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Tencents Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile top-grossing mobile games in January The game revenue estimates were released by Sensor Towers Store Intelligence platform BusinessToday.In | February 19, 2021 | Updated 15:30 IST Representational Image (Photo-Reuters) Honor of Kings became the top-grossing mobile game worldwide for January 2021 with $267.3 million in player spending. The Tencent game generated approximately 97% revenue from China and 1% from Thailand. Honor of Kings registered a growth of...

Behind the boom It’s no surprise marketers are being drawn to Clubhouse. The app, described by some as the “newest form of social media,” merges the expertise aspect of LinkedIn with the appeal of podcasts. The app, still in beta for iOS only, is all audio—there are no photos, comments or live videos where a participant might have to explain, say, his inadvertent use of a cat filter. The idea is that people can come together to network or glean insights from leaders in the industry...

NurPhoto via Getty Images Triller’s top executive appears to have acknowledged the companys messy history with reporting how many users it has. According to the Billboard, the music video app has “reported higher numbers of monthly active users to the public than it reports to rights holders.” When pressed by Billboard on the claims, the company didn’t deny it. Instead, CEO Mike Lu provided a statement that “there is no legal definition of MAU/DAU” and added that the company had s...

Triller app on a smartphone. “There is no legal definition of MAU/DAU,” says Mike Lu, Triller CEO. “We are an open ecosystem … Trillers value is in monetizing users, not MAU or DAU.” Short-form video app Triller has reported higher numbers of monthly active users to the public than it reports to rights holders, a source with direct knowledge of the situation tells Billboard -- and Triller doesn’t deny it. The Los Angeles-based company, expected to go public in coming weeks as part...

Even as the Covid-19 pandemic forced millions of users to stay indoors, digital platforms saw an exponential surge in usage and spending in 2020.

InMobi, Glance’s parent company owns short-video app Roposo that became really popular after TikTok was banned by the Indian government. TikTok, a global phenomenon, reached over 120 million Indian users before it was banned in July 2020 among several others, including the hot favourite mobile game PUBG.

The new MTN TikTok plan is available for as low as UGX250 daily data. For that price, the user gets 15MBs + 5mins of TikTok.

Well soon meet in your inbox. Please wait... “Neither am I right-wing or left-wing, nor is my technology or product,” Aprameya Radhakrishna, co-founder and chief executive of the Koo app, said, terming the labels as basically “a lot of people’s perception”. “As a company, we don’t want to be political, we are a private company interested in technology and product,” said the 39-year-old, whose first outing as a startup entrepreneur was when he set up mobility app TaxiForSure, bef...

16 February 2021 The hype around invite-only audio app Clubhouse is only growing. Ever since Tesla founder Elon Musk hosted an audio-chat on Clubhouse with Robinhood CEO Vald Tenev on the platform, the platform exploded with two million downloads on the App Store and about 10k downloads on the Google Play Store as of January 2021, market intelligence company Sensor Tower said. Founded by Alpha Exploration Co. which is led by CEO Paul Davison, in Asia, the app has  become popula...

For former studio executives charting their next course, there’s no hotter market than SPACs. Short for special purpose acquisition company, this once-obscure investment vehicle, also known as a blank-check company, has joined private jets, yachts and Beverly Hills mansions as a Hollywood status symbol. According to former Techcrunch media columnist Eric Peckham’s SPAC database, there are 26 of these shell companies looking to capitalize on the growing and fragmented industry of digital m...