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forbes.com - Priya Gill - Your Customer Has Already Gamed Your Marketing Strategy
Your Customer Has Already Gamed Your Marketing Strategy
Forbes

Priya Gill is the Chief Marketing Officer of Iterable. Marketing teams are doing more than they ever have—more campaigns, more channels, more content, more data—but for most CMOs I talk to, performance isn't moving in the same…

blog.google - Eileen Mannion - Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel
News from Google

We're launching new long-term partnerships with five of the world's most iconic football clubs: Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint-Germain. As their Official Consumer AI and Official Smartphone Partner…

nytimes.com - Benjamin Burrows - Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA Finals Game 3 jersey going to auction with record-setting potential
Michael Jordan's 1998 NBA Finals Game 3 jersey going to auction with record-setting potential
The New York Times

The jersey worn by Michael Jordan in Game 3 of the 1998 NBA Finals, when he would go on to win his sixth and final championship during “The Last Dance” season for the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty, will be sold through auction house…

bbc.co.uk - Stewart Whittingham - Girl's cancer plea to PM after Commonwealth Games swimmer's tears
Girl's cancer plea to PM after Commonwealth Games swimmer's tears
BBC

An 11-year-old with brain cancer has made a plea to the prime minister after being inspired by the emotional appeal of a Commonwealth Games athlete. Emilia, from Whittle-Le-Woods in Lancashire, was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma…

engadget.com - Devindra Hardawar - Why curved TVs failed but curved gaming monitors thrived
Why curved TVs failed but curved gaming monitors thrived
Engadget

Curved TVs walked so curved gaming monitors could run. Much like 3D sets, curved TVs at one point seemed like they were everywhere. Throughout the 2010s, many TV makers tried to market curved TVs as a more immersive way of viewing your new flat…

scmp.com - Charmaine Yu - The audience are players in this 'board game theatre' project in Hong Kong
The audience are players in this 'board game theatre' project in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post

Imagine stepping into a theatre where the audience are not told to sit down and the script is written on the fly based on their choices. This is what happens in musician and theatre director Jing Wong's latest project, When the World is Your Enemy…

japantimes.co.jp - Sota Suzuki - Idol game app firm collapses as data shows bankruptcies up 7% on year
Idol game app firm collapses as data shows bankruptcies up 7% on year
The Japan Times

A Japanese company known for a game app based around virtual teen idols has filed for bankruptcy, the latest in a wave of corporate failures that has reached the highest level in 12 years as inflation and worker shortages hit weaker firms.

scmp.com - Wency Chen - Alibaba sheds gaming business Lingxi to double down on AI and e-commerce
Alibaba sheds gaming business Lingxi to double down on AI and e-commerce
South China Morning Post

Alibaba Group Holding has agreed to sell its wholly owned gaming business Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital as the Chinese technology giant pivots away from noncore sectors to prioritise e-commerce and artificial intelligence, according to an…

nytimes.com - Paul Taylor - Nottingham Forest's rising star Grady McDonnell, the Irish-Canadian who models his game on Jude Bellingham
Nottingham Forest's rising star Grady McDonnell, the Irish-Canadian who models his game on Jude Bellingham
The New York Times

Grady McDonnell is a Canadian-born teenager with Irish roots, who most recently built his reputation while playing in Belgium — and who models his game on England and Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham. It is surely a unique background —…

washingtonexaminer.com - Dan Hannan - JD Vance's real game is to depreciate the whole concept of economic growth
JD Vance's real game is to depreciate the whole concept of economic growth
Washington Examiner

He goes on to write, with the air of a man imparting an original insight, that looking after your children is more fulfilling than adding to GDP. Whom does he imagine disagrees? Economists, practitioners of what Vance, unconsciously quoting a…

kotaku.com - Ethan Gach - Mattel Wants To Succeed In Games Where Hasbro Is Failing
Mattel Wants To Succeed In Games Where Hasbro Is Failing
Kotaku - Gaming Reviews, News, Tips and More

Over 40 years after licensing Barbie for a Commodore 64 spin-off, Mattel has decided that this whole video game thing is for real and is setting up an internal production pipeline to release its own games. The maker of Hot Wheels and other popular…

gamesindustry.biz - Lewis Packwood - The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with a 12-person team - and no generative AI
The Hollywood disruptors making a large-scale game with a 12-person team - and no generative AI
GamesIndustry.biz

You might recall the trailer for Join Us being featured in the Xbox Showcase back in June. It depicts a darkly comic co-op cult simulator, with robed cult members riding around on pigs and loosing off machine guns, before ending on an image of…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Alibaba to sell Lingxi Games in more than US$2 billion deal, source says
Alibaba to sell Lingxi Games in more than US$2 billion deal, source says
The Standard

Alibaba (9988) is expected to reap more than US$2 billion (HK$15.6 billion) from the sale of its game developer unit Lingxi Games to private equity firm Trustar Capital, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH…

entrepreneur.com - Jon Small - Why Are People Paying So Much More for Sports Teams? It's Not for a Love of the Game.
Why Are People Paying So Much More for Sports Teams? It's Not for a Love of the Game.
Homepage | Entrepreneur

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner just bought the Los Angeles Lakers for $12.5 billion, a new record for an NBA team and 25% more than the franchise sold for just last year. It's the latest…

timesleader.com - RailRiders game vs. IronPigs suspended after one inning
RailRiders game vs. IronPigs suspended after one inning
Times Leader

Sunday afternoon's game between the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders and Lehigh Valley IronPigs was suspended after one inning due to inclement weather. Each team sent three batters to the plate in the first before play was halted. No resumption…

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