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Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Watch now! Google announced “play as you download” on Android 12 devices so players can hop into mobile games and begin playing during a download. And it also said Google Play now reaches more than 2.5 billion gamers. It’s all about reducing the friction for players when it comes to playing mobile games — a topic that I recently wrote about in a DeanBeat column. Google’s Google Play… Source link

Serena Williams earned a spot at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, but she’s decided she won’t be using it.   On Sunday at the All-England Club, the day before play begins at Wimbledon, the four-time Olympic gold medalist told reporters that she’s not going to Tokyo to compete for a fifth.  “I’m actually not on the Olympic list, not that I’m aware of,” Williams said via ESPN. “If so, then I shouldn’t be on it.” Williams declines to explain her decision Williams, 39, was asked why she decided to… Source link

Welcome to the start of the conference finals and the conclusion of the second round. Sunday features Game 7 between the Hawks and 76ers and the first game of the Western Conference Finals. Yahoo Sports’ Minty Bets has the advice that you need. All odds via BetMGM. Atlanta Hawks at Philadelphia 76ers (-7), Total: 216.5 Let’s start with the final game of the second round of the playoffs. The Hawks and Sixers tip off at 8 p.m. ET and the winner plays the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern… Source link

While this isn’t quite the same attention paid to more recent Final Fantasy remakes, Square Enix is giving the first six games in the RPG series a ‘pixel remaster’ treatment. At the company’s E3 presentation, it announced that these pixel-perfect editions would land on mobile platforms and Steam. Other details, however, were scarce.  This should help set expectations: this isn’t another FFVII Remake. Games like Final Fantasy VI could benefit from a refreshed edition — its Steam iteration… Source link

The second round of the NBA playoffs continues Sunday with two games. Yahoo Sports’ Minty Bets has the advice that you need. All odds via BetMGM. Another Milwaukee win evens this series at 2-2. The Bucks took a low-scoring Game 3 with an 86-83 win on Thursday night. Now the Bucks are trying for a second consecutive win against a Nets team that doesn’t have James Harden. The Nets are favored by two after Milwaukee was favored by 3.5 on Thursday. The under has hit in seven of Brooklyn’s last… Source link

Jock MKT, the Stock Market App for Sports, Raises $10 Million By Andrew Cohen May 19, 2021 Jock MKT, a fantasy sports app that lets users buy and sell shares of athletes, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding will be used to expand Jock MKT’s mobile app into 44 U.S. states and Canada.  New York-based Left Lane Capital led the round alongside participation from sports technology investment firm Will Ventures and Ryan Moore, a founding investor and board… Source link

Jock MKT, the Stock Market App for Sports, Raises $10 Million By Andrew Cohen May 19, 2021 Jock MKT, a fantasy sports app that lets users buy and sell shares of athletes, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The funding will be used to expand Jock MKT’s mobile app into 44 U.S. states and Canada.  New York-based Left Lane Capital led the round alongside participation from sports technology investment firm Will Ventures and Ryan Moore, a founding investor and board… Source link

Bloomberg Key Brexit Clash Would Cost Euro Swap Traders $2.4 Million a Day (Bloomberg) — One of the biggest Brexit battlegrounds between the European Union and the U.K. now has a price tag: at least $2.4 million a day.That’s how much any move by the European Union to cut off access to London’s dominant clearinghouses for derivatives could cost traders in euro interest rate swaps, net of buying, according to an estimate from Albert Menkveld, professor of finance at Vrije Universiteit… Source link

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Scandal Toll Goes Ever Higher as Rivals Thrive (Bloomberg) — In an era of prosperity for investment banks, Credit Suisse Group AG is careening from one crisis to another and then another — this time, with a $4.7 billion writedown tied to billionaire investor Bill Hwang’s trading blowout.The staggering hit — the largest yet linked to market-shaking losses run up by Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management — prompted sweeping management changes at the Swiss bank… Source link

Kyrie Irving will miss the Brooklyn Nets’ next three games while dealing with a “family matter,” the team announced on Monday. Irving will miss a three-game road trip for the Nets, where they will take on the Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and Detroit Pistons. It’s unclear specifically what Irving’s “family matter” is. Kyrie Irving will not accompany the team on this week’s three-game road trip (POR/UTA/DET) in order to tend to a family matter. — Brooklyn Nets… Source link