Apple moves to settle gift card scam lawsuit
Apple has agreed to pay an as-yet undisclosed sum to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company knowingly profited from scammers who stole its gift cards.
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App Store
William Gallagher
DoJ's Apple App Store probe is 'firing on all cylinders'
The Department of Justice antitrust probe into Apple's App Store rules is still rolling on, with the examination into the digital storefront's dominance apparently in full flow and potentially getting closer to actually bringing a case against the iPhone maker.
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Malcolm Owen
Japan plans to fine Apple over app stores and force sideloading
Japan is preparing regulations that will force Apple and Google to allow alternative App Stores, and impose fines on both for antitrust issues regarding OS market share and preferential search results.
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Should the Apple Store be forced to sell lemons?
Apple has spent extraordinary amounts of money building strategic placed Apple Stores around the world. Who should benefit most from Apple's work: Microsoft, Google or maybe Sony?
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Why Google lost its mobile app store fight with Epic, and Apple won
For three years, we've been hearing about Epic Games' fight with both Apple and Google over how App Stores operate, with the decisions going in wildly different directions in each case. Let's look at why.
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Peter Cohen
Google to pay $700 million after one Play Store antitrust case
US states and customers of the Google Play Store are to share in a $700 million payout as part of Google's settlement of one of its antitrust cases.
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Apple pilots new way to allow developers to offer discounted subscriptions
Apple has launched a new option for developers called "contingent pricing for subscriptions," enabling the sale of discounted secondary app subscriptions for existing subscribers.
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E3 is dead, and Apple helped kill it
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is done for good, the event's organizers announced on Tuesday. Apple's success in game sales and disregard for the entire trade show concept can take some credit for killing it — at least indirectly.
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European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices
The European Commission has sent a formal request to Apple and Google asking the tech giants how they identify "systemic risks" to consumers in their respective app stores.
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Amber Neely
Wesley Hilliard
