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A look at the similarities and differences between Epic's lawsuits against Apple and Google from an antitrust law perspective (Florian Mueller/FOSS Patents)

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: A look at the similarities and differences between Epic’s lawsuits against Apple and Google from an antitrust law perspective  —  This is already my fourth post in three days on Epic Games v. Apple and Google.  For your convenience, here are the headlines (and links to) to the previous three

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RTrack: total active players on Roblox grew ~35% since Feb. to 164M in July, helping many of its 2M+ game developers, some as young as 16, make a lot of money (Kellen Browning/New York Times)

Kellen Browning / New York Times: RTrack: total active players on Roblox grew ~35% since Feb. to 164M in July, helping many of its 2M+ game developers, some as young as 16, make a lot of money  —  Millions of children have flocked to the online gaming site Roblox since March.  That’s helping game developers,

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Filing: Revolut lost £106.5M in 2019, up from £32.8M in 2018 while revenue grew 180% YoY to £162.7M and the number of customers grew from 3.5M to 10M (Oscar Williams-Grut/Yahoo Finance)

Oscar Williams-Grut / Yahoo Finance: Filing: Revolut lost £106.5M in 2019, up from £32.8M in 2018 while revenue grew 180% YoY to £162.7M and the number of customers grew from 3.5M to 10M  —  Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK … Hotly tipped banking startup Revolut lost £100m ($131m) … Filing: Revolut lost £106.5M in

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Steve Yegge, an ex-Googler who wrote a searing critique decrying Google's lack of innovation, lambasts Google's approach to deprecation of its Cloud APIs (Steve Yegge)

Steve Yegge: Steve Yegge, an ex-Googler who wrote a searing critique decrying Google’s lack of innovation, lambasts Google’s approach to deprecation of its Cloud APIs  —  God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again.  I have so much stuff to do.  Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting … Steve

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As schools adopt remote learning or hybrid reopening models, US students face a laptop shortage, particularly of low-cost Chromebooks popular at K-8 schools (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: As schools adopt remote learning or hybrid reopening models, US students face a laptop shortage, particularly of low-cost Chromebooks popular at K-8 schools  —  American students are facing a shortage of laptops, particularly low-cost Chromebooks popular in K-8 schools … As schools adopt remote learning or hybrid reopening models, US students

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