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...
What picture-in-picture on the new Apple TV would look like
A subscription TV service isn’t the only add-on we could envision for the new Apple TV. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith — who gave us a peek at iPad split-screen multitasking well before Apple started offering it — whipped up an app for the device with picture-in-picture support that looks right at home on tvOS. Support for the feature isn’t built into the box yet, but we can’t imagine official support...
What picture-in-picture on the new Apple TV would look like
A subscription TV service isn’t the only add-on we could envision for the new Apple TV. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith — who gave us a peek at iPad split-screen multitasking well before Apple started offering it — whipped up an app for the device with picture-in-picture support that looks right at home on tvOS. Support for the feature isn’t built into the box yet, but we can’t imagine official support...
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Results Produce Record Quarterly Profit of $18.4 Billion CUPERTINO, California — January 26, 2016 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended December 26, 2015. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $74.6 billion and net income of $18 billion, or $3.06 per...
‘Song of the Deep’ is GameStop’s first published game
It’s not clear whether GameStop gave any creative input to the project , but we can’t imagine it was much, if any. The company’s CEO, Paul Raines, said couple of years ago that it wouldn’t interfere with game development. “We love to play games, and unlike our competitors all we do is gaming,” he told TIME in an interview about GameStop’s venture into publishing. “But we will not be...
