Innovations in AR and Major Acquisitions in Visual Effects

Apple and Alphabet suffer setbacks in court. More hardware moves in the great Metaverse realignment of the tech landscape. Unity buys Weta Digital. No word on if Andy Serkis is part of the package. And Twitter Blue is finally live. A reminder of what that actually is.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks.io/ride
• Oracle.com/ride

Links:

• Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay (The Verge)
• Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion EU Shopping-Ads Fine (WSJ)
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces try to make it easier to get apps ready for augmented reality (The Verge)
• Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for over $1.6B (TechCrunch)
• Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes)
• Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge)

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