Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale spent around €100 million to acquire Shine. It wasn’t […]
Day: June 19, 2024
Amazon’s Throne and Liberty MMO is coming to the west in September
Amazon Games has revealed when it will bring free-to-play MMO Throne and Liberty to the Americas, Europe and Japan. The company will release the NCSoft-developed title in those regions on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 17. There will be full cross-platform […]
Nvidia’s Meteoric Rise: The Role of Leadership in Success
Nvidia has been making headlines with its extraordinary growth, largely driven by its pioneering advancements in AI technology. Over the past few years, the company’s market value has soared, outpacing…
UK probes HPE’s planned $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned acquisition of Juniper Networks. HPE announced plans to acquire Juniper Networks back in January, a deal designed to unify their respective strengths in the networking […]
More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus
No Tech for Apartheid (NOTA), a coalition of tech workers demanding big tech companies to drop their contracts with the Israeli government, is close to reaching its goal for a campaign asking students not to work with Google and Amazon. As Wired reports, more than […]
The Morning After: The biggest announcements from Nintendo Direct
Nintendo sidestepped sharing the spotlight with all the other gaming companies at Summer Game Fest last week, promising its own Direct later in June. And that happened yesterday, teasing a lot of new games with Nintendo favorites. Mario games, yes. Zelda games, yes, and even […]
Second World Games launches Fantasy Troop and raises $3M in token presale
Second World Games announced the launch of its Fantasy Troop, a fantasy league for Web3 gaming, inside the Second World: New Era game.
Amazon’s Throne and Liberty MMO is coming to the west in September
Amazon Games has revealed when it will bring free-to-play MMO Throne and Liberty to the Americas, Europe and Japan. The company will release the NCSoft-developed title in those regions on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on September 17. There will be full cross-platform […]
Netflix House will open two locations in Texas and Pennsylvania in 2025
Netflix announced that Dalla and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania will host the first incarnations of its Netflix House entertainment complex concept. The Netflix blog Tudum posted the announcement Tuesday morning along with an artist’s rendering of one of the locations. Both will open sometime next […]
Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t use your work to train AI
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For the past couple of weeks, Adobe has faced intense backlash over changes to its terms of service agreement — and now, it’s trying to patch things up. On Tuesday, Adobe announced a tweaked version of its terms […]