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Mobile users are now spending 4-5 hours per day in apps

Although the mobile app boom driven by pandemic lockdowns has long since passed, consumers’ mobile usage is still growing. According to new data released today by app intelligence firm data.ai (

Apple pilot tests feature that allows developers to automatically charge users for subscription price increases

Apple may be changing how iOS subscriptions operate when price increases are involved. Recently, some developers noticed that the streaming service Disney+ was seemingly only informing users of upcomi

FedEx app’s test appears to show the ability to track deliveries from other services

FedEx has been working on a new feature for its consumer mobile app that would seemingly allow it to better compete with the popular Shop app by Shopify. One of the bigger selling points for Shopify&#

US e-commerce on track for its first $1 trillion year by 2022, due to lasting pandemic impacts

The COVID-19 pandemic boosted U.S. online shopping by $183 billion, according to a new report by Adobe’s e-commerce division, released this morning. This figure represents the increase in online

Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt

A new startup aims to help you get your student loans under control. Today, an app called Pillar, backed by $5.5 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, is launching a simpler way for consumer

Cyber Monday hits $7.9B in online sales, $2.2B spent via smartphones

Cyber Monday 2018 is likely to be the highest-online selling day of the holiday season this year, and in US e-commerce history, with $7.9 billion in online sales. Adobe — which tracks trillions

Retail-as-a-service provider Leap raises $3M and launches first store

The past decade in retail has been the golden age of direct-to-consumer (D2C) and digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) that useĀ the internet to communicate with customers, execute transactions, h

Credit Karma Rolls Out Free Weekly Credit Reports (Yes Really)

Online credit monitoring startupĀ <a target="_blank" href="https://www.creditkarma.com">Credit Karma</a> is rolling out free credit reports. And no, it's not a scam. Over the years, consumers have

Mobile Deal-Finding App Shopular Raises $6.4 Million Series A From Sequoia

While most mobile applications today are heavily concerned with getting users to remember to open them regularly, mobile deal-finding application <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shopular.com/">Sho

42 Is The Answer To Everything…In Personalized Analytics For Retail

An online retailer platform called simply “42” is debuting today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY with new ideas about how to bring the intelligence of online e-commerce tools to brick-and-mortar

Google Reader’s Death Is Proof That RSS Always Suffered From Lack Of Consumer Appeal

The idea of RSS was one that never quite gripped with normal Internet users. Sure, for us geeks who absolutely love consuming as much information as possible, RSS is a wonderland. When Google launched

It’s A Facebook And Google World On Apple’s App Store, Poke Hits #1 A Day After Its Release

Remember all of this hoopla over <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/facebook-poke-app/">Facebook's latest standalone app, Poke</a>, yesterday? You aren't the only one that is interested, appar

Two-week iMac rentals for $8.56 per day?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_0085.jpg">I noticed the fellas from PoketyPoke each carrying around an iMac box after the Digital Experience event at CES last week.

EA planning massacre of online services for games that arenā€™t all that old

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ea.jpg">Letā€™s say youā€™re a company that makes video games ā€“ sports games in particular ā€“ and you generate a nice recurring stream

Sidekick user data may be recovered after all

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/custom_2825h4jy0o91.JPG" alt="" width="620" height="414" />Slightly better news for anyone who lost data during <a href="http://www.mobil

This is the problem with being charged to receive text messages

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/spam.jpg">Well it looks like my not-even-a-month-old new cell phone number is already out in the wild somehow. I received this unsolicite

Computer makers' tech support quality compared

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/apathy.jpg" alt="apathy" />LAPTOP recently pit the big computer vendors' customer service offerings against one another with two phone calls

Dell sells 19-inch monitors in Taiwan for $15 by accident, may have to ship them

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dell.jpg" alt="dell" />Oopsies. Dell's Taiwan website recently listed a 19-inch monitor for the equivalent of about $15 for eight hours befor

Sony says PSPgo is expensive because it's new

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pspgo2.jpg" alt="psp go" />If you curled your lip and slowly shook your head when Sony announced that the PSPgo would cost $249, you were

NFL Red Zone Channel may not be free on Comcast after all

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/redzone.JPG" alt="NFL" />You may recall that exactly one week ago, your old buddy Doug got all bonered up about NFL Network and Comcast final
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