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This Week in Apps: Apple talks App Store fraud, responds to antitrust complaints; Facebook growth is slipping Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., ...

The GasBuddy mobile app, which typically helps consumers find the cheapest gas nearby, has now become the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store for the first time ever, due to the fuel shortages in the U.S. that followed the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. As a result, thousands of gas stations ran out of fuel entirely. This dramatic situation has greatly benefitted the GasBuddy app, which includes a crowdsourced feature that helps users locate which local stations still have gas for sale.

The GasBuddy mobile app, which typically helps consumers find the cheapest gas nearby, has now become the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store for the first time ever, due to the fuel shortages in the U.S. that followed the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. Americans, fearful that gas would become unavailable, began panic-buying […]

Zynga Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) today released financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021 by posting management’s Q1 2021 Quarterly Earnings Letter to its Investor Relations website. Please see the attached Quarterly Earnings Letter or visit http://investor.zynga.com/financial-information/quarterly-results to access the letter. “We are off to an excellent start in 2021 with record Q1 results driven by breakout performances fr...

Zynga Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results Thursday, May 6, 2021 11:47AM IST (6:17AM GMT)   Record Quarterly Revenue and Bookings Momentum Across All Aspects of Growth Strategy Raises Full Year 2021 Revenue and Bookings Guidance Announces Agreement to Acquire Chartboost   Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) today released financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021 by posting management’s Q1 2021 Quarterly Earnings Letter to its Investor Relations website. Please see the at...

  An iPhone app — now apparently pulled by Apple — posed as a childrens game while hiding an online casino for users in Turkey and other countries. The App Store game, called "Jungle Runner 2k21," appeared as a running platform game with rudimentary graphics and animations. However, iOS users running the app in Turkey— or elsewhere with a VPN set to Turkey — would see a web view for an online casino. The secret casino allowed users to gamble using real money through non-Apple p...

An iPhone app -- now apparently pulled by Apple -- posed as a childrens game while hiding an online casino for users in Turkey and other countries.

You can unlock the casino with a VPN set to an IP address where gambling is legal on April 16, 2021, 11:11 In a nutshell: Several casino gambling games have been popping up in Apples App Store disguised as kids games. While gambling games are not banned, they are region restricted. So while a casino app that operates online gambling can appear in the store in places like Italy or Turkey, they dont show up in the US—until now. Kosta Eleftheriou tweeted that he discovered ...

This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android device...

This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide Read full article March 13, 2021, 7:00 AM·19 min read Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3...