Leading with a digital push, ESPN plans to step up it coverage of professional gaming. “On Thursday, ESPN.com rolled out a section devoted to articles and videos about professional leagues and tournaments for video games such as ‘League of Legends’ and ‘Counter-Strike,’” The Los Angeles Times reports.

App analytics startup App Annie just raised $63 million in Series E funding in “mostly equity” and debt. “The debt -- raised to avoid diluting stakeholders unnecessarily, says [cofounder and CEO Bertrand Schmitt] -- was provided to the company by Silicon Valley Bank,” TechCrunch reports. The round was led by Greenspring Associates, along with e.Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, and Sequoia Capital.

Samsung has reached a deal with rival Qualcomm to build the chips that will power its Snapdragon 820 processor. “The Snapdragon 820 will be manufactured by Samsung, using the new 14nm LPP process, and is likely to be used by multiple flagship devices available in the first half of 2016,” The Verge reports. “The news comes after a challenging 2015 for Qualcomm, who saw its Snapdragon 810 processor fall short of the company's reputation for class-leading performance.”

Google is rolling out an update to Google Maps for Android featuring Driving Mode. “In short, Driving Mode guesses where the user wants to go and helps them navigate there,” VentureBeat writes. “In many ways, Driving Mode is similar to the Google Now cards that tell you when to leave for an event in your calendar or how long it will take you to get to work and back home.”

Apple is rolling out the first beta of iOS 9.3 to public beta testers and developers. “The first and most significant [new feature] is a multi-user mode for iPads, aimed primarily at schools where buying a single iPad for each student is too expensive or otherwise undesirable,” ars technica reports. “It sounds as though each student will have a roaming user profile that follows them from iPad to iPad so they can access the same apps and data no matter which iPad they use to log in.”

HTC plans to begin taking pre-orders for Vive -- its debut virtual reality headset -- at the end of February. HTC CEO Cher Wang tells The Telegraph that the company has chosen to refocus on virtual reality and away from smartphones. “To create a natural extension to other connected devices like wearables and virtual reality is more important," said Wang.

Since its launch, Apple has been mistakenly underestimating the number of readers using the News app, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Publishers don’t pay to post their content to the News app, but getting an accurate tally of users is important because it can affect their ability to sell advertising and to manage their resources accordingly,” The Journal notes. 

The Motorola name will soon be no more. “Lenovo, which bought Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014, is unifying its two phone businesses under the Lenovo name,” CNet reports. “It's going to use Motorola's Moto brand for high-end products and its homegrown Vibe brand for budget devices.”

A Chicago federal judge has ordered Yahoo to face a class action lawsuit, which accuses the tech giant of sending unsolicited text messages to Sprint Corp cellphone users in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. “U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said the users could sue as a group over messages sent in March 2013 because their claims had enough in common,” Reuters reports.

Five months after its release, Windows 10 hasn’t quite passed 10% market share, Venture Beat reports, citing new data from Net Applications. The share is 9.96%, it notes. Meanwhile, “Microsoft is aiming for 1 billion devices running Windows 10 ‘in two to three year’ -- though that includes not just PCs, but smartphones, consoles, and other devices, as well.”