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| Tom Warren / 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 — Epic Games executed its most ambitious Fortnite live event yesterday, leading both Apple and Google to remove one of the world's most popular games from their app stores.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| New York Times: |
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.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft fires Ashraf Ismail, the creative director of its newest Assassin's Creed game, following an investigation into misconduct allegations — Ubisoft Entertainment SA has dismissed the creative director of the newest Assassin's Creed game, the latest result of a MeToo reckoning …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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
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| Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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
| Eva Xiao / Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
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| Aaron Mak / Slate: |
Google's Ad Exchange is demonetizing pages that merely mention issues of race and LGBTQ rights, classifying them as “dangerous or derogatory content” — On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, the Atlantic decided to recirculate King's famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” … | Manish Singh / 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 — Facebook is going all in on short-form videos. After flirting with the idea in Lasso, a TikTok-clone it tested in select markets … | Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
ICE signed a contract with facial recognition company Clearview AI this week for “mission support”, government contracting records show — The contract comes after months of scrutiny of Clearview's privacy practices — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
Tweets: @spencerdailey and @jackyalcine
| Patrick Frater / Variety: |
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.
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| Washington Post: |
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 … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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