Facebook on course to be the WeChat of the West, says Gartner

 It’s the beginning of the end for smartphone apps as we have known and tapped on…

App Store tests favoring paid apps over subscriptions to rebalance its top charts

 A number of smaller, paid applications scored a spot on the App Store’s Top Grossing chart over the weekend, in…

WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone

 WhatsApp could put the brakes on Snapchat’s international growth with today’s launch of WhatsApp Status, a…

Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan leaves, but not why you think

 Flying from SF to LA every week sucks, and so Sriram Krishnan is leaving a big financial…

Snap takes aim at Facebook in roadshow video

 Snap is about to embark on its investor roadshow as it prepares to go public at…

Trump is causing a political app boom, data shows

 Anyone surprised by this? The growth of politically-focused mobile apps has been booming since November, with…

Blin.gy puts you inside your favorite music video

 A green-screen effect, or chroma keying, is nothing new. But it’s not really consumer technology —…

Teslab is the companion app Tesla owners have been waiting for

 Tesla actually makes a lot of data available to vehicle owners via APIs and other endpoints,…