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Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

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Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game.

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Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

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Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

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Gaming rules the entertainment industry, so why aren’t investors showing up?

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As gaming’s popularity reaches epic heights, venture investors’ activity in the industry doesn’t seem to equate with the overall size of the games market. Late-stage investors have shown that they have a tremendous appetite for businesses in the gaming industry. New game installs are also up for the year.

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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

CIO

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. Improving player safety in the NFL The NFL is leveraging AI and predictive analytics to improve player safety.

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What is Contextual Analytics? The Next Evolution of Embedded Analytics

Download this whitepaper to learn what contextual analytics is, how BI platforms like Yellowfin revolutionize the way users discover insights from their data with native contextual analytics, and how it adds value to your software solution by elevating the user experience.

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Google Cloud partners with Indian startup SuperGaming to offer gaming engine to developers

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Google Cloud has partnered with SuperGaming to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. Image Credits: The two firms aren’t stranger to one another.

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Overwolf raises $52.5M for its platform to build, distribute and monetize in-game, user-generated content

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Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut , changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging and even more enterprising. In-game app-development platform Overwolf acquires CurseForge assets from Twitch to get into mods.

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How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games. Come learn to crush analytics with King.