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...Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service later this year that will aggregate the games offered by the media groups’ traditional television networks....
...A separate hearing will allow the judge to consider what Google needs to do to change its policies and its contracts with smartphone makers, network operators and game developers....
...The fledgling HBO network — future home of The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Game of Thrones — had only 50,000 viewers, about 175,000 shy of the number it needed to break even....
...It’s a classic case of how tech giants use network power to maintain monopolies in ways that reduce innovation (Apple of course says all this is nonsense)....
...Meanwhile, shareholder meeting season has rolled around again, giving a window into how investors are — or are not — putting pressure on major corporations over their environmental and social impacts....
...In a call with analysts after the company’s results, Murdoch framed the settlement as a “business decision” to “avoid the acrimony of a divisive trial” while blaming a Delaware court for restricting Fox’...
...In fact, a bit of a surprise, the biggest private equity deal of the year — the roughly $15bn buyout of Toshiba Corporation — is happening in Tokyo, not New York, and involves Japan Industrial Partners and...
...Roblox, whose games engine also functions as a social network, fits the bill....
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...s=46&t=uS_p1jt3N5TYYYWqkDeEiw Also 15 November 2022: “Bnk To The Future (the ‘Company’) announces that its previously announced non-binding letter of intent with SALT Blockchain, Inc....
...by the Delaware Chancery Court....
...October 26, 2021: Why we [Samsung] invested in Axie Infinity, a blockchain gaming unicorn (The lawsuits also characterise AXZ, the native token of the Axie Infinity play-to-earn game, as an unregistered...
...In the summer, TikTok quietly rolled out a feature that allowed video creators to link to simple games which, when clicked, can be played in a pop up web browser.TikTok already has a partnership with Zynga...
...TS: Epic Games plans for the Unreal Engine to be a massive revenue driver for our customers and not so much for us....
...And that's a whole avenue towards a metaverse that doesn't require any special hardware. And of course, video games. I mean, video games are so immersive....
...Currently in a closed beta, it “aims to be the premiere financialization layer of the entire gaming ecosystem”. And, you know, SBF loves games....
...One thing to start: Twitter has asked a Delaware court to force billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to honour his $44bn agreement to buy the social media company....
...Gamers have pointed out the irony in the case of Square Enix, whose biggest game, Final Fantasy VII, is an eco-fable about a nefarious corporation profiting from environmental destruction. 3....
...Applovin, a Zynga rival, embarked on a similar strategy earlier this year when it purchased the adtech group Adjust for $1bn....
...Efforts by the Russian censors to stop mentions of a “war” in the traditional media have been outgunned by a huge wave of posts by Ukrainians on social networks, according to our reporters in Moscow and...
...The company says the traffic that Netflix generates on its network has surged to 1.2tn bits of data processed per second as of September, the month of Squid Game’s release, a 24-fold increase over three...
...If you’ve ever played a video game, you can tell it’s not real. So we create methods to minimise this gap, so they still work in the real world,” Denninger said....
...Let the games begin....
...Additional reporting by Ella Hermonio in Manila A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 27 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The number of daily users playing Zynga games hit a record last quarter, at 22m....
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