Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. This week, Apple and Google announced their ...

Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie’s year-end forecast. Consumer spending ...

Mobile app analytics firm App Annie has released its annual report on mobile trends for the year. 2020’s report is all the more interesting considering how the coronavirus pandemic and resulting ...

TikTok is officially the most downloaded app of 2020, according to an annual mobile trends report from mobile app analytics firm App Annie. According to the findings—which were released by Fast ...

Despite President Trump’s numerous attempts to ban the short-form video platform, or perhaps because of them, TikTok has become the most downloaded social media app of 2020, with over 82 million ...

Almost exactly a year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic first drove workers to their homes, fears persisted as to the productivity of a remote workforce outside of normal office procedures, but usage data ...

Apple’s most downloaded app of 2020 reflects a pandemic year. The tech giant released its list of the year’s most downloaded free apps on Wednesday, and video conferencing software Zoom nabbed the top ...

Amazon, Walmart and Wish were the top three most downloaded shopping apps in the U.S. in 2020, according to a new report by Apptopia. Amazon saw 41 million downloads, Walmart 34 million and Wish 30 ...

Market intelligence firm Apptopia released its report on the most downloaded mobile apps of 2020. In a year that was defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, many people’s behavior on- and offline changed ...

Health and fitness apps are winning the Covid-19 era, thanks to closed gyms. But a certain kind of health and fitness app is winning mobile, according to a new report from Apptopia. Fitness apps are ...

GM ends app support for NGI infotainment systems in many 2016-2021 vehicles. The GM App Store is now closed, and existing apps cannot be reinstalled.

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