The original 2007 video, Charlie Bit My Finger, a carrier of the viral internet fascination, sold as a non-fungible token for $ 760,999, and the family who created it will be removing the original from YouTube for good. The original video, almost 900 million views, shows Charlie Davies-Carr, a kid in England, who bites his … Read more
BTS is apparently determined to hold its YouTube records. Variety reports that the K-pop group broke their own record for the most YouTube views within 24 hours, adding 113 million tracks for their music video “Butter”. That’s roughly 12 million more than the 101.1 million from the superstars’ latest record smasher, “Dynamite,” which premiered last … Read more
YouTube TV subscribers now have a new platform available: PlayStation 5. The console has been tacitly added to Google’s support website for the service. This was first discovered by Android Police. The addition comes as Google and Roku are in the middle of a very public spit on YouTube TV. Roku said Google was calling … Read more
T-Mobile will make Google Messages its standard messaging app for customers on Android devices, provide new backup and storage options via the Google One cloud service, offer an expanded range of Google Pixel devices and YouTube TV as the standard service for Premium -Live introduce television as part of an expanded partnership. This is a … Read more
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 is as hot as ever, 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
If you own a Sony Xperia 1 ii, now is the time for your phone to shine. In an update discovered by Android Police, YouTube now supports 4K HDR playback on Android devices and brings the app in line with its iOS counterpart. Igor Bonifacic / Engadget There aren’t many Android phones with 4K displays … Read more
Google parent company Alphabet has released its fourth quarter and fiscal 2020 results. The numbers are staggering. The company had sales of $ 56.9 billion for the quarter ended December 31. This corresponds to an increase of 23 percent over the 46.1 billion US dollars in the previous year. CFO Ruth Porat said in a … Read more