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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

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As mobile game and app developers gasp for air under a player-gouging 30% duopoly-tax on nearly all mobile game revenue worldwide, Epic Games has emerged as the de facto leader of the gaming community in the fight for open computing on mobile. There were no gatekeepers — just a computer, a player, and a game.

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News: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Apple and Epic in Antitrust Case

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Supreme Court denied requests to hear appeals from both Apple and Epic Games regarding the antitrust case Epic filed against Apple in 2020, Reuters reported. Further Epic Games v. Related reading about Epic vs. Apple and Epic vs. Google: Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want? In 2021, U.S.

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Fontainebleau Las Vegas to Include 90,000-Square-Foot Shopping District

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In development since 2005, Fontainebleau Las Vegas is inspired by the brand’s Miami property, which was designed by famed architect Morris Lapidus. The property, slated to open in winter 2023, also will feature a casino, dining experiences and additional attractions across 173,000 square feet of space. .

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How Vintage Wine Estates is Uncorking New Opportunities in Alcohol Ecommerce

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Tech Advancements Help Alcohol Ecommerce Expand Alcohol ecommerce didn’t really pick up steam until 2005, when the Supreme Court struck down laws in New York and Michigan that banned vineyards from selling across state lines. It’s the norm for Coke; it’s the norm for Yoplait — it’s not the norm for us.”

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Mirakl Rakes in $555M in New Funding as Online Marketplaces Boom

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The company’s founders first launched an online marketplace targeted to the gaming market in 2005 that was acquired by major French retail chain Fnac in 2008, which became the basis Fnac’s own third-party marketplace. Marketplace software solution Marketplacer, based in Australia, is making inroads in the U.S.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

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SETs like Apple Vision Pro, Emerge and AromaJoin provide a game-changing opportunity that can enrich online retail and engage customers’ multisensory perception. Kitagawa and Igarashi (2005) used sound to induce virtual touch sensations. 2006; Simmons et al. Visual and auditory information can influence product expectations (i.e.,

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Macy’s vs. HBC: Two Different Takes on the Ecommerce Spinoff

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To be sure, digital transformation is the name of the game in retail today, but the jury is still out on whether an e-separation is a successful way to actually achieve that — or a quick way to kill a business already in decline. And governance consultant Diligent expects investor activism to increase again in 2022.

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