Bloomberg:
Microsoft plans to launch its mobile game store in July on the web, first with its own games including Candy Crush Saga, and later open it to other publishers — The browser-based store will debut with Microsoft’s own games, offering discounts on in-game items associated with titles like Candy Crush Saga.
Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023 (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023 — Matt Bromberg, previously Zynga’s chief operating officer, will take over as Unity’s CEO later in May
Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023 (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
Unity reports Q1 revenue down 8% YoY to $460M, vs. $433M est., a $291M net loss, including $212M of restructuring costs, compared with a $254M loss in Q1 2023 — Matt Bromberg, previously Zynga’s chief operating officer, will take over as Unity’s CEO later in May
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13 (Anna Tong/Reuters)
Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13 — OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13 (Anna Tong/Reuters)
Anna Tong / Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI plans to announce its AI-powered search product on May 13 — OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.
Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players — TabaPay has abandoned its plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today.
Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch:
Instant payment company TabaPay pulls out of its $9.7M deal to buy the assets of banking-as-a-service startup Synapse amid infighting among fintech players — TabaPay has abandoned its plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today.
ElevenLabs previews a music-generating AI model, showing samples of songs with lyrics generated from text prompts (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat)
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
ElevenLabs previews a music-generating AI model, showing samples of songs with lyrics generated from text prompts — Voice AI startup ElevenLabs is offering an early look at a new model that turns a prompt into song lyrics. To raise awareness, it’s following a similar playbook Sam Altman used …
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple’s VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark” (Tim Nudd/Ad Age)
Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Apple apologizes for the “Crush” iPad Pro ad and scraps plans to run it on TV; Apple’s VP of marketing communications Tor Myhren says “we missed the mark” — The company says its ‘Crush’ spot fell short of its goal of empowering and celebrating creatives
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk’s takeover, censorship, and more (Mike Solana)
Mike Solana:
Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky “repeating all the mistakes we made” at Twitter, Musk’s takeover, censorship, and more — jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending censorship forever …
