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A brief history of Facebook’s journey to the $1T market cap club Four comma club Story byIvan Mehta Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.“Ivan covers Big Tech, India, policy, AI, security, platforms, and apps for TNW. That’s one heck of a mixed bag. He likes to say “Bleh.” Get the TNW newsletter Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week....

A brief history of no-code software — and its future The rise of nonprogrammers building today’s software Early days In the 1990s, websites were the most familiar interface to users. However, building a website required HTML coding and script-based programming that are not easy for a person lacking programming skills. This led to the release of early no-code platforms, including Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver, to help nonprogrammers build websites....

A brief history of the Apple and Epic beef Will Fortnite return to the App Store Why are Apple and Epic fighting? In August last year, Apple and Google booted Epic’s hit battle royale gameFortnite from their app stores.The reason was that the game company had included a payment method that evaded these stores’ systems, and allowed users to buy the game’s internal currency, called V-bucks, directly from Epic. The game company thought that was against the 30% cut taken by Apple and Google from developers was unfair, and people needed alternative methods to make in-app purchases....

A brief history of the Apple and Epic beef Will Fortnite return to the App Store Why are Apple and Epic fighting? In August last year, Apple and Google booted Epic’s hit battle royale gameFortnite from their app stores.The reason was that the game company had included a payment method that evaded these stores’ systems, and allowed users to buy the game’s internal currency, called V-bucks, directly from Epic. The game company thought that was against the 30% cut taken by Apple and Google from developers was unfair, and people needed alternative methods to make in-app purchases....

A brief history of YikYak — the anon platform making its return It’s back! How did it start? Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, graduates of Furman University, South Carolina started this project as a hobby. In 2013, they officially released the app that let you create anonymous threads called “Yaks.” Users within five miles of the created Yak could participate in the discussion participate in the discussion. The idea was to let university students gossip about their peers....