Month: October 2020

    • Esports Entertainment Group has acquired GGCircuit, Helix eSports, and Helix's esports data entity Genji Analytics, for $43M to expand its esports portfolio (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Esports Entertainment Group has acquired GGCircuit, Helix eSports, and Helix’s esports data entity Genji Analytics, for $43M to expand its esports portfolio  —  Esports Entertainment Group has acquired Helix eSports and GGCircuit for $43 million in its quest to become an esports and betting powerhouse. Esports Entertainment Group has acquired GGCircuit,

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    • Surveillance company harassed female employees using its own facial recognition technology

    Photo from Verkada A surveillance startup in Silicon Valley is being accused of sexism and discrimination after a sales director used the company’s facial recognition system to harass female workers. Verkada, which was valued in January at $1.6 billion, equips its office with its own security cameras. Last year, the sales director accessed these cameras

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    • Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $448.8M, up 52% YoY, vs. $409.8M est., says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019 (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

    Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Twilio reports Q3 revenue of $448.8M, up 52% YoY, vs. $409.8M est., says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019  —  The cloud communications as a service provider says it now has 208,000 active customer accounts, up from 172,000 in Q3 2019. Twilio reports Q3

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