Microsoft has shared few usage numbers since acquiring Skype for $ 8.5 billion in October 2011. Skype’s monthly active users, for example, haven’t been updated since August 2015 — 300 million has been the number for years. But the coronavirus has shaken up the communications space for everyone, even Skype. …
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Author’s Blurb: Recently we got news that Offpeak had ceased operations, so we reached out to co-founder Lau to learn what went wrong. He was brave enough to lay it out in detail (and we’re thankful for that), so hopefully the lessons learnt are ones that startups in similar positions …
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More than $ 700 million was invested in game startups in the first quarter, though that amount is down from the year-earlier period, according to data collected by Sergei Evdokimov, investment associate at Mail.ru Games Ventures. It was a big dip, but it’s not bad for a quarter with so …
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Author’s Blurb: I can’t be the only one who feels some suspicion towards a lot of the natural skincare products we see in pharmacies. Call me a cynic, but I’ve heard about unethical things going down in the industry, even when they’re labelled ‘clean’, ‘green’ or ‘natural’ (though that’s usually …
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This week, nearly every major company developing autonomous vehicles in the U.S. halted testing in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19, which has sickened more than 250,000 people and killed over 10,000 around the world. Despite the setback, according to some experts, pandemics like COVID-19 should hasten the …
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