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Source: Venture Beat This year’s Diversity in Gaming Lunch at GamesBeat Next 2024, presented by Xsolla, tackled game funding, and how developers from endemically overlooked groups have found success in an already competitive industry. Bridget Stacy, vice president, marketing at Xsolla welcomed Sheloman Byrd, CEO of Open Ocean Games, Jenny Xu, CEO of Talofa Games and Jessica Murrey, CEO and co-founder of Wicked Saints…
Source: Live Mint US stock indices surged to record high on Monday, following last week’s rally as optimism on proposed tax cuts and expectations of an easier regulatory environment after Donald Trump won the US presidency continued. At the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 254.75 points, or 0.58%, to 44,243.74. The S&P…
Source: Bitcoinist Justin Sun, the founder of Tron, is taking advantage of the recent Ethereum rally. After Ethereum surged 29% on the heels of a major Bitcoin-led market advance, Sun cashed out a part of his Ether investment. In addition to Justin and other individual traders, other institutional traders and dormant whales have also taken…
Source: Coin Tegraph Bitcoin has hit new all-time highs as President-elect Donald Trump secured victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Set to return to the White House after departing in January 2021, Trump now appears to be bringing a pro-crypto stance with him. His campaign made several pledges in support of the cryptocurrency…
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Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr. He’s the CEO of the Recording Academy, which is the nonprofit organization that puts on the Grammy Awards — the most prestigious awards in music — and runs the MusiCares charity, which helps artists in need. Harvey is a fascinating guy — as a musician…
Source: Venture Beat Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is inching nearer to its December 9 release and Microsoft is releasing a deep dive trailer about the gameplay. I had a chance to preview the game recently in San Francisco (my preview is here) and while there I interviewed game designer Jens Andersson of Machine…
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Source: The Verge The wait for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is almost over — the game launches on December 9th — so developer MachineGames is providing a deeper look at how the archaeological adventure will actually play. The Wolfenstein studio released a nearly 15-minute-long video, which seems to give a very good idea…
Source: Venture Beat Northflank raises $22.3M to simplify cloud deployment, offering developers a third path between inflexible platforms and costly internal tools, with backing from Bain Capital Ventures. Read Full Article
Source: Coin Tegraph Bitcoin is officially back in a bull market and could potentially hit $1 million per coin in the next few years, according to trader and investor Michaël van de Poppe. However, the founder of MN Consultancy, MN Capital and MN Academy warned that a $1 million Bitcoin (BTC) price might come alongside…
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Source: The Verge The estate of now-defunct crypto exchange FTX has filed a lawsuit against Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao in a bid to recover $1.76 billion. FTX alleges these funds were fraudulently transferred to Binance, Zhao, and other Binance executives in July 2021 as part of a shares repurchase deal with FTX…
