Some developers had an exciting morning, as a bug in App Store Connect misreported millions in earnings from apps in the App Store for a while. App Store Connect App Store Connect provides developers with analytics and figures relating to apps submitted to the App Store. While the system is fairly robust, there are occasional minor issues that can cause a misreporting of data to its users. In posts to Mastodon on Thursday, developers are reporting that the Sales and Proceeds data is...
Mark P. Smith & Associates will take over monitoring of Portland Police Bureau’s adherence to federal directives. The team includes a former violence prevention leader for the city. by Courtney Vaughn Ten years ago, the US Department of Justice intervened to help reshape and monitor the Portland Police Bureau’s use of force policies. Now, a private firm will be the arbiter of whether police are following the federal government’s...
Google has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two app developers for
Apple is opening up web distribution for iOS apps targeting users in the European Union starting Tuesday. Developers who opt in — and who meet Apple’s criteria, including app notarization requirements — will be able to offer iPhone apps for direct download to EU users from their own websites. It’s a massive change for a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Amazon has decided to cut off paid perks for Alexa developers. The company confirmed to Engadget on Wednesday that it will end the Alexa Developer Rewards Program at the end of June. A second program that rewards developers for using Amazon Web Services as the backend for their Alexa apps will wrap up at the same time. With the emergence of generative AI, the pioneering voice assistant’s third-party apps (“skills”) no longer appear to be a central focus for the company. The news was first...
“Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games has urged a federal judge in California to force Google to open up its Play Store to greater competition after a jury found the U.S. tech giant had abused its power as a gatekeeper for apps on the Android mobile platform.Epic made its proposal in a court filing on Thursday to U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco, seeking among other things to require Google Play Store to allow the distribution of competing third-party app stores for six years...
You have a missed call, but it's not from one of your contacts, just a random number. Before deciding whether to call back, wouldn't you want to know exactly who called? That's the idea behind services like Truecaller, and now Google seems to be wanting to join the 'unknown number lookup' game inside its Phone app. An option to do just that, labeled as "Lookup" under numbers from your call log that aren't in your contacts, has been spotted in the Google Phone app beta version 127.0.620688474. ...
Singaporean C&I renewables developer BECIS has secured US$50 million to expand business in Southeast Asia and India.
Raymore City Council approved a settlement Monday night with developers of a proposed landfill not to build that landfill.
The KPMG Netherlands accounting office has agreed to a settlement with American regulator PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) regarding the findings of an investigation into sharing answers in exams for mandatory employee training. The office will pay a fine of 25 million dollars. The company's fine is the biggest monetary penalty in the PCAOB's history.
Happy Tuesday, all! Here's your Tuesday Tech Drop, the past week's top stories at the intersection of tech and politics. Another brick in the Wohl Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two far-right activists supportive of Donald Trump, could pay up to $1.25 million in damages after settling a lawsuit related to a fraudulent, voter suppression scheme that used robocalls to spread disinformation to deter Black people from voting in the 2020 election. New York Attorney General Letitia James reached an...
The Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday after wrapping up four days of talks with Chinese officials. She also said in Beijing they had “difficult conversations” about national security, including American concerns that Chinese companies are supporting Russia […]