FDA clears Natural Cycles birth control app for use with wearables

Igor Bonifacic

As of 2018, an app called Natural Cycles has enabled women to track their temperature and menstrual cycle to know if they are fertile. During this time, the app usage process has not changed significantly. Every morning when you wake up you will be asked to take your temperature with a basal thermometer and record … Read more

Hyrope is a smart jump rope that pairs with an app to track your workout

Mariella Moon

Hygear, a smart fitness equipment maker that launched in 2020, has introduced a smart jump rope that can give users real-time feedback. The Hyrope can be paired with the company’s official app to keep track of the user’s number of jumps, speed, pace and calories burned. Hygear’s app selects the interactive workouts to track based … Read more

Didi app pulled from app stores in China after suspension order – TechCrunch

Didi app pulled from app stores in China after suspension order – TechCrunch

China has ordered app store operators to remove Didi’s app from their stores, at the latest as tensions between the country’s largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators escalate. The app has disappeared from several stores, including Apple’s App Store in China, TechCrunch can confirm. The country’s cyberspace administration, which revealed the order on Sunday, said … Read more

iOS 15 public beta arrives, Android App Bundles to replace APKs, app consumer spend hits new record – TechCrunch

Google Play slashes commissions, Apple sued over scammy apps, YouTube launches a TikTok clone in the US – TechCrunch

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 continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more

Android apps on Windows 11, App Store Search Ads hit China, Apple argues against sideloading – TechCrunch

Google Play slashes commissions, Apple sued over scammy apps, YouTube launches a TikTok clone in the US – TechCrunch

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 continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more

Report suggests two percent of the top 1,000 App Store titles were scams

Report suggests two percent of the top 1,000 App Store titles were scams

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said in the latest Epic study that the App Store would be a “toxic mess” without the company’s rigorous review process. However, its approval process apparently still allowed a significant number of bad apps through. Of the 1,000 top-selling apps in the store, nearly two percent were some form of … Read more

Pro-Palestinian activists tank Facebook app ratings to protest alleged censorship

Jon Fingas

In the past, users have used app reviews to object to company policies. However, an ongoing campaign can cause significant damage. NBC News has learned that pro-Palestinian activists have successfully dismissed Facebook’s Apple App Store and Google Play Store ratings with “thousands” of one-star ratings. Many of the attendees have accused Facebook of silencing Palestinians … Read more

Clubhouse finally launches its Android app – TechCrunch

Clubhouse finally launches its Android app – TechCrunch

Clubhouse finally has an Android app that you can download from the Play Store – assuming you live in the US The voice-based social network released its beta Android app on the Play Store for users in the US on Sunday, stating that the new app will gradually be available in other English-speaking countries and … Read more