Apple to debut paid App Store search ads at WWDC, offer developers a 85/15 revenue split for in-app subscriptions for users subscribed for over a year
Apple's annual conference for developers, which kicks off next Monday, is normally when the company previews its newest software for iOS …
Sources: Google Play is testing an 85/15 app revenue sharing model for all subscriptions
Unlike Apple, the Play Store split would take effect immediately. — On Wednesday, Apple detailed major shake-ups coming to its powerful app store. Those include a new revenue sharing model …
Sources: Larry Page has invested over $100M in flying-car startup Zee.Aero, also backs competing firm Kitty Hawk
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New App Store policies are unclear as to whether apps that don't offer content or services qualify for subscriptions
From Lauren Goode's interview with Phil Schiller for The Verge, specifically regarding the new 85/15 revenue split after the first year of a subscription (italic emphasis mine):
Amazon starts UK fresh food delivery
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Tinder discontinues service for users under 18
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Google and U.S. Cellular partner for expanded coverage area for Project Fi; additional coverage to roll out next week
Google today announced a new Project Fi partner network: U.S. Cellular. The additional coverage will be automatically rolling out to all Fi users “over the coming weeks” …
Facebook hires CollegeHumor's Ricky Van Veen as head of global creative strategy
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Memo from new Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz: company is not for sale, will focus on scale and growth of products
It's been a tumultuous few days for Nest, which saw co-founder and CEO Tony Fadell depart last week amidst swirling unhappiness about the company's product roadmap, demanding culture …
France fines Uber $900,000 over ‘illegal’ UberPop service, 2 execs spared jail
A French criminal court has finally reached a verdict in a long-running case against Uber that accused the company of running an illegal transport service. — A court in Paris has ruled that Uber mus...
Uber opens its RUSH API to all, letting developers add on-demand delivery to their products
We started the Uber Developer Platform to make it easy for any developer to get their users from A to B. With the launch of a private UberRUSH API beta in January, we expanded that mission to include ...
HTC Vive and Oculus Rift comparison: Rift has better sound and ergonomics; Vive has better controllers and smoother tracking of head and hand motions
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Amazon will invest $3B in its Indian operations, bringing total planned investment in India to $5B since 2014
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal :
Microsoft's new payment plans let businesses buy Surface devices for between $33/month for a low-end Surface Pro 3 to $221/month for a high-end Surface Book
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com :
Huawei's consumer-electronics division head Richard Yu talks about company's ambitions to become the No.1 smartphone, smart-device OEM in four to five years
Richard Yu, head of the company's consumer-electronics unit, says it will take four or five years
Microsoft says it has paused its plans to add a TV DVR feature to the Xbox One
Tom Warren / The Verge :
HP Enterprise and GE partner to expand IoT offerings across aerospace, oil, gas, and manufacturing industries; HPE will be preferred vendor for Predix service
Arik Hesseldahl / Recode :
Silk Labs, the ex-Mozilla team behind the Sense smart home hub, refunds Kickstarter backers and switches focus back to software
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources: Yahoo hires bank to auction off 3K patents, including original search patent, expects $1B+, sets mid-June deadline for preliminary bids
Wall Street Journal :
Nomura research: installs of apps from the top 15 publishers dropped 20% YoY in May 2016 in the US, up 3% elsewhere; Snapchat and Uber saw downloads double YoY
Peter Kafka / Recode :
CrowdFlower, a crowdsourced workforce service, raises $10M series D led by Microsoft, Canvas, and Trinity, to focus on new AI product
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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