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...To address this, games companies such as Humble and Niantic have established funds to support black developers, while organisations such as POC In Play campaign for better representation in the industry....
...And it is a US lending platform that heads the list this year, knocking last year’s fastest-growing business — Niantic, maker of the Pokémon Go video game — off the top spot....
...Niantic Labs of Pokémon Go!...
...Here is the inaugural ranking and Tim Bradshaw reports on list-topper Niantic’s success in Augmented Reality games....
...John Hanke, Niantic’s chief executive, owns a pair of Bose Frames and reckons audio AR is “really promising”. “We are brainstorming projects in that area,” he said....
...“Gaming is far more than just a game — it is a new media format,” says Bruce Stein, chief executive of aXiomatic, an investor in Fortnite’s developer, Epic Games, and Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go....
...The next big game Niantic has announced is based on the Harry Potter franchise....
...Beanie babies: Made by Ty Inc, these super-soft cuddly toys proliferated in bedrooms, car boot sales and even auctions in the 1990s....
...Niantic did not disclose a launch date for the game in the world’s largest mobile market....
...“We are very, very excited to welcome the Niantic Labs team to the Spark Capital portfolio,” Megan Quinn, a partner at Spark Capital who is joining Niantic’s board as part of the round, said in a tweet on...
...Cyan Banister, a partner at Founders Fund who has previously invested in Uber and Pokémon Go creator Niantic, is said to be leading the round for the venture capital firm, which was co-founded by Peter Thiel...
...some of Japan’s largest names — including Nissan Motor, Subaru and Kobe Steel — that they had cheated or falsified quality tests has spawned a stampede of questions about the overall reliability of Japan Inc...
...previewing its new mobile app, Holo, which allows people to photograph themselves alongside lifelike digital characters, similar to the way they could with Pokémon’s monsters in last summer’s hit app from Niantic...
...The popularity earlier this year of Pokémon Go — another big Nintendo franchise, brought to mobile by the developer Niantic — had raised investors’ expectations, with Nintendo’s share price surging in the...
...The tie-up between Apple and Niantic — whereby the Apple Watch alerts players to the presence of nearby Pokémon — may also have buoyed Nintendo’s new confidence....
...Niantic The augmented reality app developer based in California launched the Pokémon Go mobile game in July....
...From the statement: Niantic, Inc., a U.S.-based company, has begun to distribute the “Pokémon GO” application for smart devices in Japan today....
...Pokémon Go was launched by San Francisco-based Niantic, an augmented reality start-up at which Mr Hanke is chief executive....
...However, analysts have pointed out Nintendo would only receive a fraction of the game’s gross revenues because it holds only stakes in the app’s developer – Niantic – and the Pokémon Company....
...But the change is enough to go from a niche sport to an app that has topped download charts and overwhelmed Niantic’s servers....
...On one level this might seem like a minor issue — a lapse of judgment from Nintendo and Niantic, the game’s developer, but one that left little lasting harm....
...By contrast, he said, “the real fun that people get out of [Niantic’s games] is going out of the house.”...
...The app was spawned from Google’s Niantic Labs – an “internal start- up”, led by John Hanke, the former head of Geo (covering Google Maps and Google Earth). Field Trip is his first baby....
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