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Google plans to continue charging South Korean app developers a service fee for in-app purchases, even as users for the first time globally can choose to use third-party payment platforms rather than Google’s, The Wall Street Journal reported. In an announcement, Google outlined how it plans to comply with a South Korean law that took effect in September. According to
Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin team have been smacked down by a judge and their lawsuit going after SpaceX and NASA has been dismissed. Personally, I think if Blue Origin spent more time getting higher into space instead of playing around would go a long way into validating the company for real lift potential versus being used for low orbit joy rides for the rich.
Microsoft's Ignite three day conference event starts today with a keynote presentation by CEO Satya Nadella on emerging trends and innovations for business transformation. Along with Envision, Build and Inspire, it's one of several major conferences hosted by Microsoft each year. Running from 2nd to 4th November, Ignite is aimed at IT professionals and developers. The event showcases development tools
Facebook has an ongoing PR disaster on its hands with thousands of internal company research papers to show how bad the company has been misbehaving over the years on a wide variety of fronts. Yet it will have little consequence going forward. Note you may start hearing pre-roll ads in front of each program I am testing a new Blubrry
Flic has featured in GNC a couple of times in the past and for those unfamiliar, Flic is an automation system that focusses on small push buttons to trigger actions. They're really rather handy. Want to turn on the lights? Push a Flic button. Want to play music from Spotify on your Sonos? Push a Flic button. Personally, I use
Kirk here back with you all as guest host for this Monday's episode while Todd is away, he will be back on Thursday. In this episode, over the past week Facebook's own oversight board calls them out for not being transparent then there is talk that Facebook may change their name, today there was a Facebook document dump..so with that
One could say that Facebook has many problems that it needs to solve. Among them is a decline in teenage users. The Verge described the situation as “Facebook’s lost generation”. Teenage users of the Facebook app in the US had declined by 13 percent since 2019 and were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years, driving an