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🎮 LinkedIn Expands Into Gaming
To expend time spent on its networking platform
Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 LinkedIn has launched games on its platform to spark conversations and friendly competition among professionals. Twitch is rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week.
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LinkedIn launches games on its platform
LinkedIn has ventured into gaming, introducing three games accessible on the LinkedIn mobile app and desktop: Pinpoint, Queens, and Crossclimb. Users can engage in each game once daily, tracking metrics like high scores and daily streaks, and view leaderboards featuring connections who also play. These games are found in the LinkedIn News and My Network section on desktop or the My Network tab on mobile.
Pinpoint challenges players with word association, Crossclimb combines trivia with wordplay, and Queens offers sudoku without numbers, requiring players to place queens on a grid without touching each other.
The move into gaming aligns with a trend among digital content platforms seeking new revenue streams amid declining ad revenue. The success of puzzle games, as seen with the New York Times, underscores their potential to engage and monetize users.
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Twitch rolls out TikTok-like discovery feed
Twitch is rolling out its new TikTok-style discovery feed to all users this week. This feed, available on iOS and Android, offers bite-sized content to help users find new streamers. Following TikTok's popularity, Twitch joins other apps like Instagram and YouTube with similar features.
The feed consists of two tabs: live and clips. The live tab showcases streams from followed and suggested streamers, while the clips tab highlights top moments from various creators, even when they're offline. It aims to cater to users with limited time.
This update addresses a long-standing request from Twitch streamers for better audience reach. Unlike TikTok, Twitch's platform hasn't offered many ways for streamers to attract new viewers. Now, with the discovery feed, small and medium streamers have a chance to expand their audience.
The Waves
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🗞️ 8 newspaper publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI
💰 Microsoft to invest $1.7 billion in cloud, AI in Indonesia
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Web3 Special
Securitize, a digital securities platform, secured $47 million in a strategic funding round led by BlackRock, with Aptos Labs, Paxos, and Circle also investing. The funds will fuel product development, global expansion, and partnerships in financial services.
Joseph Chalom from BlackRock joins Securitize's board, emphasizing the investment's alignment with BlackRock's digital assets strategy. Securitize collaborated with BlackRock on launching the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on Ethereum, offering tokenized shares.
BUIDL, with a market cap of $375 million in six weeks, is the largest tokenized treasury fund, surpassing BENJI. RWA.xyz reports $1.28 billion locked in tokenized U.S. treasuries and bonds, reflecting the growing trend toward digital asset investments.
Two bills concerning crypto mining in Arkansas have cleared the state’s House of Representatives and await the Governor’s approval to become law. The measures, Senate Bills 78 and 79, focus on noise restrictions, water usage regulations, foreign ownership limits, and local government authority over mining operations.
Senate Bill 78 targets noise and water usage at mining farms while prohibiting foreign ownership and reinstating local regulatory power. Senate Bill 79 establishes a licensing and regulatory framework overseen by the Oil and Gas Commission.
Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is expected to sign the bills into law. The legislation seeks to amend the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023, which had initially sparked debate due to its limitations on local government control over mining activities, eliciting concerns from rural communities.
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