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Quick Charge Podcast: August 5, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Biden to sign executive order for 50% of new cars being electric by 2030, reiterates new point-of-sale EV incentive

President Joe Biden announces a new executive order to set “a new target to make half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles.” In order to get there, Biden reiterated that they are working on a new point-of-sale EV incentive. As we reported earlier today, the Biden administration was working on a new announcement related to electric vehicles. In anticipation of it, Ford…
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Arrival to co-develop its EV open-data platform alongside Microsoft

Technology company and EV startup Arrival has announced plans to co-develop a cloud-based data platform with Microsoft to enable telemetry, vehicle, and data management for future electric vehicle fleets. Together with the help of Microsoft Azure, Arrival looks to streamline the sharing of data within fleet mobility holistically. Arrival is a technology company specializing in electric vehicles…
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Zynga acquires StarLark studio and Golf Rival game for $525M

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Zynga has agreed to acquire StarLark, a Chinese game developer, and the mobile golf title Golf Rival from Betta Games for $525 million in cash and stock. Golf Rival is the second-largest mobile…
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Zynga’s Q2 2021 bookings of $712M are up 37% from a year ago

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Zynga beat analysts’ expectations today, reporting strong bookings and revenues in the second quarter that ended June 30 thanks to the  performance of its existing games Toon Blast, Toy Blast, Rollic’s hyper-casual portfolio, and Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells. And Zynga also kept up its acquisition spree by…
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