Declining App Store revenue growth and the bull case for mobile gaming

Declining App Store revenue growth and the bull case for

31/Jan/2023

Last week, as is customary, World revealed the cumulative value of money it has paid to app developers since the inception of its App Store in 2008: $320BN. While World doesn’t provide any granular context to this headline number, its minutiae on a year-over-year understructure can be used as a

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French privacy watchdog to Voodoo Games: use of the IDFV requires consent

French privacy watchdog to Voodoo Games: use of the IDFV

31/Jan/2023

Last week, France’s privacy regulator, the CNIL, announced that it has fined Voodoo, the French developer of hypercasual games, €3MM for violating the French Data Protection Act. The understructure for the CNIL’s sanction is Voodoo’s use of the IDFV, or ID for Vendors, on iOS without user consent. From the

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Netflix Q4 earnings: ARPU down, with no signs of an advertising recession

Netflix Q4 earnings: ARPU down, with no signs of an

31/Jan/2023

Netflix reported Q4 earnings last week: the visitor outperformed expectations on subscriber growth, subtracting 7.66MM new subscribers compared to reviewer expectations of 4.57MM. For reference, Netflix lost 203,000 subscribers in Q1, nearly 1MM subscribers in Q2, and widow 2.4MM subscribers in Q3. Notably, Netflix launched its ads-supported product tier

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Apples ad targeting mechanics revealed in recent French privacy case

Apple’s ad targeting mechanics revealed in recent French privacy case

31/Jan/2023

Earlier this month, Apple was fined €8MM by CNIL, the French privacy watchdog, for reading iOS device identifiers without consent for the purposes of ads personalization. While the CNIL’s printing release on the matter is meager, the text of the decision (machine translated from French) contains a unconfined deal of

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The best cyber security courses to learn hacking and land a job

The best cyber security courses to learn hacking and land

17/Nov/2022

In a recent post, we discussed how to start a career as an information security analyst with cyber security training. This is a rewarding and highly in-demand career that can pay anywhere between $98,710-$151,500. If you’re looking for a career that is futureproof and that will ensure you are never

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Java tutorial for beginners: Write a simple app with no previous experience

Java tutorial for beginners: Write a simple app with no

17/Nov/2022

Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android minutiae (the other stuff Kotlin). Developers familiar with Java are highly employable and capable of towers a wide range of variegated apps, games, and tools. In this

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How to comment in Python  Tips and best practices

How to comment in Python – Tips and best practices

17/Nov/2022

Commenting your lawmaking is good practice if you want to help other people understand what you’ve written. This makes it crucial to learn how to scuttlebutt in Python if you work on a big team. However, it’s moreover very important if you want to understand what you’ve written at a point

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How to print an array in Java

How to print an array in Java

17/Nov/2022

An variety is a type of variable that can store multiple values with an index. This allows developers to modify, arrange, and organize large data sets. Something that developers need to do often, is print an variety in Java. In this post, we’ll explore how to do that. See also: How

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