by Adre's IT | 8 February, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, CAD, contact tracing, cybersecurity startup, email newsletters, learning, San Mateo, Unpluq, YouTube
For another year in a row, TikTok has found itself as the social app kids and teens are spending the most time using throughout the day, even outpacing YouTube. According to an ongoing annual review of kids’ and teens’ app usage and behavior globally, the...
by Adre's IT | 5 August, 2022 | Accel Partners, acorns, Adre's IT Blog, Apple, Apps, computing, data protection law, ecomm, email newsletters, industries, Kickstarter, Location, microgrids, Mobile, operating systems, scams, Snapchat, synthesized media, texting
A popular anonymous social app that was misleading its users with fake messages has been forced to change. The top-ranked app NGL, which became the No. 1 app on the U.S. App Store in June, quietly rolled out an update yesterday that sees it now informing users when...
by Adre's IT | 17 July, 2022 | acorns, Adre's IT Blog, Antonia Rojas Eing, Apple, Apps, augmented reality technology, CAD, contact tracing, contacts tracing, deepfakes, digital photography, eFounders, email newsletters, Facebook, FirstMark Capital, gig workers, Google Play, Google-Maps, Kickstarter, learning, Location, Match, Media, Miley Cyrus, Mobile, Original Content podcast, scams, school, streaming service, TC, this week in apps, tiktok, Wearables, web app, wikis, xcloud, YouTube
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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during...
by Adre's IT | 16 July, 2022 | Accel Partners, acorns, Adre's IT Blog, anonymous apps, Apple, Apple device management, Apps, chrome os, computing, data protection law, Earnings, email newsletters, embargoes, frontier ventures, gitai, Kickstarter, Lawsuit, Mobile, NGL, rice, scams, Snapchat, Stack Exchange, Startups, tampa, TC, TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022, texting, The Washington Post
The anonymous Q&A app NGL climbed to the top of the App Store by tricking its users with questions it claims are sent in by their friends and by charging for useless hints about who supposedly wrote those messages. But many of the questions users receive...
by Adre's IT | 12 July, 2022 | acorns, Adre's IT Blog, Apps, computing, data protection law, deepfakes, email newsletters, embargoes, gitai, Kickstarter, kids, malaysia, New Delhi, NGL, scams, tile, United States, xcloud
A popular anonymous social app called NGL has now topped 15 million global installs, according to new data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, released today. The app, which is now one of a handful of unregulated and potentially problematic anonymous apps...
by Adre's IT | 29 April, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, autonomous vehicles, Brent Bellm, contacts tracing, Credible, Custody, email newsletters, falcon, Fintech, Fundings & Exits, investors, MagicBell, Netflix, Paw, Rivigo, road safety, Startups, term sheet, the realreal, Umaro Foods, Wealthfront
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was a live week! Which meant that Mary Ann Azevedo was on the mic with Alex Wilhelm, and Grace Mendenhall, our ever-trusty...