Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever ...

Consumers downloaded a record 204 billion apps in 2019, up 6% from 2018 and up 45% since 2016, and spent $120 billion on apps, subscriptions and other in-app spending in the past year. The average ...

An independent economic study found that the App Store supported $519 billion in commerce throughout 2019, Apple announced on Monday. According to the study, carried out by economists at the Analysis ...

Two of Uber’s apps are category leaders. Spotify wins in music, a water-drinking app is the top health and fitness app of 2019, and — of course — Facebook owns five of the top 10 apps in the ...

The year is winding down and that means it’s time to round up the best new Android apps of 2019. There were a ton of app launches this year. In fact, we narrowed down this list from a prospective list ...

Music video app TikTok soared to new heights in 2019 with more than 700 million downloads, beating Facebook and Messenger, and behind only WhatsApp’s more than 850 million downloads. According to the ...

Match’s wildly popular dating app generated more revenue than apps from Netflix and Tencent Video. This marked the first time Tinder surpassed Netflix in annual spending. Tinder ranked fifth in 2015, ...

In a new post on its Newsroom website today, Apple touts that the App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone. This data is based on a study conducted by ...

Consumers are spending more and more time on their smartphones -- that's good for mobile app spending. About 90% of that time is spent on mobile apps, a trend that has fueled the growth of mobile app ...

Twitch is redesigning its mobile app for the first time since 2019. The company’s CEO, Dan Clancy, wrote in an open letter on Wednesday that the discovery feed will be the app’s new landing page. The ...