Late-Night Quarantined: Daily Show Rebrands, Lin-Manuel Performs and Colbert Offers a Message of Hope

Late-night comedians continue to experiment with their formats while hunkered down in their respective coronavirus bunkers. For instance, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah on Wednesday rebranded as The Daily Social Distancing Show. During the 17-minute, online-only episode, the Comedy Central host provided updates on the pandemic and checked in with correspondent Roy Wood Jr. […]

Aer Lingus Rebrands, Offers Free Wifi and Drinks and Improves Award Redemptions

Aer Lingus Rebrands With Free Wifi and Improved Redemptions Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not […]

Orwell indie publishing label Surprise Attack Games rebrands as Fellow Traveller

Indie publishing label Surprise Attack Games said it has rebranded itself as Fellow Traveller and will now focus on publishing unusual narrative games from independent developers. Fellow Traveller also announced two new signings to the label. It will publish Chance Agency’s cyberpunk taxi-driving adventure, Neo Cab, and alien-ocean-exploration game…Read More

Microsoft Ventures rebrands as M12 to avoid ‘confusion’ about its purpose

Microsoft has changed the name of its venture capital (VC) fund from Microsoft Ventures to M12, two years after its official launch. The Microsoft Ventures name actually predates the VC arm by a few years, and it was used as an overarching term for Microsoft’s accelerator programs, which did include some seed-funding initiatives. That part […]

Barclaycard Rebrands, Becomes Barclays

Barclaycard Rebrands, Becomes Barclays Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all credit card companies […]

Gree’s VR VC fund rebrands to add AR and mixed reality

Gree VR Capital, a venture investment division of Japan’s mobile game publisher Gree, has completed its first fund for virtual reality investments and is rebranding so that it can invest in the broader augmented reality and mixed reality sectors. Gree invested $ 18.3 million into 14 VR startups and three augmented reality companies in its […]

Gree’s VR VC fund rebrands to add AR and mixed reality

Gree VR Capital, a venture investment division of Japan’s mobile game publisher Gree, has completed its first fund for virtual reality investments and is rebranding so that it can invest in the broader augmented reality and mixed reality sectors. Gree invested $ 18.3 million into 14 VR startups and three augmented reality companies in its […]

Machinima rebrands as it takes gamer culture videos to new video platforms

Warner Bros. bought digital video site Machinima in 2016, and today the division is announcing a rebranding with the goal of turning it into a bigger content producer that focuses on the intersection of gamer culture and entertainment. Machinima is all about transforming gamer culture from a niche into mass entertainment, and it doesn’t hurt […]

Captain401 rebrands as Human Interest, raises $11 million to help small businesses set up 401k accounts

Human Interest (formerly Captain401), announced today that it has raised $ 11 million to help more small businesses set up 401k accounts for their employees. Wing Venture Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, SV Angel, CrunchFund, Slow Ventures, Susa Ventures, FundersClub, and several individual investors. “Even though 401ks […]

Israeli VC firm Carmel Ventures rebrands as Viola Ventures and launches new $200 million fund

Israeli venture capital (VC) firm Carmel Ventures is changing its name to Viola Ventures as the company announces a new $ 200 million fund. Founded in 2000, Carmel Viola Ventures focuses on early-stage tech investments, and the firm already had more than $ 800 million in assets under management (AUM) spread across four funds. It […]