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Epic debuts the Epic Games Store on iOS in the EU, offering its games, including Fortnite, and plans to start onboarding third-party games starting in December — The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple's App Store for the first time.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic brings its games to AltStore for iOS in the EU and plans to bring them to Aptoide's iOS store in the EU, ONE Store on Android, and “other stores” globally — Fortnite is finally back on iOS, just over four years after Apple booted it from the iOS App Store — but it's only available in the EU.| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
FanDuel founders and other early shareholders sue KKR and Shamrock Capital over the 2018 Paddy Power Betfair merger that wiped out the value of their holdings — - The case has gone through several travails, including being dismissed and having that dismissal successfully appealed.| Financial Times: |
Danish officials say Margrethe Vestager, known for hitting Big Tech with multibillion-euro fines, isn't being reappointed as EU antitrust chief for a third term — Danish commissioner renowned for being tough on Big Tech will not be reappointed for a third term
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The European Commission asks Meta for more information about its Content Library tool and API under the DSA, following Meta's decision to deprecate CrowdTangle — The Commission is seeking more information from Meta following its decision to deprecate its CrowdTangle transparency tool.
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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Biden administration approves $1.6B in Chips Act grants and $3B in loans for Texas Instruments, to help pay for one chip factory in Utah and two in Texas — - Funding will support $18 billion in spending in Texas, Utah — Biden administration almost finished allocating chips grants| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: the value of crypto hacks increased ~84.4% YoY to $1.58B in the first seven months of 2024, likely due in large part to the rise in crypto prices — - Number of heists rose slightly, centralized exchanges targeted — Bitcoin made up 40% of the proceeds of this year's heists| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
California lawmakers weaken the AI safety bill with amendments proposed by Anthropic and other opponents, including giving the AG less power to sue AI companies — California's bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Primate Labs releases Geekbench AI 1.0, formerly Geekbench ML, to test AI-centric performances of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, available on Android, iOS, and desktop — Performance test comes out of beta as NPUs become standard equipment in PCs. — Neural processing units (NPUs) …
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| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Walmart and DroneUp end drone delivery in all 18 Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and Tampa hubs to focus on Dallas-Fort Worth; DroneUp cuts 70, or ~17% of its staff — - The three cities were part of a splashy rollout in 2022 that was described as the first large-scale drone delivery operation in the U.S.| Jody Godoy / Reuters: |
Court filing: TikTok says the US DOJ misstated its China ties, made factual errors in the case, and the divestment law would strip TikTok of free speech rights — TikTok told a federal appeals court on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app's ties to China …
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| Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: |
Appfigures: consumers spent $3.8B on entertainment mobile apps worldwide in Q1 2024, including $2.1B on streaming apps and $0.9B in short video apps like TikTok — One unlikely culprit: TikTok — Entertainment continues to be a big money maker for publishers and app stores alike … Sponsor Posts
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