Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer
Tor Myhren Joins Apple CUPERTINO, California — December 17, 2015 — Apple® today announced that Jeff Williams has been named chief operating officer and Johny Srouji is joining Apple’s executive team as senior vice president for Hardware Technologies. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will expand his role to include leadership of the revolutionary App Store® across all Apple platforms. Apple also announced...
Facebook has banned person-to-person gun sales
To wit, Reuters writes that Facebook previously nixed firearm advertisements stating “no background check required” or sales that’d cross state lines because those displayed a “willingness to evade the law” around two years ago. Still feel like testing your luck? A Facebook spokesperson tells us the site has systems in place to remove and review listings.”Over the last two years, more and more...
Facebook has banned person-to-person gun sales
To wit, Reuters writes that Facebook previously nixed firearm advertisements stating “no background check required” or sales that’d cross state lines because those displayed a “willingness to evade the law” around two years ago. Still feel like testing your luck? A Facebook spokesperson tells us the site has systems in place to remove and review listings.”Over the last two years, more and more...
Record-Breaking Holiday Season for the App Store
CUPERTINO, California — January 6, 2016 — Apple® today announced that customers around the world made this holiday season the biggest ever for the App Store®, setting new records during the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s. In the two weeks ending January 3, customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases, setting back-to-back weekly records for traffic and purchases. January 1, 2016 marked the biggest day in App Store...
NYT: DraftKings and FanDuel lose major payment processor
Based on Vantiv’s letter to its clients that NYT got its hands on, the payment processor was caught in the middle of the services and the law. It got a cease-and-desist order from NY attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman, and later on orders from judges in Massachusetts and New York, despite the websites being allowed to operate in the Empire State while their appeal is ongoing. All the uncertainty surrounding the industry has...
