EA has completed its acqusition of Glu Mobile for $2.1 billion. The deal was first announced in February 2021. For the price, EA gains more than 15 titles, 100 million daily active players. 500 talented game developers, and nearly 800 employees in total. Glu Mobile’s revenue for 2020 was $540 million. “We’re thrilled to welcome Glu
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Tapping the geothermal energy stored beneath the Earth’s surface as a way to generate renewable power is one of the new visions for the future that’s captured the attention of environmentalists and oil and gas engineers alike. That’s because it’s not only a way to generate power that doesn’t rely on greenhouse gas emitting hydrocarbons,
Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event with some suggesting it has compressed years of transformation into months. This quarter’s cloud infrastructure revenue numbers appear to be proving that thesis correct. With The
Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage cheaply and pass the savings onto customers. Today the Boston-based startup announced a $112 million Series C investment on a $700 million valuation. Fidelity Management & Research Company led the
OnePlus outlined plans for updating many of its flagships early this year, but two devices were left out from the company’s calendar, the OnePlus 6 and 6T. Although the Chinese handset maker confirmed that both these phones will be updated to Android 11, it didn’t offer an ETA at that time. Unfortunately, if you’re still
I’ve never even heard of them. What have they made? Edit: Just looked them up, lots of micro-transaction bullshit: Cooking Dash, Restaurant Dash, Diner Dash, some Kardashian crap, a WWE thing, and a Disney thing. No wonder I haven’t heard of them. What a fucking waste of money EA, haha. I hope this blows up
David Jegen Contributor Carl Byers Contributor Why can we see all our bank, credit card and brokerage data on our phones instantaneously in one app, yet walk into a doctor’s office blind to our healthcare records, diagnoses and prescriptions? Our health status should be as accessible as our checking account balance. The liberation of financial
There are many listings on the Google Play Store for apps that claim to be a PS4/PS3 emulator for Android. However, none of these apps are legit. There is no real emulation solution for the PS3, PS4, or PS5 on Android. There is a legitimate PS3 emulator available for Windows/Linux, but it has no official
IBM today made another acquisition to deepen its reach into providing enterprises with AI-based services to manage their networks and workloads. It announced that it is acquiring Turbonomic, a company that provides tools to manage application performance (specifically resource management), along with Kubernetes and network performance, part of its bigger strategy to bring more AI
Source: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central Android 12 is soon to end its developer preview and move into beta, which should hopefully hit some of the best Android phones like those from OnePlus. Meanwhile, the company is still working on bringing Android 11 to some of its older devices like the OnePlus 6T. In a
You’ll gain essential knowledge and insights from the finest games industry experts with our PocketGamer.biz MasterClass series, as it returns on June 8th to 10th. We’re hosting more insightful sessions designed to help enhance your skills and knowledge, by providing a practical deep-dive into specific subjects, all accessible from the comfort of your home office. We’ll
GM revealed Wednesday a four-part plan meant to handle all the steps of charging an electric vehicle, including finding a public charger and paying for the power, as the automaker seeks ways to attract customers to the 30 EVs it plans to launch by 2025. The so-called Ultium Charge 360 plan — named after the
Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development groups it started out with. With Jira Service Management, it is successfully doing that with IT teams. With Jira Core, it also moved
If you’re older than 25, chances are your first phone was a Nokia. The classic 3310 was in the pockets of as many school children as businessmen at a time the Finnish brand completely dominated the global phone market. Fast-forward to 2021 and things are very different. Nokia exists, but as a brand name for
AC Market is an unofficial app store which is an alternative to the Play store available for Android devices. It allows you to download thousands of games, apps and resources without paying a single cost for the same. Even in its interface, it is quite similar to that of the Android app store. For the
President Biden addresses the climate change crisis.
If businesses are going to meet their increasingly aggressive targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their operations, they’re going to have to have an accurate picture of just what those emissions look like. To get that picture, companies are increasingly turning to businesses like Sweep, which announced its commercial launch today. The
DigitalOcean has emailed customers warning of a data breach involving customers’ billing data, TechCrunch has learned. The cloud infrastructure giant told customers in an email on Wednesday, obtained by TechCrunch, that it has “confirmed an unauthorized exposure of details associated with the billing profile on your DigitalOcean account.” The company said the person “gained access
Not only connects via Lightning port, but pass-through charges too from what I’m reading.
Every company wants to maintain that initial spark it had when it was an early stage startup, but keeping that going as you scale into a public company isn’t always easy. Atlassian is taking a unique approach by opening up product ideas to an internal competition, and actually funding and building the best ones with
After Apple and Samsung, T-Mobile is now launching its own wireless tracker, the so-called SyncUP Tracker. If you’re a Magenta customer and don’t want to go for an AirTag or SmartTag, the SyncUP Tracker might be a great alternative, but not if you want to pay for it upfront. Both Apple and Samsung solutions are
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Georges Archibald Contributor Georges Archibald is head of Americas at the Apex Group. Almost two centuries ago, gold prospectors in California set off one of the greatest rushes for wealth in history. Proponents of socially conscious investing claim fund managers will start a similar stampede when they discover that environmental, social and governance (ESG) insights
Kenyan consumer experience platform for businesses in Africa, Ajua today announced that it has acquired WayaWaya, a Kenya-based AI and ML messaging and payments company. WayaWaya’s customers and partners include the likes of I&M Bank, Interswitch and MTN. The company offers a range of services, from digital banking and payment services to financial services APIs
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OnePlus rarely shares sales figures, but today, it announced some hard data related to its growth in the EU. The company saw a 388% surge in sales and a 286% rise in overall revenue in Q1 2021 compared to Q1 2020 in the EU. A company rep told Android Authority
The Chinese government has further tightened its game approval process – already among the strictest globally – with the launch of its Game Evaluation and Rating Guidelines system. This works in addition to the approval process that games need to complete in order to gain an ISBN licence; a legal requirement for any game to
Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier runs the centerpiece of IBM’s transformation hopes. When Big Blue paid $34 billion for his company in 2018, it was because it believed it could be the linchpin of the organization’s shift to a focus on hybrid computing. In its most recent earnings report, IBM posted positive revenue growth for
Resident Evil Village is so close that players can now hear the sounds of Lady Dimitrescu stalking them. Resident Evil Re:Verse, on the other hand, has is now officially confirmed to be releasing Summer 2021 and is not launching alongside the single-player Resident Evil Village like originally assumed. The news comes in the form of
Ford Motor Company will open a $185 million R&D battery lab to develop and manufacture battery cells and batteries, a first step toward the automaker possibly making battery cells in-house. The facility comes as yet another signal to consumers and other automakers that the auto giant is no longer hedging its bets on the transition
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