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advertisement advertisement advertisement Executives from Apple and Google will testify in front of Congress on Wednesday, and are likely to face tough questioning about the way they manage their respective app stores. advertisement advertisement Apple’s chief compliance officer Kyle Andeer and Google’s senior director of government affairs Wilson White will appear in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, which is chaired by Democrat Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. The hearing comes as Congress readies legislation that could revamp antitrust law to better deal with 21st century monopolies, and better arm government agencies to enforce the law. The main topic of discussion will be the revenue sharing requirement imposed by the app stores on developers. Larger developers must pay 30% of their app or subscription revenue to Apple or Google during the first year of inclusion in their respective app … [Read more...] about Amy Klobuchar: Apple, Google app store rules are “pretty outrageous”

advertisement advertisement advertisement Did you lie in your last negotiation? advertisement advertisement That’s a provocative question, but a critical one, as negotiation has always been ethically fraught terrain, where people have a lot of incentive to act in self-interest, including by lying . Moreover, there’s evidence that “ slips of integrity ” are more likely in the virtual interactions the COVID-19 pandemic has forced most of us into. Lying in business contexts can have astronomical costs, as suggested by the recent global scandals including Theranos , Wirecard , and others. So we need to understand what makes deception more likely in negotiation and other contexts, and what we can do about it. Our new paper suggests lying in negotiation is linked to two interrelated factors: biological sex (as opposed to the social construct of gender) and situational cues. Specifically, we found that while men are more … [Read more...] about Try these science-backed strategies to achieve a win in your next negotiation

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advertisement advertisement advertisement Netflix is dramatically upping its content spend in 2021—to $17 billion—signaling that it will be making more bets on big movies and TV shows as it fights to fend off competitors like Disney Plus and HBO Max. While the latter have built-in access to popular franchises like Star Wars and Wonder Woman due to their Hollywood studio parents, Netflix has had to buy its way into the franchise business. It recently made a deal with Sony to become the streaming home to Marvel films such as Spider-Man and Venom , and it paid $465 million for the two sequels to Knives Out , the whodunit thriller starring Daniel Craig. As co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on an earnings call on Tuesday, “big event content” is crucial to the company’s strategy going forward. advertisement advertisement Indeed, these big bets on known film entities (up until now, Netflix had mainly splurged on TV showrunners such as … [Read more...] about Netflix finally learns the oldest rule in Hollywood: Hits matter