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Indian gaming platform Mobile Premier League valued at $945M in $95M fundraise

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Mobile Premier League (MPL) has raised $95 million in a new financing round, just five months after it secured $90 million as the two-and-a-half-year-old Bangalore-based esports and gaming platform looks to grow in international markets. million users in Indonesia, also serves as a publishing platform for other gaming firms.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

TechCrunch

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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Ready Player Me, a platform to build dynamic cross-game avatars for virtual worlds, raises $56M led by a16z

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Like the internet. The startup said it works with creators and fashion brands — customers include Adidas, New Balance, Dior, Pull&Bear, and Warner Brothers — to help them build cross-game avatar “assets” across the metaverse. We’re trying to push the world towards that metaverse.”

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Top 7 Gaming Trends and Technologies in 2024

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Technology trends in the gaming industry are growing rapidly due to robust digital transformations. According to Grand View Research, the video game market is expected to reach USD 583.69 It’s all thanks to the newest gaming technologies shaping the future of gaming. billion by 2030. Another example is Twelfth Man.

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Daily Crunch: Dronamics lands $40M pre-Series A for cargo drones that ‘can cross all of Europe in 12 hours or less’

TechCrunch

And we have five more for you: Internet at the speed of light : Catherine reports that Singapore-based Transcelestial uses lasers to build affordable internet networks. Fantas3 sports : Binance-backed web3 gaming startup Unagi gets funding to expand fantasy sports platform, Paul reports. Now what?

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ShareChat valued at $2.1 billion in $502 million fundraise

TechCrunch

Moj competes with a handful of players, including Times Internet’s MX TakaTak, as well as Glance’s Roposo and DailyHunt’s Josh — both of which received funding from Google late last year. It also quietly launched a fantasy sports app called Jeet early last year, as reported first by TechCrunch.

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The Subtle Details of Livestreaming Prime Video with Embedded CDNs

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It has been interesting to observe how professional sports have moved the transmission onto the internet instead of requiring their viewers to sit at home and watch their TV. Internet broadcasts rely on data packets transmitted over the internet.

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