If the U.S. were ever so foolishly intent on shrinking inequality, doing so would be easy: abolish usage of cars, planes, computers, smartphones and the internet. Presto, inequality shrunk substantial ...

In the latest round of ongoing Bay Area tech layoffs, mobile game maker Niantic, Inc. announced it would be cutting dozens of ...

A new report claims that Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, is laying off dozens of staff members, weeks after the sale ...

In its most basic form, the index measures inflation plus the unemployment rate, which for March equates to roughly 6.9, down from a peak of about 15 at the onset of the COVID crisis, but higher than ...

Among those Niantic is cutting are its chief technology and chief financial officers, its general counsel and five senior ...

San Francisco tech company Niantic sold off its hit Pokémon Go and a few other video game titles in a $3.85 billion megadeal.

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO, will spin off its geospatial AI arm into a new firm, Niantic Spatial, with $250 ...

This shift positions Niantic at the forefront of geospatial AI, moving beyond gaming into sectors that integrate digital ...

It looks like Scopely Inc. is getting bigger. The Culver City-based mobile games maker is in talks to buy Niantic Inc.’s ...

Steve H. Hanke is a professor of applied economics and founder and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at the Johns Hopkins ...

In a Wednesday LinkedIn post, Niantic CEO John Hanke said, “Today’s LLMs represent the first step toward a future where a variety of expert models collaborate to reason and understand complex ...

Niantic's Founder and Chief Executive Officer John Hanke said that Scopely shares the same focus as Niantic in leveraging and building games along with user experiences. He believes this partnership ...