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The Division 2 gets The Summit free update on September 22
Ubisoft is launching a free update entitled The Summit for The Division 2 on September 22. The French video game maker announced...
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’s remake is official and kinda ugly
Ubisoft revealed a remake of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, the most iconic entry in the Prince of Persia franchise, during...
CEO Yves Guillemot apologizes for toxic employees ahead of Ubisoft Forward
Just a few hours before the start of another Ubisoft Forward stream, the publisher posted an apology video from its chief...
Cruise’s AI enables driverless vehicles to navigate uncommon scenarios
GM-backed autonomous car startup Cruise uses a framework dubbed the Continous Learning Machine to train perception models on...
DuckieNet lets developers test autonomous vehicle systems using toy cars
DuckieNet is an open source platform for developing, testing, and evaluating autonomous navigation and perception algorithms...
Why in-game ads have become the go-to revenue strategy (Infographic)
New research shows that 51% of mobile players play longer with games in ads, and 47% play more often as a result of in-game...
Niko Partners: 75% of China’s 720 million gamers live outside the biggest cities
Niko Partners said that its latest study on China's gaming market shows that 75% of China's 720 million gamers live outside the...
Intel and Samsung detail AI-powered fetal ultrasound tools
Intel and Samsung today detailed AI-driven solutions to help doctors accurately and quickly measure a fetus inside the womb.Read...
Addicting Games acquires online survival game Mope.io with 72 million users
Addicting Games has acquired the online creature survival game Mope.io, a web and mobile game with more than 72 million to...
Orchard raises $69 million to develop machine learning for buying and selling homes
Orchard raised $69 million to continue the development of its machine learning technology that aims to make buying a home less...
NPA News
Startups- Winners, Winners, Chicken dinners
The summer slow down clearly had an effect on our newsletter as we are a bit late this month.
In last month’s survey, we asked all of you whether your industry was improving/collapsing and we got a surprise: 58% of the respondents stated their industry is either slightly improving (~25%) or are literally overwhelmed (~33%) with new business!
Startups – Saving cash during tough times
This month, we’ve got a 500% ROI, some $6.9B investments in Boston startups, and flying cars hitting New Hampshire.
FAMGA spends >$2B on tech startups- is yours on the list?
Happy Summer all! FOMO is real and you might have missed this tidbit!
Getting back to normal
Are we there yet? Almost…we think. I am looking very much forward to being back in the (not home) office again this week, face to face meetings, more personalized engagements with our staff, customers and suppliers.
Feel the Squeeze yet?
Staggering numbers: The US unemployment rate going from 3.5% in February to 14.7% in April, 20M jobs lost just in April.I am certain, we all know someone by now that’s been economically affected, or worse, gotten sick by Covid-19.
WFHell
…what a rollercoaster it’s been the last few weeks!
WFH looked so GOOD, sleeping in, picking a home office location, all your favorite snacks close by, no annoying bosses/coworkers, afternoon workouts….
Nice funding round – $2.25B
It’s almost Spring and in case you didn’t know already, the month of March was named for the Roman god of war, Mars. Traditionally, this was the time of year to resume military campaigns that had been interrupted by winter.
Huge Funding Rounds
Happy February, 2020 is starting off great for a few startups as VC's are handing over boatloads of new cash. GoPuff , the online convenience store, secured $750M of fresh dough. Now go to their App and buy a pack of Skittles to get in on the sugar rush! On related...
Porsche Meets Star Wars
Happy New Year all, It's 2020 and Tesla's are so yesterday. Have you ordered your Porsche Starfighter yet? Star Wars and Porsche teamed up to create the new Tri-Wing S-91x Pegasus Starfighter featured in "The Rise of Skywalker". Transportation 2020 style. (Source:...
$50k Christmas Bonus
Hi there, hmm... It's our Boston quarterback's resume.....and suddenly your out of college resume doesn't look so bad anymore.... you're welcome. In all fairness, this was Tom's back-up plan in case he didn't make the NFL...but it's still entertaining to envision him...