Tag: Investment
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Channel 4 To Start Publishing Games
UK TV broadcaster Channel 4 are expanding their ever increasing repertoire of media to include video games. The newly proposed game publishing division All 4 games is a next step from sporadic publishing of mobile phone games the company has previously gone into. Those mobile phone games included funding for projects on mobile devices and…
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Google Working On New Super Batteries
The battery power problem is one of the most complained about things in mobile tech. Why does your device manage to fit so many files and applications but not stay powered on long enough to use them all properly? Well, older battery technology is to blame – smartphone batteries have historically lagged behind the phones…
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Dyson Investing $15Million USD In Battery Firm Sakti3
Batteries are a hugely limiting factor when it comes to the technology we use every day, think how many different things you use in a day that require batteries. The most obvious and painful example is smartphones, which could really do with investing in developing better batteries; or listen to me and just make the…
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Nostalgia drives Classic Car values
With money earning nothing on deposit and the baby boomers having disposable income, Classic Car values are red hot at the moment. Investors taking the old adage, “they won’t make another one” are piling money into early cars fuelled by nostalgia. The Mini is a classic example. This 1968 Cooper Mark 2 sold for £8100…
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Virgin Readying £3b Broadband Investment
Super fast broadband hasn’t taken off as fast as we’d have liked in the UK. Indeed it’s mostly limited to large urban areas and through rather expensive packages, both of which have hampered the numbers of people getting on board with the high speed offerings from ISPs. However, Virgin, one of the biggest providers of…
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Apple To Fund $848 Million Solar Farm
Apple are about to take a leap forward into the future of clean energy, as the tech giant is set to pour a huge sum into the building of a brand new solar farm, which is expected to generate huge amounts of energy from the sun’s rays and send it direct to Apple’s premises as…
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Snoop Dogg To Fund US Pot Startups
There’s a whole lot of money going into weed right now. There’s a new wave of cannabis fueled industries in states in the US that have newly embraced the legal status of the recreational substance, with some reporting massive profiteering off the herb. In fact, Colorado has said recently that they have raised $60 million from…
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Google Invests in SpaceX Satellite Internet
The idea of a global internet service, floating above the Earth in some way or another, has already been explored and exploited in a small way by Google through their Google X Labs Project Loon, a system designed to project signals below an ever-present ring of atmospheric balloons. Now however, it looks like Google have…
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Mobile Tech Made $3.3 Trillion in 2014
As the new year draws in, facts and figures about the year gone by are coming in thick and fast – we’ve already seen the announcements of gaming’s biggest titles in 2014, and now it’s the turn of the mobile industry, with reports of staggering revenue being generated by mobile tech companies during the year.…
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Sky Invest in Pluto.TV – Does This Mean New Things For Sky Go?
US online video service Pluto.TV have recently had a significant investment from the well-known company Sky. The investment cost Sky half a million dollars and all for Pluto.TV’s expertise in streamed content and further information on multi-platform TV viewing. You’d be forgiven for not having heard of Pluto.TV if you’re from the UK as it…
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YouTube To Invest In Original Talent
YouTube’s biggest original content partners, channels which produce popular content without infringing any copyright on video or audio materials, are already massively popular, and some are even profitable to their makers. Now it seems being a YouTube partner could be more lucrative than ever. The site is set to invest big in some of the…
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Rovio Strikes Gold: £26 Million Investment for Angry Birds Brand
Wow, looks like Rovio’s gonna need a bigger ‘piggy’ bank, hurr hurr hurr. In a multi-million investment drive for the producer of app classic Angry Birds, the developer scored a whopping 26 million big ones for the cause. Investors of the big chunk o’ money mostly came from the VC firms group, from Accel Partners…