Google’s  Gradient Ventures, the search giant’s dedicated AI fund, is casting its eye to Asia after it led a $7 million Series A round for Elsa, a startup that operates an app for English language learners. The deal is Gradient’s first in Asia, and it includes participation from existing investors Monk’s Hill Ventures and SOSV. Elsa  has now raised $12 million...Read More

In a move to help app developers retain subscribers, Apple will let developers offer discounts to both new and existing subscribers. Up until now, app developers can only give freebies and discounts to new users, this means they would not be able to give any incentives or discounts to current and lapsed subscribers in order to entice them...Read More

Apple is planning to make the lives of app developers easier by merging iOS and macOS apps into one by 2021. While the company has previously shot down any claims about plans to merge iOS and Mac apps, Apple has already been tying its iOS and Mac Apps together for some time now. With features...Read More

In the US, iPhone users have spent $79 on average last year on apps. According to market analyst firm Sensortower, that figure is 36% higher than in 2017. This means that consumer spending in-app purchases and premium apps has more than doubled since 2015. While there was a 23%  increase in average spending in 2017...Read More

Normally, when an app says it collects usage data for analytics and technical support purposes, it seems harmless enough that users don’t mind them at all. But a recent report from TechCrunch and The App Analyst found a number of iOS apps that had been secretly collecting more data than whats normally acceptable to users. The...Read More

Apple has recently revised its guide for App Store subscriptions and now includes explicit rules for how app developers can ask for payments. The new rules now explicitly states that the pricing has to be crystal clear, just how much the user will actually pay have to be in large texts. Apps now have to...Read More

California based Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality Silicon Valley startup PlugXR, Inc., has announced PlugXR Creator, the company’s flagship AR Authoring Platform as the Fastest and First-of-its-kind Augmented Reality App Creator for both Android and iOS developers to create powerful AR apps in Minutes. “We expect to expand the XR market starting with AR...Read More

Square, a payment solution provider founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, just announced the launch of its in-app payments SDK that allows mobile app developers to build in-app payments right into their mobile apps. The in-app payments SDK lets app developers take payments from users within their app by using just a few lines of code. It supports...Read More

If you’re an app developer and have a game published  in the Apple app store that’s published across the globe to every country, then your developer email address is shared by Apple to the Korean Government due to a recent change in Korean law. And a little more baffling is that it isn’t clear yet...Read More

BlueFinity International has introduced a slew of new features and improvement to its rapid app development platform (RAD), Evoke. Evoke is now easier to use for app development companies to create professional looking, full function business apps for cross-platform mobile development more quickly and cost-effectively. The tool lets companies create web, hybrid and native apps...Read More