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Trump-linked SPAC's shares surge as Truth Social app tops Apple downloads

Medha Singh, Reuters
Posted at Feb 23 08:46 AM

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp DWAC.O, the blank-check company behind former US President Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, rose about 14 percent on Tuesday as the app topped downloads on Apple's App Store after its launch late on Sunday. Read more »

Trump to launch his social media app in February, listing shows

Krystal Hu and Helen Coster, Reuters
Posted at Jan 07 08:24 AM

Former President Donald Trump's new media venture plans to launch its social media app Truth Social on Feb. 21, according to an Apple Inc App Store listing. Read more »

Apple loosens App Store rules on content companies

Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at Sep 02 09:42 AM

Apple will loosen App Store rules that have banned companies like Netflix Inc from giving customers a link to create a paid account to bypass Apple's in-app purchase commissions. Read more »

Google paid phone and game makers to avoid app store hit: Epic Games

Paresh Dave, Reuters
Posted at Aug 20 08:26 AM

"Fortnite" developer Epic Games on Thursday unsealed details about contracts it alleges Alphabet Inc's Google signed with phone makers and other top video game companies to avoid losing $1.1 billion in annual app store profit. Read more »

ABS-CBN News App adds 'listen,' voice search features

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 19 09:02 AM

Users may now listen to news articles and use voice search to look up hot topics in the ABS-CBN News App. Read more »

Apple touts App Store economy as its clout challenged

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 03 08:42 AM

Apple spotlighted an independent study by Analysis Group indicating billings and sales of digital and physical goods as well as advertising "facilitated" by the App Store worldwide last year was up 24 percent from 2019 to $643 billion.   Read more »

Epic CEO cites Apple's 'total control' over iPhones in Day 1 of antitrust trial

Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at May 04 08:59 AM

The chief executive of "Fortnite" creator Epic Games testified on Monday that he knew he was breaking Apple Inc's App Store rules by putting Epic's own in-app payment system into the game last year but wanted to highlight Apple's sway over the world's iPhone users, which now total 1 billion. Read more »

Fortnite maker girds for epic court clash with Apple

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 03 08:30 AM

In a court clash with potentially huge repercussions for the world of mobile tech, Fortnite maker Epic Games takes on Apple starting Monday aiming to break the grip of the iPhone maker on its online marketplace. Read more »

Apple adding privacy fact labels to App Store items

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 15 10:05 AM

Apple on Monday began adding labels that reveal what user data is gathered by games, chat or other software offered in the App Store for its popular mobile devices. Read more »

Apple to extend fee waiver for paid events due to pandemic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 24 06:25 AM

Apple said Monday it would extend through June 30 a waiver on app fees for paid events such as tutoring and fitness classes, citing the coronavirus pandemic.   Read more »

Apple to lower App Store fees for smaller developers

Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at Nov 18 07:29 PM

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it plans to start a program to lower its App Store commissions for software developers who make $1 million or less in proceeds each year from the store. Read more »

Microsoft says app stores should be more competitive

The New York Times
Posted at Oct 09 08:58 AM

Microsoft on Thursday said it would give developers more control in its app store, providing a sharp contrast to Apple, which is facing growing pressure for its firm grip on its App Store. Read more »

Fortnite still unwelcome in Apple's mobile App Store

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 29 10:20 AM

Epic Games on Monday failed to convince a US judge to make Apple put its hit title Fortnite back in the tech giant's App Store, while their legal battle heads for a possible trial next year. Read more »

Apple seeks damages from Fortnite maker in App Store dispute

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 09 06:44 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple on Tuesday asked a US federal court to order Fortnite maker Epic Games to pay damages in a legal dispute over the rules for the iPhone maker's online marketplace.   Read more »

Epic Games asks court to force Apple to reinstall Fortnite

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 07 12:31 PM

Epic Games is trying to convince a California court to reinstate Fortnite on the Apple App Store pending legal proceedings, arguing that doing so is in the "public interest," court documents show.   Read more »

Apple’s app war needs peace

Shira Ovide, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 01 05:33 PM

Apple has an iron grip on what apps people can download on their iPhones, and some app makers are complaining loudly about this arrangement as well as the fees that Apple collects from some apps.   Read more »

How Apple’s 30 percent app store cut became a boon and a headache

Jack Nicas, The New York Times
Posted at Aug 20 12:03 PM

Twelve years ago, Apple introduced the App Store, a peculiar online marketplace for the year-old iPhone. It had 500 offerings. Apple told app makers it would take a 30 percent cut of their sales, and few complained.  Read more »

How Apple stacked App Store with own products

Jack Nicas and Keith Collins, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 10 04:12 PM

As Apple has become one of the largest competitors on a platform that it controls, suspicions that the company has been tipping the scales in its own favor are at the heart of antitrust complaints in the United States, Europe and Russia. Read more »