December 17, 20210CommentsEight mobile games passed $1B in global revenue on the App Store and Google Play so far in 2021; PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings led with $2.8B each (Craig Chapple/Sensor Tower Blog)
December 17, 20210CommentsFable, which provides a social reading platform for online book clubs, raises a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global (FinSMEs)
December 17, 20210CommentsSources: Google delayed the US launch of News Showcase, live in 14 countries, to at least Q1 2022 as pubs find the offers underwhelming and doubt its efficacy (William Turvill/Press Gazette)
December 17, 20210CommentsGSC Game World decides to “cancel anything NFT-related” in its game Stalker 2 after fans criticize its plans for in-game NFTs in partnership with DMarket (Luke Plunkett/Kotaku)
December 17, 20210CommentsAI Weekly: Novel architectures could make large language models more scalable
December 17, 20210CommentsTikTok partners with Virtual Dining Concepts to launch TikTok Kitchen, a food delivery service based on viral trends, starting with 300 US locations in March (Kate Krader/Bloomberg)
December 17, 20210CommentsHow Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more (Reuters)