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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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 …
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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'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 …
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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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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
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.
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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.
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
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, @bizcarson, @bizcarson, @protocol, @martinsfp, @bizcarson, @bizcarson, and @bizcarson. Thanks:@bizcarson
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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 …
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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
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
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
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Tweets: @bgarlinghouse, @nathanielpopper, @quinnypig, @arrington, and @fintechfrank
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
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.| 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
Tweets: @jeffhorwitz, @seemay, @rmac18, @tmclaughlin3, @jeffhorwitz, @mihirssharma, @jason_kint, @sanasaeed, @rupasubramanya, @jeffhorwitz, @chandrarsrikant, @jeffhorwitz, @jason_kint, @jeffhorwitz, @aaschapiro, @shashj, @sivavaid, @william_fitz, @adityakalra, @peegeekay, @preddy85, @derektmead, @jaskiratsb, @rmac18, @rmac18, @johnpaczkowski, @mikeisaac, @newley, @alfunk, and @dseetharaman
| Jacob Helberg / Foreign Policy: |
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, and @benthompson
| Chloe Hadavas / Slate: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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