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Apple’s Developer Fees Face $995 Million UK Legal Challenge

December 03, 2024
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Roblox Incents Gamers to Skip the App Store
Retail // November 27, 2024

Roblox has begun offering users a new, and apparently permanent deal on its in-game currency. Users who purchase Robux on the web and through gift cards will get 25% more from the youth-focused video game and metaverse company than if they purchased from an app store...

Apple Ordered to Lift In-App Purchase Restrictions in Brazil
ANTITRUST // November 26, 2024

Yet another antitrust regulator has taken issue with Apple’s in-app payment system. As Reuters reported Monday (Nov. 25), Brazil’s Cade says Apple must do away with restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases. The regulator will also proceed with an investigation into a complaint brought two years ago by Latin American eCommerce giant MercadoLibre,...

Apple Requiring Patreon to Switch to In-App Purchase System
Apple // August 12, 2024

Major changes are ahead for creators on entertainment subscription platform Patreon. Beginning in November, Apple will require Patreon to use the tech giant’s in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app. As Patreon wrote in a news release Monday...

Spanish Competition Regulator Probes Apple App Store
ANTITRUST // July 24, 2024

Spain’s antitrust regulator has opened an investigation into Apple’s App Store. The probe, announced Wednesday (July 24) by the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC), is the latest in a series of similar actions by regulators involving the tech giant’s online store. The CNMC says it wants to determine whether...

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UpKeep Helps Facilities Maintenance Go Digital

July 14, 2017
Some innovative entrepreneurs are just born that way. They were the kids who founded lemonade stands before they could count or make lemonade by themselves and who dropped out of Ivy League schools for fear they were wasting the most productive years of their lives sitting in a classroom listening to a boring professor. Others, like UpKeep CEO and Founder Ryan […]

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Apple’s Developer Fees Face $995 Million UK Legal Challenge

December 03, 2024
Apple reportedly is facing litigation from British app developers over its App Store commissions. The class action suit alleges that the commission Apple charges of up to 30% on App Store sales has harmed competition in the U.K. tech industry, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Dec. 3). If the plaintiffs succeed, Apple could have to pay as many as […]

Roblox Incents Gamers to Skip the App Store

November 27, 2024
Roblox has begun offering users a new, and apparently permanent deal on its in-game currency. Users who purchase Robux on the web and through gift cards will get 25% more from...

Apple Ordered to Lift In-App Purchase Restrictions in Brazil

November 26, 2024
Yet another antitrust regulator has taken issue with Apple’s in-app payment system. As Reuters reported Monday (Nov. 25), Brazil’s Cade says Apple must do away with restrictions on payment methods for in-app purchases. The regulator will...

Apple Requiring Patreon to Switch to In-App Purchase System

August 12, 2024
Major changes are ahead for creators on entertainment subscription platform Patreon. Beginning in November, Apple will require Patreon to use the tech giant’s in-app purchasing system and remove all other...