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Our latest news and analysis coverage of app stores and additional distribution channels for mobile and other smart apps.
Google to cut app store fee by half on developers’ first $1 million in sales
Google will cut the service fee it charges developers on its app store by half on the first $1 million they earn in revenue in a year, after a similar move by rival Apple last year...
Alibaba’s browser removed from Chinese Android app stores
Chinese app stores have removed Alibaba’s UC Browser for mobiles, after it was criticised on Chinese state television’s annual consumer rights show for including medica...
Oman blocks Clubhouse citing lack of permit
Oman has blocked US-based audio app Clubhouse because it did not have the right permit, authorities said, but some activists described the move as a further erosion of freedom of e...
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says “fad” of platform giants will pass
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has said the dominance of internet giants is a “fad” that does not have to endure, adding that urgent change was ne...
Facebook launches Instagram Lite in 170 lower bandwidth countries
Facebook has announced it is launching a “lite” version of Instagram in 170 countries that will enable people with poor internet to access the photo and video sharing s...
Apple to set up $1.2 billion silicon design centre in Germany
Apple has said it would establish an EU-based silicon design centre in Munich, Germany, and invest more than 1 billion euros (approximately $1.2 billion) over the next three years ...
Twitter admits its exploring an ‘undo send’ feature for paying users
Twitter has long been rumoured to be testing an “undo send” function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted. On Friday, the company ...
Sources: Apple faces European Union antitrust charge on Spotify complaint
Apple could face an EU antitrust charge sheet in the coming weeks following a 2019 complaint by music streaming service Spotify, two people familiar with the matter said.
How brands will target ads to you after the death of browser cookies
Next year, Google plans to phase out technology in its Chrome browser that lets other companies track users’ web browsing. But that does not mean you will see irrelevant ads,...
Parler sues Amazon again, alleging effort to ‘destroy’ app
Parler, a wildly social media app, filed a new lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of trying to destroy its business following the January 6th storming of the US Capitol building by suppor...
Apple’s 270 US-based stores open for first time since pandemic began
Apple has said all its 270 stores in the US have been opened for the first time in almost a year after it was forced to shutter several outlets because of the ongoing COVID-19 pand...
South Korean tech firms shake up Japan’s storied manga industry
Two South Korean platforms are borrowing from mobile gaming to shake up – and dominate – Japan’s manga industry, a plot twist that has expanded the comics’ ...
Robinhood added 6 million crypto users in last two months
Controversial online brokerage Robinhood has said it has garnered 6 million new users for its cryptocurrency services in the first two months of 2021 amid higher retail trading vol...
French antitrust investigators say Google breached its orders on talks with publishers
French antitrust investigators have accused Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over...