Recode Daily - How Apple and Google plan to revamp their app stores - Jun 09, 2016

Big changes for app developers: Apple is going to let them purchase search ads in the App Store, and developers with subscription customers for a year or longer will only pay Apple a 15 percent cut, instead of a 30 percent cut. Google is going to offer developers the same deal in the Play Store, but they won't have to wait a year to get that 15 percent rate. [Lauren Goode | The Verge] Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says that Uber isn't going to make self-driving cars of its own, but (like Google) aims to partner with various carmakers on autonomous driving technology. The ride-hailing service recently inked a deal with Toyota, and is said to be in talks with Fiat. [Naomi Kresge | Bloomberg] CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen is going to work for Facebook as its "head of global creative strategy," a new position at the company. He's going to be working with media companies to help them make stuff to put on Facebook. [Peter Kafka | Recode] Bill Simmons may be the boss of his new site, The Ringer, but Editor-in-Chief Sean Fennessey is the guy running things day-to-day. On the new Recode Media podcast, Fennessey tells Peter Kafka how the Ringer will be different from Simmons's first site, Grantland. For more background on the Ringer, check out the Hollywood Reporter's new profile of Simmons. [Eric Johnson | Recode] Experts increasingly agree that the short- to medium-term outlook for the economy isn't great. The latest sign of this is the return of billionaire and bear market investor George Soros, who was last involved in everyday trading during the 2007 financial meltdown. [Gregory Zuckerman | The Wall Street Journal] Commerce Apple Pay competitor CurrentC is the disaster everyone thought it would be By Jason Del Rey Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Apps The app boom is over By Peter Kafka Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones — unless they're Snapchat or Uber. Voices Why CTOs have been thinking about intelligence all wrong By Anant Jhingran "Don't build it, buy it," says one of the developers of IBM's Watson supercomputer. Social Twitter just appointed a longtime exec to head up its global media team By Kurt Wagner Ross Hoffman is the third person to fill the role in the last six months. Commerce Airbnb doesn't want to mess with what's working, but it is adding a few features to the service By Noah Kulwin Users now get an expanded reviews capability, group bookings and better corporate tools. Politics The Democratic National Committee's political director is leaving — and heading to Silicon Valley By Dawn Chmielewski Raul Alvillar was the first Latino to hold that role in the party. Is there anything better than a scathing restaurant review? You don't have to live in Washington or enjoy fine dining to appreciate this masterful zero-star review of the restaurant Founding Farmers. A line from Washington Post critic Tom Sietsma's piece: "Had my waiter inquired, my posse would have told him the swamp posing as shrimp and grits was about as close to the southern model as rap is to opera."              News Podcasts Events You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Recode Daily. If you would like to unsubscribe, click here. Mailing Address: Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2016 Vox Media, Inc.

 

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