a16z, Google lead $20M investment in Africa Web3 game publisher Carry1st
Web3 and social games publisher Carry1st has raised $20 million in Series A funding to further expand product development in Africa — a continent that could become the premier hub for the gaming industry over the next decade. The investment round was led by Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has been highly active in the blockchain space, with additional participation from Avenir and Google-parent Alphabet. Carry1st’s existing backers, including Riot Games, Konvoy Ventures, Raine Ventures and TTV Capital, also participated in the investment round. The cash injection will be used by Carry1st to expand its content portfolio, grow its in-house development team and spearhead a new growth strategy to attract tens of millions of new users. A key pillar of its growth str...
Google a threat to online travel agencies?
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Google Accuses Apple of Using iMessage To “Bully” People Into Buying iPhones
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty Yes, “blue bubble envy” is real, and Google feels Apple is capitalizing on it. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is accusing the company that Steve Jobs built of “bullying” and using it as a deliberate strategy to make Android users look and feel like the bottom of smartphone users on its iMessage platform. It’s no secret that iPhone users rub it in the faces of Android smartphone users that iMessage has a bunch of cool features while constantly clowning “green bubbles” they receive from text from an Android phone. The report states that Apple is well aware of this and is using the fact that its phone and messaging platform has become some sort of status symbol among smartphone users and is using it to its ...
Travis Scott, Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ & More Crown Google’s Top Searches of 2021
Google unveiled its 2021 Year in Search list on Wednesday (Dec. 8), where Travis Scott lands on top of its top trending searches for musicians in the U.S. Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo‘s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “drivers license” is the No. 1 top trending search for songs. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Google’s top trends reflect the searches that experienced a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2021 compared to 2020. The Houston rapper is also listed as No. 4 on the top trending searches for people, behind Kyle Rittenhouse, Tiger Woods and Alec Baldwin. Scott’s name has been seen in recent headlines over the past two months since his disastrous hometown Astroworld Festival in November left hundreds injured and 10 people dead. An...
HHW Gaming: Google Was So Pressed About Epic’s App Store Moves It Created A ‘Fortnite’ Task Force
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Google was extremely pressed about Epic Games and how it got Fortnite into the hands of players. Bloomberg reports Google decided to create a Fortnite Task Force in 2018 after Epic Games found a way to go around Google’s Play Store and launch the game through Samsung’s Galaxy Store and its website in 2018, internal Google documents reveal. The filings also reveal that Google “latched onto” a potential security issue for players loading the game onto their phone through the Galaxy Store or Fortnite’s website. Epic claims that Google “rushed to get the word out” in just nine days, completely ignoring its own policy of giving app developers 90 days before it makes vulnerabilities public. Epic says the move was to “deter developers fr...
4 Things You Didn’t Know About Google’s $1-Billion Investment in Africa
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2 in 3 Banks Will Lose Market Share Unless They Digitise says Report
Image sourced from Planful. A new report by The Financial Times Focus and Mambu shows banks must redesign their role in society to avoid extinction. More than two thirds (67%) of banks think they will lose market share within two years if they fail to digitally transform, according to a new report from cloud banking platform Mambu and The Financial Times Focus (FT Focus). The ‘Evolve or be extinct’ report was conducted by FT Focus and surveyed over 500 senior banking executives globally to gain insights into their perception of the banking industry, now and in the future. Banks Must Transform Urgently The results illustrate the urgency for banks to modernise their offering as 58% of respondents predict they will cease to exist completely in the next five to ten years if they fail to change...
Avicii Honored with Google Doodle During National Suicide Prevention Week
Back in 2018, the Swedish DJ-turned-EDM superstar Avicii tragically died by suicide. He was just 28 years old, and his unexpected death shook not just the electronic scene, but the music industry as a whole. Now, in honor of this year’s National Suicide Prevention Week, the late Avicii is the subject of a new Google Doodle to help raise awareness. Check out the animation below. Born Tim Bergling, the late Avicii would be celebrating his 32nd birthday this Wednesday if he were still alive. To mark the occasion and spread the word about NSPW, The Google Doodle image was created by artists Alyssa Winans, Olivia When, and Sophie Diao. “The truth is Tim struggled a great deal during the touring part of his adulthood, and I wanted to find a way to both touch on the realities of that experience, ...
Google Launches Game Developer Program in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana
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Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft Post Combined Profits of More Than $50B
Apple’s first iPhone model capable of connecting to ultrafast 5G wireless networks continued to power major increases in quarterly revenue and profits for tech’s most valuable company. With iPhone sales posting double-digit growth over the previous year for the third consecutive quarter, Apple’s profit and revenue for the April-June period easily exceeded analyst estimates. The Cupertino, California, company earned $21.7 billion, or $1.30 per share, nearly doubling profits earned during the same period last year. Revenue surged 36% to $81.4 billion. But in a Tuesday conference call with analysts, Apple CEO Tim Cook lamented that the steadily spreading delta variant of the coronavirus is casting doubt on how the rest of the year will unfold. “The road to recovery will be a winding one,” Coo...
Netflix is Adding Video Games to its Subscription Service
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Trump Claims Censorship, Sues Facebook, Twitter and Google
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