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Zynga Inc has bought Istanbul-based mobile gaming startup Gram Games for $250 million to boost its portfolio of franchise-based titles, it said on May 30.

The U.S.-based game developer Zynga has agreed to acquire the mobile card game studio of Turkey’s leading global cellphone gaming company Peak Games for $100 million.

A majority of employees at Three Square Market, a technology company in Wisconsin, have volunteered to embed a rice-sized chip in their bodies that allow them to swipe into the building or pay for food in the cafeteria as if their hands were key cards.

Dozens of top tech companies — including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter — have filed a joint legal brief arguing against President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
The brief was filed late Sunday with the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of an ongoing lawsuit against the ban.

Turkey's internet watchdog restored access to Google's cloud storage service, Google Drive, on Oct. 9 after it was blocked on the grounds of "administrative measures" allegedly due to a series of leaks by the hacking group RedHack.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens in mid-May after an ambitious $305 million expansion and facelift that aims to rival the world-class art spaces of New York, Paris or London.
 

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey on Oct. 22 said that he is giving a third of his shares to company employees.

The move to pump up the supply of shares available to reward workers could be intended to boost moral in the aftermath of job cuts at the San Francisco-based Internet firm.

Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo is surrendering his post, handing the reins back to co-founder Jack Dorsey as the popular service struggles to boost its ranks of users.

A 60-year-old has been wounded after a road in front of her home collapsed due to a leaking underground pipe in Manisa’s Soma district