TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. ” LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Image Credits: Vessel Capital While the capital will be invested mainly in startups focusing on application-specific infrastructure, the firm is open to exploring other categories as well, Uddin said. “On On a high level, we really wanted to build a new type of venture fund,” Uddin said. “A

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut , changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging and even more enterprising. In-game app-development platform Overwolf acquires CurseForge assets from Twitch to get into mods.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that’s become familiar in mobile games but hasn’t really made much headway on PCs or consoles. The startup is led by MoviePass’ founding CEO Stacy Spikes. Image Credits: PreShow Interactive.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Women-led mobile gaming startup Robin Games raised funding around the idea of carving out a new niche in the market of “lifestyle gaming.” Today, the startup is releasing its first title to tackle this concept with the launch of a mobile game, PLAYHOUSE, which combines both gameplay and shopping in one experience.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names. AGI, short for “artificial general intelligence,” is a category of AI systems that can theoretically perform any task that a human can.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. However, he says his opinion has since changed as he’s learned more about blockchain developments beyond Ethereum.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian nation and is gearing up to launch several new titles in the country. million in Nodwin Gaming in March 2021. $9

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI tools like ChatGPT, developers have found use cases to mold text in different ways for use cases ranging from writing emails to summarizing articles. Apart from indie developers, major tech companies are also taking a crack at the text-to-music generation problem.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Old Fashion Research ( OFR ) – whose name is derived from the classic cocktail – was founded in late 2021 by managing partners Ling Zhang, who was previously the vice president of M&A and investments at Binance, and Wayne Fu, former head of corporate development at the crypto exchange.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit. One of the backers of FLEX Capital is Felix Haas, best known for co-founding Amiando and IDnow, as well as being the co-organizer and host of Bits & Pretzels, Germany’s largest founders’ event.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

At the time, Pintu chief operating officer Andrew Adjiputro told TechCrunch that it raised an A+ instead of moving onto a Series B because its focus on product development and execution remained the same. For example, gaming is a big thing in Indonesia with over 100 million gamers in the country.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

More recently, Tesla Chairman and founder Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and more than 1,100 people in the industry signed a petition calling for a six-month break from training artificial intelligence systems in order to allow for the development of shared safety protocols. Of course, for every naysayer there is an evangelist.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

The Bard has new skills : In response to user demand, Google’s Bard AI chatbot can now help software developers with programming, including the ability to generate and debug code. Another change that happened was that Twitter removed the “government-funded” news labels after NPR and others fought back, Amanda reports. Kirsten has more.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

They’ve only become more entrenched as the go-to channels for everything from banking to shopping to gaming. Only four companies in the app category closed rounds of $100 million or more in 2023, with none exceeding $200 million. To date, those rules haven’t exactly chased away app developers. Might we see an Epic effect?

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2023

For years, fans have been less inclined to choose the live stadium experience, with game attendance across major North American professional sports in decline. More than two-thirds of NHL arenas have converted to LED game lights rather than the old 1,000-watt metal halide lights.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

To that end it made three announcements last year: Zoom Apps development tools , the Zoom Apps marketplace and a $100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on top of their platform. For more than a year now, Zoom has been on a mission to transform from an application into a platform.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2022

Holoride’s partnership with Terranet, a Swedish ADAS software development company, allows for the VR system’s sensors and software stack to capture and interpret the environment quickly and accurately. Being first also allows them an opportunity to establish a new media category Holoride calls “Elastic Content.”

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

To get here, we recommend inventorying spend across all categories (labor, projects, technology, etc.) Deliver multiple views of labor spend IT personnel is likely the largest or second largest category in your budget, so prepare accordingly. to identify areas that could be paused or removed and estimating financial impact.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

” Rather than writing a small check into companies across a range of categories, the firm’s looking at the “evolution” of technology and betting on a cohort that’s creating or defining a new category. The program isn’t quite an accelerator; Betaworks describes it like a “camp.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The gaming sector has never been hotter or had higher expectations from investors who are dumping billions into upstarts that can adjust to shifting tides faster that the existing giants will. Bay Area-based Manticore Games is one of the second-layer gaming platforms looking to build on the market’s momentum.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And as they talked more, Lafontaine saw how some of the things being developed at Pastel Labs could be better applied at Whatnot, which had just seen 60x growth over the past year. In the year ahead, Lafontaine says Whatnot will continue to expand outside of collectibles and other enthusiast categories. ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

It IoT toys for kids that let them play games and do projects with their grandparents and other family members through Kinoo’s app. A tabletop console gaming system, Gameboard , also lets family members enjoy fun time, instead of just chat time, with one another. It hosts hundreds of games, including role-playing games.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New, guided sales processes increase sales productivity by 13% To empower sales to serve customers better, Frucor Suntory underwent a full digital transformation to the cloud with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and developed MySH (My Sales Hub), a native IoS solution for the Apple devices used by the Frucor Suntory sales team. Digital Transformation

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But casino gaming companies MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment were caught short in this area in recent weeks by hackers using identity-based and social engineering attacks that spoofed identity to gain access to secure systems. It might make us feel safer and more secure in our connected world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Givz , which has developed an API-powered platform that gives brands a way to convert discounts into donations, has raised $3 million in seed funding. We are creating a new marketing category and generating the largest sustainable charitable giving platform in the process,” he told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Featuring founders from 30 countries and startups across sectors including developer tools, fintech and healthcare, the day saw no shortage of compelling pitches. But a particular category of startup stood out: those applying AI and machine learning to solve problems, especially for business-to-business clients. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In the latest development, a startup called thirdweb — which has created a development toolkit to make it easier to build and launch web3 products such as blockchain games, NFTs, DAOs, marketplaces and more — has raised $24 million, a Series A that values the startup at $160 million.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The new HackerEarth Assessments feature of full-stack assessments will facilitate both backend and frontend developer assessment for recruiters. HackerEarth has just announced the addition of full-stack assessments to help recruiters efficiently evaluate the coding skills of full-stack developers. increased by 206% between 2015-2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now, it is using that foundation to get into the synthetic data game, one of the hotter and emerging categories in AI. Developers can use synthetic data to add more complexity to their training models and help remove biases that can often be found in collected real-world data sets. Scale AI’s path to becoming a $7.3

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Perficient

JANUARY 2, 2024

W h ile learning about Coach Finch’s offseason preparation and game plans , I couldn’t help but think of the intriguing parallels between Finch’s coaching strategies and Perficient’s Envision Strategy Framework. Much of the team’s success is thanks to their head coach Chris Finch and his offseason preparation for the team.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Helped deliver a positive impact for 128 million people through health and education initiatives, such as Digital LifeCare , Solar Community Hubs , Girls Who Game , and Student TechCrew. That’s why we are introducing a dedicated goal under the broader category of “ Upholding Trust.” of team members and 29.2% of team members and 29.2%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

developer beta, which brought with it the next set of emoji coming to iPhones. Originally unveiled during the draft phase last year, the emoji span categories like food and drink, activity, objects, animals and symbols. Curious users can check out the new additions by enrolling in Apple’s Developer Program. per month.

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CIO

JUNE 15, 2023

So she needs to keep tabs on the spectacular rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its use cases, while also monitoring developments across topics that have been around for years, like big data, RFID and cybersecurity. They can develop things without limitations. This isn’t to say the execution process was simple, however.

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CableLabs

JULY 11, 2023

The network of the near future provides a solid foundation for the development and deployment of emerging technologies that improve the way we live, work, learn and play. Participating in the 10G Challenge was a game-changer,” said Douglas Fajardo, Xennial Digital’s CEO.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The courses focus on group- and project-based learning, teaching kids digital skills including coding, website building, games creation, animation and video editing in a way that’s structured to be more fun and interactive than traditional classroom-based lessons. It says it will also be spending on product development.

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