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Vybe Together, an app that was pulled from the App Store for promoting large parties during the coronavirus pandemic, has appealed its removal.

Vybe Together, an app that was pulled from the App Store for promoting large parties during the coronavirus pandemic, has appealed its removal.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA For DJs, New Year’s Eve usually means a fat paycheck. This year, it meant isolation and fear [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-DJS-NEWYEARS-EVE:LA] LOS ANGELES — On any other New Year’s Eve, the L.A. club-music DJ Heidi Lawden would have had at least two gigs in L.A. or Europe. It’s the biggest night of the year for her profession — typical NYE gigs net around $1,500 for working DJs like herself, with up to $1 million for A-list pop acts like Calvin Harris or M...

This Week in Apps: Apple bans party app, China loses 39K iOS games, TikTok births a ‘Ratatousical’ 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 204 billion total downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including Chinese third-party app stores, iOS and Android users in 2020 downloaded 130 billion apps and s...

Tech 2 months, 3 weeks Apple recently got rid of over 46,000 apps on its China store, out of which 39,000 were game apps. This has so far been the biggest ap purge done by Apple in a single day. As reported by Reuters, the apps were removed because December 31 is the deadline for all game publishers to obtain a license. Games affected included Ubisoft title Assassin’s Creed Identity and NBA 2K20, as per research firm Qimai. Qimai also revealed that only 74 of the top 1,500 paid games weren...

There are bad ideas, and then there’s building an app to promote secret parties during the worst global pandemic in 100 years. In a move surprising

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An app which sought to help people arrange and find parties amid the novel coronavirus pandemic has been removed from the Apple app store and TikTok.

Yup, People Are Going to Parties on New Year’s Eve Not-so-secret nightclubs in Los Angeles and new apps alike seek partygoers, even as the coronavirus pandemic rattles California. Credit...Getty Images Dec. 31, 2020 Prohibition in the United States, a short-lived experiment that began 100 years ago, popularized the speakeasy: an illicit establishment designed to sell alcoholic beverages during the years they were legally banned. Now, people are developing clandestine social clubs all over aga...

If there’s one rule that health experts and authorities have been trying to promote with utmost urgency, it’s that ‘gatherings are bad in a pandemic.’ But just like people who follow an anti-vaccine stance, there are also deniers who refuse to abide by the rules such as wearing masks and avoiding group meets. Not too surprisingly, a networking app was also built to promote secret parties in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. Named Vybe Together, the app has now been pulled from App Stor...