In an open letter released today, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick says he’ll be receiving the California minimum wage for salaried employees until the company’s Board of Directors has achieved “transformational gender-related goals.” Kotick laid out those goals in the letter released today, as first reported by Video Games Chronicle, and he claims that his […]
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Hazelcast CEO on the rise of real-time translytics
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! The ability to embed analytics within transactions in real time can be traced back to the mainframe platforms that have enabled this capability for decades. But as data is increasingly processed and analyzed at the point where it is created […]
Pepperdata CEO says AI ambitions outpace data management reality
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Pepperdata, a provider of tools that optimize IT infrastructure for computation, has seen a lot of trends come and go over the years. Now organizations are using the company’s tools to optimize infrastructure to process AI models. VentureBeat caught up […]
Cloudhead CEO Talks Funding VR's Next Big Games
Denny Unger, CEO of Pistol Whip developer Cloudhead Games, touched on the difficulties of funding large-scale VR games in a recent series of tweets. On Monday Unger, who helped found Cloudhead nearly a decade ago, noted that he’d seen a lot of people asking where the next ‘big’ VR game was. More specifically, people have […]
Interview: Voicemod CEO Jaime Bosch On Vtubing And Communication
If you’d have told me 20 years ago that people would construct virtual avatars and voice modulation to play video games for strangers online, I’d have had you locked up. Well, I was five, so I doubt I had that power – but the point is technology has come a long way in a short time. […]
Fighting Game Tournament CEO Approaches 2K Attendees in First Day of Registration – The Esports Observer
The organizers also announced that the partner hotel had already sold out of available rooms. Spectator registration (tickets for attendees not planning to compete in a tournament) has also reached its 500-person cap. In 2019, CEO reached a total registration of 3.4K. The fighting game community was arguably impacted more than any other esports scene […]
CyberConnect2 CEO Teases A Game Reveal That "Moved Him To Tears" During Development
Hiroshi Matsuyama, CEO of CyberConnect2, voiced his heightened anticipation for an unannounced project in a Twitter post on Saturday. Makers of many beloved anime-based experiences, such as Naruto Ultimate, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, and the .hack series, CC2 clearly has something special planned for its fanbase, given Matsuyama-san’s emotionally charged remarks. In his post on social […]
GameStop’s CEO Might Be Out, But He’s Getting One Hell Of A Golden Parachute
News broke yesterday that George Sherman, CEO of GameStop, would be stepping down from his position at the end of July (or sooner if a replacement can be found quickly). This comes after frequent critic Ryan Cohen was announced ascendant to the chairman of GameStop’s board of directors, which likely created some friction with GameStop’s […]
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Claims Company’s Losses Were A "Fantastic Investment"
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has claimed that despite losing hundreds of millions on the Epic Games Store, the money spent was a “fantastic investment.” Defending the company in a tweet last Sunday, Sweeney shares some of the statistics from the Epic Games Store’s end-of-year roundup including the money spent by PC players, how many […]
DataRobot CEO calls for ‘a new era of democratization of AI’
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Dan Wright just became CEO of DataRobot, a company valued at more than $2.7 billion that is promising to automate the building, deployment, and management of AI models in a way that makes AI accessible to every organization. Following the […]