Why mobile subscription management platforms are enjoying tailwinds

Game engine company Unity and adtech company IronSource finalized their merger this week, aiming to “create an end-to-end for developers to build and monetize games,” TechCrunch reported. While there’d be a lot to say about the deal from the perspective of game developers, we’d like to look at this from a different angle and wonder…

Binance chief says FTX going down ‘not good for anyone’, warns of greater regulatory scrutiny

Binance founder and chief executive Changpeng Zhao says FTX “going down is not good for anyone in the industry,” and the ongoing episode has “severely shaken” the confidence of consumers, a day after the world’s largest exchange signed a non-binding agreement to acquire its most formidable rival firm. Zhao said the sudden liquidity crunch at…

Web3 messaging infrastructure Notifi raises $10M seed round co-led by Hashed, Race Capital 

Notifi, a communication infrastructure platform for Web3, said Tuesday it has raised $10 million in an oversubscribed seed funding co-led by previous backers Hashed and Race Capital. Other investors include Struck Capital, HRT Capital, Wintermute, Superscrypt founded by Temasek, bringing its total funding to $12.5 million.    The ten-month-old startup wants to address the broken…

‘Spirited’ review: Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell can’t save this Christmas carol

As common as the yuletide traditions of decorating a tree, sending holiday cards, and stressing out about gift giving, there is adapting Charles Dickens’ classic novella “A Christmas Carol.” The iconic story of a miserly Scrooge whose surprise intervention by a trio of ghosts transforms him from jerk to jolly has inspired period dramas, contemporary…

Cloud giants file major EU antitrust suit against Microsoft

A cloud computing industry group has filed an antitrust complaint about Microsoft to the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. The body, dubbed Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe or “Cispe”, is made up of 24 cloud infrastructure providers, including some of Microsoft’s biggest rivals in the cloud hosting space such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)….