64 posts tagged ‘Business’
Improper App Store Contact With Developers
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Wayne Ma: Apple fired at least five employees who worked in the company’s App Store in China following an internal probe into business misconduct, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. Juli Clover: App Store employees with review and editorial roles are not supposed to meet with developers, but an internal audit raised […]
Cue Testimony in US v. Google
David Pierce (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negotiating its current iteration with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2016. […]
More Stack Overflow Layoffs
Prashanth Chandrasekar (Hacker News): This is why we have been so focused on our path to profitability, even as we commit to the continued product innovation of Stack Overflow for Teams and the health of the public platform by building out our AI/ML capabilities. This year we took many steps to spend less. Changes have […]
Atlassian to Abandon On-Prem Perpetual Products
Simon Sharwood (Hacker News): Atlassian once offered its wares in three forms. The preferred option is from the cloud, in conventional software-as-a-service style that sees Atlassian manage software and infrastructure. Users can also buy datacenter licenses that renew annually and require self-management. Until 2021, you could also get server products under a perpetual license, but […]
Atlassian Acquires Loom
Atlassian (via Hacker News): Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every month by their 200,000 passionate customers. […] As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders […]
No Counter-Strike 2 for Mac
Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Valve on Monday said it has no plans for a macOS version of the recently released game Counter-Strike 2, the follow-up title replacing the hugely popular FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.[…]Last month’s release of Counter-Strike 2 forced a 26GB update for everyone with CS:GO, including Mac users, but after installation those on […]
Brave Layoffs
Ivan Mehta (Hacker News): Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate. Previously: Mozilla Layoffs
Apple Adopts Tighter Chinese App Store Rules
Tim Hardwick: Apple has started requiring new apps to show proof of a Chinese government license in order to be listed on the China App Store, as the company joins rival app stores that adopted the policy years earlier to meet tightening state regulations (via Reuters). […] To get the license, developers must have a […]