Month: March 2021
Crypto art piece sells for R8.4 million .
In a 24-hour auction on Thursday, the New York Times sold a crypto art piece for the equivalent of R8.4 million. The piece, which was created as a non-fungible token, or NFT, was part of a project by the publication that made fun of how people have started selling art…
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Nerf is hiring a chief TikTok officer, and my inner teen is drooling
As a ‘90s kid, I used to dream of winning the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run — five minutes to fill a Toys R Us shopping cart with anything I liked. I had my route all planned out: stacks of video games, a few choice Lego sets, and then a fill-up…
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5 mistakes creators make building new games on Roblox
Joe Ferencz Contributor Joe Ferencz is the founder and CEO of Gamefam, a game publisher operating exclusively on Roblox. With Roblox’s massive IPO this month, game developers, brands and investors alike are wondering what factors cause the most successful games on this $47 billion platform to break out from the…
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Woven Capital kicks off portfolio with investment in autonomous delivery company Nuro
Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota’s innovation-focused subsidiary Woven Planet, has announced an investment into Silicon Valley-based autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro. This kicks off the new $800 million strategic fund, which will invest in growth-stage technology companies that could one day develop into partners or acquisitions to further…
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Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding
Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub in 2020. The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business. They researched and surveyed…
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H&M and other Western brands gone from Apple Maps and other apps in China
Locations for H&M clothing stores in China were not showing up on Apple Maps searches in China on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported, amid growing anger among Chinese consumers at the company’s decision to stop sourcing from the Xinjiang region. The company has more than 400 stores in China,…
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