EA pulls the plug on Apex Legends Mobile and the planned mobile version of its Battlefield franchise, as mobile remains a hard market to crack for the company
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @damianburns and @ethangach Tweets: Damian Burns / @damianburns : 'There's cognitive dissonance in the desire to unite global gaming communities around c...
ChatGPT and other generative ML systems represent a step change in AI use cases, prompting questions on content for pattern generation and tolerances for error
A decade or so ago, systems based on something called ‘machine learning’ started producing really good results in Imagenet, a contest for computer vision researchers. Tweets: @benedictevans , @damianb...
As Amazon's ad revenue passes YouTube's and US pay TV subscriptions drop, ad budgets will shift further to targetable spots and other customer-acquisition tools
Benedict Evans : Tweets: @tomroach , @hkanji , @mrstephendeng , @durgaraghunath , @jeffjarvis , @nairsameer , @rahulwelde , and @damianburns See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tom Roach / @tomroach : A simp...
Rival Peak, a new Facebook cloud game which incorporates adventure and reality TV, will debut on Wednesday, and let users decide what “contestants” will do
and it's a perfect fit for Facebook. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Dean Takahashi / @deantak : Very cool concept from Jacob Navok and crew. Rival Peak aims to be a massive game-like reality sho...
Twitch is growing as a platform for live music, with music one of the top 15 genres on Twitch and 27M hours spent watching music in May, a 5X jump from January
Long an afterthought to YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, Twitch has won over musicians. Now it must deal with their lawyers. Tweets: @damianburns , @lucas_shaw , @mhbergen , @lucas_shaw , and @lucas_sh...
As Amazon-run private label brands grow to roughly 100 with $25B in expected revenue over the next four years, potential antitrust concerns could arise
It started with a simple battery. — Around 2009, Amazon quietly entered the private label business by offering a handful of items under a new brand called AmazonBasics. Tweets: @jeffmacke , @pakman ...
How Amazon is eliminating internal inefficiencies and avoiding technological stagnation by exposing its internal operations to external competition
Zack Kanter / TechCrunch : Tweets: @frontofstore , @markmuro1 , @damianburns , and @r0h1n Tweets: Philip Downer / @frontofstore : “Amazon's uncatchable... not sure we'll see a mass-market retailer co...