Mobile App February 5, 2020

App analytics firm Sensor Tower has published its year-end report on the apps market in 2019. Among its conclusions: TikTok was the second most-downloaded app across Apple and Google’s app stores in 2019, behind only WhatsApp, with nearly 750m downloads over the year. TikTok is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company founded in 2012 by

Will BREXIT halt any action in the UK? Members of the European Parliament have voted for a single universal charging solution for small portable devices, which Apple had cautioned against. The resolution passed with 582 votes in favour to 40 against. MEPs will now urge the European Commission (EC) to adopt the new rules. The MEPs want to make it

Now’s the time and nows the hour… As more and more of the population are using their mobile devices, mainly their phones, to almost everything online there’s no better time than now to invest in a mobile app to capitalise on the growing mobile spend! European mobile users spent an estimated $11.2 billion (£8.6 bn) on apps in 2019, an

Are you concerned about the security threat? After years of deliberation, the UK has finally confirmed Huawei will be allowed to be part of its 5G networks – but with restrictions. One of those is that the Chinese firm’s equipment must be limited to “non-core” parts of the system. What is the core and why is Huawei being kept out

Were you one of the unlucky mobile users who lost touch with WhatsApp! WhatsApp stopped working on millions of Android and iOS devices running older operating systems, as the company moved to protect its users, Forbes reported. Since 1 February, the app was reported to be no longer accessible on phones running Android version 2.3.7 and older, along with iPhones