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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

CIO

But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. Everybody says VMware works as advertised, but they have a problem with how Broadcom has changed the way you purchase and use VMware.

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Makers Fund-backed virtual social app MEW woos comic fans in the US

TechCrunch

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The world today has no shortage of startups claiming to be building virtual worlds and metaverses.

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

TechCrunch

Daniel Liss is the founder and CEO of Dispo , the digital disposable camera social network. District Court for the District of Columbia put it in his recent decision , “No one who hears the title of the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’ wonders which company it is about.” Daniel Liss. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Boasberg of the U.S.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

TechCrunch

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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Factors to Consider Before Developing An On-demand Streaming Platform

The Crazy Programmer

Cloud Hosting: this inter-connected service between physical and virtual facilities provides you the ability to store then distribute your contents to your clients. The advantage of cloud hosting to the regular hosting service is that the cloud offers a wide range of networks where your contents are stored and not on just one server.

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Social app IRL makes its first acquisition with deal for digital nutrition company AaBeZe Labs

TechCrunch

The company is purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the “digital nutrition” company AaBeZe Labs and its portfolio of IP with the goal of making IRL a healthier and more ethically designed social networking app. Image Credits: AaBeZe Labs/IRL. military personnel, and enterprise partners. Image Credits: AaBeZe Labs/IRL.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

TechCrunch

It can promote action items beyond a “like” button and leverage Countable’s “Causes” network of more than 190 million people. After the site launches, brands can manage their audience of employees, consumers and partners.