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Niantic was still raking in hundreds of millions a year from the beloved mobile game when CEO John Hanke decided to sell its ...
“I think it’s something that could have the biggest impact on this industry — but it’s also probably the most controversial thing that we could talk about,” John Hanke said. As his talk ...
If John Hanke, chief executive of “Pokemon Go” creator Niantic Labs, had his way, gamers would wear Internet-connected contact lenses, spend big at businesses promoted in his games and clean ...
On Sunday morning I got to chat with John Hanke, the boss of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, to ask what went wrong and what Niantic was doing to ensure its events continued to improve. In our wide ...
And that's exactly how John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go" developer Niantic, likes it. "The game itself is intended to facilitate the real-life stuff," Hanke tells Business Insider. The reward is the ...
Niantic, the developer of "Pokémon Go" and the forthcoming "Harry Potter: Wizards Unite," says that it's now valued at "almost $4 billion," following a $245 million funding round led by IVP, with ...
To write about John Hanke, the creator of Pokémon Go, I have come to see what his hometown looks like through the window of the game that he designed as a way to get kids off the couch and out of ...
SEE ALSO: How to be the best, least annoying, 'Pokémon Go' trainer John Hanke, the CEO and founder of Niantic, is a Google veteran. He was one of the founders of Keyhole, the company Google ...
Niantic Spatial, a new company from the people who brought Pokémon GO to mobile, have started down a new path. After selling ...
John Hanke: Yes . . . I think that the transition to spatial computing is one of those big, fundamental changes. It’s like the internet, or mobile smartphones . . . we saw ...
In 2001, John Hanke co-founded a mapping technology company called Keyhole that would later be acquired by Google and be foundational in the development of Google Earth and Google Maps.