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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. We truly love this industry and you are the reason why.” revenue share. “We ” .

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Facebook strikes News Corp deal to license news from Australian media outlets

The Verge

Facebook last month shut off the ability for Australian users and media organizations to share news links in the country , and now it seems the company’s extraordinary measure has resulted in a compromise for the most interested parties as media giant News Corp has struck a licensing deal with the social network.

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Warner Bros. roils game industry with patent on Nemesis gameplay mechanic by Kirkland’s Monolith

GeekWire

WB’s patent on the Nemesis System, #US20160279522A1 , is listed as “Nemesis characters, nemesis forts, social vendettas, and followers in computer games.” “This is a central part to the modern industry where fellow developers are not seen as the competition, but as peers attacking the same goals.

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Shell's Bad Tweets Reek of Desperation

Gizmodo

Social license to operate” is one of the life-bloods of brands. Reportedly coined by Canadian mining CEO James Cooney in 1997 after a disaster, the concept is basically how much the public is willing to embrace (or at least put up with) how an industry operates. Read more.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. As the United States Department of Homeland Security rolls out Phase II of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program , multinational corporations across all industries will take notice. 2015 PREDICTION TIME!!

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Google will pay publishers to license content for ‘new news experience’

Venture Beast

Google announced that it will begin paying news publishers for "high-quality content" for a "new news experience" the company will launch later this year. Read More.

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Wizards of the Coast posts job for an AI engineer — and some fans aren’t happy

GeekWire

GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) A job posting by Wizards of the Coast went viral on social media over the weekend, highlighting some consumers’ lack of enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence, as well as the continuing fallout from some of Wizards’ recent controversies. Wizards of the Coast headquarters in Renton, Wash.