This $1.5 billion startup promised to deliver clean fuels as cheap as gas. Experts are deeply skeptical. Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by James Temple - April 25, 20220 Last summer, investors gathered in the parking lot of a converted warehouse in Santa Cruz, California. Rob McGinnis, the founder and chief executive of Prometheus Fuels, was ready to show off his “Maxwell Core.” The pipe-shaped device is packed with a membrane riddled with carbon nanotubes, forming pores that separate alcohols
Fire Emblem Heroes Has Generated Nearly $1 Billion In Revenue After Five Years Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - February 8, 20220 Nintendo's most popular mobile release.Nintendo shared all sorts of sale data about Switch milestones and the new Pokémon games over the past week, but one title that was perhaps overlooked was its tactical role-playing mobile hit, Fire Emblem Heroes.According to Sensor Tower sales estimates, the free-to-play title has now generated
It Looks Like Nvidia Is Abandoning Its $40 Billion Purchase Of British Chip Designer Arm Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by HendrikWiese - January 25, 20220 Update: Current owner SoftBank may now move to an IPO.Update : Bloomberg is reporting that Nvidia is about to abandon its proposed $40 billion purchase of British chip designer Arm from SoftBank. The move was revealed in September of 2020.Nvidia – which makes the chips which power the Switch, Switch
Microsoft to gobble up Activision in $69 billion metaverse bet Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - January 19, 20220 (Mike Blake, Reuters)Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is buying "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) for $68.7 billion in the biggest gaming industry deal in history as global technology giants stake their claims to a virtual future.The deal announced by Microsoft on Tuesday, its biggest-ever and set to be the largest
Spider-Man No Way Home Is Sony’s Most Successful Movie Ever, First Pandemic-Era Film To Surpass $1 Billion Gaming Tech and Gaming Blog by Jason Guisao - January 3, 20220 It’s no surprise that Spider-Man No Way Home – the third film in Sony’s Tom Holland-led franchise – has reached impressive critical and financial heights. Fans have been waiting for a live-action Multiverse movie since Into the Spiderverse, and No Way Home continues to serve as
Elon Musk Sells Another $1 Billion in Tesla Shares to Prep for Largest Tax Bill in History Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - December 30, 20210 Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty ImagesAccording to financial documents released Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold 934,090 company shares valued at around $ 1.02 billion not to fund a McMansion on Mars.Musk said he is preparing to pay the biggest tax bill in history. atOptions = { 'key' :
Elon Musk sells another $1 billion in Tesla shares, nearing 10% target Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - December 29, 20210 Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, stands in the foundry of the Tesla Gigafactory during a press event.Patrick Pleul | picture alliance | Getty ImagesElon Musk sold another $ 1.02 billion in Tesla Inc. stock, moving closer to his goal of reducing his stake in the electric car maker by 10 percent.
Telegram rides the wave of recent Facebook outages to 1 billion Play Store installs Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - October 16, 20210 Image Credit: Dimitri karastelve We may all have our favorite apps and services, but loyalty only goes so far. When something suddenly stops working, it doesn't take us long to go scrambling for alternatives. That's just what's been happening with Facebook and its properties lately, and a series of high-profile outages
Daily Crunch: Databricks reaches $38B billion valuation with $1.6B Series H Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Richard Dal Porto - September 1, 20210 To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 31, 2021. Today the TechCrunch machine was busy covering the first day of Y Combinator’s Demo Day event, so expect
Telegram tops 1 billion downloads Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Manish Singh - August 30, 20210 Popular instant messaging app Telegram has joined the elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower. The Dubai-headquartered app, which was launched in late 2013, surpassed the milestone on Friday, the mobile insight firm told TechCrunch. As is the case with the