from Natasha Lomas
Working in video games might sound like a dream job to a 12-year-old Fortnight-loving kid but the day-to-day reality of grinding in the industry can be as unrelenting as fighting an end of level baddie.
Games devs are routinely corralled to ‘crunch' to hit sequential release target deadlines to ensure a project gets delivered on time and budget. Unpaid overtime is a norm. Long hours are certainly expected. And taking any holiday across vast swathes of the year can be heavily frowned upon, if not barred entirely.
From the outside looking in it's hard not to conclude people's passion for gaming is [...]
Over the past few years, Chinese automaker giant BYD has been on a partnership spree with cities across China to electrify their public transportation systems, and now it's extending its footprint across the globe. On Thursday, BYD announced that it has shipped 100 electric buses to Santiago, the capital city of Chile.
The step marks the Chinese firm's further inroads into the Latin American country where a green car revolution is underway to battle smog. BYD's first batch of vehicles arrived in Santiago last November and the Warren Buffett-backed carmaker remains as the only electric [...]
from Jon Russell
Responding to criticism from his recent trip to Myanmar, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he's keen to learn about the country's racial tension and human rights atrocities, but it has emerged that both he and Twitter's public policy team ignored an opportunity to connect with a key civic group in the country.
A loose group of six companies in Myanmar has engaged with Facebook in a bid to help improve the situation around usage of its services in the country — often with frustrating results — and key [...]
TransferGo, the London-based international money transfer startup, has raised just over $17.6 million in Series B funding, including an earlier tranche of funding closed in May. The round is led by Vostok Emerging Finance, and Silicon Valley's Hard Yaka, with participation from Revo Capital, U-Start Club, and Practica Capital. The figure also includes around $830,000 in equity crowdfunding via Seedrs.
Founded in 2012, TransferGo currently operates in 47 countries around the world, with offices in London, Vilnius, Berlin, Warsaw and Istanbul. It claims a customer base of 833,000 users, adding more than 1,000 new customers per day, and positions itself [...]
from Jon Russell
Netflix loves to test new ideas, and its latest experiment is an odd new feature that lets viewers watch a scene again.
A selection of Netflix subscribers noticed the new addition, which serves a pop-up asking if they want to “watch this scene again” after certain ‘highlight' scenes in a show.
The streaming giant confirmed the pilot to the Los Angeles Times, adding:
We're trying out a feature which gives Netflix members the ability to rewatch favorite scenes and memorable moments with the click of a button. Right now we're just looking to learn from it and [...]
from Michelle Starr
