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...The man who keeps telling them is Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, the developer behind the game Fortnite....
...Epic’s in-game sales of digital items and upgrades are also subject to Apple and Google’s commission fees....
...Any sales industry that is prone to price fixing, such as real estate brokerages....
...in some $40bn in system sales....
...Including Instacart’s sale of up to $660mn in stock as well as other deals under way, Nasdaq has helped companies raise $9.3bn this year compared with $8bn for NYSE, according to Dealogic data and Financial...
...t=HOYW6LDqffzC64S3QTD2Xg&s=08 Springtime heralds the season of school field days, usually a fun festival of games, sporting contests, and the joy of a day outdoors with friends and family....
...Before this week, he owned a majority of Odey Asset Management’s holding company and subsidiaries....
...The service allows US fans to watch any game shown on the biggest game day of the week....
...“I very much don’t see it as a zero-sum game,” said Dischler....
...If sales do flatten over the period, BNPL providers without other lines of revenue may face real struggles....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Chapek said Disney had been “deluged” with interest from companies seeking to buy ESPN this year amid rumours that the company was weighing a sale of the cable network...
...Oligarchs play the blame game It has never been a worse time to be a Russian oligarch....
...“Sports clearly represents the next battleground for ownership of the living room among the big tech companies”, said Paolo Pescatore, tech and media analyst for PP Foresight....
...Share your thoughts with the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...advertising sales at NBC Sports....
...’s List to chart new course as Informa hoists ‘for sale’ sign (FT) UK network operators under scrutiny over Storm Arwen outages (FT)...
...The fee change will not apply to the biggest games, which make up the majority of sales on both Google and Apple’s app stores, as they tend to rely on in-app purchases, which are still subject to a 30 per...
...At the same time the company raised £100m to help it through the pandemic’s sales challenges....
...The verdict is likely to “be hugely beneficial for software companies, who can now sell their products on iOS without having to hand Apple 30 per cent of every sale,” said Christian Owens, chief executive...
...Meanwhile, a US judge is considering Fortnite-maker Epic Games’ claims that Apple’s 30 per cent commission on app sales and in-app purchases is an illegal monopoly....
...The law was passed as Apple awaited a ruling in a landmark lawsuit against Epic Games, the maker of hit title Fortnite....
...Fortress said it did not anticipate carrying out any “material” sale-and-leasebacks of Morrisons’ stores....
...The games company alleged Apple was imposing commercially unviable burdens on rivals, in particular, the 30 per cent “tax” on App Store purchases. 3....
...The conundrums of conlangs Klingon and Dothraki may have fascinated fans of Star Trek and Game of Thrones respectively, but constructed languages or “conlangs” are also big in video games from Assassin’s...
...But several investors approached with the deal took issue with the Ferragamos’ stronghold over the company’s governance, which wouldn’t budge even if a sale went through, the FT’s Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli...
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