Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson is coming to Disrupt Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - September 21, 20210 As the opportunities in the gaming world continue to expand aggressively as part of post-COVID shifts to the entertainment sector, esports has found its own opportunities in reaching new audiences. While competitive gaming is still in its early stages, the stakeholders of the industry are some of gaming’s most prominent
The GoPro-ification of the iPhone Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - September 18, 20210 Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about some sunglasses from a company that many people do not like very much. This week, we’re talking about Apple and the company 1,600 times smaller than it that’s facing similar product problems. If you’re reading this on the
Apple’s dangerous path Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - September 4, 20210 Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market. This week, we’re talking about something that’s a little bit more impactful on the current state of the web — Apple’s NeuralHash kerfuffle. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch
Offchain Labs raises $120 million to hide Ethereum’s shortcomings with its Arbitrum product Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 31, 20210 As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping into the blaring scaling issues faced by decentralized apps on the Ethereum blockchain. The popular network has seen its popularity explode in the past year but
CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 28, 20210 Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week we dove into Bezos’s Blue Origin suing NASA. This week, I’m writing about the unlikely and triumphant resurgence of the NFT market. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox from the newsletter
Substack acqui-hires team behind subscription social app Cocoon Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 24, 20210 Subscription newsletter platform kingpin Substack shared today that they’ve acqui-hired the team behind Cocoon, a subscription social media app built for close friends. We covered the Y Combinator-backed startup’s initial $3 million seed raise led by Lerer Hippeau back in November 2019, shortly before the pandemic dramatically reconfigured how people used
Suing your way to the stars Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 22, 20210 Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! I’m back from a very fun and rehabilitative couple weeks away from my phone, my Twitter account and the news cycle. That said, I actually really missed writing this newsletter, and while Greg did a fantastic job while I was out, I
Roblox acquires Discord competitor Guilded Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 17, 20210 Roblox is using M&A to bulk up its social infrastructure, announcing Monday morning that they had acquired the team at Guilded that has been building a chat platform for competitive gamers. The service competes with gaming chat giant Discord, with the team’s founders telling TechCrunch in the past that as Discord’s
Twitter taps crypto developer to lead ‘bluesky’ decentralized social network effort Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - August 17, 20210 Twitter’s ambitious upstart decentralized social media working group “bluesky” took an important step Monday as the social media company appointed a formal project lead who will direct how the protocol develops moving forward. Crypto developer Jay Graber was tapped by Twitter to helm the initiative, which the company hopes will eventually
Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees ‘a de facto global tax on the Internet’ Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Lucas Matney - July 30, 20210 Elon Musk is siding with Epic Games in the App Store monopoly case, with the Tesla CEO firing off a tweet Friday morning that called Apple’s Store fees “a de facto global tax on the Internet,” also adding that “Epic is right.” Epic Games legal battle with Apple is sure to