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 With the mobile gaming industry growing up on Android and iOS, developers focused on different genres are following diverging trajectories. Many casual developers are chugging along profitably even if their valuations have been readjusted by Zynga   performance on public markets. Midcore developers are enjoying a Renaissance of sorts, and casino gaming is attracting new interest on the possibility that U.S. domestic laws around online gambling may relax a bit. San Francisco-based Fl stanley kubek urry took a look at different genres of games to see how they retain and enga stanley cups ge users over 90 days. With rising marketing costs, it   becoming ever more important to be thoughtful about the types of audiences you attract and how you retain them. Ideally, a mobile app that monetizes well maximizes engagement  or the number of times a user interacts with a game on a weekly basis . The more they interact with an app, the more opportunities there are for in-ap stanley mug p purchases or other transactions.In the

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 Singapore-based Grab, Uber   chief rival in the region, announced the acquisition of Uber& 82 stanley quencher 17  Southeast Asian business on Monday. In return, Uber is taking聽27.5 percent of the Grab business, which is valued at over $6 billion, in a move that appears to be a win for both parties.Grab plans to shutter the Uber app in less than two weeks and migrate passengers and drivers to its services. It will also integrate U stanley quencher ber Eats into its nascent food delivery service.The coming together has already concerned consumers, who believe that prices may rise without two companies competeting head-to-head, and now the Competition Commission of Singapore  CCS  has announced that it is looking into the deal.The organization said it has  reasonable grounds  to suspect that the deal may fall foul of聽section 54 of Singapore   Competition Act.It added:CCS is g stanley puodelis enerally of the view that competition concerns are unlikely to arise in a merger situation unless:The merged entity has/will  Rqrd Nintendo s Reggie Fils-Aim茅 on the evolution of Super Mario Odyssey
 That s where New York startup Enigma comes into play 鈥?founded by Hicham Oudghiri and Marc Dacosta and helmed by CEO Jeremy Bronfmann, Enigma taps into over 100,000 public data sources from state and federal records to SEC filings to lists of frozen assets in the United Kingdom all the way to Crunchbase. The end result is an incredibly simple, incredibly smart way to sift through and find connections in publicly available data, and the team has just launched it on our Disrupt stage in New York.Here s a quick example: if you punch  Boeing  into the Enigma search box for  stanley mugs you ll be greeted by a handsome high-level view of multiple tables 鈥?think FCC licenses, a stanley cups ir carrier financials, government spending contracts, lists of company subsidiaries, the works. Those tables can be previewed by hovering over them, and a single click opens the full table for your perusal. From there you could click on a particular plane s tail number to figure out what carrier operates  stanley cup it and what  if any  acciden

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 Specifically, these were podcasts with content produced by fans, but many of which utilized MLB brand marks  logos  or team names in their titles. Both of those, of course, are copyright the MLB 鈥?which led some folks to believe that this was a hardcore crackdown on how those were being used by the community.I ve done a little looking into the situation and some sources on both sides of this thing have clarified what s going on. The long and short  stanley tumblr of it is that there was an error made and that the podcasts should return to iTunes over the next few days.In fact, some of them  botella stanley have already begun to come back to the iTunes store.Essentially, this comes down to the sheer size聽of the request. The MLB sent a notice to Apple with a couple dozen podcasts on it, noting that they were in violation of their trademark. What happened next was an accident.First, some background, when Apple receives a takedown request for copyright in an app or song or what have you, it s standard  stanley tumbler procedure is to  hid

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 We ;ve also heard that the details via Axios are on-point, including tal stanley tumbler ks with Fitbit for the company   assets with no outcome. We ;ve also heard that some of the engineering team will 鈥?unsurprisingly 鈥?be headed to sleep startup Casper. That team will be part of the company   San Francisco R&D team. Casper sells a wide portfolio of sleep products like the mattress, sheets, pillows, and of course a dog bed.The company was valued between $250 million and $300 million in a financing round in 2015, when it raised $40 million in a round led by Temasek. The company raised $2.4 million on Kickstarter for its first product, but since then ha stanley romania s tried to roll out new features like a version with voice recognition late last year. That last unit was priced at $149.Hello positioned itself as a sleep tracker that you wouldn ;t have to wear on your wrist, instead sitting somewhere in your room with a small tracker that fits inside  stanley thermoskanne your pillow. Sleep tracking has incre Bsbg The dark future of    The Handmaid   s Tale    feels terrifyingly real
 The event will take place on September 21st-23rd at the lovely Pier 70. Each day of  stanley termos Disrupt, Startup Battlefield companies pitch for six minutes on-stage with the world watching through a live video stream. Founders then face a live question and answer session with our judges   investors, founders and CEOs. Former judges include David Lee  SV Angel , Roelof Botha  Sequoia Capital , Kevin Rose  Google Ventures , Hunter Walk  Homebrew VC , Marissa Mayer  Yahoo  and many others.Battlefield companies also receive free demo space in Startup Alley, tickets to VIP events, a Battlefield-only reception, and of course, swag.We ;re looking for new, un-launched startups to debut on the Disrupt Stage. As Disrupt NY   batch would indicate, we like to keep things diverse. All verti stanley tumbler cals are welcome from biotech to security, supercomputin stanley cup g to ecommerce, on-demand services to battery technology, mobile consumer to healthcare, bitcoin to hardware and the next big thing in dev tools.Thoug

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 Remember Meerkat  It came out of nowhere in early 2015 鈥?a star of SXSW, in particular 鈥?and was on everyone   tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope, a strikingly similar competitor built mostl stanley cup y in stealth mode, and word that Twitter had acquired it for nearly $100 million dollars stanley thermos  before much of the world even knew it existed.Suddenly, interest in Meerkat fizzled.A year and a half later, Meerkat is dead, officially, as the company behind it shifts its efforts into a new project.Ben Rubin, co-founder of Life On Air stanley quencher   the company behind Meerkat , announced this afternoon that Meerkat has been pulled from the App Store:We just removed Meerkat from the AppStore 馃様 bitter sweet moment seeing it go while celebrating @houseparty— Ben Rubin  @benrbn  September 30, 2016The company itself, however, carries on: they ;re now focusing on Houseparty, a group video chat application they ;ve been building in secrecy聽for months. Houseparty lets you quickly jump into  parties& Tkwp 8 Smart Kitchen Gadgets Of The Future
 London-based developer Roman Mittermayr put together聽MediumSounds so he could mash together what he liked about the Medium design with the musical content he posts to SoundCloud.聽His creation adds a missing element to what Medium offers聽& 8211;聽a way for sound to be a main feature, not just an embedded part of the post. stanley taza Sound can be a for stanley bottles midable psychological tool used in storytelling. Movies, radio, and podcasts leverage it to strike emotion in the listener. Featuring sound could add a dynamic element to the online writing platform.MediumSounds creates each post by pulling in a聽Wordpress embed code of the file you want to use on Soundcloud and pairs it with the link to your Medium post. The post gets a unique URL that can be shared to Twitter and Facebook. It s an awkward workaround and Mittermayr admits this is i stanley cup n the experimental phase.But MediumSounds opens up quite a few possibilities for audiophiles.聽 In the future, I could see a connection of the reader   scroll-posit

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 But it seems the company has just become just a bit more chatty. At a small press event in New York, LG representatives confirmed that the device will make its U.S. debut in Q4 2012, though exactly which carriers will sell the device is still up in the air for now.I managed to score a little hands-on time with the device, and came away a bit more impressed than I normally am with LG   work. The Optimus G is slim and pl stanley drink bottle asticky  in keeping with the company   M.O. , but despite its light weight it never crossed botella stanley  the line into chintzy territory. It   a surprisingly solid-feeling device to boot   no questionable creaks when applying pressure to it, though that   thanks in part to the fact that the plastic back plate extends up over the sides. Also of note is the particular three-button configuration that LG opted for use here   they ;re discrete buttons as opposed to on-screen icons, and the G sports a menu key rather than t stanley cup he ICS-standard recent apps

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 You can check out the 2017 re stanley drinking cup port embedded below, and here   last year   report for reference.The easiest way to read it is ou stanley cup website r highlights deck:  The best Meeker 2017 Internet Trends slides and what they mean View this document on ScribdHere are a few initial takeaways:Smartphone sales and Internet penetration growth are both slowingIt   not really a & 8220 hift to mobile  as much as  the addition of mobile , since desktop usage hasn ;t declined much while mobile usage has skyrocketed to over three hours per day per person in the USThere   still more time spent on mobile than ad spend, indicating forthcoming windfalls for mobile ad platformsGoogle and Facebook control 85% of online ad growthInternet ad spend will s stanley termoska urpass TV spend within six monthsStreaming music led by Spotify surpassed physical music sales, giving recorded music its first revenue growth in 16 yearseSports are exploding, 聽with viewing time up 40% year over yea Yhnc The Silk Road   s Libertas Is Free, To The Annoyance Of U.S. Authorities, While DoJ Mulls BTC Sell-Off
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 The Carspring site in the U stanley cup .K. is no longer listing any cars for sale and its website chat remains set to offline. I ;ve also tried calling the Carspring telephone number but a recorded message seems to perpetually say all operators are busy.Neither Baumgart or Vollenbroich could be reached for comment. Meanwhile, a Rocket Internet spokesperson said that  Rocket Internet decided not to invest in Carspring anymore,  and that I should refer any further questions to Carspring directly.It is not clear why the Series B funding was announced in August despite never being closed. I also understand the deal   eventual collapse caught Channel 4 s Growth Fund, who were also due to take a minor stake in the company in a media for equity deal, off guard too.One source tells me that the  stanley bottles Se stanley cup ries B round was nine months in the making, during which time publicly-listed Rocket Internet blew hot and cold, but was most recently encouraged to go ahead after U.S. car buying site Carva Nrhu And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Is  8230; YourMechanic!
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 According to Crunchbase, Blue River raised a total of $30.35 million in funding and its other backers included Data Collective, Pontifax AgTech, Innovation Endeavors and Khosla Ventures.P stanley hrnek recision agriculture refers to farming practices that rely on computer vision, machine learning and smart devices to improve yield. It s attractive to growers because it automates labor-intensive parts of the farming process, allowing them to cut labor costs, and also reduces the waste of pesticides, water and fertilizer.Precision farming is an important part of Deere s growt stanley thermos h strategy and it agreed to buy Precision Planting LLC from Monsanto in November 2015, but gave up on the deal in May after the stanley becher  U.S. Department of Justice filed an anti-trust lawsuit. The Department of Justice claimed that the deal would have been worth about $190 million and that Deere and Precision Planting together would have held at least 86 percent of the high-speed precision planting market.Monsanto Growth Ventures participat Mxiv Miami   s LiveNinja Wins Backing From Scout Ventures For Video Customer Support
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 In another sign that mobile games are challenging or usurping other mediums like cartoons for creating powerful childrens ; brands, Russia   ZeptoLab just signed a deal with Burger King to bring their Om Nom character from Cut The Rope into kids ; meals next March.  Cut The Rope will have six toys in kids ; meals next year. For its part, ZeptoLab is creating a new game with six levels that goes along with the toys. The company isn ;t sharing terms of the deal except to say that it   a  marketing  partnership, which probably means that there is no licensing revenue. It   likely to be a pure promotional agreement.  It   reciprocal marketing,  said Tanya Haider, who came t stanley termos o ZeptoLab after serving as Nickelodeon   senior vice preside stanley kubek nt overseeing Spongebob Squarepants.  We will drive our users to their stores because we have this massive audience base here in the U.S.  ZeptoLab has see stanley cup spain n more than 250 mill

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 Micah RosenbloomContributorMicah Rosenbloom is a venture partner at Founder Collective.More posts from Micah RosenbloomHow to prepare for an inve stanley termosas stment apocalypseBusiness school grads and quants are winning the battle to create the next P&GTheranos was once hailed as a miraculous advance in medical technology, but is now reportedly  melting down  based on extensive reporting done by the Wall Street Journal s Pulitzer Prize winning  stanley bottle journalist John Carreyrou.Walgreens, Theranos  flagship partner, has announced it s suspending their rollout of new labs pending an investigation of their technology and grocery giant Safeway announced that it s canceling a roll out of Theranos clinics, a deal worth an estimated $350M.I m not an i stanley quencher nvestor in Theranos, have never met Elizabeth Holmes, but I have co-founded two companies in regulated industries that required dealing with the FDA, EPA and other government agencies.I feel for Ms. Holmes and believe the press accounts unfairly paint her company Epng Google Acquires Cloud Monitoring Service Stackdriver
  There s no place like Chicago and we re excited to be launching in this world-class city in September,  said Aereo CEO and Founder Chet Kanojia said in a released statement today.  Consumers want more choice and flexibility wh stanley mugs en it comes to how they watch television and the enthusiastic response to our technology from people across the country has been humbling. At Aereo, we feel that we ve built something meaningful for consumers and we re proud of the work we ve accomplished. However, there s still much more to come as we continue our  stanley cup expansion into new cities throughout the summer and fall. Chicago marks Aereo   fourth service area. The startup started in New York City quickly expanding to the surrounding areas. Boston came next followed by Atlanta a few days back. This is all while the company is fighting for its life in and out of the courtroom.The big networks are fighting to stop Aereo from disrupting stanley flask  the status quo. Aereo essentially takes over-the-air signals and places

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 Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson told reporters at today   Global Mobility Le stanley tumblers adership Forum in Detroit that the autopilot function will be an upmarket option that comes with a price tag of somewhere in the neighborhood of $10,000, Bloomberg reports. The car it ships with will include a steering wheel   but only in case the owner opts to debase themselves by actually driving it in the style of the plebeians of the prior age.But steering wheel or no, Samuelsson says this will be a fully autonomous car, meaning those inside the vehicle can go ahead  stanley romania and kick back and  watch a movie or whatever,  per Bloomberg.Volvo   approach is basically par for the course in terms of how new features make their way to consumer cars; start at the rarefied top, and then gradually flow down through the line first as options, then as included features at various trim levels, and finally becoming basically a universal sta stanley flasche ndard.Where it doesn ;t make par is when compared to the app Tshd Facebook hires The Sims    Rachel Rubin Franklin to lead Social VR team
 CEO Travis Kalanick previously had teased the idea of launching a ride-sharing option in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. Now, however, with the regulatory risk associated with ride-sharing out of the way while the PUC reviews potential new regulation, Kalanick says the company i stanley cup s going to engage in competition directly with companies like Lyft and SideCar.In its blog post on the subject, Uber said: Today, we stanley quencher  reached an agreement with the CPUC confirming that Uber is legal in California and suspending the prior complaints and fines levied against the company. More than that, the agreement states that ride-sharing 鈥?or rides provided by drivers not specifically licensed to drive a limousine or taxi 鈥?is legal, too. This paves the way for Uber to begin offering ride-sharing services in California in the near future. But Kalanick was much less coy on the subject when I spoke to him by phone, telling me that ther stanley cup e   no question about it   his company wil