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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

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Audiosocket Photo) TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio , Miss Universe , and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common thanks to a Seattle startup. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

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Sega’s crime drama/beat-’em-up Yakuza Kiwami is a 2016 remake of a 2005 game, but has resulted in the original game going quietly out of print. Sega Image) A new study found that the vast majority of video games with a physical release in the U.S. Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation.

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EA is bringing back college football games without college players

The Verge

After being missing in action for years, Electronic Arts announced today that it will be making college football video games again. EA would reach a settlement in 2016 for $40 million. The announcement of college football video games returning comes at an interesting time for sports fans. NCAA Football 14.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

CTOvision

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. May 2016: HPE sells its IT services business to CSC, forming DXC Technologies. HP in turn sued (then former) Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch in a UK court, and the U.S.

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VMworld 2016 Day 2 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 general session here at VMworld 2016 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. There’s a brief mention of VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation (including mention of free licenses for VMworld app users), but quickly moves on to VMware Horizon. Poonen introduces a brief customer video to reinforce his points.

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Valve sued by Immersion in patent infringement lawsuit related to haptic technology

GeekWire

If you’ve ever held a Nintendo Switch and felt it vibrate in reaction to something you did in a video game, such as land from a long fall or fire a gun, that was done via Immersion’s licensed tech. Its previous suits include accusations against Apple (2016), Sony (2002), Microsoft (2002), and Meta (2022).