The excited bride and groom looked incredible as they exchanged vows in their Los Angeles, CA living room in front of 90 guests.
The excited bride and groom looked incredible as they exchanged vows in their Los Angeles, CA living room in front of 90 guests.
Netflix is making moves to expand its mobile gaming offerings. Soon, subscribers will see more shows made by Netflix made into mobile games, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, like Squid Game and Wednesday.
While mobile gaming is not entirely new to Netflix, it’s still trying to find its place in the company’s business model. Right now, the Netflix app prompts users to download and play games like Exploding Kittens: The Game or Ghost Detective on the app store where you can play on the platform. But eventually, Netflix subscribers will be able to play games directly on their smart TVs and computers. This push into gaming by the streaming giant is preceded by the company’s recent release of a dedicated controller app for iOS devices that lets a player use their phone as a gamepad with a paired TV.
From the start, Netflix has never charged for its games or posed additional fees within its gaming domain. To play on your phone, you only need a subscription. And while we don’t know if that is going to ever change in the near future, Netflix’s focus on making games based on hit shows could help maintain interest in them, especially in between seasons. The bet on superconsumers’ could also lead the company to a path of buying its way into gaming.
As of now, Netflix offers more than 70 games on its platform and it plans to expand that more into the end of 2023. Netflix will continue to license non-show related games like Classic Solitaire, according to the WSJ.
It has been less than two years since the company began dabbling in mobile gaming and yet, Netflix has already become a player in indie publishing. And we’ve seen the company deliver on its promise of developing games based on hit shows. Netflix Stories: Love is Blind, an interactive story title based on the reality television series just came out last month. Now it appears ready to lean even harder into gaming.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/netflix-will-reportedly-turn-more-of-its-hit-shows-into-games-230944708.html?src=rss
The ‘So What’ songstress took to social media on October 16 to announce that she had to postpone two of her concerts in light of emergency ‘family medical issues.’
The ‘So What’ songstress took to social media on October 16 to announce that she had to postpone two of her concerts in light of emergency ‘family medical issues.’
The former Spice Girl and retired footballer have been married for 24 years. Find out more about their love story here.
The former Spice Girl and retired footballer have been married for 24 years. Find out more about their love story here.
‘The Kardashians’ star took to Instagram two weeks before Halloween to show off one of her matching costumes with her one-year-old son.
‘The Kardashians’ star took to Instagram two weeks before Halloween to show off one of her matching costumes with her one-year-old son.
Goldman Sachs, Apple’s banking partner for its credit card and high-yield savings account, is seemingly having doubts about those products. According to The Wall Street Journal, Goldman is looking to get out of the consumer lending business, which could have implications for Apple Card and the associated savings account.
The report suggests that several senior Goldman executives want the company to ditch its remaining consumer lending products — those it offers with Apple as well as the General Motors credit card. No final decision is said to have been made, though the future of Goldman’s consumer products may become a little clearer when the finance company reports its quarterly earnings on Tuesday.
Consumer lending efforts such as Apple Card may have been a mistake for Goldman. The business unit that oversees those and GreenSky (a “buy now, pay later” company Goldman bought for around $2.2 billion last year and is selling at a loss) has lost billions of dollars.
Meanwhile, Goldman has run afoul of regulators. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has investigated Goldman’s handling of credit card billing errors and refunds. Unlike with other card programs, Apple Card bills go out at the beginning of each month. That’s said to put more pressure on Goldman customer service workers who deal with complaints and billing issues. Issuing bills on a rolling basis may alleviate that strain. However, Goldman has reportedly been unsuccessful in convincing Apple to move to a more typical billing cycle.
If Goldman isn’t able to reduce expenses for its credit cards, it may try to sell the Apple and GM partnerships, according to the report. That may prove a difficult prospect, given that customers have deposited billions of dollars into Apple savings accounts. If Goldman manages to get another bank to take over the Apple partnership (including those hefty savings accounts), the Journal noted that the finance company may have to raise expensive emergency funding to cover any shortfall.
Goldman is said to have had talks with American Express about taking over its consumer products. However, Amex reportedly has concerns regarding the Apple Card’s loss rates and other factors Goldman has been attempting to remedy. Amex leaders are also said to have bristled at the fact the Apple Card operates on the Mastercard network.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/goldman-sachs-might-be-trying-to-offload-apples-credit-card-and-savings-accounts-204014759.html?src=rss
The reality dating series’ dramatic fifth season came to an end on October 13. So, when will the sixth season premiere?
The reality dating series’ dramatic fifth season came to an end on October 13. So, when will the sixth season premiere?
Australia has fined X (formerly Twitter) for failing to answer all its questions about child exploitation. The country’s government levied a penalty of AUD 610,500 (around $387,000) for the Elon Musk-owned company’s non-compliance with a national law requiring social platforms to disclose how they’re combating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
“Companies can make empty statements like ‘Child exploitation is our top priority,’ so what we’re saying is show us,” Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, told The New York Times in an interview. “This is important not only in terms of deterrence in the types of defiance we are seeing from the companies but because this information is in the public interest.”
Australian officials said neither X nor Google fully complied with the questions. While Google received a formal warning for “giving generic or aggregated information across multiple services where information regarding specific services was required,” X’s violation “was more serious.” Inman Grant said X failed to reply adequately to questions while leaving other boxes blank. “In other instances, Twitter provided a response that was otherwise incomplete or inaccurate,” she wrote.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino
The official says her department sent a notice to X (then Twitter) on February 22, asking it to fulfill its report by answering mandatory questions; she gave the company 35 days to reply. The company responded on March 29. Inman Grant wrote that she identified 14 questions (including sub-questions) where the firm failed to provide the required info. Her office sent follow-up questions on April 6. Musk’s company responded on May 5, leading Inman Grant to conclude the company had held back info in its initial response. She wrote, “It is evident from many of X Corp.’s subsequent responses that it held information required by the Notice and was capable of providing that information at first instance.”
Inman Grant wrote that the nation can seek civil penalties through the courts if X doesn’t pay the fine. And more compliance tools are on the way. “We also have more powerful systemic tools coming online next year in the form of industry codes and standards which will ensure companies are living up to their responsibilities to protect children,” she wrote.
As highlighted by The NYT, X told the Australian regulators, “Children are not our target customer, and our service is not overwhelmingly used by children.” However, CEO Linda Yaccarino recently said in a forum that Gen Z was the platform’s fastest-growing demographic, with 200 million unique monthly visitors among teens and young adults in their 20s.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/australian-regulators-fine-x-for-dodging-questions-about-csam-response-194358319.html?src=rss
The talk show host and her co-host Hoda Kotb were talking about all the attention the new couple’s relationship has gotten over the past month, during Monday’s episode of their show.
The talk show host and her co-host Hoda Kotb were talking about all the attention the new couple’s relationship has gotten over the past month, during Monday’s episode of their show.
Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that the truth about her marriage to Will Smith almost came out in 2020 when they opened up about the infamous ‘entanglement.’
Jada Pinkett Smith revealed that the truth about her marriage to Will Smith almost came out in 2020 when they opened up about the infamous ‘entanglement.’
