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Sony plans to lay off around 900 employees, or 8% of workforce, at its PlayStation division, and close its London Studio in the UK — Sony says it's laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, a reduction of its global headcount of around 8 percent.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony says its PlayStation layoffs will also impact game makers Insomniac, Naughty Dog, and Guerrilla, three of its most successful subsidiaries — The company is also canceling a game based on the Twisted Metal racing franchise — Sony Group Corp. will lay off 900 people across … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Nvidia plans to start showing free-tier GeForce Now users “up to two minutes” of video ads on February 28 while they are queuing to start a cloud gaming session — Nvidia's completely free, no-strings attached trial of its cloud gaming service GeForce Now is about to be very slightly less …
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says its investment in Mistral AI amounts to €15M; EU regulators plan to analyze the investment, which could eventually lead to a formal investigation — - Partnership amounts to €15 million investment, Microsoft says — EU analysis could lead to future formal investigation
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Netflix confirms that it has started removing Apple iTunes billing for longtime subscribers, and now requires them to pay directly on its website — Netflix confirms to The Verge that it has begun booting longtime subscribers off their Apple iTunes billing plans, and will require …
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Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in 2021, enters liquidation for its UK parent company as it moves its HQ to Delaware in the US — The company was once valued at $7.75bn … London-based event tech startup Hopin — which shot to a $5.65bn valuation in 2021 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Lapse, a photo app that makes users wait to share unedited pictures as they are “developed” like film, raised a $30M Series A, sources say at a $150M valuation — It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it, and take pictures that then need to be developed.
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Sources: the BlackCat ransomware gang is behind the outage at UnitedHealth's technology unit that has disrupted services at pharmacies in the US for six days — Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
In amended filings, Alibaba discloses previously unknown stakes by the Chinese government in more than 12 of its business entities, following a US SEC inquiry — The Hangzhou-based e-commerce pioneer said in filings in the US and Hong Kong over the weekend that more than a dozen of its entities … | Alexis Ong / The Verge: |
A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500+ floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined — The first computery thing I do in the year 2024 is nudge a 3.5-inch floppy disk into a USB floppy drive that I bought … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Glean, which uses AI to offer unified search across apps used at a company, raised a $200M+ Series D at a $2.2B valuation and says annualized revenue hit $39M — - Glean is valued at $2.2 billion in its latest funding round. — The company is taking on the Copilot chat tool for Microsoft 365 … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a spam campaign using 21K hijacked abandoned domains and subdomains from brands like eBay, MSN, and VMware to send ~5M malicious emails daily — A massive ad fraud campaign named “SubdoMailing” is using over 8,000 legitimate internet domains and 13,000 subdomains to send …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AI-based photo editing app PhotoRoom raised $43M led by Balderton Capital at a $500M valuation, says it has 150M+ downloads and processes ~5B images annually — Photoroom, the AI-based photo editing app out of Paris that has been growing like a weed targeting people doing business online …
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| Kali Hays / Business Insider: |
Sources: Meta aims to reveal and demo, but not launch, the first version of its AR glasses, codenamed Orion, during its Connect developer conference in the fall — - Under an internal project named Orion, Meta has been working on high-tech AR glasses for years.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Inkitt, the self-publishing site that wants to use AI to pick and tweak the most compelling stories to distribute on its Galatea app, raised a $37M Series C — Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Intenseye, which uses computer vision to spot risks and enhance workplace safety, raised a $64M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total funding to $90M — Intenseye has raised $64 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to develop AI that can detect …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Tel Aviv-based Exodigo, which uses AI and sensors to make underground maps for energy, utility, transport, and construction companies, raised a $105M Series A — - Greenfield Partners, Zeev Ventures lead Series A round — Startup makes maps for utility, transport, construction firms
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