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Apple expands its Arcade subscription gaming service, which previously focused on exclusive titles, with a back catalog of classic App Store games — Apple has announced an expansion for its subscription gaming service Apple Arcade. In addition to exclusive game releases …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Coinbase says it expects its shares will start trading on April 14 and plans to release Q1 results on April 6 — Cryptocurrency giant Coinbase announced on Thursday that its highly anticipated direct listing will happen on April 14. The company also disclosed it will share its Q1 financial results eight days beforehand, on April 6.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with defective display cables can proceed — A potential class-action lawsuit will go forward — When Apple introduced its controversial MacBook Pro redesign in 2016, the company probably …
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| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Developers say the App Store has started rejecting updates for apps using third-party SDKs that collect data which can be used for device fingerprinting — Apple is rejecting updates to apps that conflict with its new privacy policies in iOS 14, signaling that it is now getting serious about privacy enforcement.
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Sources: Snap has explored how it could track iOS users with data from third-party companies, which would be a violation of Apple's new privacy rules — Owner of Snapchat has explored how to track users with data from third party companies — Snap has explored how it can circumvent …
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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook staff are raising concerns internally over allowing Chinese propaganda ads about Xinjiang, as Facebook awaits UN's response to the situation — Workers express concerns internally about advertisements and content by Beijing promoting message that mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the region are thriving
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, up 38% YoY, the greatest annual growth since 2016, with spending on games growing 43% — U.S. consumers spent an average of $138 on iPhone apps last year, an increase of 38% year over year, largely driven by the pandemic impacts …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Tencent's gaming studio TiMi Studios, which makes Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile, generated $10B revenue in 2020 — (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent's Timi Studios, maker of popular video games Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile, generated revenue of $10 billion last year … | Jason Breslow / NPR: |
Biden lets a ban imposed last June on H1-B and other foreign work visas expire; Trump said the ban was to protect public health and safeguard job market — President Biden has allowed a ban on H1-B and other kinds of foreign work visas to expire, bringing to a close a dramatic clampdown …
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| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020 — A Massachusetts court is supporting a request from the IRS to obtain the records Circle customers, the Department of Justice said.
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U.S. Department of Justice, Decrypt, coinspeaker.com, Cryptonews, Cointelegraph, and The Block
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| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says a DNS outage causing issues with services like Teams, Azure, and Office 365 is mostly over, cites spike in DNS traffic as preliminary root cause — If a Bing goes down and no one is around, did it even happen? — What you need to know — Several Microsoft services … | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Uruguay-based dLocal, which offers payments processing services in 29 countries, raises $150M at a $5B valuation, quadrupling its valuation from September 2020 — - D1 Capital, Bond are also investing in the payments unicorn — Ex-JPMorgan banker Sumita Pandit joins the startup as COO| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Google tells employees that it expects some US-based workers to return to the office in April, but won't require employees to come in until at least Sept. — Google told workers in an email Wednesday that it expects some U.S. employees to be able to return to the office in the coming month.
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CNBC, Android Central, Engadget, New York Post, coinspeaker.com, and Platformer
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