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YouTube is leaving Roku. And now the fight between the two companies has caught the attention of members of Congress attempting to push their Big Tech antitrust legislation. After a months-long fight between Roku and YouTube’s parent company Google, Google announced Thursday that it would no longer allow Roku customers to download the YouTube or YouTube TV apps to their devices starting Dec. 9. (Roku customers who already have YouTube or YouTube TV installed will still be able to use those… Source link

The Google Pixel 6 Pro’s camera bar has, from left to right, a 25mm wide-angle main camera, an 16mm ultrawide, a 104mm telephoto, and a flash. … Source link

Small toy figures are seen in front of WeChat logo in this illustration picture taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Tencent’s (0700.HK) WeChat has made its content searchable on some foreign search engines such as Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) Bing, Reuters checks showed, in the latest tearing down of “walled gardens” in China’s internet sector. Content from China’s most popular messaging app WeChat, including articles… Source link

Months after we predicted that Stadia would soon become a white-label cloud-gaming service, AT&T appears to be taking Google up on the idea. AT&T is offering a free browser-based version of Batman: Arkham Knight exclusively for wireless customers that makes use of Stadia’s technology. AT&T confirmed that its new game streaming experience runs on Google Stadia’s tech (via 9to5Google). Google announced the shutdown of its internal Stadia game studio in February. While Stadia is still… Source link

In this photo illustration the Duolingo logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | LightRocket | Getty Images Shares of app developers like Bumble, Duolingo and Roblox rose on Thursday after Google said it would reduce the company’s cut from subscriptions on its Android app store. The change by Google would cut the commission on recurring subscriptions through the Google Play store from 30% to 15%, a move that could significantly reduce costs for any company that makes a lot of… Source link

Getty Effective Jan. 1, Google is decreasing the service fee it… Source link

Google said it planned to lower the cut it takes on subscription-based apps in its Play Store for devices running its Android software, in the latest concession to regulatory pressure challenging whether the company has overcharged developers. In a blog post on Thursday, Google said it would reduce its commissions on subscriptions for apps that users pay through its Play Store to 15 percent. Currently, Google takes a 30 percent cut for the first year of subscriptions and then lowers the rate… Source link

The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Oct 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc-owned Google (GOOGL.O) said on Thursday it is lowering the fee that subscription-based apps need to pay Play Store to 15% right from day one, following criticism about its fee structure from companies such as Spotify (SPOT.N). Currently, developers pay a 30% subscription fee in the first year, and 15% thereafter. “We’ve heard that… Source link

The Matter logo signifies smart-home devices that will get along well with each other and with Alexa, Siri and the Google Assistant. … Source link

Google gave a glimpse into how the new smart home standard Matter might actually work in our smart homes today, and it’s looking pretty exciting. At its Google Smart Home Developer Summit, the company announced new tools to help developers build devices that work with both Google Home, the new connectivity standard Matter, and across any other Matter-complaint ecosystems. This means that, yes — one day, very soon — the (new) Nest Thermostat could work in the Apple Home app without… Source link