Apple excludes video and news partners from new App Store rules around external payments
Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear the Epic Games-initiated antitrust case against Apple over commissions. As a result, developers can now promote alternative means to pay for their in-app purchases and subscriptions via links or
Read moreBuying frenzy for Solana Mobile’s second smartphone drives preorders sky high
Solana Mobile is swinging for the stars after it announced a second, cheaper web3 smartphone phone dubbed “Chapter 2” earlier this week. While its first handset, Saga, sold out like a budding avalanche — slow at first then all at once in the U.S. and European Union — its second
Read moreEU dials up attention on larger platforms over data access for risk research
The European Commission has sent requests for information (RFI) to a full 17 platforms subject to algorithmic transparency regulations under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), it said today. These asks are specifically in relation to requirements that platforms provide data access to researchers investigating systemic risks in the European
Read moreWhat happened to Artifact?
Last week, Artifact, a buzzy news app from Instagram’s co-founders, announced it was shutting down after failing to gain critical mass. The news came as a surprise as the app was generally well-received by its core audience, smartly leveraged AI to power recommendations, summarize news, and rewrite clickbait, and featured
Read moreYC’s Tom Blomfield will speak at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 about raising money with no regrets
What does it take to raise your first round of funding? That’s just one of the many topics that will be featured at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 on April 25 in Boston. At this daylong event, experienced founders, VCs and startup experts will lead sessions focused on the building blocks
Read more4 startup fundamentals to help avoid epic product fails
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Read moreDigital Onboarding grabs $58M to help banks with profitable customer engagement
Financial institutions spend hundreds of dollars in marketing and awareness to get a customer to open an account that often doesn’t get used. Digital Onboarding wants to help. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreIP analysis platform PatSnap launches CoPilot, its new AI assistant
Founded in 2007 to help IP and R&D professionals do their jobs more efficiently, Singapore-based PatSnap‘s first product was a global patent search database. Now it’s building out its suite of AI products with the launch of its AI assistant CoPilot. CoPilot lets users search patent and non-patent literature more
Read moreGoogle says Russian espionage crew behind new malware campaign
Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking group — tracked as “Cold River” — is evolving its tactics beyond phishing to target victims with data-stealing malware. Cold River, also known as “Callisto Group” and “Star Blizzard,” is known for conducting long-running espionage campaigns against NATO countries,
Read moreWhen is a function of two variables separable?
Given a function f(x, y), how can you tell whether f can be factored into the product of a function g(x) of x alone and a function h(y) of y alone? Depending on how an expression for f is written, it may or may not be obvious whether f(x, y) can be
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