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Consolidation is coming to gaming, and Jam City raises $145 million to capitalize on it

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A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. According to data collected by Newzoo , mobile games revenue reached a record $63.2 billion by 2020, the Newzoo data suggests.

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Scopely Expands In Culver City

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Fast growing, Los Angeles-based mobile games and entertainment developer Scopely is in a big expansion, and has agreed to lease another 60,000 square feet of office space in Culver City, according to the company's broker, CBRE.

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Vulog will power Hyundai’s new LA car-sharing service

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The French-based company has been providing the underlying hardware and software needed for car-sharing services since 2006. MoceanLab will focus on piloting autonomous ridesharing, shuttling, multimodal transportation, and personal mobility in Los Angeles. Vulog might have a low profile, but it’s hardly a startup.

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AWS updates its edge computing solutions with new hardware and Local Zones

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Google, it’s worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud. The first result of that was VMware Cloud on AWS, which allowed customers to use the same VMware software and tools on AWS they were already familiar with. But at the end of the day, that was really about moving on-premises services to the cloud.

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The New Style of Startup Vision: Smaller But Sharper?

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Tech start-ups are usually spearheading a new narrative in their respective industries,” says Tobias Dawes, CEO of The Software Institute. It, apparently, is the only provider in the world of Salesforce-native request for proposal, or RFP, response, and automation software. Are Startups Running Out of Big Ideas?

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China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

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in 2020, the studio told TechCrunch this week, though it refused to reveal the exact size of its North American office. The wind, he said, “refers to the ever-growing desire for quality by mobile gamers.” All eyes are now on TiMi’s next big move, the mobile version of Activision Blizzard’s Call of Duty.

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The Next 5 Years: Possible Trends in Business Software

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During the past twenty five years, software programs utilized by business underwent tremendous changes. These trends will likely involve cloud based architecture, enhanced platform mobility, real time data analysis, improved fraud detection capabilities and greater niche functionality: Cloud Based Architecture. Real Time Data Analysis.