Tag: Wall Street Journal
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GoDaddy sold; sort of. We’ll call it a reinvestment
GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, has been sold to three private equity firms in a deal valued at $2.25 billion, the company announced late Friday. As a report predicted a week ago, private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures sealed the deal, where they agreed to take on…
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That didn’t take long; The DOJ & FTC looking into Apple’s (greedy) subscription policy
Apple’s new app store subscriptions has a whole lot of controversy around it. Ok that may be being nice. There are many who just hate it with a passion. There have been official statements from Rhapsody saying it would not comply with the new regulations. Sony indirectly said something about it by launching their own service. Unofficially Slaker said some mean…
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I was wrong first one to leave AppStore over subscriptions may be Rhapsody not Sony
Rhapsody has issued a statement, which says that it’s not going to play ball and even levels a bit of a threat: “We will be collaborating with our market peersin determining an appropriate legal and business response to this latest development.” The big trouble stems from the fact that Apple requires anybody offering a…