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Spotify today introduces a new feature that allows people to discover interesting and popular podcasts. The company this morning announced the introduction of two brand new podcast charts, top podcasts and trending podcasts, in which both the most heard and the biggest movers are presented. The new feature will be available in the Spotify mobile…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that summarizes the latest operating system news, the applications they support, and the money flowing through it all. The app industry is hotter than ever with a record 204 billion downloads and $ 120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People now spend three…

A beta version of Apples The latest mobile operating system is available to the public. Coinbase may go public and researchers are discovering a terrifying smartwatch vulnerability. Here is your daily crisis for July 9, 2020. The big story: Apple releases the public beta of iOS 14 Developers are no longer the only ones who…

Apple launched the next major version of iOS a few weeks ago. I’ve been playing around with beta versions of iOS 14, and this is what you should expect when you update your iPhone to the final version of iOS 14 in the fall. The most interesting change is something you won’t notice at first….

As the world continued to deal with the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest ever for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending. According to new data According to App Annie, a secret service company in the App Store, the use of mobile apps increased by 40% in…

Tinder announced this morning that it will begin testing video chat in its mobile dating app with some members in select global markets, including the United States, available to users in Virginia, Illinois, Georgia and Colorado in the USA as well as in Brazil, Australia, Spain, Italy, France, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Peru and…

Samsung’s next big unpacked event is planned for August 5th. As is the trend these days, the unveiling will only take place online and will follow in the footsteps of major virtual events like the like. Microsoft and Apple. It’s Samsung’s first crack in format. The company just managed to launch the Galaxy S20 in…

Last year Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 765, which should herald an era of inexpensive 5G devices. Motorola was of course more than happy to use the technology. While the company is flirting with premium devices (with mixed results), budget devices will almost certainly be the company’s bread and butter for the foreseeable future. Today, the…

The much-anticipated addition of “Hamilton” seems to have paid off for Disney +. According to new data from App Store Analytics companies ApptopiaDisney’s streaming service saw a huge surge in downloads on July 4th, the US bank holiday weekend following the global debut of Hamilton on Friday, July 3rd. Between Friday and Sunday, this meant…