Google Play finally adds UPI subscriptions in India
Unified Payments Interface — commonly known as UPI — has become the most popular mobile payment route for P2P and merchant payments in India, and now Google’s stepping up with an...
India lifts download ban on VLC
India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN,...
This Week in Apps: Twitter’s crazy week drives social apps’ growth, Google expands user...
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications, and the overall app economy.
Worldwide application spending came to $65 billion in the...
YouTube’s new ‘Live Q&A’ feature makes it easier to manage questions during live streams
YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during live streams. When creators start a Q&A, the prompt will appear...
Netflix acquires Seattle-based cozy games developer Spry Fox
Netflix has acquired Spry Fox, a Seattle-based independent gaming studio focused on cozy games, the streaming giant announced on Monday in a blog post. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed....
DeviantArt provides a way for artists to opt out of AI art generators
DeviantArt, the Wix-owned artist community, today announced a new protection for creators to disallow art-generating AI systems from being developed using their artwork. An option on the site will allow artists...
Amazon eyes devices group as it undertakes broad cost cutting
The Echo business has always looked like Amazon playing the long game from the outside. Above all, the company’s home consumer hardware is a convenient vessel for getting Alexa into millions...
Apple pledges $450M toward expanding the satellite infrastructure powering Emergency SOS
As a part of its Advanced Manufacturing Fund, Apple will invest $450 million in satellite network and ground stations to power Emergency SOS, its service for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14...
Reddit’s latest feature lets you mute entire communities
Reddit is rolling out a new community muting feature to give users more control over what they do and don’t want to see on the platform. The new feature is launching on Reddit’s...
Google Play to pilot third-party billing in new markets, including US; Bumble joins Spotify...
Google today announced it’s expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google’s own. The program will now become available to new markets, including...
