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PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

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PortalOne , which is building an immersive gaming platform that describes itself as hybrid in more ways than one — it mixes games with a game show/talk show format, and it’s designed to work across various devices from mobile through to consoles and VR headsets — has picked up $60 million.

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How FreedomPop's Free Wireless Internet is Disrupting Telecom

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If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. That's both voice and data, through a mobile application, and are also now looking to go into homes. They're fantastic backers.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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Last year the company scored at least $6 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital , BoxGroup and other, undisclosed, investors. YouTube didn’t kill television, it just became Netflix… T hings can move in two different directions at the same time. “We saw the impact that the rise of mobile was having on linear.