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Pentagon delays missile test due to China tensions over Taiwan
The Pentagon for a second time will hold off on a planned intercontinental ballistic missile test launch amid increased tensions with China over Taiwan, the White House confirmed Thursday.
“A long-planned Minuteman III ICBM test, scheduled for this week, has been rescheduled for the near future,” John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told reporters at the White House daily briefing.
“As China engages in destabilizing military exercises around Taiwan, the United State is demonstrating instead the behavior of a responsible nuclear power by reducing the risks of miscalculation and misperception.”
The decision comes as China earlier on Thursday fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait and deployed planes and warships in the area. The activity is part of Chinese wargames to last through Sunday in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island earlier this week.
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BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 08/04/22 4:14 PM ET
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3588474-pentagon-delays-missile-test-due-to-china-tensions-over-taiwan/
Koch Media is now Plaion
Koch Media announced today that it is changing its name to Plaion, pronounced “play on.”
The German-Austrian media company started in 1994. It owns gaming studios like Saints Row publisher Deep Silver. It became a subsidiary of Embracer Group in 2018.
So, why the change?
“It’s been brewing since a while,” Plaion vice president of global sales and marketing Frank Weber told GamesBeat. “The more international, the more global we got as a company, the more clear it was from a pure phonetic point of view that our name wasn’t ideal internationally. We were changing drastically as a company. We grew rapidly. Today we’re producing our own content much more, which is something we hadn’t done initially. At the same time, we have a lot of partners and a lot of, let’s say, people who deliver content to us. We help them bring that to market, bring them to players. This is such a big change that we felt it’s now really time to change also the name and to become more what we are from a branding and naming perspective. It was brewing for a year, you could say.”
"Plaion made this decision independently. It was not something mandated by Embracer.
“We informed them, obviously, and if they had said they hated the name, we might have reconsidered it,” Plaion CEO Klemens Kundratitz told GamesBeat. “But apart from that, they just received it the way everybody else did.”
Plaion’s new logo, above, resembles the play button you see on many devices. Plaion says that the ribbon motif is to symbolize the “embracing and connecting” role of the company."
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August 4, 2022 6:00 AM
https://venturebeat.com/2022/08/04/koch-media-is-now-plaion/