Philippines to shut 175 offshore gambling firms, deport 40,000…

And just when things looked on the up for 2016, the Eels were struck down by allegations of salary-cap rorting that eventually led to the stripping of 12 points and a complete restructure of their administration.

The POGOs targeted for closure had licenses that either expired or were revoked, for violations like non-payment of government fees, Clavano said, adding the deportation of the Chinese workers would start next month.

Sept 29 (Reuters) — Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it would wind down its consumer gaming service, Stadia, as it failed to attract enough interest from gamers after nearly three years of being launched.

phone. First introduced in 2016, the Pixel was a late-comer to the portable phone trend, arriving nearly a decade after Apple’s iPhone and seven years after Samsung’s Galaxy model, the two products that dominate today

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The sector employs 201,000 Chinese and 111,000 Filipinos, according to Leechiu’s data, which estimates POGOs deliver 190 billion pesos ($3.22 billion) to the economy each year, a boon to the property and retail sectors.

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«While Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected,» Phil Harrison, vice president and pkv poker general manager of Stadia, said in a blog post.

Real estate consultancy Leechiu Property Consultants estimates that a complete exit of the POGO industry would leave vacant 1.05 million square metres (259 acres) of office space — a third of the size of New York’s Central Park — and 8.9 billion pesos ($151 million) in foregone annual rent.

‘But currently feedback from our creators, users, playtesters, and many of us on the team is that the aggregate weight of papercuts, stability issues, and bugs is making it too hard for our community to experience the magic of Horizon. 

website Stadia was launched in 2019 along with an internal game development unit that was expected to make titles for the platform. (Reporting by Tiyashi Datta and Savyata Mishra in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel)

MANILA, Sept 26 (Reuters) — The Philippines will stop operations of 175 offshore gambling firms and deport about 40,000 Chinese workers, a justice ministry official said on Monday, part of a crackdown on the notoriously opaque online gaming industry.

Meta’s virtual reality network Horizon Worlds, currently the centerpiece of its metaverse endeavor, is suffering from bugs and not being used by the very employees who are building it — new internal documents reveal. 

In a September 15 memo to employees obtained by , Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, said the team would remain in ‘quality lockdown’ for the remainder of 2022 in order to ‘ensure that we fix our quality gaps and performance issues before we open up Horizon to more users.’

nalys. Google has instead focused on boosting its Android operating system, which was launched in 2008 and included more than 80 percent of the smartphones sold in the first half of 2022, according t

dware. While Google’s phones are comparable in terms of quality to the top sellers, the product «has often lacked backing from Google» in terms of marketing, said Runar Bjørhovde, a research analyst at market research fir

tions. Those paltry sales figures are partly due to the Google phone’s limited availability, with the Pixel 5 sold in less than 10 countries as the tech giant has focused its smartphone investment on software rather than its own

Meta’s virtual reality network Horizon Worlds, currently the centerpiece of its metaverse endeavor, is suffering from bugs and not being used very much by the very employees who are building it — new internal documents reveal

nalys. Maurice Klaehne of Counterpoint Research said that «Google certainly has the capability and resources to become a major smartphone player, but that is not Pixel’s strategy,» noting that growing Android remains Google’s main