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Uber Eats will be rolling out a new look for its app and web platform, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

7-Eleven is offering customers an entire pizza for free on Sunday if they order through the convenience store chain's 7NOW delivery app.

The mudslinging between Epic Games and Apple continues, with the game developer arguing that the latest legal filing by the tech giant contains "a number of half-truths and outright falsities intended to paint Epic as a bad actor."

A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.

The Committee on Foreign Investment, which is chaired by the Treasury Department, has reportedly sent letters to gamemakers, including Epic Games, Riot Games and others, seeking information about their security protocols in regard to handling Americans’ personal data. 

The battle between Apple and Epic Games over the former's App Store engaged in mudslinging Wednesday and more legal action.

The app's popularity has grown immensely, particularly with millennials and Gen Z. It boasts more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S., largely from this demographic.

Epic says that Apple will no longer terminate support of its 'Sign in with Apple' feature for users logging into the game developer's apps starting on Sept. 11.

"Money is several layers removed, as the medium of exchange between users who choose to buy digital items, and the creators who made them," Sweeney said. "Epic isn't even seeking monetary damages. We are fighting for change!"

"Epic’s lawsuit is nothing more than a basic disagreement over money," Apple wrote in the filing. "Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store."

India has banned the popular Chinese mobile game 'PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds' and 117 other apps following the latest flare-up between both countries in a disputed border region. 

The Cash App has become a boon for Square Inc. during the course of the coronavirus pandemic, rallying shares 28% in the past month and 166% since the beginning of the year. 

Apple announced in a blog post Monday that app developers will now be able to appeal decisions about whether their products violate App Store policies as well as suggest changes to the platform's guidelines through a form submission on its online developer portal. 

Netflix has confirmed that popular shows and movies, such as "Stranger Things," "Bird Box," "The Two Popes" and others will be available to non-subscribers for free. 

 Apple Inc said on Friday it had terminated "Fortnite" creator Epic Games' account on its App Store amid a legal battle over the iPhone maker's in-app payment guidelines and accusations they constitute a monopoly.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ramped up his war against Apple during a meeting with employees Thursday, saying that its App Store “blocks innovation” and allows the company to “charge monopoly rents,” according to a report in Buzzfeed.

While Microsoft continues to appear to be the top bidder, the company has recently come under scrutiny for its close relationship with China, which Navarro noted as a major difference from competitor Oracle with respect to national security. 

Epic argues that exclusively using the App Store is an invitation to "collude with Apple to maintain their monopoly over in-app payments on iOS, suppressing free market competition and inflating prices."

Unity claims it is "the world's leading platform for creating and operating, interactive real-time 3D content," boasting that in 2019, it made more than half of the top games on mobile, PC, and consoles— including 53 percent of the top 1,000 games in the iOS App Store and Google Play, with 3 billion dowloads per month.  

Popular video conferencing app Zoom Communications said Monday that some users were experiencing "partial outages" for some of its services.