Mobile Applications

Mobile Applications
Spotify Says Apple Approved App Update With Links to Purchase
May 02, 2025

Spotify said Friday (May 2) that Apple approved a U.S. app update that Spotify submitted Thursday (May 1) after a court ruling in the lawsuit Epic Games brought against Apple. “After nearly a decade, this will finally allow us to freely show clear pricing information...

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Cash App’s Growing Number of Direct Deposits Marks Progress in Expansion Efforts
April 03, 2025

Block’s Cash App is reportedly making progress in its efforts to offer banking services to customers who mostly use the app to make payments. The number of the app’s users who have their paychecks directly deposited into their Cash App account rose by 25% year...

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Report: Apps Push for Subscribers as Revenues Prove Elusive
March 19, 2025

Mobile app developers are fighting an uphill battle as they work to generate revenue. That’s according to a recent report by RevenueCat, a mobile app subscription tool kit provider, which finds that most apps fail to bring in $1,000 per month in revenue within their first two years....

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Epic to Add Third-Party Games to Marketplace App
January 23, 2025

Epic Games will reportedly add third-party games to its marketplace app on Android globally and on Apple iOS in the European Union. “The news is out,” the company said in a Thursday (Jan. 23) post on social platform X. “We’re bringing a bunch of awesome...

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Global Spending in Apps Rises 15.7% as Developers Push Subscriptions
December 18, 2024

Global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reportedly increased 15.7% year-over-year in 2024, even as the number of app downloads decreased by 2.3%. The year’s spending across Apple’s App Store and Google Play reached $127.3 billion, up from $110 billion the previous year, with a decline in Google...

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Apple: Temu Remains App Store’s Most Downloaded Free App
December 16, 2024

Temu was the most downloaded free app in Apple’s App Store in 2024, Apple said Monday (Dec. 16). The app earned that ranking across iPhone and iPad, Apple said in a Monday press release. In 2023, when Apple broke down its rankings by device, Temu...

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Lawmakers Tell Apple and Google to Prepare for TikTok Ban
December 13, 2024

The Republican and Democratic leaders of a House select committee said Friday (Dec. 13) that TikTok should sell its app and that Apple and Google should be ready to remove TikTok from their app stores by Jan. 19 if the company does not sell it. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich.,...

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Startups Swipe Right: Tech Powers Entrepreneurial Connections This Cuffing Season
November 09, 2024

Startup founders are looking to dating app-like interfaces to find their coworking soulmates. Just as apps have made finding love a swipe away, a wave of new tech platforms is emerging to match like-minded innovators with potential co-founders, advisors and collaborators. Take, for instance, CoffeeSpace,...

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Zelle Reportedly Steering Users to Banking Apps
October 31, 2024

Zelle reportedly wants users to use its platform via banking apps instead of its own. An executive for the peer-to-peer payments provider told Reuters on Thursday (Oct. 31) that while more than 2,200 banks and credit unions are part of its network, just 2% of...