Thursday, August 11, 2016

Pokemon Go's Own Limitations Helped It Make $200 Million in Its First Month and other top stories.

  • Pokemon Go's Own Limitations Helped It Make $200 Million in Its First Month

    Pokemon Go's Own Limitations Helped It Make $200 Million in Its First Month
    The news comes from TouchArcade, which cites data from Sensor Tower. If estimations from the group are accurate, Pokemon Go made a whopping $200 million in worldwide revenue during its first month; this is seven times the revenue made by Candy Crush Soda Saga during its first month, and almost twice the revenue of Clash Royale. As you can see in the below graph, the launch of the game in Japan really saw Pokemon Go's revenue generation take off and reach staggering heights. There's been a lot ..
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  • Jawbone reportedly tried to sell itself

    Jawbone reportedly tried to sell itself
    Wearable maker Jawbone recently tried to sell itself to a hardware manufacturer, according to a report today from The Information. People with knowledge of the company's plans told The Information that Jawbone's top executives have continually engaged in conversations with potential buyers, stressing the company's financial obligations to investors. The company has, since 1999, raised close to $900 million. Any discussion of an acquisition is apparently separate from Jawbone's plans to sell off..
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  • Australian pricing for the AMG C 43 Sedan, Estate and Coupe

    Australian pricing for the AMG C 43 Sedan, Estate and Coupe
    Mercedes-Benz has announced local pricing for the hot-shoe AMG C43 range, including the Sedan, Estate and Coupe with deliveries expected in October.MERCEDES-BENZ AUSTRALIA has revealed local pricing for the AMG C 43 range, which includes a Sedan, Estate and Coupe variants. All three models are available to order now with deliveries expected to begin in October.With pricing running from $101,900+ORC to $105,615+ORC, Mercedes-Benz is calling the C 43 range an “attractive entry into the world of Me..
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  • We catch up with world's first Pokémon Go master, Nick Johnson, in Tokyo

    We catch up with world's first Pokémon Go master, Nick Johnson, in Tokyo
    He’s caught ’em all in the U.S., Europe, Hong Kong and Australia, and now we get to find out what the gamer’s been up to in Japan, the birthplace of Pokémon. Nick Johnson was living like any other Pokémon Go fan in New York until recently; pounding the pavement late at night, hatching eggs, stocking up on Pidgeys and unwittingly rubbing shoulders with fellow trainer Justin Bieber at Grand Army Plaza. That all changed on July 21, however, when the 28 year-old tech employee caught ’em all, filli..
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  • The funniest responses to the great Census bungle of 2016

    The funniest responses to the great Census bungle of 2016
    At least Australians haven’t lost their sense of humour. Picture: Twitter/@thefinnegans.AMID the spinning “wheels of death” and error messages staring out of their computer screens as the ABS and Census websites crashed on Tuesday evening, Australians found time for some surprisingly good gags. While many raged at the outage from an organisation whose sole purpose was to collect and collate information, others found irony in the supposedly state-of-the-art system driving people nuts.Alex Ward sa..
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  • Microsoft backflips on Australian Office 365 migrations

    Updated 9 August 11:15PM: added comment from Microsoft Microsoft has backflipped on its decision to automatically migrate Australian Office 365 customer data to local availability zones, with data to remain in Singapore by default. Customers will now have to opt-in to get their Office 365 tenants migrated to the Australian data centres, which Microsoft launched to much fanfare in December 2014. If customers fail to opt-in before the 31 October deadline, they will not be able to migrate their da..
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  • Looks Like A Russian Cybergang Hacked Into One Of The World's Largest Payment Systems

    Looks Like A Russian Cybergang Hacked Into One Of The World's Largest Payment Systems
    Looks Like A Russian Cybergang Hacked Into One Of The World's Largest Payment Systems According to a report by security blogger Brian Krebs, Oracle’s popular MICROS point-of-sale terminals support website was commandeered by a Russian cybergang. This is bad since MICROS is in the top three most popular payment systems in the world. Image: Gizmodo In a statement to Gizmodo, Oracle said it had “detected and addressed malicious code in certain legacy MICROS systems”. Right now, the extent of the..
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Paper transport tickets turfed in New South Wales effective tomorrow .Great Australian Bight oil drilling protesters gather at Victor Harbor .
Paper transport tickets turfed in New South Wales effective tomorrow .Satellite built by Adelaide University researchers part of Australia's ... .

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