Apple said it may expand its App Store commission structure as it approaches a legal deadline to change how developers charge customers for items in apps for its iPhones and iPads. Next week, the tech giant must begin implementing a federal court’s injunction from a legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games. The order, dated …
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A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction against a Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users or blocking posts based on their political viewpoints. HB 20, signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 9, targets companies with at least 50 million monthly users in the US, including Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, and …
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When Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed down her ruling in September saying the way Apple runs its iPhone and iPad App Store largely hadn’t violated antitrust laws, she included a caveat. The tech giant, she said in an order along with her ruling, must allow app developers to include links in their apps, steering people to alternative payment sites outside …
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Amazon has relinquished more than $61 million to settle claims by the Federal Trade Commission that it withheld tips from over 140,000 of it Amazon Flex drivers for more than two years. And now the agency is sending the settlement money to the drivers, the FTC announced Tuesday. The FTC alleged in a lawsuit it filed earlier this year that Amazon …
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Apple’s spent years marketing its iPhones and iPads as more secure and reliable than competing devices powered by Google’s Android software, including from Samsung. One of the primary reasons is the App Store, the only sanctioned way to download apps for the iPhone and iPad. Though other phone makers have their own app stores too, they often allow what’s called …
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Apple on Friday began its attempt to appeal a ruling by US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in its legal battle with Fortnite maker Epic Games. The two companies have been feuding since last year about how the iPhone and iPad App Store runs, leading to a court case in which Rogers ruled largely in Apple’s favor. She did issue …
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Facebook agreed to pay billions of dollars extra on top of an initial fine sought by the Federal Trade Commission in 2019 to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability related to a massive data leak probe, shareholders allege in a pair of lawsuits made public on Tuesday. In lawsuits filed last month in Delaware’s Chancery Court, two groups of …
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Epic Games has asked Apple to reinstate its hit Fortnite online battle game into the iPhone and iPad App Store in response to a South Korean law that clamps down on how mobile app stores operate. The new law, which was passed in August and is expected to go into effect soon, forces app store operators like Apple and Google …
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Apple plans to offer apps like the streaming service Netflix more leeway in how they sign up customers, allowing them to insert in-app links to their website from within the app. Apple announced the move as part of an agreement with the Japan Fair Trade Commission, which had been investigating the App Store. The change will go into effect next …
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Apple says it has reached a settlement with developers in a class action lawsuit against the tech giant over how it manages its App Store for the iPhone and iPad. Among the agreements, Apple said it will share more data with app developers, solidify some rules around communication with customers and establish a $100 million fund to help US developers who …
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