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Google and Epic Games Hit Roadblock in Antitrust Negotiations
Google and Epic Games Hit Roadblock in Antitrust Negotiations
February 29, 2024  |  ANTITRUST

Antitrust talks between Google and Epic Games are reportedly at a standstill. The two sides cannot agree on what changes Google would need to make to its Play Store to resolve...

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PhonePe Launches App Store Localized for India, Allowing Third-Party Payments
PhonePe Launches App Store Localized for India, Allowing Third-Party Payments
February 21, 2024  |  Mobile Applications

PhonePe has launched an Android app store that offers app discovery in 12 Indian languages that cater to 95% of the country’s population. This new...

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Epic Games Disputes Apple’s Demand for Legal Fees
Epic Games Disputes Apple’s Demand for Legal Fees
February 20, 2024  |  Apple

Epic Games has reportedly criticized Apple for demanding more than $73 million in legal fees following their antitrust dispute.  The company told a U.S. judge in a...

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Meta Offers Advertisers Escape From Apple’s 30% Service Charge
Meta Offers Advertisers Escape From Apple’s 30% Service Charge
February 15, 2024  |  Meta

Meta said it is giving advertisers a way to avoid Apple’s 30% service charge. Businesses that use boosted posts on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms...

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Report: 52% of Vision Pro Apps Are Paid Downloads
Report: 52% of Vision Pro Apps Are Paid Downloads
February 12, 2024  |  Apple

New research shows that more than half of apps on Apple’s Vision Pro are paid downloads. As Techcrunch noted in a Monday (Feb. 12) report, that figure —...

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Apple’s Vision Pro Headset to Launch With 600 New Apps
Apple’s Vision Pro Headset to Launch With 600 New Apps
February 01, 2024  |  Apple

Apple’s first mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro, is set to be released Friday (Feb. 2) and will launch with 600 new apps and games. “Apple Vision...

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Epic Games: Apple Not Complying With Outside Payment Rules
Epic Games: Apple Not Complying With Outside Payment Rules
January 31, 2024  |  Legal

Apple said earlier this month it would open its App Store to permit outside payment options. However, Epic Games — which has been battling the iPhone maker in...

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Will Letting Developers Link to Outside Payments Dent Apple’s Ecosystem Efforts? 
Will Letting Developers Link to Outside Payments Dent Apple’s Ecosystem Efforts? 
January 17, 2024  |  Apple

For Apple, the move to forge an ecosystem with services at the center has been years in the making. But now, with new payments practices...

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OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Arrived, What About AI’s Monetization Strategy?
OpenAI’s GPT Store Has Arrived, What About AI’s Monetization Strategy?
January 11, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

There exists one thing that generative artificial intelligence (AI), for all its advances, hasn’t changed. And that’s the fact that software products, no matter their...

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