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Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users

Top anonymous social app NGL forced to stop tricking its users

August 4, 2022 Sarah Perez 247 Viewsapp-store, Apple, Apps, cloning, computing, developer tools, developers, imessage, Instagram, iOS apps, mobile applications, NGL, operating systems, scam, Snapchat, Software, Teens 4 min read

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 No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store in June, quietly rolled out an update yesterday that sees it now informing users when they receive messages that aren’t from their […]

Locket, the popular app that lets you post photos to your loved ones’ homescreens, raises $12.5M

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Locket, the popular app that lets you post photos to your loved ones’ homescreens, raises $12.5M

August 2, 2022 Aisha Malik 213 Viewsandroid apps, Apps, funding, iOS apps, locket, mobile apps, social, Startups 5 min read

Locket, a popular app for sharing photos straight to your family and friends’ home screens, has raised $12.5 million in funding. The app rose to the top of the App Store charts after launching on New Year’s Day this year and has since amassed more than 20 million downloads. Locket’s simple premise of putting photos […]

This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs

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This Week in Apps: Instagram backlash, TikTok gaming, Snapchat+ makes millions

July 30, 2022 Sarah Perez 218 ViewsAndroid, android apps, app stores, Apple, apple-app-store, Apps, developers, Facebook, Google, Instagram, iOS, ios 16, iOS apps, meta, Mobile, Snapchat, streaming, This Week In Apps, TikTok, Twitter 19 min read

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 economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs

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This Week in Apps: Elon wants out, TikTok’s content ratings, a new milestone for subscription revenue

July 16, 2022 Sarah Perez 232 Viewsandroid apps, app stores, Apple, Apps, AR, augmented reality, data, dating, developers, Facebook, families, giphy, Google, google search, Google-Maps, Instagram, iOS apps, kids, Match Group, meta, Mobile, mobile apps, Netflix, NGL, parents, Reddit, sensor tower, social, social media, social networking, streaming, streaming service, Teens, This Week In Apps, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube 19 min read

Not gonna lie, this NGL lawsuit is kinda juicy

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Not gonna lie, this NGL lawsuit is kinda juicy

July 15, 2022 Sarah Perez 234 Viewsanonymous, anonymous apps, anonymous social, app-store, Apple, Apps, california, computing, Contractor, gen z, Google, head, imessage, Instagram, internet culture, iOS apps, Mobile, mobile applications, NGL, Raj Vir, rice, scams, Snapchat, Software, Software Engineer, technology, Teens 7 min read

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 charging for useless hints about who supposedly wrote those messages. But many of the questions users receive aren’t from real people; they’re generated automatically — an […]

Mobile users are now spending 4-5 hours per day in apps

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US App Store revenue from non-game apps just topped games for the first time

July 14, 2022 Sarah Perez 269 Viewsapp-store, Apple, Apps, China, computing, Facebook, games, Gaming, Google Play, iOS apps, iTunes, Japan, miniclip, Mobile, mobile app, mobile apps, mobile game, mobile games, sensor tower, Snapchat, Software, technology, TikTok, travel apps, United Kingdom, United States 4 min read

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 surpassed spending in mobile games for the first time in May 2022 and the trend continued in June. This drove the total revenue generated by non-game apps higher for […]

This Week in Apps: Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok

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This Week in Apps: Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok

July 9, 2022 Sarah Perez 281 ViewsAndroid, android apps, app stores, Apple, Apps, bytedance, China, developers, FTC, Google, iOS, ios 16, iOS apps, iphone apps, kakaotalk, Mobile, mobile apps, Reddit, This Week In Apps, TikTok 20 min read

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 economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]