Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users
A popular anonymous social app that was misleading its users with fake messages has been forced to change. The top-ranked app NGL, which became the...
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The next step in Google’s merger of Duo and Meet starts today
Google will release an update to the Duo app for Android and iOS that will feature the new Meet logo
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Pinterest debuts a new app, Shuffles, for collage-making and moodboards
Pinterest may be best known for shopping inspiration and design ideas, but the company’s newest product wants to inspire its users to tap into...
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Apple’s services revenue growth slows to $19.6B in Q3, reaches 860M paid subscriptions
Apple released its third-quarter earnings on Thursday and reported $19.6 billion in services revenue, marking a 12% year-over-year increase, but...
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TikTok begins pilot testing HTML5 mini-games with a handful of partners
TikTok wants to determine its users’ appetite for mobile gaming with the launch of “mini-games” that can be played inside the...
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Social subscription Snapchat+ is already faring better than Twitter Blue
Snapchat’s recent move into premium subscriptions has gained a bit of traction in its first weeks on the market. Though the social app maker...
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Daily Crunch: Cartona will use $12M Series A to expand its Egypt-based, B2B e-commerce platform
Happy new week! Christine went on a well-deserved break, so you’ll have to deal with a double dose of my awful puns and worse headline shenanigans...
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Not gonna lie, this NGL lawsuit is kinda juicy
The anonymous Q&A app NGL climbed to the top of the App Store by tricking its users with questions it claims are sent in by their friends and by...
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U.S. App Store revenue from non-game apps just topped games for the first time
A major shift in the U.S. app economy has just taken place. In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumer spending in non-game mobile apps...
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Anonymous social NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M in revenue as users complain about being scammed
A popular anonymous social app called NGL has now topped 15 million global installs, according to new data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower,...
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Ring ring ring ring Solanaphone
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about the NFT community being down bad but still down to party. This week, we’re looking...
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This Week in Apps: Period tracking app privacy, Snapchat’s paid subscription, calls for TikTok ban
This Week in Apps is the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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Instagram rolls out an account deletion option on iOS to comply with Apple’s new policy
You can now delete your Instagram directly from the mobile app. The Meta-owned social media app has now rolled out a new option that lets you opt to...
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Apple says developers will have to submit a new version to use third-party payment systems in South Korea
Apple announced Thursday that developers can now use a third-party payment system for the South Korea App Store. The company specified that...
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Anonymous social apps shift their attention to Instagram in the wake of Snapchat’s ban
Anonymous social apps targeting teens haven’t gone away in the wake of Snapchat’s new policy, which earlier this year banned these types...
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Consumers swap period tracking apps in search of increased privacy following Roe v. Wade ruling
Consumers are ditching their current period tracking apps in favor of what they perceive to be safer options in the wake of the Supreme Court’s...
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Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight
The current version of the app shares a user's phone number with an analytics firm
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This Week in Apps: Twitter Notes, Instagram age verification, Spotify’s Live Events
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app...
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Parellelz brings a new approach to seamlessly convert native mobile apps to websites
Over the last few years, developers and authorities have questioned Apple and Google’s power over app distribution on mobile operating systems....
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The next big social platform is…the smartphone’s homescreen
BeReal, LiveIn, Locket… what do these new consumer social apps have in common besides a highly-ranked position on the App Store’s Top Charts?...
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Apple’s payment options offer for Dutch dating apps is compliant, says ACM
The Netherlands’ competition regulator is finally happy with concessions by Apple to allow dating apps in the market to use alternative payment...
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UK’s antitrust watchdog finally eyes action on Apple, Google mobile duopoly
The UK’s competition watchdog has published its final report on a comprehensive, year-long mobile ecosystem market study — cementing its...
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Duolingo back in China app stores after 1 year with a local twist
Duolingo, the Nasdaq-listed language learning app, is back in China’s Apple App Store and Android stores nearly a year after it disappeared...
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Apple loosens some of its App Store Review Guidelines with latest update
Timed alongside its Worldwide Developer Conference this week, Apple rolled out a new set of App Store Review Guidelines which, somewhat surprisingly,...
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Finally, Apple’s iPad has a default weather app
Hell hath frozen over, apparently. Today, Apple addressed a longtime user complaint about the iPad with news that the device will finally get its own...
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This Week in Apps: WWDC preview, hitting the Top Charts, Instagram’s AMBER Alerts
This Week in Apps is the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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New report examines the number of downloads it takes to hit the top of the App Store
A new analysis indicates it’s gotten harder to get an app to the top of the App Store, in terms of downloads, over the past several years....
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South Korean content providers raise service fees in the wake of Google’s in-app payment policy
South Korean app developers and content providers are upping their paid subscription and service fees on Google’s Play marketplace due to the heavy...
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