Blizzard's Story and Franchise Development team has voted to unionize
Anna Washenko / engadget - Workers from Blizzard Entertainment's department for Story and Franchise Development have voted to unionize. Members of the team will become members of the Communication Workers of America and Microsoft has recognized the union. The SFD team is responsibl…
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Krafton claims former Subnautica 2 devs ‘lost interest’ in developing game
Ash Parrish / theverge - Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the South Korean publisher undermined the game’s release to avoid paying them a bonus. In its respons…
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Uber Freight CEO joins self-driving truck company Waabi, says era of autonomous big rigs on U.S. roads is here
cnbc - Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron is joining autonomous trucking startup Waabi as COO and says the era of self-driving big rigs across U.S. roads is near.
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Apple Releasing Limited-Edition Beats Pill Speaker Later This Week
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today announced that it has teamed up with Bulgarian fashion designer Kiko Kostadinov to create a limited-edition Beats Pill speaker.The speaker features a "Kiko gray" finish, and it has a colorful, braided lanyard:For this collaboration, we looked …
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Circle shares rise as second-quarter revenue jumps 53% on strong stablecoin growth
cnbc - Circle shares jumped Tuesday after reporting its first quarterly earnings as a publicly listed company.
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Remedy Is "Unsatisfied" With FBC: Firebreak Sales But It Still Plans To Turn Things Around
Darryn Bonthuys / gamespot - In its financial results for the first half of 2025, Remedy Entertainment says that it is "unsatisfied" by the post-launch sales of FBC: Firebreak. While the company says that its co-op PvE game reached 1 million players after launch in June--with high nu…
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Intel's CEO has successfully wooed President Trump
Mariella Moon / engadget - It sounds like President Trump no longer thinks Intel's CEO should resign. Trump has revealed on Truth Social that he met with Lip-Bu Tan, Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of the Treasury. He didn't discuss the …
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StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns
cnbc - StubHub updated its IPO prospectus on Monday, effectively restarting the process to go public.
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Revel shutters rideshare business, pivots to EV charging
Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehicle charging. “At th…
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Paramount seals $7.7bn exclusive US rights deal with UFC - Financial Times
google - Paramount seals $7.7bn exclusive US rights deal with UFC Financial Times
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Musk Moves to Bring Tesla Power to U.K. As Car Sales Stumble
Riley Gutiérrez McDermid / gizmodo - With its car business in a nosedive, the company is making a dramatic pivot to become the UK's next big power company. The UK's energy sector generates over $200 billion a year and a slice of that could be exactly what Musk is looking to use to shore up T…
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Western Union Expands Retail Footprint With $500 Million Intermex Deal
PYMNTS / pymnts - Western Union is acquiring money transfer service International Money Express (Intermex) for $500 million. [contact-form-7] The deal is designed to bolster Western Union’s retail business in the U.S. while helping it speed digital customer acquisition, th…
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan set to meet with Trump to discuss his business dealings
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Under fire Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan is due to meet his fiercest new critic, U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House today to discuss calls for his resignation over alleged “conflicts of interest” resulting from his ties to Chinese bu…
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Diablo Boss Rod Ferguson Leaving Blizzard After Five Years
Ethan Gach / kotaku - The industry veteran was in charge of Diablo IVThe post Diablo Boss Rod Ferguson Leaving Blizzard After Five Years appeared first on Kotaku.
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Game Accused Of Copying Horizon Gets Radically Updated Steam Page
Blair Marnell / gamespot - Earlier this summer, a battle between gaming giants began when Sony filed a lawsuit against Tencent, alleging that the latter's upcoming game, Light of Motiram, is infringing on Sony's Horizon franchise. Now, Tencent appears to have revamped its presentat…
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Pinterest earnings reflect ad revenue boost despite EPS miss
Pinterest’s quarterly report revealed a 17% surge in ad revenue even as earnings per share fell short, prompting a 10% drop in stock value. Investors are left balancing upbeat revenue performance with lingering concerns over profitability.
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Trump Demands Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Resign as Board Weighs Ouster
Marcus Schuler / implicator - Trump demanded Intel's CEO resign over China ties Thursday morning. But Lip-Bu Tan was already losing a boardroom war over whether to keep the company's factories. The president just gave Intel's directors the excuse they needed.
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Peloton Pivots to ‘Healthspan’ Strategy of Holistic Wellness
PYMNTS / pymnts - Peloton is repositioning itself as a holistic wellness brand, expanding beyond its origins in connected fitness as part of a broader turnaround strategy to return to growth and sustainable profitability. [contact-form-7] “We are coming to understand bette…
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Framework Desktop (2025) Review: Powerful, but perhaps not for everyone
Daniel Cooper / engadget - The most obvious question is “Why?” Framework builds modular, repairable laptops that anyone can take apart and put back together again. It’s a big deal in an era where laptops are regularly sold as a single unit that, should one part break, goes in the t…
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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results
Emily Mullin / wired - In an 18-month clinical trial of the experimental GLP-1 pill orforglipron, about 60 percent of people lost at least 10 percent of their body weight.
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