Category: fees

Apple won’t collect fees on paid Facebook events until 2021

Post author By Randall
Post date September 25, 2020
Categories In app store, Apple, commission, creators, Facebook, facebook gaming, facebook pay, fees, Gaming, gear, iap, in-app purchases, News, online events, small businesses, Tech, waive

[ad_1] Now, Apple has agreed to let Facebook Pay process all paid online event purchases. This means Facebook can absorb the cost, and Apple won’t get a cut. But this agreement only lasts until December 31st. “Apple has agreed to provide a brief, three-month respite after which struggling businesses will have to, yet again, pay […]

News sites join Epic in fight against Apple’s high iOS Store fees

Post author By Randall
Post date August 21, 2020
Categories In Apple, apple tax, Entertainment, epic, fees, fortnite, ios, News, publishers, subscription, Tech

[ad_1] For news apps that offer subscription services, the App Store normally takes a 30 percent cut in the first year, then a 15 percent cut thereafter. However, DCN is arguing that Apple gave more favorable terms to Amazon with its Prime Video iOS app, taking only a 15 percent commission from the start — […]

Uber Eats waives delivery fees for over 100,000 independent restaurants

Post author By Randall
Post date March 16, 2020
Categories In business, canada, coronavirus, covid-19, Delivery, delivery fees, fees, food and drink, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, gear, gig economy, independent, restaurants, Security, services, small business, Tech, Uber, us, waive

[ad_1] Uber Eats is also launching daily marketing campaigns to promote delivery from local restaurants, especially those that are new to the app. It will allow restaurants of all sizes to opt into daily payments on all Uber Eats orders, rather than weekly billing, and it has committed 300,000 free meals on Uber Eats to […]

Grubhub waives fees for independent restaurants impacted by COVID-19

Post author By Randall
Post date March 13, 2020
Categories In business, commission, coronavirus, covid-19, fees, food and drink, food delivery, food-and-drink, foodanddrink, grubhub, mayors, restaurants, services, small business, Tech

[ad_1] Today, the company announced that it is temporarily suspending its commission fees (up to $100 million) for independent restaurants nationwide. According to CNBC, those restaurants sometimes pay commission fees as high as 30 percent on orders delivered by third-party companies like Grubhub. It makes sense from a business perspective. Independent restaurants drive more than […]

CERN turns to open source software as Microsoft increases its fees

Post author By Randall
Post date June 13, 2019
Categories In academic, business, cern, data, fees, gear, licensing, malt, Microsoft, microsoft alternatives, open source, project, research institutions, software, Tech, tomorrow, vendor

[ad_1] In its blog post, CERN said “MAlt’s objective is to put us back in control using open software.” Its goal is to break CERN’s dependency on commercial vendors and “keep hands on the data.” The multi-year project will begin with a pilot mail service for the IT department and volunteers this summer. If that […]