AppsOct 22, 2026
Spotify Adds 6 Million Subscribers and Guides to a Bigger Q4 Profit
Price increases lifted per-user revenue while Spotify reached 788 million monthly users and 306 million paying subscribers.
AppsAug 21, 2026
Threads Pulls Ahead of X on Mobile as Bluesky's Audience Shrinks
Similarweb data through mid-2026 shows Meta's text network ahead of X in daily mobile users, while Bluesky has lost roughly half its late-2024 peak.
AppsAug 11, 2026
Gemini App Passes One Billion Monthly Users, Seven Months After 750 Million
Google says its consumer assistant crossed the billion mark in August, a milestone that is real but measured differently from ChatGPT's.
AppsJul 29, 2026
Microsoft 365 Copilot Passes 30 Million Paid Seats as Net Adds Double
Microsoft's fiscal Q4 shows its AI assistant for Office finally scaling, with giant deployments at the NHS, KPMG, HSBC and EY.
AppsJul 23, 2026
Brussels Fines Google €890 Million in First Digital Markets Act Penalty
Two decisions hit Google Search self-preferencing and Google Play's limits on steering users to cheaper offers, with a 60-day clock to comply.
AppsJun 29, 2026
X Money Inches Out to Premium+ Users, a Slow Start for Musk's Everything App
After slipping its April target, X's payments service is reaching a subset of US subscribers in phases, with a Visa debit card and 3% cashback.
AppsJun 16, 2026
Android 17 Lands Early on Pixels With Bubbles, Screen Reactions and Gemini Intelligence
Google shipped Android 17 on June 16 as a refinement release: floating app windows, tighter privacy prompts, and AI features gated to the newest flagships.
AppsJun 9, 2026
Apple Rebuilds Siri on Google's Gemini and Ships It as a Chatbot in iOS 27
At WWDC 2026 Apple unveiled Siri AI, a ground-up reboot that follows its January deal with Google and arrives this fall in English only.
AppsMay 11, 2026
iPhone-to-Android Texts Get End-to-End Encryption With iOS 26.5
Apple and Google start rolling out encrypted RCS between their platforms, closing the biggest privacy gap in cross-platform messaging.
AppsMar 4, 2026
Google Settles With Epic and Cuts Play Store Fees to 20%
The deal drops the 30% default commission, opens a lane for third-party app stores, and rolls out region by region through 2027.
AppsFeb 27, 2026
WhatsApp Takes Status Ads and Promoted Channels Worldwide
Meta's ad expansion into the Updates tab is now global, with an ad-free subscription in some regions and chats left untouched.
AppsFeb 26, 2026
Netflix Drops Its Warner Bros. Bid and Hands Paramount the Prize
After Warner's board ruled a $31-a-share Paramount offer superior, Netflix declined to match, ending a deal that would have reshaped streaming.
AppsFeb 24, 2026
Instagram Moves Reels to the Living Room With a Google TV App
Meta's TV app reached Google TV in the US in February, extending a push that began on Fire TV and later added Samsung sets.
AppsFeb 12, 2026
Claude Code Passes a $2.5 Billion Run Rate Less Than Nine Months After Launch
Anthropic says its terminal-based coding agent more than doubled its revenue pace in six weeks, sharpening the fight with Cursor, Codex and Copilot.
AppsFeb 6, 2026
YouTube Tops $60 Billion a Year as Paid Subscriptions Reach 325 Million
Alphabet's earnings show subscriptions carrying YouTube while Q4 ad revenue came in under what analysts expected.
AppsJan 28, 2026
Chrome Gets an Agent: Gemini 'Auto Browse' Clicks Through the Web for You
Google answers ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity Comet by building multi-step browsing automation straight into the browser used by roughly seven in ten people.
AppsJan 22, 2026
TikTok's US Joint Venture Is Official: Who Owns What and What Changes
Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX now hold the keys to TikTok's American business, while ByteDance keeps a minority stake and the app stays put.
AppsDec 17, 2025
ChatGPT Opens an App Directory, Turning the Chatbot Into a Platform
OpenAI now lets developers submit apps built on MCP for review and listing inside ChatGPT, a first step toward an app store with 800 million weekly users.
AppsDec 11, 2025
Appeals Court Lets Apple Charge Something on Link-Outs, but Not 27%
The Ninth Circuit upheld Apple's contempt finding in Epic v. Apple but sent the commission question back for a cost-based answer.
AppsNov 13, 2025
Cursor Triples Its Valuation to $29.3 Billion in Six Months
Anysphere's $2.3 billion Series D makes the AI code editor one of the most richly valued software startups ever, backed by Nvidia and Google.