Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: In Apple’s earnings call, CFO Luca Maestri says the EU represents 7% of global App Store revenue — Nearly a week after Apple announced big changes to the App Store because of the European Union’s Digital… Read More »In Apple’s earnings call, CFO Luca Maestri says the EU represents 7% of global App Store revenue (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Patricia Hernandez / The Guardian: A profile of Gary Bowser, a 54-year-old programmer who was sentenced in 2022 for 40 months in prison for pirating games and ordered to pay $14.5M to Nintendo — The hacker whose involvement with anti-piracy… Read More »A profile of Gary Bowser, a 54-year-old programmer who was sentenced in 2022 for 40 months in prison for pirating games and ordered to pay $14.5M to Nintendo (Patricia Hernandez/The Guardian)
Reuters: Byju’s Alpha, a US unit of the Indian edtech, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B-$10B and assets between $500M-$1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju’s has filed for Chapter 11… Read More »Byju’s Alpha, a US unit of the Indian edtech, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B-$10B and assets between $500M-$1B (Reuters)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Byju’s says investors do not have voting rights to remove Byju Raveendran after some investors called to remove the CEO and his family from the top roles — After months of private tussle, Byju’s and some… Read More »Byju’s says investors do not have voting rights to remove Byju Raveendran after some investors called to remove the CEO and his family from the top roles (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Andy Greenberg / Wired: How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin’s alleged hacker-for-hire past — A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats… Read More »How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin’s alleged hacker-for-hire past (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Research: YouTube and Koo, an Indian X-style alternative, are allowing hateful content that violates their policies, less than a month before national elections — In the lead up to India’s elections, researchers have discovered a deluge… Read More »Research: YouTube and Koo, an Indian X-style alternative, are allowing hateful content that violates their policies, less than a month before national elections (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple’s plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs… Read More »Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple’s plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times: Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google’s grip on the search market — A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search… Read More »Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google’s grip on the search market (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Paytm shares fell 20% on February 2, after falling 20% on February 1, as the company reels from the RBI clampdown; Paytm lost $2.1B in market cap in two days — Shares of Paytm fell another… Read More »Paytm shares fell 20% on February 2, after falling 20% on February 1, as the company reels from the RBI clampdown; Paytm lost $2.1B in market cap in two days (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Filing: Google asks a US judge to overturn a jury verdict favoring Epic that found Google abused its market dominance in setting rules for the Play Store — Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has asked a U.S. judge… Read More »Filing: Google asks a US judge to overturn a jury verdict favoring Epic that found Google abused its market dominance in setting rules for the Play Store (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)