Smart light company Govee apologizes for “white supremacy” marketing imagery
Smart lighting manufacturer Govee is apologizing after a pair of books showing only the words “white supremacy” were featured in a marketing image on its website. …
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eBay rejects GameStop's $56B offer: "Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive"
… That’s the difference.” Cohen claimed that eBay could become more successful by dramatically cutting sales and marketing costs, and by using GameStop’s 1,600 US stores as “a national network for authentication, intake, fulfillment, and live commerce.” But eBay’s board told Cohen that the company ca… …
The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting more expensive later this year
…In an announcement of the impending price increase today, Nintendo cited “changes in market conditions” and “the global business outlook” that are “expected to extend over the medium to long term.” That…
GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it
… GameStop said it would cut $1.2 billion from eBay’s sales and marketing budget, arguing that the current spending “is not producing more users on a marketplace with near-universal brand recognition.” GameStop proposed cutting another $300 million from eBay’s product development expenses and $500 mi… …
Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers
…That’s a significant market even for a multi-billion-dollar company like Valve, and one that Valve said has been a “massive benefit to developers.” At the same time, Valve wrote…
Sony says "efficient" AI tools will lead to even more games flooding the market
…That increase is the inevitable result of AI development tools that are “lowering barriers to creation, accelerating development cycles, and enabling more creators to enter the market,” he said. By way of…
As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
…It is unclear what timeframe SpaceX is using for its addressable market estimate, but that is significantly larger than third-party estimates for the global AI market. For comparison, Gartner estimated that…
Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time
…That’s a big market you’ve got there SpaceX projects a “total addressable market,” or TAM, of $28.5 trillion across its present and future offerings in space, data, and AI…
SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion
… He previously ran a marketing and PR agency in the gaming industry, led editorial for the TV network CBS, and worked on social media marketing strategy for Samsung Mobile at the creative agency SPCSHP. …
The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?
… LG says the 25G590B is “engineered specifically for first-person shooters” and mentions an “esports-optimized design” in its marketing materials, suggesting the display is targeting the small subset of gamers who play twitch-based reflex games for a living. …