Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google will pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of U.S. states that accused the company of stifling competition to its Play Store on Android devices, according to court documents released Monday. … [Read more…]
The biggest change: If this settlement is approved, Google will have to allow developers to block consumers from the Google Play Store for several years. You can read the full 68-page comparison yourself at the end of this story, but here’s the TL;DR about what’s in it: Does that sound like a lot? When you … [Read more…]
The Apple App Store attracts 650 million people every week and is a good indicator of the most popular digital trends in the country. Not surprisingly, in a year when inflation has skyrocketed and social media has changed dramatically, the list of most popular apps is a mix of discount online shopping, previously unreleased social … [Read more…]
As the year ends, Apple recognizes the most popular apps and games of 2023 with localized year-end rankings for users in more than 35 countries and regions. The apps and games featured in these lists are available in the App Store app on your iPhone or iPad tablet. At the end of November, Apple’s editorial … [Read more…]
6:35am PST • December 9, 2023 Photo credit: Arthur Debate / Getty Images Jonathan Golden Contributor Jonathan Golden is a partner at NEA and former product director at Airbnb. More posts from this contributor Changing consumer behavior is the key to unlocking multi-billion dollar businesses Generative AI is a paradigm shift in technology and will … [Read more…]
Get AI help straight from your voice with VoiceGPT. With the ChatGPT mobile application developed by OpenAI, we can ask the AI using our voice to write a text, create an image, give us content ideas and much more. This feature is available on iOS and Android and is free for both ChatGPT 3.5 and … [Read more…]
Microsoft continues to strive for the goal of offering an App Store on smartphones. Source: Microsoft At the beginning of the year we learned through an interview that Microsoft wanted to launch an application store for smartphones. This would essentially focus on gaming, becoming the “Steam of mobile.” To do this, Microsoft needs the support … [Read more…]
The boycott of the social network”. Several major American companies, including Apple, cable operator Comcast and Disney, stopped airing their commercials on X after Elon Musk spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on the site. They joined other advertisers who had already left the platform after media watchdog Media Matters found that prominent brand advertising had … [Read more…]
After years of inaction and ridicule, Apple has decided to move to the RCS standard, but on its own terms, as it will not abandon the security of iMessage. Nothing’s experiments put security to the test. Don’t touch my blue bubble! Last week we learned that the company Nothing had been tinkering with a system … [Read more…]
Despite promises of end-to-end encryption, Sunbird and its companion app Nothing Chats have failed to deliver on their promises. Recent revelations suggest that user data is easily accessible in plain text, highlighting significant privacy concerns. The app has been removed from the Play Store. Nothing Chats, an iMessage compatible Android application In recent years, Apple … [Read more…]