Tag: tightening

08 MAR

Apple stops Nintendo, Square Enix iOS game updates after tightening loot box rules

Mobile games like Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes and Square Enix’s Final Fantasy Brave Exvius aren’t pushing out updates as expected on iOS devices today. This is likely because Apple’s new App Store guidelines, which stipulates that developers must disclose the odds of getting certain items in loot boxes. Apple’s updated guidelines say: “Apps offering ‘loot […]

07 MAR

Big Brother is tightening its grip on ICOs

Apple A recently released letter from the Treasury Department shows initial coin offerings will have to worry about more government oversights.  The agency might go after participants in the ICO market retroactively.  It looks like participants in the initial coin offering market will have to worry about more government oversight.  A letter recently released from […]

01 JUN

Global monetary policy is not tightening as expected

AT ITS outset, 2017 seemed likely to mark a turning-point for global monetary policy. The Federal Reserve had just raised its main interest rate by a quarter-point and was expected to add three such increases this year—or perhaps even more, if a new Republican Congress could agree on tax cuts with a new Republican president. […]

23 MAY

Ariana Grande concert bombing in Manchester prompts other countries to consider tightening event security

Reuters TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Countries from the United States to Japan and Singapore are considering tightening security ahead of major theater and sports events following a suicide bomb attack in Britain that killed at least 22 people. Britain was on its second-highest alert level of “severe”, meaning an attack by militants is considered highly likely, […]