Most of Epic's complaints against Apple and Google apply to console makers, which Epic conveniently ignores; most gamers likely play Fortnite on consoles
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo demand the same platform control—and the same 30% fee. — Yesterday, Epic used Fortnite …
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”
Nick Statt / The Verge :
By weaponizing Fortnite and with Apple as its primary target, Epic Games is well positioned to lead the fight for a change in app store policies
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Facebook launches paid online events in 20 countries with waived fees during COVID-19, says Apple is hurting SMBs by refusing to waive its 30% cut on iOS
Facebook Inc. joined a growing list of developers to publicly criticize Apple Inc. over its revenue-sharing policy for in-app purchases …
Trump issues EO forcing ByteDance to sell or spin off its US TikTok business within 90 days and destroy all copies of TikTok data attached to US users
- President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday that will force China's ByteDance to sell or spin off its U.S. TikTok business within 90 days.
In a new Instagram update, Facebook has started replacing the Instagram DM icon with Messenger's logo, although cross-messaging is still not functional
You might see this pop-up when you open Instagram — Facebook appears to flipping the switch on integrating the chat systems for Instagram and Messenger.
Sources: Google is planning to eventually replace Duo with Meet, after placing its consumer communication services under G Suite head Javier Soltero
With classic Hangouts on the way out, Google today has two video calling apps. However, that is one too many for the company …
Epic's Tim Sweeney says fight with Apple is about “the basic freedoms of all consumers and developers” to install and distribute apps as they choose
Sweeney says the explosive feud with Apple is not solely about money — Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has issued a series …
Ripple, sitting on $16B in XRP, says it plans to expand beyond its original cross-border payments system by becoming the “Amazon of payments”
The start-up is still trying to find compelling uses for the blockchain technology underpinning its XRP currency
VC firm Initialized raises $230M for its fifth fund and says the fund was “heavily oversubscribed” despite the departure of co-founder Alexis Ohanian
- Existing portfolio includes unicorns Instacart, Coinbase, Ro — Fifth fund “heavily oversubscribed” despite co-founder exit
Interviews with 20+ founders and investors provide an inside look at Y Combinator's virtual W20 Demo Day, which saw some companies lower their target valuations
It was four weeks before Y Combinator's scheduled March 2020 Demo Day, and the pressure was on Helena Merk as she tried to pivot her startup idea ahead of the big pitch. Tweets: @triketora , @bizcarso...
Sources: Facebook didn't apply hate speech rules to at least four flagged individuals and groups in India, showing a pattern of favoritism to Modi's party
Company executive in vital market opposed move to ban controversial politician; some employees allege favoritism to ruling party Tweets: @jeffhorwitz , @seemay , @rmac18 , @tmclaughlin3 , @jeffhorwitz...
To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce
In 2011, then-President Barack Obama attended an intimate dinner in Silicon Valley. At one point, he turned to the man on his left. Tweets: @johnmaeda , @rowantrollope , @seanblanda , @foreignpolicy ...
Report: Amazon's robotics VP Brad Porter quits the company; Porter defended Amazon after former VP Tim Bray criticized its decision to fire activist employees
Amazon's longtime robotics leader Brad Porter has left the company, according to a report from Business Insider.
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @taraemcg , @marietjeschaake , @jason_kint , @craigsilverman , and @rmac18 See also Mediagazer Tweets: Tara McGowan / @taraemcg : ""They are the arbiters of the consequences f...
Ubisoft fires Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of its newest Assassin's Creed game, following an investigation into misconduct allegations
he met the fan through his position as a Ubisoft public figure and director of Assassin's Creed @ethangach : And the news that Ubisoft fired Assassin's Creed creative director Ashraf Ismail earlier th...
Roper Technologies to buy Vertafore, a software vendor for the property and casualty insurance industry, for $5.35B from Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners
Andrew G. Simpson / Insurance Journal :
The rumored Apple One subscription bundle looks like a frustrating jumble of à la carte offerings that is no different than the current situation
John Gruber / Daring Fireball :
A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, formed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017, whose database helps fight misinformation
Last October, a neo-Nazi livestreamed his attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany. The video of the shooting, which killed two people …
Interview with India's Nikhil Pahwa, the founding editor of MediaNama who pushed against Facebook's Free Basics, on heavy-handed state control of the internet
and why the activist who led its righteous fight against Facebook Free Basics six years ago fears his movement is being coopted by nationalist hawks. https://onezero.medium.com/... OneZero / @ozm : “I...
Google removed ~200 links of a German princess' drunken rampage from its search results suggesting the rich and powerful have a superior “right to be forgotten”
Jordan Wildon / VICE : Tweets: @wongmjane , @vice , @iethics , @pmatzko , and @jessemangelo Tweets: Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Talking about Streisand Effect.. https://twitter.com/... @vice : A...
ICE signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support”, government contracting records show
Kim Lyons / The Verge :
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
Katyanna Quach / The Register :
Interview with Facebook AI's Mike Schroepfer, Yann LeCun, and Jerome Pesenti discussing their efforts to use computer vision to combat toxic content on Facebook
13 years into its history—did Facebook seriously begin facing up to the fact that its platform could be used to deliver toxic speech, propaganda, and misinformation directly to the brains of millions ...
Sources at publications partnering with Apple News+ say Apple did not tell them about changes that force News+ users into its app instead of to publisher sites
Oracle and Salesforce are facing class action lawsuits, potentially worth €10B+, in the UK and the Netherlands over using cookie data without consumers' consent
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Facebook confirms it is testing TikTok-style short videos in its main app in India, with a dedicated Short Videos section in the news feed
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Boston-based Duck Creek Technologies, a software provider for insurers, climbs 48% in trading debut after raising $405M in IPO, valuing the company at $5.2B
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg :
São Paulo-based mobile game maker Wildlife Studios raises $120M at a valuation of $3B, bringing its total raised to $250M
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Staff at the Berlin-based digital bank N26 held two votes this week to elect a board for a works council, despite N26 filing two court orders to stop them
Ryan Browne / CNBC : Tweets: @agnieszkabratek . Thanks: @ryan_browne_ Tweets: Agnieszka Bratek / @agnieszkabratek : N26 has had a terrible reputation as a work place in Berlin for a while, and now th...
US Court of Appeals rules Charter can charge Netflix, other streaming services for network interconnection, despite merger conditions prohibiting the practice
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @karlbode See also Mediagazer Tweets: Karl Bode / @karlbode : so basically a telecom think tank got some rubes together to sue over some fairly modest Charter mer...
Financial wellness and budgeting app PayActiv, which also enables employees to get early access to their earned wages, raises $100M Series C led by Eldridge
Mike Didymus / AltAssets Private Equity News :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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