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Gaming Platforms FlickPlay, The Sandbox Take Steps toward Metaverse

Gaming companies FlickPlay and The Sandbox announced a new partnership on Monday that will allow players to use a blockchain asset on both platforms, representing a key step in the building of the metaverse. The idea of the metaverse involves people moving freely between virtual worlds on different platforms and…

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Facebook’s fibre optics in Nigerian state put Africa pivot in focus

As company faces rising pressure in west, it is investing in digital infrastructure elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

All the surprising items inmates can buy with prison-earned cash

From gaming consoles to musical instruments, you may be surprised to learn what HMP Berwyn prisoners can buy

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Widow of Microsoft executive gunned down in front of 2-year-old daughter prays ‘evil and cowardly’ killers are brought to justice

Kirsten Bridegan says DNA evidence could hold key in finding her husband’s killers

The Independent UK

Lessons For Elon Musk: 5 Notorious Failed Hostile Takeovers

As any student of industry knows, Elon Musk is hardly the first person to attempt a hostile takeover.

Benzinga

Creating online geography game Globle was relatively simple. Making it accurate is the real puzzle

The geography quiz game Globle was a product of quarantine boredom, its popularity a happy side effect.

Los Angeles Times

Tacos, treehouses, virtual golf: top firms try to bribe workers back to the office

Growing numbers of bosses are offering special sweeteners to anyone willing to trudge back to work – but will they work?

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State lawyer alleges Newsom interfered in Activision lawsuit

A California state lawyer has resigned over what she alleges were undue attempts by Gov. Gavin Newsom and his office to interfere in a state lawsuit against video game giant Activision Blizzard

The Independent UK

Here's How Much You Would Have Made Owning Microsoft Stock In The Last 5 Years

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has outperformed the market over the past 5 years by 20.48% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 33.98%. Currently, Microsoft has a market capitalization of $2.12 trillion.

Benzinga

Florida widow begs for information after Microsoft manager husband shot dead: ‘I still have hope’

Jared Bridegan was shot dead within sight of his two-year-old daughter

The Independent UK

Check Out What Whales Are Doing With MSFT

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Microsoft. Looking at options history for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) we detected 24 strange trades.

Benzinga

Supply Chain Platform For The Cannabis Industry, MainStem, Appoints Microsoft's Field Chief Data Officer, Smith, To Its Board

MainStem, B2B supply chain and integrated procurement platform for the cannabis industry — appointed Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT), field chief data officer for the West, Matthew Smith to its board.<

Benzinga

Microsoft issues urgent Windows warning to millions of users over 100 security flaws

Millions of Windows users are being urged to check their PCs are fully updated ASAP - with Microsoft releasing a vital update that fixes a total of 128 serious flaws

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California state lawyer suing Activision Blizzard is fired

A top California state civil rights lawyer who was pursuing a discrimination case against video game giant Activision Blizzard has been fired, and another has quit in protest

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Leak: Top 15 earners pay low tax rates

Some billionaires have effective federal income tax rates as low as 4%

Benzinga

Here's How RBC Capital Viewed Meta

RBC Capital analyst Brad Erickson reiterated Outperform on Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB), but lowered the price target from $245 to $240 (11.3% upside). Another round of SMB ad agency channel checks raised the conviction that FB will likely see another rocky quarter, prompting lower estimates and PT to $240. The beneficiaries from FB erosion…

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Will the video games industry ever confront its carbon footprint?

In this week’s newsletter: from the environmental impact of servers and plastic packaging down to the energy our PCs and consoles consume, the sector can no longer afford to play around

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A lack of tech access is yet another injustice of mass incarceration

On March 13, 2020, I got a call from the local juvenile hall canceling my class on the poetry and politics of Malcolm X. It was just days into the COVID-19 lockdown that canceled all prison visits. My frustration kept me up that night. Incarcerated students looked forward to attending…

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Framework Laptop review: a modular PC easy to fix or upgrade

Novel, thin and light machine bucks trend by being simple to take apart, with good performance and looks

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How to Invest in Edge Computing Technology

Edge computing is expected to play a significant role in the broader transformation of computing infrastructure. It is expected to offer a wide range of new and powerful computing services. Given this backdrop, it could be wise to bet on quality edge computing stocks Microsoft (MSFT), Akamai (AKAM), and International…

Benzinga

Why Is Microsoft Stock Off To A Sluggish Start This Week?

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares are down about 10% over a five-day period. The stock continues to slide Tuesday after analysts warned of Office 365 deceleration.

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3 Metaverse Stocks for Your April Watchlist: Qualcomm, Autodesk, and Microsoft

The metaverse is the next step in technological advancement, aimed at creating multidimensional online spaces through augmented and virtual realities. Dubbed the next big thing in the technology space, industry leaders have been investing heavily to explore the metaverse. Thus, we think it could be wise to add quality metaverse…

Benzinga

Morning Brief: Top Stories Dominating Financial Media on Tuesday, April 12

CNBC Entrepreneur Behind Microsoft’s Wunderlist Raised $11M - Read Why

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Microsoft Allegedly Exploited Its Influence To Gain Edge Over Amazon, Google, Alibaba: Bloomberg

Some Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) customers and rivals alleged that Microsoft repeatedly used its leverage over one market to hinder competition in another, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft’s practices cut across cloud computing, where it played catch-up, and productivity software, where it dominated. The Windows operating system held a 96% share of the personal-computer market in 2021,…

Benzinga

Entrepreneur Behind Microsoft's Wunderlist Raised $11M - Read Why

German entrepreneur Christian Reber who sold his to-do list app Wunderlist to Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) in 2015, raised funding for a follow-on app called Superlist, CNBC reports. Reber secured €10 million ($11 million) in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm EQT Ventures, reaching a total of €13.5 million. Superlist will…

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