64 posts tagged ‘Business’
Adobe Abandons Figma Acquisition
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Paul Kunert (Hacker News): Adobe’s $20 billion buy of web-first design collaboration start-up Figma will harm software developers if it goes ahead as proposed, according to a provisional ruling on the merger by Britain’s competition regulator.[…]The CMA adds in its report: “The inquiry group also provisionally concluded that Adobe abandoned development of new product design […]
Contingent Pricing for App Store Subscriptions
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Contingent pricing for subscriptions on the App Store — a new feature that helps you attract and retain subscribers — lets you give customers a discounted subscription price as long as they’re actively subscribed to a different subscription. It can be used for subscriptions from one developer or two different developers. […]
VMware Transition to Subscriptions
VMware (via Hacker News): Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world's leading infrastructure technology company. […] VMware has been on a journey to simplify its portfolio and transition from a perpetual to a subscription model to better serve customers with continuous innovation, faster time […]
FastSpring Risk Screening
I received a pair of e-mails from one of my payment processors, FastSpring, which included this text: Our implemented process is designed to ensure full alignment and compliance with regulatory standards, including KYC/KYB (Know Your Customer/Know Your Business) requirements, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) guidelines, and international sanctions screening. We’ve […]
Filmic’s Entire Staff Laid Off
Jaron Schneider (Hacker News): Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off the entire team including the company’s founder and CEO, PetaPixel has learned.[…]Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices, the team behind Filmic Pro and […]
Castro May Be Dying
Jason Snell: The cloud database that backs the service is broken and needs to be replaced. As a result, the app has broken. (You can’t even export subscriptions out of it, because even that function apparently relies on the cloud database.) “The team is in the progress of setting up a database replacement, which might […]
Vivlio
Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with […]
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown
Paresh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping. Google, which draws […]