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Apple on Friday published a revision of some of its App Store review guidelines, loosening some restrictions on streaming game services, online classes and when developers must use its in-app purchase system, which charges a 30 percent commission. The company made the changes after criticism from developers over its App Store practices and after rivals …

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar has stepped down from the online auction platform’s board of directors, the company said. The billionaire tech entrepreneur resigned from the board Tuesday alongside Jesse Cohn of Elliott Management, the activist investment firm that has pushed for changes at eBay in recent years, the company announced Thursday. Omidyar and Cohn will …

President Trump said he won’t give Chinese tech giant ByteDance any more time to sell TikTok’s US operations before the feds ban the popular app. “We’ll either close up TikTok in this country for security reasons or it’ll be sold,” Trump told reporters Thursday before a trip to Michigan. “I’m not extending deadlines.” The president’s …

A Huawei executive says that recent US sanctions against the company have caused a shortage of computer chips for the company, hurting the growth of its smartphone business. Richard Yu, president of Huawei Technologies’ consumer business, said at a company conference for developers on Thursday that the company has still managed to gain a 51 …

Apple is launching a new product next week, but it may not be the hotly anticipated 5G iPhone. The company on Tuesday afternoon announced a surprise even scheduled for Sept. 15, with Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Greg Joswiak sharing a video of the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, Calif. The event invite didn’t …

Technology stocks took a tumble on Wall Street Thursday, giving back some of their spectacular gains over the past several months and dragging the rest of the market down with them. The S&P 500 was down 3.4 percent as of 11:20 a.m. Eastern time, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 4.8 percent. Both indexes had set …

Billionaire activist hedge manager Bill Ackman has offered to take Airbnb public through his $4 billion blank-check company, but the company’s CEO Brian Chesky is reportedly holding out for a more traditional IPO process. Chesky hasn’t completely ruled out a merger with Ackman’s Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, but no further discussions are underway, Bloomberg reported …

Google’s search autocomplete feature fails to generate negative suggestions for the term “BLM,” in stark contrast to other search engines. Typing the words “BLM is” on Google currently only returns the suggestion “BLM israel.” It does not show a long list of suggestions, which is unusual for a popular search term and suggests that a …

China appears to be putting up roadblocks to TikTok parent ByteDance’s efforts to divest the video-sharing app’s US operations to comply with President Trump’s orders to sell it to a US company by September 15 or see it shut down in the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce added 23 items Friday to a list …

Elon Musk says his brain-implant firm Neuralink will show off a “working device” at a highly anticipated Friday event. Musk announced the live demonstration on Twitter early Wednesday, apparently referring to the brain-machine interface — a device that would link human brains to computers — that Neuralink has been developing since it launched in 2017. …