August 2020 – Page 3

Self-charging, thousand-year battery startup NDB aces key tests and lands first beta customers

Pleasanton-based green energy startup NDB, Inc. has reached a key milestone today with the completion of two proof of concept tests of its nano diamond battery (NDB) . One of…

lecrab 25 August 2020

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Calling Paris VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our survey of VCs in Paris will capture how the city is faring, and…

lecrab 25 August 2020

eSports

NSE extends partnership with Intel into 2021

National Student Esports (NSE) has announced that its partnership with technology company Intel will be continuing into the 2020/2021 academic year. The extension will see Intel continue as headline sponsor of the…

lecrab 25 August 2020

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UK immersive music startup MelodyVR acquires Napster from RealNetworks for $70M

Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music experiences that you watch…

lecrab 25 August 2020

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Facebook to pay $125 million in back taxes in France

Facebook France is going to pay $125 million (€106 million) in back taxes. Business magazine Capital first reported the agreement. French tax authorities raided Facebook’s offices in Paris in 2012…

lecrab 24 August 2020

eSports

Ivan Rogovchenko explains WePlay! Esports’ fresh approach to design

In June 2020, WePlay! Esports hosted its very first publisher-affiliated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event, WePlay! Clutch Island. While the competition took place online due to COVID-19 restrictions, the broadcast was…

lecrab 24 August 2020

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League of Legends Esports partners with Spotify for music hub, podcasts

Riot Games has announced a partnership with Spotify to make the audio streaming service the exclusive audio streaming partner of League of Legends Esports. The multi-year partnership will be centred…

lecrab 24 August 2020

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Bletchley Park, birth-place of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income

Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, cracking…

lecrab 22 August 2020

eSports

Verizon sponsors Psyonix’s North American RLCS X

Psyonix’s Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) has picked up its first-ever 5G connectivity sponsor, thanks to today’s partnership with Verizon. The sponsorship deal will apply only to the North American…

lecrab 21 August 2020

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This subscription social network is happy to be an Albatross in a pandemic

In discussions of ethically dubious social networks, Facebook is the usual reference choice. But spare a thought for subscribers of InterNations, a Munich-based social networking community for expats, who have…

lecrab 21 August 2020