This Week in Apps: Facebook Reels goes global, Trump’s own social app arrives, all eyes on TikTok

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

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Voximplant’s service to build voice and video comms into apps comes out of beta

Companies that help businesses integrate voice and video communication into their apps and services have proliferated in recent years, with services such as Twilio and Diagflow, an NLP platform developed by Google, proliferating. Voximplant has raised $10.1M so far to

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Apple’s standoff with Dutch antitrust authority over dating apps’ payments continues

The Netherlands’ competition authority has once again increased a fine levied against Apple for failing to comply with an antitrust order related to payment tech and dating apps. The fifth penalty payment of €5 million issued today means the tech

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This Week in Apps: Android’s Privacy Sandbox, Super Bowl app ads, App Annie rebrands

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

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – February 2022

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of

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This Week in Apps: Open App Markets Act, Facebook loses daily users, Snap turns a profit

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

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Windows 11 and Android apps: They’re coming eventually, but Microsoft hasn’t said when

Windows 11 will run Android apps. Sarah Tew/CNET One of the more exciting Windows 11 features Microsoft teased at it’s announcement event earlier this summer was the ability to use Android apps on a Windows device. But if you were

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TikTok, PUBG Mobile Top-Earning, Most Downloaded Apps Worldwide in Q3 2021: Sensor Tower

TikTok and PUBG Mobile are the highest-earning apps across both the App Store and Google Play store in the third quarter of 2021, according to Sensor Tower’s latest report. While TikTok was the top-grossing app worldwide, PUBG reigned supreme in

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Android 6 and up will start stripping unused apps’ permissions

Enlarge / Android 6.0 Marshmallow is getting a spiffy new feature. Ron Amadeo Google is coming for your unused Android crapware. The company announced Friday that it will backport an Android 11 privacy feature—auto-resetting app permissions—to Android 6. Auto-resetting app permissions

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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

Enlarge / Take the Google Messaging quiz! Can you name all the icons? Ron Amadeo Google Talk, Google’s first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has

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