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Watch your wallets! Google has more than doubled Play Store’s app price limit to $1,000

$400 is no longer the highest amount you can spend on an app or in-app content.

Sonos has heard the music: VoiceOver improvements, local playback, and more return to new app

9to5mac.com

Sonos launched a brand-new version of its app this month. And it received lots of critical feedback from users over missing features, broken VoiceOver for vision-impaired users, and more. Now the company has acknowledged some of the…

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TikTok Reportedly Laid Off a 'Large Percentage' of Employees as the App's Fate in the U.S. Remains Unclear

www.entrepreneur.com

Laid-off TikTok employees were notified Wednesday night through Thursday morning.

The Role of High-End Dating Apps in Shaping Romantic Connections Among Affluent Users

karolinapatryk.com

The global online dating market achieved a revenue milestone of $5.61 billion in 2023, with forecasts indicating an increase to $6.53 billion by 2028. A contributing factor to this growth is the burgeoning number of online dating users,…

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The Mac's terrible System Settings app is getting an overhaul in macOS, report claims

www.tweaktown.com

Apple will make some big changes to the System Settings app when it releases the macOS 15 update later this year according to a new report. Continue reading at TweakTown >

Japan plans to follow the EU’s lead and force Apple to open its App Store

www.gizchina.com

Japan is on the brink of a regulatory shift in its digital markets, mirroring the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to enhance competition and ...

Inside The Launch Of Yapit, The Social Media App That Pays You

Launching the app within the blooming tech scene in Atlanta, Merrifield also aims to diversify the landscape.

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Judge to weigh proposed changes to Google’s Android app store to prevent anticompetitive tactics

www.twincities.com

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP Technology Writers) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is confronting the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as federal judge begins to address anticompetitive…

Apple may be forced to allow third-party app marketplaces in Japan as well.

www.tweaktown.com

Apple may be forced to allow Japanese iPhone owners to install third-party app marketplaces just like in the European Union under new legislation. Continue reading at TweakTown >

Popular Snapseed photo editing app finally gets an update, but it’s not getting AI

www.techradar.com

One of the best free photo editing apps, Snapseed, lives to edit another day after a fresh update.

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Microsoft is turning Windows Copilot into a regular app - and here's why you'll like it

www.zdnet.com

Instead of being stuck with a static sidebar, you'll be able to move, snap, and resize the AI assistant's window just like any other Windows app. The change is already appearing in a Windows 11 Insider build.

UK passes Bill which could force Apple to allow Fortnite and an Epic Games Store app on iOS

The bill is similar to the EU's Digital Markets Act, which is already in effect

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You can buy books through the Amazon Kindle app again, but only in this region

Amazon is seemingly taking advantage of a Google Play program only available for users in the EEA

El Paso is the latest city to test Uber’s new in-app recording safety feature

kvia.com

EL PASO, TEXAS (KVIA) -- Uber's new feature allows drivers to use their front-facing camera to record video and audio during trips. Uber say the new feature will add a layer of safety at no additional cost to drivers. The in-app recording…

Windows 11 24H2 is in final testing - and it unshackles Copilot, turning the AI into a full app

www.tweaktown.com

Copilot is being unchained from its panel at the side of the desktop, and is now a standalone app that can be moved and resized as you wish. Continue reading at TweakTown >

Arc Search, one of the best iPhone apps right now, just got even better

www.digitaltrends.com

Search is even easier to do thanks to the new Call Arc feature in one of the fastest-growing mobile apps on the planet. Here's what it does.

App developer Crowdaa raises €1.2M and plans a US expansion

techcrunch.com

Crowdaa is an app that allows non-developers to easily create and release apps on the mobile store.

This text-grabbing tool is the Mac app you didn't know you needed

www.imore.com

TextSniper is an intuitive tool that makes capturing text from web pages, PDFs and other docs easy.