Co-CEOS Walter Driver and Javier Ferreira spoke with me in a fireside chat about how they designed Scopely.
How Scopely aimed to be a hit company, rather than just a hit game maker | co-CEOs fireside chat
Day: May 29, 2024
The Morning After: Xbox’s Call of Duty Black Ops 6 gamble
Ahead of Microsoft finishing up its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it said bringing that publisher’s titles to Xbox Game Pass might take some time. We’ve only seen one so far(Diablo IV), but the company now has added a notable one. In fact, it’s a game […]
Samsung’s largest union calls its first-ever strike
Samsung’s largest workers’ organization, the National Samsung Electronics Union, has announced that it’s planning to stage a walkout next week as part of its fight for fair compensation. Members are threatening to skip work for a day, on June 7, in hopes that the company […]
The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
If you couldn’t access the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine over the past few days, that’s because the website has been under attack. In fact, the nonprofit organization has announced that it’s currently in its “third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack” […]
Avendus, India’s top venture advisor, confirms it’s looking to raise a $350 million fund
Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new private equity fund. The new fund, called Future Leaders Fund III, will enable the Mumbai-headquartered firm to write larger checks […]
The best budgeting apps for 2024
As a former Mint user, I recently had to find a new budgeting app. Intuit, parent company of Mint, shut down the service in March 2024, and prompted users to transition to its other financial app, Credit Karma. However, I found Credit Karma to be […]
From Viggle to MidJourney, Discord is an unlikely foundation for the GenAI boom
In the video, a crowd is roaring at a packed summer music festival. As a beat starts playing over the speakers, the performer finally walks on stage: it’s the Joker. Clad in his red suit, green hair and signature face paint, the Joker pumps his […]
Avendus, India’s top venture advisor, confirms it’s looking to raise a $350 million fund
Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new private equity fund. The new fund, called Future Leaders Fund III, will enable the Mumbai-headquartered firm to write larger checks […]
GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access
GitHub’s AI Accelerator ignites open source revolution, empowering startups like Unsloth and Formbricks to democratize access to cutting-edge AI technologies and challenge big tech’s dominance in the field.
The TikTok ban law will be argued in court this September
TikTok will face off with the Justice Department this fall in its bid to stop a law that could lead to a ban of the app in the United States. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia set a September date for […]