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Nintendo has provided a minor update to Miiverse on the Wii U. In order to create a seamless correlation between the social app on the 3DS and Wii U, the Y button will now refresh the page rather than the Wii U GamePad’s L button. There’s also a new feature added to Miiverse, which allows for quicker movement between posts. Using the L/R shoulder buttons on the GamePad will provide speedier access when scrolling up and down posts.

Say you have been very successful in your chosen career, and you are ready to treat yourself to a really nice set of wheels. Many die-hard car enthusiasts, like myself, would rather have a collection of a few different cars on a six-figure budget, but many folks still opt for just one car to suit all of their needs and desires. In truth, if you have a high-level executive job, you probably don’t have much spare time to spend cruising around just for fun in multiple, superfluous cars, so having one car that really knocks the ball out of the park is the only way to go.

Obviously, with such a large budget, you can basically have anything you want from a car without even straining yourself. That said, such a budget does allow you to get yourself something that is truly extraordinary, should you so wish. This is where…

Indie developer Nicalis has announced in a blog update that ’90s Arcade Racer will be aiming for a mid-2014 release. The nostalgia-focused racing title was funded last year on Kickstarter and will be coming to Wii U amongst other platforms.

But the tentative release date wasn’t all Nicalis shared, the publisher said that porting the game from PC to Wii U was a “straight forward process”, though there has been a few obstacles to hurdle along the way. The status update also mentioned that ’90s Arcade Racer runs smoothly at 60 frames per second at 720p with a stunning and clear image.

“Without getting into minutia that we’re probably not allowed to share in great detail, some things that worked on PC couldn’t be ported exactly Wii U without having affecting how the game performs on the Nintendo console–and probably other consoles, too. However, we’re very happy with the results…

The Czech security firm Avast, which provides popular consumer antivirus software, has taken an investment from European private equity outfit CVC. The amount has not been disclosed, but Avast says it puts a billion-dollar valuation on the company (perhaps it’s preparing to shop itself around). The company says it will use the cash to beef up its mobile security products and push further into the U.S. and Asian markets in particular. Globally speaking, Avast’s 200 million users give it an antivirus market share just above 15 percent, putting it in second place behind Microsoft(s msft).

The European Commission said on Wednesday that it is satisfied with Google(s goog)’s latest antitrust settlement offer. Finally – and I say this with trepidation, given previous events and the intransigence of the complainants — the end to this four-year adventure may be in sight.

The Commission is investigating Google over a raft of allegedly anticompetitive practices that it uses to push its own services over those of rivals in its results, and to lock advertising customers into its network. Google had managed to allay most of the regulator’s concerns with its repeated settlement proposals, but the issue of how to display rivals’ services remained a major sticking point.

A new principle

Google has more than 90 percent of the European search market, which is why regulators have to keep such a close eye on the U.S. firm. On Wednesday, competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Google had agreed to…

Mobile users the world over came close to doubling their mobile data consumption between 2012 and 2013 as average monthly usage peaked well over 1 GB in the U.S, and several other countries, according to Cisco Systems'(s csco) new Visual Networking Index report on global mobile data trends.

North America led the pack with the average mobile subscriber consuming 1.38 GBs a month, up from 752 MBs in 2012 and a full gigabyte more than the average global usage of 356 MBs. When looking at individual countries, Japanese users led the world with 1.87 GBs, followed by the U.S. at 1.41 GBs and South Korea with 1.25 GBs.

Those three countries happen to be the first to launch LTE networks on a large scale, and according to Cisco director of service provider marketing Thomas Barnett, 4G adoption has become the strongest indicator of skyrocketing mobile broadband use worldwide, a conclusion…

Autor: Luis Osvaldo Grossmann

SkySQL, the Finnish database firm that wants to steal Oracle(s orcl)’s lunch with the MySQL fork MariaDB, has hired the former general manager of HP(s hpq)’s public cloud services as its new product chief.

Roger Levy told me on Wednesday that his team had been “somewhat isolated” from HP’s ongoing layoff extravaganza, as cloud is where HP is trying to refocus its efforts, but he couldn’t resist SkySQL’s offer. “For me it was a couple of things,” he said. “One, the interesting opportunity that SkySQL has in the industry, and the other was from a personal point of view, wanting to get back to the startup environment.”

As Levy noted, SkySQL brings together some of “the top database people around” – it takes in many members of the original MySQL team. Now, with $20 million in the bank from an Intel(s intc)-led Series B round last October, SkySQL…