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Google today announced it’s expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google’s own. The program will now become available to new markets, including the U.S., Brazil and South Africa, and Bumble will now join Spotify as one of the pilot testers. Google additionally announced Spotify will now begin rolling out its implementation of the program starting this week. The company had first announced its intention to… Source link

Kat Downs Mulder, formerly chief product officer and managing editor of the Washington Post, is joining Yahoo News as senior vice president and general manager, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Downs Mulder is the third longtime C-suite executive to leave the Post this year. Last month, the Washington Post’s longtime tech and data chief Shailesh Prakash said he is leaving the company for a new executive role at Google. In July, CNN announced it hired Kristine Coratti Kelly, the Post’s former… Source link

AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Google has announced the date for its Pixel-centric “Made by Google” event, joining Microsoft and presumably also Apple with fall product releases. The live event will be held on October 6 at 10:00 AM ET, and Google is expected to announce its… Source link

Ambition and desperation met at an intersection when the Cleveland Cavaliers and Utah Jazz consummated a blockbuster trade headlined by Donovan Mitchell going East — not to New York — and cementing Danny Ainge taking a sledgehammer to the Jazz roster for what’s sure to be an ugly-ish rebuild. Cleveland was ambitious enough to go after Mitchell, and Utah desperate enough to get off the Western hamster wheel that inevitably ends in San Francisco. In sending restricted free agent Collin… Source link

The NFL wants to add American football to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, but not the breed of American football its fans are used to. Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations, will work alongside International Federation of American Football president Pierre Trochet as co-chairs of the “Vision28” group, an effort to add flag football to the Los Angeles Games, the NFL announced Wednesday. No form of American football has been seen at the Olympics since 1932,… Source link

Condoleezza Rice is now a part owner of the Denver Broncos. The former U.S. Secretary of State officially joined the new ownership group of the Broncos on Monday, the team announced. Rice joins the group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton and his family. “We’re pleased to welcome former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to our ownership group,” Rob Walton said in a statement. “A highly respected public servant, accomplished academic and corporate leader, Secretary Rice is well known as a… Source link

BlackRock (BLK), the world’s largest asset manager, is set to expand its health care plan to cover travel expenses for U.S. employees seeking abortion services, per an internal memo obtained exclusively by Yahoo Finance. The company joins a growing docket of firms on Wall Street making similar commitments following Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Through company-sponsored health insurance, we have long provided reproductive health care services, including coverage… Source link

Out of the 32 NFL teams Larry Ogunjobi could have possibly signed with, this is probably the last one anybody would guess. The former Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle signed a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, the team announced on Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed. Why would this be a surprise? Well, you may remember a certain game in the 2019 season that ended with Browns defensive end Myles Garrett infamously bashing Steelers… Source link

Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder and world’s sixth-richest person, filed for a divorce from his wife of three years, making him the third mega-billionaire to do so in as many years. Brin filed a petition for dissolution of his marriage to Nicole Shanahan this month, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to court documents. The couple, who have a… Source link

Yahoo will launch a series of metaverse activities in Hong Kong to explore the use of immersive advertising technologies, the US internet company said on Wednesday, a day after Facebook owner Meta Platforms announced similar plans. According to Yahoo’s announcement, the company wants to hold virtual concerts and exhibitions on popular metaverse platform Decentraland, featuring local idol groups and artists. It also plans to release a limited amount of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). “Yahoo Hong… Source link