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☆ Coca-Cola launches new flavor for gamers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Coca-Cola is launching a new limited-edition flavor for gamers, a demographic increasingly pursued by mainstream food and beverage brands. For this new flavor, called Coca-Cola Ultimate, the soda maker partnered with Riot Games, which publishes the multi-player online battle arena game League of Legends. Coca-Cola Ultimate bottles. As in most of those cases (Marshmello’s flavor had notes of strawberry and watermelon) Coca-Cola won’t share what Ultimate is actually supposed to taste like. And the relationship between Riot and Coca-Cola is deeper than the limited-edition flavor.

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Xbox Game Pass vs. PlayStation Plus: GamesHorizon: Forbidden West is one of the latest high-profile games to hit PlayStation Plus. Horizon Forbidden West / SonyThe main selling points of Game Pass and PlayStation Plus are their Netflix-style libraries of downloadable games. Xbox Game Pass' recent day-one releases include the cooperative shooter Redfall, and the rhythm-based action game Hi-Fi Rush. Game Pass members get a 10% discount when buying games that are already on Game Pass, so you can always get a deal before a game leaves the service entirely. That 10% discount also applies to downloadable content and add-ons for Game Pass games, which aren't always included with the base version.

☆ SBF played 'League of Legends' so much he was gaming during pitch meetings. Now his lawyers say there'll be no more online games for the crypto king.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

He's said to have played it at a pitch meeting, and says he's been gaming while under house arrest. The conditions also say Bankman-Fried will be prohibited from accessing any video games or gaming hardware that "permit chat or voice communication." Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in the Bahamas in December, previously touted his penchant for the online game "League of Legends." "I'm (in)famous for playing League of Legends while on calls," Bankman-Fried tweeted. But Bankman-Fried isn't very good at playing "League of Legends," according to billionaire Elon Musk and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Xbox Game Pass vs. PlayStation Plus: GamesHorizon: Forbidden West is the latest high-profile game to hit PlayStation Plus. Horizon Forbidden West / SonyThe main selling points of Game Pass and PlayStation Plus are their Netflix-style libraries of downloadable games. That said, there are a handful of Game Pass titles that are only available on console or PC, not both. Game Pass members get a 10% discount when buying games that are already on Game Pass, so you can always get a deal before a game leaves the service entirely. That 10% discount also applies to downloadable content and add-ons for Game Pass games, which aren't always included with the base version.

☆ Are they for real? South Korean girl band offers glimpse into metaverse
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Hyunsu Yim | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/3] Footages of virtual girl group MAVE is played at the control room of MBC in Seoul, South Korea, February 28, 2023. Apart from backing MAVE:, Kakao launched a 1.25 trillion won ($960 million) tender offer last week to buy South Korean K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment (041510.KQ). SM is home to popular K-pop groups such as Girls' Generation, H.O.T., EXO, Red Velvet, Super Junior, SHINee, NCT Dream and Aespa. MAVE: is an "ongoing" project to explore new business opportunities and find ways to work around technological challenges, said Chu Ji-yeon, who heads Metaverse Entertainment. But South Korean technology has made much progress since then in creating virtual characters.

☆ 34-year-old’s online business brings in $66,000/month: ‘I never thought I could make money doing what I love'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Mark Neace | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Now, at 34, I'm a full-time video game coach and streamer. But I never thought I could make money doing exactly what I love. I use Adobe Photoshop to create photos and graphics for my YouTube and Facebook videos, and Open Broadcaster Software to record and stream videos. Mark Neace is a full-time video game coach and streamer. Follow him on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram.

☆ 'League of Legends' game maker says it won't pay ransom after hackers reportedly ask for $10 million and threaten to release source code
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Riot Games confirmed that hackers stole "League of Legends" source code that could make cheating easier. The company also said that it received a ransom email from hackers: "Needless to say, we won't pay." The company also said that it received a ransom email on Tuesday, and added: "Needless to say, we won't pay." A Riot Games spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment from Insider on the reported ransom figure. "Truthfully, any exposure of source code can increase the likelihood of new cheats emerging," Riot Games tweeted on Tuesday.

The U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission has estimated missing customer funds at more than $8 billion. The affiliates -- LedgerX, Embed, FTX Japan and FTX Europe -- are relatively independent from the broader FTX group, and each has its own segregated customer accounts and separate management teams, according to FTX court filings. In part to preserve the value of its businesses, FTX also sought Dorsey's approval to keep secret 9 million FTX customer names. Dorsey allowed the names to remain under wraps for only three months, not six months as FTX wanted. In addition to customer funds lost, the collapse of the company has also likely wiped out equity investors.

☆ Parents who say their kids are addicted to Fortnite slam Epic Games with lawsuit — and research shows it's not the only game people are worried about
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Candy Crush and Minecraft are among other video games people are searching for addiction support for, research finds. However, the court didn't agree with the parents' claim that Epic Games deliberately made Fortnite addictive. As part of the class-action, other Fortnite players in Quebec who believe they've experienced symptoms of addiction to the game. In 2019, the World Health Organization officially classified video game addiction as a mental health disorder named "gaming disorder." These include Minecraft (2,800 monthly searches), World of Warcraft (2,620 monthly searches), League of Legends (2,130 monthly searches), and Candy Crush (1,550 monthly searches).

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried loved playing 'League of Legends' in meetings. Now the game's maker wants out of its $96 million FTX sponsorship deal.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Riot Games wants out of a roughly $96 million agreement with bankrupt crypto firm FTX. Last week, the company cited "reputational harm" in a court filing, in which it outlined the terms of the deal. But now Riot wants to terminate the agreement amid FTX's collapse and its cofounder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's arrest earlier this month for numerous fraud-related charges. "Media outlets and Twitter commentators splashed images of Mr. Bankman-Fried playing 'League of Legends' — Riot Games' game — at the same time that FTX was crashing." Riot Games and FTX did not immediately reply to Insider's request for comment.

☆ The VC dream machine pumped out one dumb startup after another. 2023 should put an end to that.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

2023 should curtail the current flow of bad startup ideas. The way it roughly works is to bet millions across lots of startups in the hope one of them blows up and returns that cash. 'Fewer insane ideas'We are no longer in a low-interest-rate market, meaning startup investors who could once rely on generous backers will have to be more cautious about how they spend their money. They do have lots of money, with an estimated $290 billion of capital available to them in October, according to Pitchbook data. But Kniaz senses a shift in motion: "This next year will show which emperor has clothes on or not.

☆ Mystery deepens as friends reveal accused 'catfisher' visited longtime girlfriend in days before killing a teen's family
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Efforts to reach Edwards’ family have been unsuccessful. Neither Gates nor the second friend knew about the trip ahead of time, a move Gates described as unusual. The second friend said he learned of it from Edwards' father after Edwards didn't let him know he was heading home. In a text message with the second close friend, the girlfriend described Edwards' trip as "spontaneous" and said everything had gone well, the second friend said. He wanted to move back to southwestern Virginia, where he could be closer to friends and family, Gates said.

☆ The Rise and Fall of Respectability
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Adam Kirsch | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

When the ledger is drawn up on the tech revolutions of the last thirty years—the internet, smart phones, social media, crypto—the losses are generally outweighed by the gains. It’s hard to deeply regret the disappearance of department stores, CD players and checkbooks when we have Amazon , Spotify and Apple Pay. The decline of respectability as an ideal has been at the center of two tech-world sagas unfolding in recent weeks: the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX and Elon Musk’s tumultuous takeover of Twitter. In this context, the most telling detail in the FTX saga doesn’t have to do with dubious tokens or suspicious accounting. Rather, it involves League of Legends, the massive multiplayer online game that is a favorite of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried .

☆ Elon Musk and AOC finally agree on something: both have mocked Sam Bankman-Fried's lowly League of Legends rank
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk mocked FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for his low League of Legends ranking. Nuff said," Musk tweeted on Saturday, reminding users of Bankman-Fried's surprisingly low rank of Bronze III in the game. His goading of Bankman-Fried marks him as an unlikely ally to LoL player and Democrat congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, who previously mocked Bankman-Fried's rank as his empire crumbled around him. Bankman-Fried's Bronze is the second-lowest rank. "I play a lot more than you'd expect from someone who routinely trades off sleep vs work," Bankman-Fried tweeted, suggesting it was an outlet to help him switch off.

Google, Activision and Riot did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the new filing. Epic last year mostly lost a similar case against Apple Inc (AAPL.O), the other leading app store provider. The deal with Activision was announced in January 2020, soon after it told Google it was considering launching its own app store. Google around the same time was forecasting billions of dollars in lost app store sales if developers fled to alternative systems. Epic's lawsuit alleged that Google knew signing with Activision "effectively ensured that (Activision) would abandon its plans to launch a competing app store, and Google intended this result."

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried was once caught playing the video game 'League of Legends' during a pitch meeting for FTX
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sam Bankman-Fried was once caught playing 'League of Legends' at a meeting with Sequoia investors. Now, Bankman-Fried is reportedly telling investors FTX needs a $8 billion to avoid bankruptcy. "And it turns out that that f-cker was playing 'League of Legends,' through the entire meeting." Arora said Bankman-Fried was "absolutely fantastic" while answering questions from the Sequoia partners during a Zoom meeting when FTX was raising its Series B. The Zoom chat among the Sequoia partners was full of praise and excitement for Bankman-Fried, according to the article.

☆ FTX investor Sequoia removed its glowing 13,000-word profile of Sam Bankman-Fried and replaced it with somber note after its investment cratered to $0
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

VC firm Sequoia Capital removed a lengthy September profile of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried this week. The URL now shows Sequoia's note telling investors it's marking down its $214 million FTX investment to $0. The profile of Bankman-Fried recounted his first pitch to Sequoia during his Series B round. Sequoia linked to its letter about marking down its investment in FTX from around $214 million to $0. The now-removed Sequoia profile is still available to read on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

☆ Sequoia Capital took a $213 million bath on FTX after the crypto exchange imploded. That's not that bad, VCs say.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Melia Russell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

FTX investor Sequoia Capital has marked down its position to $0 as the crypto exchange crumbles. Sequoia Capital now views its $213.5 million investment in FTX as worthless as the crypto exchange teeters on the brink of collapse after an eleventh-hour deal to salvage the business fell apart. "Somehow Sequoia capital turned a FTX write down to zero into a humblebrag. It invested $150 million into FTX through its third growth fund, which Sequoia said totaled less than 3% of that fund's capital commitments. In its letter to investors, Sequoia said it does "extensive research and thorough diligence" on every investment it makes.

To see how much jobs in the creator economy pay, Insider analyzed salary data from 142 work-visa applications filed with the US government and decided on between October 2020 and June 2022. The pay data includes salaries ranging from a data scientist position that offers $170,000 per year at Discord to a staff engineer role that earns $250,000 or more at Patreon. At Cameo, a principal software engineer would make $230,000Steven Galanis, CEO of Cameo. Senior Manager, DevOps : $140,000: $140,000 Statistician: $116,979 to $170,000 (Spotter said it internally calls this position "Data Analyst.") At Teachable, a senior software engineer would make $150,000Teachable is a platform where creators can build and sell online courses and coaching programs.

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☆ Top media recruiters and Hollywood insiders reveal the entertainment jobs in demand now and which companies are hiring in an 'awful' job market
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The typical fall "hiring boom" in the entertainment industry, especially at the big streamers, is quieter this year. Recruiters and job seekers said the job market is slow, though data and analytics pros are still in demand. Autumn is typically ripe for hiring in Hollywood. "The streamers are always in a hiring boom this time of year but you're not seeing that anymore." Data and tech jobs are still hot, said Sucherman, calling it a sector of the entertainment industry "that is expanding, not contracting."

☆ Netflix is opening a video game studio in Finland as part of latest pivot into gaming
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The streaming giant is building its first in-house video game studio in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands its empire over mobile games, Netflix announced Monday. The new gaming studio will be helmed by Marko Lastikka, a veteran from gaming giants Zynga and Electronic Arts, Netflix VP of Game Studios Amir Rahimi said in a blog post. Rahimi said the new studio, however, will be built “from scratch.”Monday’s announcement brings Netflix’s total number of gaming studios up to four. Netflix’s Rahimi said each studio has “different strengths and focus areas” and together will develop a diverse suite of games for Netflix users. Netflix Games have been live for a little over a year now.

☆ 'I accept being ordinary': China's youth are turning their backs on hustle culture
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

"Tang ping" and "bai lan" reflect the intense competition faced by young Chinese today, said Jia Miao, an assistant professor from NYU Shanghai. "Tang ping is the rejection of overworking, where you let things be and do the bare minimum," said Miao. Unemployment and uncertaintiesBoth buzzwords, tang ping and bai lan, reflect the intense competition faced by young Chinese today, said Miao. 'Tang ping' gives me breathing space to reflect on my career and future, it's not necessarily a bad thing." "I have set goals for myself when I am not working, so 'tang ping' doesn't feel like a waste."

A "good" internet speed usually runs at least 25 megabits per second, but it really depends on what you use the internet for. Try to upgrade your internet hardware at least once every three years to stay at the highest internet speeds. What makes a good internet speedIn general, you can measure internet speed in two ways: Bandwidth and latency. Ask a hundred people what a good internet speed is, and you'll get a hundred answers. This is because there isn't any one perfect internet speed — how much speed you need depends on what you use the internet for, and how many devices you have.

☆ Cele mai bune site-uri de pariuri Moldova - Cele mai bune cărți de sport din Republica Moldova pentru 2021
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-30 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

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☆ Cel mai mare turneu global de League of Legends 1vs1 - Red Bull Solo Q – revine în Republica Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-29 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

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