Month: February 2020
Remember Metroid Prime 4? It’s still happening, as former DICE exec is hired
It’s one of the most long-awaited sequels in Nintendo’s gaming history, but there’s finally some positive movement happening with the troubled development of Metroid Prime 4. Jhony Ljungstedt, the former art director at studio DICE is joining the team at Metroid Prime 4 developers Retro Studios, and brings with him…
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Watch every Super Bowl 2020 trailer here
The Super Bowl 2020 brought us a host of new movie trailers alongside a game of football, particularly from Disney and Universal. New Marvel TV shows, the latest James Bond outing and the latest Fast and Furious outing were the headliners. As well as those above, we saw Super Bowl…
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Kitopi to expand its cloud kitchen services after raising $60m in Series B funding
Kitopi, a tech startup dually headquartered in New York and Dubai and manages cloud kitchen platform with partners and restaurants to expand their delivery reach, has raised $60m in new funding. The Series B funding round was led by Knollwood and Lumia Capital with further participation from new and existing…
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Facebook wants to bring WhatsApp Pay to India in six months
Facebook is preparing to roll out WhatsApp Pay in many more countries in the next six months. Developing markets such as India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, etc. will be the main drivers. WhatsApp Pay existed in India back in 2018 as a part of a trial run where Facebook could…
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Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital
Africa has one of the world’s fastest growing tech markets and Nigeria is becoming its unofficial capital. While the West African nation is commonly associated with negative cliches around corruption and terrorism — which persist as serious problems, and influenced the Trump administration’s recent restrictions on Nigerian immigration to the…
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Marvel’s Disney Plus shows finally unveiled in new Super Bowl TV spot
Fans of blockbuster films can always expect the Super Bowl to deliver the goods when it comes to ‘Big Game’ spots for the year’s biggest upcoming tentpole films. However, the rise of streaming services has seen more television shows jostle for some time in the spotlight, and Disney Plus has…
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