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Microsoft says Apple's App Store changes still create a bad experience for gamers, who want a catalog app and not to “be forced to download over 100 apps” — Apple is changing its App Store rules to allow game streaming services, which let people play video games over the internet …
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Apple revises App Store guidelines, clarifying rules for in-app purchases from certain categories of apps and iOS 14 features including App Clips and widgets — Apple today is releasing updated App Store Guidelines with the goal of clarifying how it will approach new technologies …
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| Sarah Manavis / New Statesman: |
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph — On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind.
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Newly uncovered emails from 2016 show Peter Thiel hosted a dinner in the summer of that year with one of the most influential white nationalists in the US — The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: about a dozen states, mostly led by GOP, are considering joining DOJ's upcoming antitrust lawsuit against Google, while readying their own complaints — - Democratic states have sought more time for broader probe — States are scrutinizing Google search, advertising, Android| Max Willens / Digiday: |
How TechCrunch moved Disrupt online, expanding to 5 days to mitigate screen fatigue and creating a 3D rendering of Moscone Center using green screens and sets — Help us make your experience with Digiday even better by taking a quick survey. Respondents will be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card.
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| Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: |
PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 — Swedish buyout group to buy company for five times the price rival Apax paid five years ago
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Canalys: companies in China spent a record $4.3B on cloud services in H1 2020, up 70% YoY; Alibaba accounted for around 40% of total Q2 cloud spending in China — Businesses in China are accelerating their digitization efforts, helping make local cloud providers into giants to rival Amazon and Microsoft
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| Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal: |
How Sundar Pichai is leading Google at a time when many of the company's strengths become the focus of intense public criticism and antitrust scrutiny — The low-key chief is contending with possible antitrust lawsuits, a revenue drop and pressure to take the company in new directions
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| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Q&A with M. G. Siegler on Apple's identity and future direction, its rivalry with Facebook and battle with Epic, the 30% cut policy, and on life as a VC — Apple's identity, the Epic Games beef, and brewing competition with Facebook … For years, Apple had a clear identity: It was the world's best devices maker.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries unveils a military drone that can fly autonomously, form a data-sharing swarm, and track people, missiles, equipment using AI — Anduril Industries' Palmer Luckey warns of an “AI arms race” and embraces the defense sector while much of Silicon Valley shuns it.
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| Jeffrey Brainard / Science: |
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