Gaming Industry Updates: Xbox Innovations and Stadia Challenges

Apple takes down vaping apps from the App Store, why is Google going ahead with the Stadia launch this month? Amazon protests the JEDI decision, the TikTok juggernaut rolls on—especially in India—and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Exclusive: Apple to remove vaping apps from store (Axios)
• November 2019 Xbox One Update Brings Xbox Action for the Google Assistant, Gamertag Updates, Text Filters and More (XBox Wire)
• Microsoft to launch xCloud in 2020, with PS4 controllers and PC streaming on the way (The Verge)
• Google demos Stadia UI and lists several missing launch features (Engadget)
• Amazon cites ‘unmistakable bias’ in Microsoft’s military cloud contract win (CNBC)
• TikTok surpasses 1.5 billion downloads — with almost 500M in India (TNW)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• WeFail: How the doomed Masa Son-Adam Neumann relationship set WeWork on the road to disaster (Fast Company)
• How VCs Make Money (VCStarterKit)
• Superhero or Supervillain? Technology’s Role Changes Comic Books (NYTimes)
• AN ORAL HISTORY OF LIMEWIRE: THE LITTLE APP THAT CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOREVER (MelMagazine)
• As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots (LATimes)
• Managing Your Friendships, With Software (The Atlantic)
• From Instagram to Candy Crush: These are the most important apps of the decade (CNET)

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