Report: Apple’s App Store revenue rose 11.5% despite Epic Games ruling

In May, a judge ruled that Apple couldn’t charge a 27% commission for purchases made outside of its App Store, a workaround the iPhone maker had used to continue making money even while letting app makers direct users to their own websites. For Apple’s quarter ended in June, that doesn’t seem to have dinged the App Store’s revenue, according to a Bank of America Global Research Media report.

Citing Sensor Tower data, BofA found that the App Store’s revenue grew 11.5% in the company’s fiscal third quarter, up from $7.5 billion in 2024 to $8.4 billion this year. “While some investors may question the near-term severity of the ruling from the Epic Games case, this concern appears to be moot,” analyst Wamsi Mohan wrote.

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Meta seems to be winding down its metaverse ambitions. We took a look back at what the company was going for.

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Salesforce falls as Anthropic debuts Cowork tool

Salesforce is on track for its worst trading day in nearly two years, with shares down more than 6% Tuesday afternoon. One potential contributor: Anthropic’s release of Cowork, an autonomous digital assistant for completing office tasks. Essentially, Cowork is an agent-based version of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot that can access and manipulate files, automate workflows, and execute tasks on a user’s behalf.

Salesforce watchers will recall that the SaaS giant has thrown its weight behind its own agent-based workplace AI, Agentforce, which CEO Marc Benioff recently described as one of the company’s two main “momentum drivers.” In December, Benioff said he would consider renaming the company "Agenforce."

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work.

Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code. pic.twitter.com/EqckycvFH3
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Google reaches record high and crosses $4 trillion market cap after major wins for Gemini

Google parent Alphabet closed yesterday at a record-high stock price of $331.86, giving the company a market capitalization just above $4 trillion, as investors reward a string of wins for its Gemini AI model, including high-profile partnerships with Apple and Walmart.

After months of speculation, Apple announced a multiyear partnership to use Gemini to power its AI assistant, Siri, a major endorsement of Google’s AI prowess. That same day, Walmart said it would partner with Google to let customers purchase products directly through the Gemini chatbot, a move that would put Gemini in front of millions of Walmart shoppers and test whether AI chatbots can drive real commerce at scale rather than isolated queries. (Amazon, OpenAI, and Microsoft are experimenting with similar AI shopping tools.)

The stock is up nearly 1% again in premarket trading today. While Microsoft and Apple have both crossed $4 trillion in the past, they’ve since dipped below it, leaving Google and Nvidia as the only companies currently valued above the threshold.

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