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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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.
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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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| 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.| 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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Court of Appeals rules Charter can charge Netflix, other streaming services for network interconnection, despite merger conditions prohibiting the practice — Court kills ban on interconnection fees because FCC didn't defend merger condition. — Charter can charge Netflix … | 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) …
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| 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 … | Digiday: |
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