Google has updated its application store policy: the corporation makes it mandatory to use its payment system for digital purchases on the Google Play. The new rules will take effect in a year, on September 30, 2021.
The update of the usage policy means that in a year application developers will not be able to receive payments from users directly, by credit cards, or through third-party payment systems. This means that all Google partners will have to pay a commission of 30% of each user payment on Google Play. As a result, Google has introduced the same rules for the application developers as Apple.
IT giant Google and Singapore’s state-owned investment company Temasek have invested in Indonesia’s largest online store Tokopedia, writes Nikkei Asian Review. The amount of investments is not disclosed. In October, Bloomberg reported that Tokopedia was going to raise about $ 350 million from Google and Temasek. This is Google’s second investment in the Indonesian unicorn. […]
The French company has developed an augmented reality application for digital makeup. The Signature Faces application allows you to apply filters to your face in real time. “We believe that everyone is beautiful by themselves, but in a world where the camera is always on, it’s normal to want to “play” with filters. We want […]
Apple has announced that it will hold a presentation of new products next week – the third since the beginning of 2020. According to the company’s website, the event will be broadcast from the head office in California on Tuesday, November 10. The company announces the event with the words “One More Thing”. This phrase, […]
Shares of Amazon, which rose by 73.8% since the beginning of the year (more than the growth of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook), fell 2% after closing trading on Thursday, when the company released a report for the 3rd quarter, which ended September 30. Amazon set a new revenue record, e-commerce increased sales by 57% […]
Shares of Alphabet, which rose 18.2% over the past 6 months, rose 9% after closing trading on Thursday when the global advertising giant announced significant improvements in the reporting quarter. Google’s parent financial report far exceeded analysts’ expectations and showed a resumption of advertising revenue growth after reporting a drop in revenue for the first […]
According to trading data, securities of the microblogging service Twitter Inc. after the close of the main trading session in the US fell in price by more than 17%, also according to financial statements, in the red were the shares of US technology giants Amazon, Apple and Facebook, only Alphabet reporting pleased investors. Thus, shares […]
South Korean company Samsung Electronics in the third quarter of this year took first place in the global smartphone market. This was reported on Friday by KBS, citing data from the international research company Counterpoint Research. According to this data, during this period, Samsung controlled 22% of the world market. In second place is the […]
American gadget manufacturer Apple Inc. in July-September reduced net income to $ 12.67 billion, or $ 0.73 per share, compared to $ 13.68 billion, or $ 0.76 per share, for the same period in 2019. Stock analysts forecast a rate of $ 0.71 per share. Apple’s quarterly revenue grew 1% year on year to $ […]
Centerenergo has paid more than 475 million hryvnias to the mines since the beginning of the month and has no debts, according to the company’s website. As you know, Centerenergo – the only consumer of coal from state-owned mines, buys almost the entire volume of their production under direct contracts. “However, the current purchase price […]
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Trading on Asia’s largest stock exchange on Asia on Tuesday opened another rise amid the continuing strengthening of indices in New York. This is evidenced by the data of stock trading on the website of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Nikkei index, which reflects fluctuations in the stock prices of 225 leading companies in the […]
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The United Nations has raised its GDP growth forecast to 5.4% (from 4.7% in January) in 2021. This is stated in the report of the organization. According to the UN, after a sharp decline of 3.6% in 2020, the world economy is expected to grow by 5.4% this year. It is noted that global growth […]
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Deutsche Lufthansa reported that it suffered a loss of 1.97 billion euros in the third quarter of 2020 against a net profit of 1.15 billion euros a year earlier. The carrier’s revenue fell by 74% to 2.66 billion euros from 10.11 billion euros a year earlier. Adjusted loss before tax and interest payments (EBIT) was […]
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Shares of US electric car manufacturer Tesla continue to rise sharply amid news of the company’s future accession to the S&P index. On Tuesday, November 24, the market value of Elon Musk’s company crossed the $ 500 billion mark for the first time. Tesla shares are said to have risen nearly 550 percent this year, […]
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Recently there were closed the deal on the absorption by the Intel Developer Altera company. In a statement to journalists the head of the Intel, said that Altera is now an integral part of the company and will operate as a division. In a statement, Intel spokesman also said that Altera will now be called […]
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The state food and grain corporation of Ukraine (SFGCU) provided an active work on previous years receivables return. As Ukrsadprom association reported,229 million of UAH and the taken measures into accounts of the corporation were still returned. Andrew Kovalenko, deputy director of economic security department and financial risks of JSC SFGCU noted: “Practically all receivables […]
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Bread of Ukraine, SJSC was artificially brought in a stalemate bankruptcy. Therefore, the only logical way is a total reorganization of the assets and liabilities of the company, and the beginning of the working subsidiaries. This was announced by the Chairman of the Board of the company – Igor Kobelia. According to his words, as […]
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LDaily has prepared for the readers the short overview of latest news in the sphere of business and finance for last week. If you missed something, you would have a good opportunity to correct it. 1.Trump won: the companies begin to take out assets abroad By the last calculations, Donald Trump has won in […]
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Apple has given to CEO Tim Cook two options which can be converted into approximately 1 million shares of the company under certain conditions. This follows from the documents submitted by the corporation in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the USA. The first option is 333,987 shares with the restrictions, which the head […]
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The most popular cryptocurrency bitcoin has risen again to 60 thousand dollars. Its value increases on the news of a possible reduction in supply. Reuters writes about it. Note that bitcoin first took this bar on March 13, reaching a record high of $ 61,781.83 on the Bitstamp exchange. This came immediately after US President […]
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The American corporation The Walt Disney Company has announced the forthcoming closure of the animated studio Blue Sky Studios, which has created a number of world-famous cartoons. Bloomberg announced this on Tuesday, February 9, citing a company statement. “Given the current economic situation, after much deliberation and evaluation, we have made a difficult decision to […]
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The ex-president and founder of the largest mobile operator Kyivstar Igor Litovchenko in Ukraine became the owner of the Wireless telecom provider SmartCommunications (TM Giraffe). Ukrainian edition Liga.net informed about this, referring to the State Register of natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal entities. According to official figures, Igor Lytovchenko is the owner of the Cyprus offshore Magnilda Holdings Ltd., which owns Giraffe. As said the […]
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The opening of the plant of the Fujikura company in Ukraine should be a strong signal to all investors willing to believe in our country. The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wrote about this in his Twitter after the opening of the new plant of Fujikura in village Pidryasne near Lviv. “You will not find […]
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On October 7, 2016, the protest action was organised by Council of lawyers of the Kyiv city and Lawyers Council of Kiev region took place in Kyiv. Though this action will take place under walls of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, the problems to which lawyers will pay attention, don’t concern people’s deputies. It […]
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The National Bank did not participate in trading on the interbank foreign exchange market this week, the regulator’s press service reports. In addition, the central bank did not go to the interbank market last week. Moreover, in the first two weeks of February, the NBU bought $ 200 million to curb the strengthening of the […]
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