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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary — Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able “to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play”
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral — Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts” — 'I'm very sorry that this is happening to them.' — Joe Rogan has issued a response to the ongoing controversy …
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The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
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Current and former Meta employees say the company's metaverse moves have caused disruption and uncertainty, as some feel funneled towards AR and VR initiatives — Shifting a 68,000-person social networking company toward the theoretical metaverse has caused internal disruption and uncertainty.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out updated 3D avatars across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Stories in the US, Canada, and Mexico — It's a step toward the company's concept of the metaverse — Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating …
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto exchange FTX raises a $400M Series C from SoftBank, Paradigm, Tiger Global, and others at a $32B valuation, up from $25B in October 2021 — The frothy venture capital market continues to buoy the empire of billionaire trader and entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Phantom, a Solana wallet similar to Ethereum's MetaMask, raises a $109M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, debuts an iOS app, and promises Ethereum support in 2022 — Quick Take — Phantom has raised $109 million in Series B funding and is now a unicorn. — The Solana wallet is looking …
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Antenna: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and others struggle to retain US subscribers who joined to watch a hit show; some subscribers only stay for a few months — Roughly half of U.S. viewers who joined right after ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ were gone in six months, data show
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| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
BlackBerry agrees to sell mobile, messaging, and wireless patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600M, after ending support for its phones earlier in January — BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO), said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices … | John Luttig / luttig's learnings: |
A deep dive into Microsoft: unpacking its success with Azure, which hit a $10B run rate faster than AWS, how it could become the first $10T company, and more — Understanding the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in cloud infrastructure, startup strategy, and the future of software.| Bloomberg: |
Gay dating app Grindr disappears from Apple's App Store in China as well as Tencent's and Huawei's Android app stores — Operators of the Grindr gay-dating service in China removed the app from Apple Inc.'s App Store, citing difficulties keeping it in compliance with the country's Personal Information Protection Law.
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| Jan Stryjak / Counterpoint Research: |
Smartphone sales in Europe rose 8% YoY in 2021; Samsung led with a 32% share, Apple had 26%, Xiaomi had 20%, and Oppo had 8%; Huawei fell from fourth to eighth — London, Boston, Toronto, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - January 31, 2022 — 2021 was another a rollercoaster year for the European smartphone market.
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