Monthly Archives: December 2022

Meta needs explicit user consent to run personalized ads, EU watchdog rules

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Meta has already been coping with a slump in ad revenue this year, and now a decision from European Union privacy regulators threatens to reduce Meta’s ad revenue even more next year. According to Reuters, a person familiar with the matter said that the European Data Protection…

A data-driven duo just raised roughly $350M to fund seed-stage startups with metrics

Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday trust data over the kind of pattern matching that most VCs swear by. It’s not surprising, given their backgrounds. Before launching their venture firm, 645 Ventures, in 2014, Okike was a principal with the data-driven investment giant Insight Partners. Meanwhile Holiday, who came directly from DFJ Gotham Ventures, was previously…

Bosch shuts down its app store for AI-powered, internet-connected cameras

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. SAST was to host a moderated, vetted “app store” for internet-connected cameras that would allow developers to build software on an open standard…

Apple’s revamped App Store pricing allows $0.29 software

Apple is expanding developers’ options for pricing their App Store apps. The company announced 700 new price points and tools today in what it describes as the App Store’s biggest pricing upgrade in its 14-year history. Additionally, devs can now set regional costs automatically in response to exchange rates. The App Store’s new structure lets…

Halo Infinite’s December update adds reimagined The Pit map, custom game browser, and more

Halo Infinite has released its December update, bringing with it the earlier-than-anticipated arrival of a custom game browser, an updated version of Halo 3’s The Pit map, and more. Halo Infinite’s new custom game browser is designed to work in tandem with the Forge Beta introduced as part of November’s Winter Update. It was originally…