Author: Zach_Wilson
Google offered Netflix a sweetheart deal to pay just 10 percent on Google Play
Spotify isn’t the only one that negotiated with Google for special treatment. Netflix did, too. In 2017, Google offered Netflix a special discounted rate of 10 percent of its in-app payments on Android — meaning Netflix could keep 90 percent of the money — according to documents and testimony in…
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Sundar Pichai will take the stand in Epic v. Google
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is set to testify on Tuesday in Epic’s lawsuit against Google. Epic plans to call Pichai as a witness as it makes its case alleging that Google Play is an unlawful monopoly. In court documents, Google has requested to use a podium in the courtroom on…
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Unity is probably going to do layoffs
In its Q3 earnings report published Thursday, game development software company Unity announced that it will “likely” be implementing layoffs as part of broader cost saving measures. In the report, the company says it is assessing its product portfolio “to focus on those products that are most valuable to our…
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Google won’t say if companies beyond Spotify got secret special app store deals
Yeah, on User Choice Billing, you know, we don’t expect that to have any impact on margins. As you know, we will still end up paying in aggregate the 15 percent that we pay today to Google Play. The composition of that is just going to be different. So, from…
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Call of Duty anti-cheat update will make cheaters go splat
Activision is getting set to launch a new, and dare I say fun, system to counter cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone. As part of an update to the game’s Ricochet anti-cheat system, a new feature called Splat will randomly and without warning plummet detected cheaters straight to the ground…
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Apple to pay up to $25 million over hiring discrimination
Apple has agreed to pay up to $25 million to settle claims that it engaged in hiring discrimination. On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that $18.25 million will go toward creating a backpay fund for affected victims, while the remaining $6.75 million is in civil penalties. The DOJ found…
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