LA-situated gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
4 min read
Introduction The Los Angeles-situated mobile game development studio Scopely has enhanced into America’s latest unicorn. This is all thanks to a $200 million investment, which considers the company at a whopping $1.7 billion. Information About The Investment Scopely stated it would use the money to...
Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue on January 30, 2020
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Sony’s live TV streaming assistance, PlayStation Vue, is closing down. The service will no longer be accessible as of January 30, 2020, the company had announced. Sony’s Attempt To Save The Service The news arrives only days after rumors reported claimed that Sony was in...
Driving License Tests in India Enhanced by Microsoft’s AI Project
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
An American giant might have figured out a plan to simplify the tiresome procedure of issuing driver’s licenses. And a quick sneak peek of this resolution is now live in sections of India. Microsoft’s New Initiative Thousands of people who have taken the driver’s license...
Instagram Is Destroying Its Creepy Stalking Feature
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Yes, you read that right! According to the latest tech news, Instagram is eliminating its Following tab, a feature that became famously known as a stalking tool. Keep reading to find out why did the social media giant make this move. Why this sudden change?...
Arm to Bring Custom Instructions to Its Embedded CPUs
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
According to the latest tech news, at its yearly TechCon event in San Jose, Arm launched its Custom Instructions. As the name suggests, it is a new feature of its Armv8-M architecture for embedded CPUs. The pointers mentioned below will help you get a better...
Walgreens Partners with FedEx to Accept Online Returns
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
4 min read
Introduction According to the latest tech news, FedEx and Walgreens are partnering up to make online returns more convenient. This is a part of their move that focuses on developing a trend where brick-and-mortar retailers cater to the demands of e-commerce shoppers to improve foot...
Jack Dorsey announces Twitter will forbid all political ads
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey just stated, via a tweet, that Twitter will be forbidding all political advertising, albeit with “a few exceptions” like voter registrants. Dorsey said that they think political message reach should be gained, not purchased. The Cover Policy While it is not...
Samsung’s Expansion into B2B Partner and Developer Initiatives
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Chances are you often think of Samsung as a consumer-focused electronics company, but it has a very sizable B2B business as well. The company helps more than 15,000 large businesses and hundreds of thousands of SMB managers via its partners. At its developer gathering this...
Big 3 cloud infrastructure profits reach nearly $22B this quarter
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are usually referred to as the Big 3 in the cloud infrastructure market. And, if you had any uncertainty about the potential growth of the cloud, get a look at this quarter’s eye-popping income numbers from these three companies. It has...
Facebook’s Plan for a Post-Web Future: A Strategic Analysis
Prerna Mahtani,
6 years ago
2 min read
Let us connect some dots. Five years ago, Facebook obtained VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it caught up neural-interface pioneers CTRL-Labs for about north of $500 million. It also stated that its own massively multiplayer VR shared universe Horizon will start early...