Last year saw global smartphone sales decline for the first time since analysts started tracking such things. In Gartner’s case, that comprises a full 11… Read More »Smartphone sales expected to get a slight bump in 2020
Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage… Read More »Flipboard expands into local news
Welcome back to ThisWeek in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through… Read More »This Week in Apps: Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok
Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS… Read More »Vine reboot Byte officially launches
Huawei may have just found itself an ally in the most unexpected of places. According to a new report out of The Wall Street Journal,… Read More »The Pentagon pushes back on Huawei ban in bid for ‘balance’
Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by Aki Technologies. Aki CEO Scott Swanson… Read More »Aki acquires Eyeview’s ad personalization tech
Snapchat and NBC Olympics are again teaming up to produce customized Olympics content for users in the U.S. — this time, for the 2020 Tokyo… Read More »NBC partners with Snapchat on four daily shows for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as “watched” at the back of the… Read More »Yo Facebook & Instagram, stop showing Stories reruns
Octi has created a new social network that uses augmented reality to connect the act of seeing your friends in real life with viewing digital… Read More »Octi launches a social network built around augmented reality
Phones were not the centerpiece at the recently wrapped Consumer Electronics Show; I’ll probably repeat this point a few more times over the course of… Read More »2020 will be a moment of truth for foldable devices
Losing access to Google software and services understandably threw Huawei for a loop. The Chinese hardware giant has clearly been working on a contingency plan… Read More »Huawei’s answer to life after Google Maps? TomTom
AppsFlyer has raised a massive Series D of $210 million led by General Atlantic. Founded in 2011, the company is best known for mobile ad… Read More »AppsFlyer raises $210M for ad attribution and more
Samsung, which once led India’s smartphone market, is investing $500 million in its India operations to set up a manufacturing plant at the outskirts of… Read More »Samsung invests $500M to set up a smartphone display plant in India
Facebook spying on teens, Twitter accounts hijacked by terrorists, and sexual abuse imagery found on Bing and Giphy were amongst the ugly truths revealed by… Read More »TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019
At most, 7 million of Instagram’s 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch. And now, Instagram’s main… Read More »Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app