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NHN Bugs essential app on Hyundai Pleos Connect car infotainment dashboard.

NHN Bugs Bets on Hyundai’s Dashboard After Losing the Phone

NHN Bugs, the Korean music company behind the curated playlist brand essential;, said on May 28 that its app now runs inside Pleos Connect, Hyundai Motor...

Prediction market and sports betting apps using memes to recruit young people online.

APPS3 months ago

Memes Hook Young Bettors as 69% Lose and the Top 1% Win

Prediction markets and sports betting apps spent the spring speaking to young people in their own slang. When Rory McIlroy, the golfer, won a second straight...

Iran tech industry state takeover and Digikala confiscation explained for founders.

APPS3 months ago

How Iran’s State Quietly Seized Its Booming Tech Industry

Iran’s tech industry spent the mid-2010s doing something the country’s oil and steel giants never could. It grew fast, hired young, and answered to nobody in...

OffenderWatch sex offender registry app launch in DeSoto County Mississippi.

APPS3 months ago

DeSoto County’s OffenderWatch App Joins a 4,000-Agency Network

The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office announced this month that it has rolled out a new mobile tool for tracking the roughly 250 registered sex offenders living...

WCE app Route Assistant for West Coast Expressway navigation in Malaysia.

APPS3 months ago

WCE App Update Adds Route Assistant to Force Google and Apple Maps onto the Highway

Most Malaysian drivers who have tried to plot a Klang-to-Taiping run already know the problem. Type the destination into Google Maps or Waze, and the app...

Massachusetts ride-hailing drivers union certification explained for gig workers.

APPS3 months ago

Massachusetts Certifies First Ride-Hailing Union, But Antitrust Risk Looms

Massachusetts certified the first state-level ride-hailing drivers’ union in U.S. history on Friday, a milestone labor organizers are calling the largest private-sector organizing win since Ford...

Trump Accounts mobile app interface showing investment growth tracking for children born in the United States.

APPS3 months ago

Trump Accounts App Launches Thursday With BNY, Robinhood Infrastructure

The Trump Accounts mobile app goes live Thursday, giving millions of American families instant access to manage their children’s federally seeded investment accounts. Built by Bank...

Massachusetts rideshare union rally outside Boston State House for Uber Lyft drivers.

APPS3 months ago

Massachusetts Rideshare Union Wins, Now Faces a Driverless Clock

Massachusetts certified the App Drivers Union on Friday, May 22, making roughly 70,000 Uber and Lyft drivers the first statewide rideshare workforce in the United States...

Google Play to warn Android users before installed apps disappear from store.

APPS3 months ago

Google Play to Warn Users When Installed Apps Get Removed

More than 1.1 million Android apps were quietly removed from Google Play in a single quarter of 2024, according to Pixalate’s quarterly delisting report. Almost none...