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VPN in UAE: These are the top 5 VPNs downloaded by residents Waheed Abbas/Dubai Photo: Alamy The UAE topped in the number of VPN users followed by Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There are around four dozen different virtual private networks (VPNs) downloaded by the UAE residents in 2020 with top five most popular VPN apps commanding two-third of the market share. The most downloads went to one of the leaders in the market, NordVPN, which received 17.1 per cent of total downloads at 953,9...

2020 was a year like no other. But while the planet struggled with the pandemic, developers continued to create and support incredible games to keep billions around the world entertained in these dark days. That’s why we decided, with encouragement from our partner Virtuos, that now was a great time to bring back the DEVELOP 100, in order to recognise these efforts. For those unfamiliar, it’s a simple concept: a list of the top 100 most successful studios in the world. Months of work later,...

Call of Duty: Mobile Earns More Than $14 Million in China And That’s Just the First Week Alone Call of Duty: Mobile finally released in China and with great success at that. The mobile version of the hit first-person shooter franchise was developed by Activision in partnership with Tencent’s Timi Studios. According to an initial study done by Sensor Tower, the game has amassed more than $14 million in revenue in its first week in China. The Chinese release has been long awaited as the game ...

5 Most VPNs Downloaded by UAE Residents Published January 6th, 2021 - 11:30 GMT According to the latest data shared by Atlas, VPN application downloads amounted to 5.58 million in the UAE with residents spending around $3.852 million (Dh14.14 million) to buy virtual private networks in 2020. Highlights The UAE topped in the number of VPN users followed by Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. There are around four dozen different virtual private networks (VPNs) downloaded by the UAE resid...

Revolut outpaced Monzo and Starling in downloads during 2020 Revolut saw more app downloads than rivals Monzo and Starling Bank combined 3 January 2021 • 8:00pm Revolut, the digital banking app, grew more quickly last year in terms of total downloads than its competitors Monzo and Starling Bank, as the rivalry between Britain’s financial technology start-ups intensified. Revolut was downloaded 5.8m times in 2020, according to newly compiled statistics by Sensor Tower – more than double th...

Consumers around the globe spent an estimated $407.6 million across Apples App Store and Google Play on Christmas, a year-over-year growth of nearly 35 per cent per cent from approximately $303 million in 2019, according to a new report by data analytics firm Sensor Tower. Between the two platforms, Apples App Store captured the bulk of the spending at $278.6 million, while Google Play saw $129 million in revenue, said the report. This is in line with the massive growth in worldwide spending...

Israeli company Moon Active will add Melsoft's popular games The Family Island and MyCafe to its collection.

However, I believe Square and PayPal probably wont lose much sleep over Googles latest efforts. Lets take a look back at Google Pays evolution, why its attracting more attention now, and why it probably still cant hurt Square or PayPal. Image source: Getty Images. Tracking Google Pays growth Google Pay started out as Android Pay, a basic replacement for credit cards, in 2015. But in 2018, Google merged Android Pay with its mobile wallet, Google Wallet, to create Google Pay -- which also offered...

news Apple executes New Years Eve apps purge in China © Getty Images Apple kicked tens of thousands of products off the Chinese version of its App Store on the final day of the year to meet Beijings demands. The bulk of them were unlicensed games. But civil rights campaigners have said the company needs to be more transparent about why some other apps have been removed ahead of a 31 December deadline. The US tech firm has previously said that it is subject to local rules but sometimes challen...

SHARE Global mobile consumer spending on the Apple App Store and Google Play – the two largest distribution channels for mobile apps in the world – increased 34.5 per cent year-on-year on Christmas Day, according to a new report. Total app revenue earned on December 25 was $407.6 million, nearly $104.6m more than the same day in 2019, San Francisco-based mobile app researcher Sensor Tower Store Intelligence said in the report. Although Google’s Play store has more subscribers as Samsung, ...