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Game on: The evolution of gaming through generative AI innovation

CIO

If you’re a video gamer or gaming company, you can likely relate to this scene. And you’ll also recognize that gaming experiences have come a long way—mostly due to developments in artificial intelligence (AI). Here are some of the gaming capabilities being boosted by generative AI. You take a deep breath and begin…BAM!

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Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

TechCrunch

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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Why Fortnite is getting into cozy gaming

TechCrunch

When it comes to figuring out a formula for a hit game that keeps players coming back year after year, Saxs Persson would know. Now at Epic Games overseeing the Fortnite ecosystem, Persson previously spent 12 years at Mojang building Minecraft into the stratospheric success it is today.

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Hyper casual game publisher Homa Games raises $15 million

TechCrunch

French startup Homa Games has raised a $15 million seed round led by e.ventures and Idinvest Partners. The company has built several in-house technologies that can take a game from a prototype to an App Store success. It partners with third-party game studios and has a few in-house game studios as well.

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How To Speak The Language Of Financial Success In Product Management

Speaker: Jamie Bernard

Register now to save your seat! 📅 September 25, 2024 at 11:00 am PT, 2:00 pm ET, 7:00 pm GMT Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its antitrust fight against Google

TechCrunch

On Monday, a jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could reshape how app marketplaces like Google Play are allowed to operate. Epic, creator of the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite, first filed its lawsuit against Google in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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After two ambitious years, TikTok parent ByteDance starts mass layoffs in gaming

TechCrunch

ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit. In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s plans for video games came into the spotlight after it became one of the firm’s six core business units, posing a new threat to incumbents such as Tencent and NetEase and rising star MiHoYo.

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The Empowered Consumer

This ebook takes an in-depth look at the real challenges facing the retail sector and how AI can be a game changer in meeting those challenges. Targeted product promotion so that consumers receive ads that are relevant to them.

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2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved.

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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.

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What is Contextual Analytics? The Next Evolution of Embedded Analytics

Why contextual analytics is a game-changer for deeper insights and analysis This whitepaper will help you understand: What contextual analytics can do to elevate the value of your application. How contextual analytics fuses user workflow and analytics together for seamless BI.

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B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. Get started today.

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How Deepgram Works

Regardless of whether you are evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) solutions to get more value out of your call center data, build the next game-changing voice feature, or are just looking to save a lot of money on speech transcription, Deepgram is the platform to get you there.

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How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game. See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Operationalizing Voice of the Customer and Empowering the Frontline.

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Does Your Company Need Help Solving These 4 Common eLearning Challenges?

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today. These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling.