Yahaha, a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. Now, with 100,000 creators and hundreds of thousands of players, it’s raised a further $40 million…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Nothing less than a war has broken out between an influential swathe of the UK tech startup community and the British government, after the latter has allegedly sought to hand the curation and promotion of British startups – both inside the UK and abroad – over to a single UK bank. As we covered previously,…
Amazon has launched Amazon Clinic, a virtual healthcare provider that will allow users to get online help and order medication for “more than 20 health conditions.” These conditions include allergies, acne, and hair loss, Amazon said in a press release, and the service is initially available in 32 states in the U.S. Amazon Clinic works…
Ahead of Verified Fan presale for Taylor Swift‘s highly anticipated Eras Tour, Ticketmaster promptly broke like a promise. People started reporting problems with Ticketmaster on DownDetector starting at 9 a.m. EST and peaking around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. (DownDetector is owned by Ziff Davis, Mashable parent company.) Verified fan presale for the Eras Tour began…
AMD has been talking up its incoming RDNA 3 graphics cards while throwing some shade at Nvidia’s imminent RTX 4080 GPU. This is all part of a bunch of presentation materials on AMD Advantage PCs and their various perks, which are systems that use the latest Ryzen processors and RDNA 3 GPUs to great effect,…
If you’ve found yourself reaching for your phone to check TikTok, Opera can let you do that within its browser. Opera has announced that you can now use TikTok within the sidebar of its web browser, so you can log in to your account and scroll through the For You feed as you’re browsing the…
Skull and Bones has had a rocky road to release, to say the least. It’s been delayed multiple times, and changed direction along the way as well. Finally, it seems as though it may have a solid release date, and is set to arrive in 2023. As always however, this is subject to change as…
A Russian data company pretending to be an American one ended up developing code for apps used by the United States Army, as well as for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to Reuters, a firm called Pushwoosh, which listed an address in Washington, D.C. (among other places) as its headquarters, was…
Vitalik Buterin. John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin cautioned critics of FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried to be more discerning. “Automatically downgrading every single thing SBF believed in is an error,” he tweeted on Tuesday. He added: “Don’t be the guy who would have tried to cancel vegetarianism in 1945.” Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin cautioned…
Twitter boss Elon Musk. REUTERS/Mike Blake Elon Musk told Twitter workers they can still get stock and options in pay packages, per CNBC. SpaceX also grants employees stock awards twice a year, despite being a private company. “Exceptional amounts of stock will be awarded for exceptional performance,” Musk said in a memo seen by CNBC….