2020 – Page 47

Farming Simulator League secures three sponsors for third season

UK-based game developer GIANTS Software has announced it has secured three new sponsors for the third season of the Farming Simulator League (FSL). American multinational corporation Intel, agricultural and seed company Corteva Agriscience, and game…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Blockchain

JP Morgan rebrands blockchain payment network and adds new features

JP Morgan has announced the launch of Liink, a rebadging of its blockchain-based Interbank Information Network (IIN), alongside new applications around payment information validation. Liink, originally launched in 2017, is…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Stripe Climate is a new tool to let Stripe customers make carbon removal purchases

Last year, payments giant Stripe announced that it would donate $1 million of its own funds annually into companies that are building technology to remove carbon from our environment, with…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Hej! Amazon opens Amazon.se in Sweden to expand in Europe

Amazon is the biggest online retailer in Europe, and today it took the next step in making that effort more localized. The company has launched a dedicated portal for Sweden…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Streetbees raises $39M in a Series B round as brands race to interrogate Pandemic-hit consumers

Streetbees started out as an app for consumers to snap pictures of supermarket shelf layouts and get paid. Consumer brands wanted to know if the supermarkets really had put them at…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Sidekick Health scores $20M for its gamified digital care platform

Nordic digital therapeutics company, Sidekick Health, has closed a $20 million Series A led by pan-European VC Wellington Partners and healthcare focused VC Asabys Partners. Existing investors, Novator and Frumtak…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Harley-Davidson is getting into the electric bicycle business

Harley-Davidson has spun out a new business dedicated to electric bicycles and plans to bring its first line of products to market in spring 2021. The new business called Serial…

lecrab 28 October 2020

Technology News

Watch Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s CEOs defend the law that created social media to Congress

The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google will appear before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in big tech’s latest showdown with Congress. The Senate hearing will have a narrower,…

lecrab 28 October 2020

eSports

DreamHack Sports Games partners with eManager to create eSuperliga fantasy game

DreamHack Sports Games, MTG’s sports simulation business unit, has partnered with eManager to launch a FIFA esports fantasy game, in which fans create a ‘dream team’ from eSuperliga players. The…

lecrab 27 October 2020

Technology News

Thanks to COVID-19, emissions and coal use may have peaked in 2019

If analysts from BloombergNEF are right, then all of the world’s most greenhouse gas polluting days are behind it, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. A sharp drop in energy demand…

lecrab 27 October 2020