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After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle’s Flexcube, some are calling for simplified business software UX to match consumer-facing design (Ann-Marie Alcntara/Wall Street Journal)

Ann-Marie Alcntara / Wall Street Journal:After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle's Flexcube, some are calling for simplified…

2 years ago

Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs (Josh Ye/South China Morning Post)

Josh Ye / South China Morning Post:Behind the success of Tencent's Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title…

2 years ago

Obituary of FarmVille, which is closing on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon (Daniel Victor/New York Times)

Daniel Victor / New York Times:Obituary of FarmVille, which is closing on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques…

2 years ago

Profile of Tencent, China’s most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:Profile of Tencent, China's most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and…

2 years ago

Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app, raises $28M Series B led by True Ventures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:Helsinki-based Yousician, which claims to have 20M MAUs across its music education app and guitar tuning app,…

2 years ago

Profile of Bolt Financial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who stepped down as CEO of the payments startup last month; sources: he retains a 25% stake worth ~$2.75B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Profile of Bolt Financial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who stepped down as CEO of the payments startup last month; sources: he…

2 years ago

Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI’s software, by its police department (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI's software,…

2 years ago

A Washington, DC federal judge has blocked the DOD from restricting US investments in Xiaomi; restrictions were scheduled to go into effect next week (David Yaffe-Bellany/Bloomberg)

David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg:A Washington, DC federal judge has blocked the DOD from restricting US investments in Xiaomi; restrictions were…

2 years ago

Tom Blomfield, founder and president of UK digital bank Monzo, is leaving the company at the end of Jan., says he’s been unhappy since it scaled beyond startup (Steve O’Hear/TechCrunch)

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:Tom Blomfield, founder and president of UK digital bank Monzo, is leaving the company at the end…

2 years ago

Open-Source App Lets Anyone Create a Virtual Army of Hackintoshes

samleecole writes from a report via Motherboard: MacOS is generally intended as a desktop operating system, and while it's a…

2 years ago