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Comcast: Pandemic drove peak internet traffic up 32% in 2020
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 01:00
Comcast said that peak internet traffic rose 32% in 2020 over pre-pandemic levels, with some markets rising 50% in some markets in March 2020.
5th Cell's fast-paced strategy game Castlehold launches on Steam
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 20:22
5th Cell has launched its latest game, Castlehold, on Steam Early Access. Castelhold is a free-to-play strategy game.
Zynga acquires Diablo co-creator's Echtra Games in expansion to PC and consoles
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 15:00
Zynga has acquired Echtra Games, the San Francisco game studio started by Diablo and Torchlight co-creator Max Schaefer.
Why Peter Tamte still wants to make Six Days in Fallujah
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 16:30
Peter Tamte's company went under after Konami canceled Six Days in Fallujah due to backlash. Now he is working on the game again for 2021.
Scarf exits stealth with analytics tools that help open source developers get paid
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 16:00
Scarf is betting that better analytics tools can revolutionize the way open source software is developed and supported.
Positive Ag Cycle Brings Cash. Can It Also Bring New Social Impact To Ag Tech?
Forbes - 3 Mar 2021 14:10Orchestration platform Cutover raises $35M for digital transformations
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 15:00
Cutover has raised $35 million for its orchestration and observability platform that helps coordinate digital transformation.
India's All-Star Games raises $1.5 million to make cricket sports games
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 02:00
Indian game startup All-Star Games has raised $1.5 million to make multiplayer games based on sports such as cricket.
Amazon launches reinforcement learning tools to manage robots' workflows
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 23:25
Amazon launched a new cloud-based reinforcement learning solution aimed at customers in robotics industries.
Raising Startup Children - Play Monopoly Like An Entrepreneur
Forbes - 3 Mar 2021 22:015 jobs that you should apply for this week (before it's too late)
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 21:18
A round-up of some pretty amazing roles that are taking applications at the moment. Check them out and start applying!
Asian-owned small businesses saw an outsized pandemic impact last year
CNBC - 3 Mar 2021 20:59
Research shows Asian-owned businesses saw the biggest decline in working business owners through the end of 2020.
How To Combine Your Business's Content And Media Planning To Target The Right Audience
Forbes - 3 Mar 2021 20:10Software AG extends SAP alliance to analyze digital supply chains
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 19:10
Software AG partners with SAP to enable business users to optimize digital supply chains using an anaytics application.
AMD launches Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card -- that hopefully we can buy
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 19:00
Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, targeted at the sweet spot of the market.
Ctrl gets gamer meal-replacement shakes into 750 Vitamin Shoppe stores
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 19:00
Ctrl, a startup that makes healthy shakes and other nutritious food for gamers, is now available in 750 Vitamin Shoppe stores around the U.S.
How One Digital Marketing Company Is Changing The Customer Loyalty Game
Forbes - 3 Mar 2021 18:14The 2008 housing crisis left this real estate broker unemployed. Now she makes more than $100,000 as a trucker during the coronavirus pandemic
CNBC - 3 Mar 2021 17:31
April Coolidge used to work in real estate, but now she makes more money driving a truck than she ever did selling houses.
Yugabyte raises $48M for open source SQL database alternative
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 16:00
Yugabyte raises $48 million to advance adoption of its open source SQL database based on an extensible document archiecture.
Annual index finds AI is 'industrializing' but needs better metrics and testing
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 16:00
The 2021 AI Index from Stanford University gathers data about AI research, startups, and changes to business and government policy.
Identiq raises $47 million to verify identities using a cryptographic network
Venture Beat - 3 Mar 2021 15:00
Identiq, a startup based in Tel Aviv developing a decentralized identity verification platform, has raised $47 million.