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Tim Sweeney, chief executive and founder of the video game maker Epic Games, at the company s headquarters in Cary, N.C., on July 17, 2020. Sweeney has written that he is fighting for open platforms and policy changes equally benefiting all developers.
The man behind Fortnite is making the riskiest bet of his career. The payoff could be huge
Updated 8:24 AM ET, Wed February 10, 2021 (CNN Business)Over the course of his career Tim Sweeney has been unafraid to take on tech industry giants.
The CEO and founder of Epic Games has had a knack for picking the right battles while also shoring up his company s independence. Fortnite, the company s blockbuster battle royale game, recently topped more than 15 million concurrent players and has spawned a universe of fandom. Epic challenged
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Ever since it was launched in 2008, the Apple App Store has been the sole gatekeeper between apps and iPhones and iPads. Other platforms, such as Google's Android, allow apps to be downloaded through third-party app stores. For any developers who want on to Apple's mobile devices, though, the choice is simple it's the App Store or nothing.
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Bitcoin’s back (and no, it never really left), thanks to a rally this morning that pushed its value up as much as 10% at one point in early trading today. Elon Musk’s weekend tweeting and news that presumptive top NFL draft choice Trevor Lawrence has signed an endorsement deal with crypto exchange FTX and will take his first payment strictly in the cryptocurrency certainly didn’t hurt the surge - Bloomberg and NYTimes and MarketWatch
We know that the pandemic year meant extremes in the business world both big winners and big losers. Tech soared while travel-related industries shriveled up and nearly died. Yet for one very special group of workers that would be CEOs it hardly seems to have mattered whether the company won or lost. Indeed, “at many of the companies hit hardest by the pandemic, the executives in charge were showered with riches” - NYTimes
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