Apple on Thursday launched the Mini Apps Partner Program, enabling the company to take a 15% cut — half its standard 30% commission — on in-app purchases made inside mini apps and games hosted within larger “super apps,” as it moves to capture revenue from the fast-growing mini-app ecosystem. Chris Welch for Bloomberg News: Tencent…
Apple has been forced to remove Blued and Finka, China’s two most widely-used gay dating apps, from its App Store after receiving orders from the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s chief internet regulator and censorship body. The takedown, first uncovered by Wired, represents the latest blow to China’s embattled LGBTQ+ community.“We follow the laws…
Pixalate According to Pixalate’s October 2025 rankings, ‘X2 Blocks: 2048 Number Puzzle’ is No. 1 on the Apple App Store, ‘Rolling Twins: Music Ball Rush’ led on the Google Play Store, and ‘yahoo.com’ led on the web, based on open programmatic advertising traffic quality in Brazil LONDON, Nov. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pixalate, the…
Pixalate According to Pixalate’s October 2025 rankings, ‘Vita Mahjong’ is No. 1 on the Apple App Store, ‘Block Away – Tap Out Puzzle’ is No. 1 on the Google Play Store, ‘telegraph.co.uk’ is No. 1 for Web, and ‘Plex – Free Movies & TV’ led on Roku based on open programmatic advertising traffic quality in…
Pixalate According to Pixalate’s SDK market share research, Meta Audience Network, AppLovin, and Vungle (Liftoff) are the leading mobile app ad SDKs for Google Play Store apps; AppLovin, Amazon Ads, and Meta Audience Network are at the top on the Apple App Store apps, based on an analysis of 1000 mobile apps and 22 billion…
Apple’s new web-based App Store Apple today unveiled a web-based App Store at apps.apple.com, enabling users to browse, search, and discover apps across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro — all from any browser. The site features platform-specific dropdowns, the familiar Today tab with curated app and game recommendations, category browsing, and…
This summer, the Tea app — a platform where women anonymously rated and discussed men, ostensibly to help each other date safely —suffered data breaches that exposed users’ personal information. In response, men launched a counterpart app called TeaOnHer, while Tea faced a class-action lawsuit from users furious over their private data being vulnerable to…
Aravind Srinivas, founder, Perplexity Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI startup Perplexity has now issued a public warning for iPhone users. Srinivas has urged the iPhone users to not to download a version of the Comet app presently listed on the Apple App Store. Srinivas has called the app ‘fake and spam’ and has also clarified…
Topline Apple removed the ICEBlock app from its App Store on Thursday, after the Trump administration urged the iPhone maker to take action against the crowd-sourced platform, which allowed users to monitor or report sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at their locations. The ICEBlock app alerted its users of the presence of Immigrations…
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – In a world where a lot of connections are made virtually, one app is aiming to make those virtual connections actually result in real-world connections. Ifeanyi Imachukwu, founder and CEO of the SeenU app, sat down with Atlanta News First to talk about how he went from being an…