HIGHLIGHTS Wolfenstein 2 is 50 percent off Okami HD is 30 percent off GTA 5 is 50 percent off The Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2018 is taking place right now. A host of games have received deep discounts. Like recent sales, there’s a single discounted price for each game through the duration of the sale. This time, the Steam Lunar New Year Sale 2018 ends on February 19, 2018 at 11pm IST. Here’s what you should check out. Okami HD – this remaster of Capcom’s take on the Legend of Zelda looks gorgeous on modern hardware. With support for 4K resolution, Steam…
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HIGHLIGHTS Atari has announced Atari Token It represents the legacy brand’s foray into cryptocurrency Its shares spiked after announcing its cryptocurrency push Classic video game brand Atari has announced Atari Token. It represents its foray into cryptocurrency. The announcement has seen a spike in shares, rising by more than 60 percent since the announcement on February 8. In addition to this, Atari is taking a stake in a company that’s building blockchain-based digital entertainment and is expanding its online casino-gaming partnership with Pariplay to allow for gambling with digital currencies. It’s unknown if this would be restricted to Atari Token or be…
Unilever Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Keith Weed has gotten tougher on big digital platforms – but he’s not ready to go cold turkey on the Google-Facebook duopoly just yet. His threat to stop doing business with media that “breed division in society or fail to protect children” in yesterday’s speech to the IAB leadership meeting isn’t an ultimatum with a firm deadline, he says in an interview with Ad Age. But he isn’t giving social media forever to make things right, either. Think of it this way: Weed is also in charge of Unilever’s sustainability program. When Greenpeace sent…
Mitt Romney will launch his Utah Senate campaign Thursday morning with a low key announcement on social media, and will make his first public appearance a day later near Salt Lake City with a keynote address to a gathering of grassroots Republicans. Romney teased his run for Senate in a Feb. 1 tweet, saying that he would have an announcement to make on Feb. 15. On Wednesday, Romney previewed his campaign again in a short Facebook post. Sources in Utah told the Washington Examiner that Romney that will officially jump into the 2018 Senate race with a digital announcement, rather than holding…
If there’s any brand that’s been taking over our Instagram feeds, it’s I.AM.GIA. After being seen on celebrities like Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski, the Australian-based label has become the style destination for women who ooze confidence, amassing a cult-following of almost 500,000 Instagram followers. Since launching last May, I.AM.GIA has swiftly skyrocketed to popularity with an unapologetically edgy product line including cargo pants, corsets, snakeskin boots, and plaid sets all under $200. But who is GIA? Founder Alana Pallister explains how she’s captivated a fashion generation around a fictional character and is using social media to create an ultra-elusive, luxury…
The new German law that compels social media companies to remove hate speech and other illegal content can lead to unaccountable, overbroad censorship and should be promptly reversed, Human Rights Watch said today. The law sets a dangerous precedent for other governments looking to restrict speech online by forcing companies to censor on the government’s behalf.“Governments and the public have valid concerns about the proliferation of illegal or abusive content online, but the new German law is fundamentally flawed,” said Wenzel Michalski, Germany director at Human Rights Watch. “It is vague, overbroad, and turns private companies into overzealous censors to avoid steep fines,…
Good evidence for this emerged recently with the publication of the 2018 findings from the Edelman Trust Barometer. The annual study surveyed more than 33,000 people across the globe about how much trust they have in institutions, including government, media, businesses and NGOs. This year, there was a sharp increase in trust in journalism as a source of news and information, and a decline in trust in social media and search engines for this purpose. In Australia, the level of trust in both was below the global average. But the 17-point gap between them was greater — 52 per cent for…
They believe that the Office for National Statistics will say that inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, fell for a second month in a row on Tuesday. It is expected to say that CPI inflation fell from 3 per cent in December to 2.9 per cent in January. The fall in inflation comes hot on the heels of last month’s increase in average earnings, which were ahead of expectations, up 2.4 per cent compared to the same period the previous year. Fears that rising inflation in the US will lead to interest rate hikes resulted in a major…
Having pulled the plug on offshore derivatives tied to Indian indices and stocks, domestic stock exchanges hope their operations in the nation’s first international finance hub in Gujarat can draw foreign investors. The International Financial Services Centre at Gujarat International Financial Tec-City near Ahmedabad is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s idea to create a finance hub like Singapore or Hong Kong in his home state. The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia’s oldest, was the first to start operations in January last year. Its rival and the country’s biggest bourse, National Stock Exchange, followed six months later. Foreign investors trade in futures linked to Indian…
School leavers should be given £10,000 to put towards further education, according to a new study. According to the report, every young person in England – as well as adults who didn’t go to university – should receive state funding to help pay for university tuition fees or other qualifications. The move would apparently help to boost higher education, and encourage take-up a wider range of courses. Such a scheme – which has been dubbed a ‘national learning entitlement, or NLE – would cost the public purse around £8.5billion a year, the study’s authors estimate. The paper, published by the…