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Meta will let Horizon creators sell virtual items

The Verge

Meta is testing new features to let creators make money within Horizon Worlds, the company’s social metaverse platform for Quest VR headsets that is soon coming to mobile phones and possibly game consoles. Horizon currently doesn’t have advertising beyond a recent Wendy’s-themed world cringely referred to as “Wendyverse.”

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Admix raises $25M for in-game advertising as brands seek gamers

Venture Beast

Admix has raised $25 million to build its platform for in-game advertising as brands seek out lucrative young gamers. Read More.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

It is believed that PII (personally identifiable information) was transmitted to third-party vendors via mobile applications and other website tools used by the healthcare giant. Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers.

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2017 Expectations: 5 Areas Where Technology Will Continue to Revolutionize Business Processes

CTOvision

Mobile Technology. More robust Wi-Fi networks and more advanced mobile devices are allowing staff to work outside the office. Mobile tech allows them to connect with company computer from home, a hotel on the road, or a "working vacation" on the other side of the globe. Market Segmentation. Networking. Facebook alone reports 1.7

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. Amazon The Seattle tech giant will have its usual presence at CES across a range of businesses, including automotive, advertising, devices and more. for consumer, mobility, and industrial markets. Tread Map The Wenatchee, Wash.-based

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Gen AI: The software developer’s new best friend

CIO Business Intelligence

For Geoffrey Bourne, cofounder of Ayrshare (“airshare”), a New York-based startup that automates and manages social sharing for corporate clients, it’s using what’s called regular expressions—tools used in virtually every programming language to identify patterns of text.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.