MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s government has begun slapping a $1,130 fee on travelers from dozens of countries connecting through the nation’s main airport, amid U.S. pressure to help control migration flows to its southern border. Since the end of October, citizens of 57 largely African countries and India have had to pay the fee, … Read more
X, formerly Twitter, announced today that is starting a new experiment to charge a $1 per year fee for “new unverified” users to interact with posts. The company said this test is currently live in New Zealand and the Philippines and existing users won’t be affected. Users will get to post content, like, repost, reply, … Read more
Twitter/X CEO and prime glass cliff candidate Linda Yaccarino appeared at the 2023 Code Conference on Sept. 27, speaking to CNBC’s Julia Boorstin about the platform formerly known as Twitter. Unfortunately, her responses about the company’s direction weren’t reassuring — and also indicated a possible breakdown in communication with owner Elon Musk. A telling moment … Read more
Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimously disparaged. A new pricing policy is still incoming, but it’s far less fraught for independent developers, many of whom threatened to leave the engine and platform behind rather than pay. The changes were announced only … Read more
PhonePe launched the Indus AppStore Developer Platform on Saturday, promising no platform fee or commission on in-app purchases as the Walmart-backed fintech races to win Android developers in Google’s largest market. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which has amassed over 450 million registered users on its payments app, said developers can start registering and uploading their apps … Read more
Since its launch in 2005, Unity’s goal has been to “democratize” game development by making it more accessible. In 2018, CEO John Riccitiello claimed that Unity is used by “pretty much half of all games, period.” As Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. notes, it’s a “simple, versatile, very powerful tool” that allows a variety … Read more
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Amazon PR supervisor Jonathan Hillson informed The Verge in an e-mail that “the two% Vendor Fulfilled Prime charge was meant to cowl our prices,” however added that the corporate determined to not transfer ahead as a result of it was afraid “vendor sentiment associated to the charge” may have an effect on participation in this … Read more
Elon Musk may put all of Twitter/X behind a paywall. Talking in a livestream on Monday, Musk informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the microblogging platform is “transferring to a small month-to-month fee” system, allegedly to fight bots. To that I say: Do it, coward. I dare you. Musk has been contemplating making Twitter/X … Read more