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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. VMware customers were understandably concerned. The VMware acquisition has been no different.

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Wizards of the Coast reverses stance on controversial licensing revision following outcry

GeekWire

The policy shift concerns the Open Game License (OGL), a public copyright notice that Wizards of the Coast, headquartered in Renton, Wash., Under the terms of the original OGL, or OGL 1.0a, third-party creators can independently publish virtually any sort of material for D&D for profit. adopted in 2000. leak came late on Jan.

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98point6 hit by new layoffs in latest change at health tech startup

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(98point6 Photo) Seattle-based digital healthcare startup 98point6 has conducted a new round of layoffs, the company confirmed Tuesday. Another worker who joined the company more than six years ago called her layoff an “unplanned departure.” ” The company has around 100 employees in the U.S.,

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

Oliver Banks, Retail Consultant and Author Oliver Banks But according to Banks, one of the most impressive cases he’s seen in retail involves a company and source he can’t disclose. A chief commercial officer of a clothing company learned to use Midjourney to create images of new clothing products. And software code is a language.”

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Redfin co-founder sues company for alleged patent infringement over 3D home tour technology

GeekWire

Surefield founder David Eraker claims Redfin copied technology that he developed after leaving the company that allows prospective homebuyers to take virtual 3D tours of properties in a lawsuit filed Monday. That complaint concerns image-based rendering technology that makes it possible to move around a property virtually.

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Digital health startup 98point6 raises more cash to fuel new era as a software licensor

GeekWire

98point6 Image) Healthcare company 98point6 landed additional investment to support its transition to a licensor of virtual care solutions, following a move to offload parts of its business. Axios , which first reported the news, said the company raised $32 million. 98point6 raised an additional $30.7 98point6 CEO Jay Burrell.

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Analysis: Nobody could dethrone ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ except Wizards of the Coast — and it may have done just that

GeekWire

No company could realistically have gotten in D&D ‘s way except its owner, Renton, Wash.-based based Kobold Press has used the Open Game License to publish material for D&D 5th edition, such as 2016’s Tome of Beasts , shown above. based Wizards of the Coast, and this month, it very much did.

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