Chinese walk past an Apple showroom in a popular, international shopping mall in Beijing on Wednesday, January 27, 2021. Apple reported strong demand for the iPhone 12 in China, closing out 2020, with …
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Apple becomes the world’s most valuable brand with 87% growth, hit $263.4 billion
A report by Brand Finance Global 500 2021 Index states that Apple has become the most valuable brand with an exceptional 87% growth in 2020. With an …
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Covid-19 vaccine registration app, site now open
Surakkha” – the application and website made for online registration of Covid-19 vaccine recipients – has been declared open for entries. People can download the “Surakkha” app from the Google Play …
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Clash Acquires Byte App, Secures Investment from Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six
Byte, which was the most downloaded app in the App Store last summer, will continue to have the same great in-app experience, with new monetization tools and features coming soon. Byte, often called …
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WhatsApp is losing millions of users to these rival messaging apps
Millions of WhatsApp users are flocking to competing chat services like Signal and Telegram after the company announced changes to the privacy policy. The privacy changes will allow WhatsApp to …
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What you need to know about Telegram, the WhatsApp alternative
Following a terms of service update that now allows WhatsApp to share your data with its parent company, privacy-concerned users are looking for alternatives. Enter Telegram. Telegram has been around …
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Android finally getting Apple iMessage? Sounds exciting until you hear the catch
GETTING Apple’s popular iMessage service on Android devices has long been something many have wanted and now it seems this could finally become a reality.
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Ditched WhatsApp for Signal or Telegram? Change these app settings now: Report
WhatsApp has rushed to reassure users about the implications of its new privacy policy. It has also pushed the deadline to sign-up to the new small-print by three months to give users a little more …
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If you’ve ditched WhatsApp for Signal or Telegram, you need to change these settings NOW
Telegram Like a number of the most popular chat apps, including WhatsApp and Signal … This prevents incoming messages from appearing on the lockscreen of your iPhone or Android, where they can be …
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Signal is the most private messaging app, but staff say it has no plans to prevent misuse
The announcement of a change to the WhatsApp privacy policy saw many users looking for the most private messaging app to use instead …
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Tech This Week: iPhone Threatening People’s Health, Twitter Is the New Big Brother
Apple Warns Users to Keep iPhone away from … Malware spreads via victim’s WhatsApp by automatically replying to any received WhatsApp message notification with a link to malicious Huawei Mobile app.
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Best apps and games of 2020 for your new one iPhone or Android unveiled
Best apps and games of 2020 for your new one iPhone or Android unveiled GOT a new one iPhone or Android this holiday season? There are …
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Google has still not added privacy labels to its iPhone apps
Google promised that it would start adding privacy labels to its iOS apps but the labels are nowhere to be seen.
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Google Play mistakenly bans app over standard file format name
Google Play Store boasts of thousands of apps that would take a large army of humans to review and scrutinize. Of course, that’s exactly why there are thousands of apps on Google Play Store, …
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Weeks later, Google still hasn’t added privacy labels to its most popular iPhone apps
Three weeks after Google promised it would add Apple’s mandatory app privacy labels “as soon as this week,” none of the company’s main apps have the labels, including Gmail, search, Photos, Docs, and …
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Comment: Google’s scattered approach to App Store Privacy Labels leaves users in the dark
Two weeks ago, a report from Fast Company highlighted that Google had suspiciously not updated the vast majority of its iOS apps since December 7, a day before Apple required developers to provide a …
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Apple execs discussed not ‘leaving money on the table’ when setting Apple TV subscription fees
In Apple and Epic’s ongoing court battle over App Store fees, one of the key sticking points has been Apple’s insistence on maintaining a 30 percent cut as a cornerstone of the storefront. But newly …
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