customers as premium cable networks like HBO, Showtime and Starz. However, Hulu content is available only on-demand, not as a linear feed." Read More

TechCrunch reports, "Search engines on large e-commerce sites often spit up a lot of results, which is great if you want to browse, but otherwise annoying. Twiggle thinks it has the solution. Internet conglomerate Naspers agrees, because it has led the Tel Aviv-based startup’s $12.5 million Series A. Yahoo Japan, State of Mind Ventures (a returning investor), and Sir Ronald Cohen also participated in the round." Read More

Venturebeat reports, "BlueStacksbluestacks_logo_vertical_0 has integrated its service with livestreaming site Twitch to stream mobile games to PCs, TVs, or mobile devices. BlueStacks says it is much simpler to stream mobile games with a single click and fewer hassles. Palo Alto, Calif.-based BlueStack said it has the ability to let people stream mobile games and watch mobile game streams inside its popular App Player, which has a virtualization platform that lets you play Android mobile apps on a PC. This means you are playing a PC version of a mobile game and streaming it to Twitch." Read More

Wired reports, "THE RUINS HUM. Indecipherable hieroglyphs pulse with blue and purple light. Water, in the form of one flickering stream of pixels after another, drips down the subterranean walls. Listen closely and the ambient soundtrack sounds like a heartbeat rising from within the earth. In Hyper Light Drifter, available now for PC and later this year for consoles, the post-apocalypse is alive—and it’s fighting." Read More

hypebot reports, "Improving music discovery on a virtual jukebox with millions of songs, is a major focus for all streaming services. Those that get it right, like Spotify has with Discover Weekly, stand the best chance of attracting and retaining users. Rhapsody/Napster has unveiled its effort which cleverly combines machine learning with social curation." Read More