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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

Niantic shut down Harry Potter: Wizards Unite , its first high-profile title after GO, just two years post-debut, while another tentpole project — Pikmin Bloom — has generated only a fraction of the downloads that GO attained over the same time frame. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture?

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Fitness Goes Digital With Mobile Apps In 2020 And Ahead

Xicom

Regardless of social distancing norms, uncertainty, and roadblocks surrounding the epidemic, the only way out is to go mobile with trusted app developers in Dubai and stay at the path. Also Read : HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO DEVELOP AN APP LIKE INSTASHOP? These are three imperatives making people download fitness app more an more.

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Leadership – No Talent Required | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. One of my favorite examples of what I described in the paragraph above is the weak leader who cannot deal with subordinates who use emotional deceit as a weapon of destruction.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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Can’t We All Just Get Along? Enter OpenCloud, Where Modern IT Embraces Open Source and the Cloud

Battery Ventures

This is technology that used to be considered nerdy, cult-ish and hard to sell because it’s developed by grassroots programmers and is, at its core, free. The fancy sports car—just like a server. Moreover, your team is well versed with these systems. You probably don’t need all that power. But the salesperson is pretty good.