Epic Games files an antitrust suit against Apple, arguing the App Store is a monopoly, seeking no damages but just injunctive relief to “allow fair competition”
Epic has filed a civil antitrust lawsuit following Apple's removal of Fortnite from the App Store
Epic enables a direct payment option in Fortnite on iOS and Android alongside the existing method, to get around app store fees; buying direct is up to 20% off
but it's risky Shira Ovide / New York Times : A playbook for combating QAnon CNN : Fortnite's maker sues Apple and Google after the game was removed from both app stores Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : The Ap...
Google removes Fortnite from its Play Store, argues that although its Android ecosystem is open, Epic's decision violates store policies
You can still install it directly from Epic, however — Following its removal from the Apple App Store, Fortnite has also been kicked off of the Google Play Store for Android.
Apple has removed Epic Games' Fortnite from the App Store after the developer implemented its own in-app payment system, bypassing Apple's standard 30% fee
Apple says Epic is violating its App Store guidelines by using its own payment system — Apple has removed Epic Games' battle royale Fortnite …
Epic files a suit against Google alleging that its Play Store payments restrictions constitute a monopoly, also accuses Google of being anti-competitive
Just like Apple — Epic Games has filed suit against Google over alleged antitrust violations, just hours after being dropped …
China says it will expand a pilot program of its digital currency, led by its central bank People's Bank of China, to include a number of large cities
Testing efforts are being led by the People's Bank of China — HONG KONG—China's Commerce Ministry said it would expand a pilot program …
Accompanying its lawsuit, Epic released a 1984-inspired Fortnite short, parodying Apple's iconic Macintosh commercial
Epic is taking on the Apple App Store, with a video and a lawsuit — Epic premiered a new short video in Fortnite on Thursday called “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite.”
Epic, in its suit, claims that Google forced OnePlus to break off a deal in which a special Fortnite launcher would come preinstalled on OnePlus phones
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel and algorithms that laid the foundations for image processing and image pattern recognition, dies at 91
Computer scientist Russell Kirsch, best known for inventing the pixel, passed away August 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 91-years-old.
Internal docs show TikTok classified more than a third of its 49M US DAUs in July as 14 years old or younger, raising concerns about safeguards for preteens
Three current and former employees expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app's safeguards for preteen children.
Baidu's video streaming service iQIYI says it is being probed by SEC, after a report in April accused it of inflating its 2019 revenue by around $1.13B
Mystery surrounds the subscriber numbers of Chinese video streaming company iQIYI, which revealed that it is being investigated by the U.S.'s Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sources: Apple will launch “Apple One” tiered subscription bundles, with Music, TV+, News+, and a new virtual fitness service, as early as October
Apple Inc. is readying a series of bundles that will let customers subscribe to several of the company's digital services …
Google ends direct cooperation with Hong Kong authorities on data requests, and will instead direct officials to a treaty where requests go through the DOJ
Google will stop responding directly to data requests from Hong Kong authorities, according to a person familiar with the matter …
Google updates travel search results with information about COVID-19 cases at destination, percentage of available hotel rooms and operating flights, more
Google has already introduced a number of updates to help people get around during widespread closures and travel disruptions due to COVID-19.
Baidu reports Q2 revenue of $3.7B, flat YoY, and iQIYI revenue up 4% YoY, as online ad revenue fell 28% YoY; iQIYI unit is under investigation for fraud by SEC
Eric J. Savitz / Barron's Online :
Mozilla confirms a deal to keep Google as the default search provider in Firefox; source says the deal is worth $400M to $450M a year between now and 2023
$2.5m-a-year CEO set to take a pay cut, so that's all right, then — Mozilla has renewed its lucrative nine-figure deal with Google …
Adobe to add tech to Photoshop later this year to cryptographically tag images with metadata to help identify deepfakes and verify authenticity of images/videos
Tom Simonite / Wired :
Despite tensions between the US and China, more than 20 Chinese companies went public in 2020 on Nasdaq or NYSE, raising $4B according to Dealogic data
More than 20 Chinese companies have gone public on the Nasdaq or NYSE this year — The U.S. remains a magnet for initial public offerings … Tweets: @auditchina , @wsjmarkets , @davidamichaels , and @...
A legal analysis and risk evaluation of the US antitrust cases against Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook shows the cases won't be a slam dunk
U.S. tech giants have enormous influence over what we buy, read, see and think. But is their market power illegal? Tweets: @business and @halsinger Tweets: @business : Did they nail 'em? Experts rank...
Researcher awarded a $6,000 payout after he found Instagram retained photos and DMs on its servers more than a year after he deleted them; the bug is now fixed
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Appeals court finds Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold on its Marketplace in California, reversing a 2019 ruling
Kim Lyons / The Verge :
Amazon announces the general availability of Amazon Braket on AWS, which provides a development environment for designing quantum and hybrid algorithms
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
A look at Neural Love, which develops AI-powered video enhancement tools that can upscale, colorize, and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to 4K and 60 fps
Matt Simon / Wired : Tweets: @sammyandrews , @jenlucpiquant , and @gadgetlab Tweets: Sammy Andrews / @sammyandrews : This is beautiful but also very unnerving to watch 😂🤦♀ ️ People and horses runnin...
1M South Koreans, about 3% of the population, have opted for a blockchain-based digital driver's license since the program's launch this past May
Joshua Mapperson / Cointelegraph :
US says it has seized 300+ “cryptocurrency accounts”, worth around $2M, four websites, and four Facebook pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS
that it claimed were FDA approved— across four Facebook pages to finance the terror group's operations, according to Homeland Security Investigations. 👉The sale of illicit items on Facebook is literal...
Beike, a Chinese online property brokerage backed by Tencent and Softbank, raises $2.12B in its US IPO, with the stock up 87%, despite US-China tensions
Jon Swartz / MarketWatch : Tweets: @marketwatch and @marketwatch Tweets: @marketwatch : Shares of KE Holdings, a Chinese online property platform, soared 87% in a blockbuster public debut Thursday th...
In discrimination case against Oracle, Labor Department lawyer says Secretary Eugene Scalia broke with normal practice in seeking a smaller settlement
New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @sruhle , @nytpolitics , @joshtpm , @dealbook , and @janemayernyer Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : A Labor Department lawyer says she faces reprisal after objec...
NSA and FBI say Russian state sponsored hacker group Fancy Bear is using a previously undisclosed Linux malware called Drovorub for cyber espionage operations
my favorite thing so far: NSA casually reveals that Drovorub is the codename used by GRU itself (!), and even offers a step-by-step translation https://www.nsa.gov/... https://twitter.com/... @us_cybe...
Google's Ad Exchange is demonetizing pages that merely mention issues of race and LGBTQ rights, classifying them as “dangerous or derogatory content”
published by the Atlantic in 8/1963 — after the Google algorithm flagged it as “dangerous or derogatory content” https://slate.com/... @slate : In trying to protect advertisers, Google often ends up g...
California judge denies motion by Uber and Lyft to extend a 10-day injunction ordering the companies to classify their drivers as employees
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE :
Facebook officially launches a Voting Information Center on Facebook and Instagram, with state-by-state information on how to register and vote
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Instagram says it will start asking some users to verify their identities by submitting government IDs, if it suspects “potential inauthentic behavior”
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
TikTok's US-based employees plan to file a lawsuit challenging Trump's executive order claiming the order would make it illegal for TikTok to pay them
Queenie Wong / CNET :
Michigan and Alphabet-backed Cavnue want to build a dedicated road for autonomous vehicles between Detroit and Ann Arbor, plus a software standard to access it
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
YouTube bans videos containing info obtained through hacking that could interfere with the election and will remove content that encourages meddling in voting
Richard Nieva / CNET :
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