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News: U.S. Federal Judge and Epic Games Challenge Whether Apple Has Complied With Order to Allow Payment Steering

FastSpring

An evidentiary hearing in the Epic Games v. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers’ order to allow app developers to “steer” users to third-party payment options outside of the native App Store. The evidentiary hearing regarding Apple’s subsequent compliance began on Wednesday, May 8. fees for payment processing.

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FastSpring and EBANX Forge Partnership to Expand Pix Payments for Digital Products in Brazil

FastSpring

Pix, Brazil’s instant payment system introduced by the Central Bank of Brazil in 2020, has rapidly gained popularity among consumers as a preferred digital payment method. Director of Payments, Risk, and Compliance at FastSpring. It’s a must-have payment method in Brazil.

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

FastSpring

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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Press Release: FastSpring CEO David Nachman on Google Play Case Ruling: “This is a Win For Gamers and Studios”

FastSpring

FastSpring provided key evidence about alternative payment options in EPIC’s antitrust lawsuit against Google Santa Barbara, CA – December 12, 2023 – Overnight in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California a jury found that Google Play and Google Play Billing represent an illegal monopoly run by Google.

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

FastSpring

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. How Apple Is Responding The Associated Press reported that this lifts a hold on an order to give devs more freedom to use other payment options. Further Epic Games v.

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Wine Ecommerce: How To Sell & Ship Wine in 2018

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gallons — an increase of more than 20% since 2005. In this guide, we’ll focus on the latter factor — the increase of online wine sales — and how ecommerce merchants can take advantage of this expansion. Your international shipments will go through multiple processing centers as well as travel in several different types of vehicles.

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Elf on the Shelf CEO on the Brand’s Unlikely but Enduring Success

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Image courtesy The Lumistella Company The success of the brand feels like something of a Christmas miracle to Co-founder and Co-CEO Christa Pitts, who launched the Elf on the Shelf with her twin sister, Chanda Bell, and mother, Carol Aebersold, in 2005. I cherish what I learned at QVC. Looking back on it, it was quite the think tank.

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