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In app subscriptions report for 2025

Monday, July 21, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

Adapty has released its 2025 State of In-App Subscriptions report, delivering a comprehensive analysis of global trends, pricing benchmarks, and growth strategies shaping today’s app economy. Based on anonymized data from more than $1.9 billion in tracked revenue and over 215 million transactions across 11,000+ apps, the report offers a data-driven roadm...

OpenAI Codex overview

Thursday, July 17, 2025 by Freeman Lightner

OpenAI recently announced the launch of Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex assists with writing features, answering questions about codebases, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests for review, all within individual cloud sandbox environments preloaded with user repositories. OpenAI Codex overvie...

New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Austin Harris

Oracle Corporation recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database 23.7, a release that delivers several new features specifically designed to improve developer productivity, simplify data handling, and accelerate performance across diverse workloads. New Developer Features in Oracle 23.7: Highlights This latest update reflects Oracle’s contin...

Deep Research launches in Azure AI

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Deep Research, a new feature within the Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. This offering delivers OpenAI’s advanced agentic research capabilities as an API and SDK solution, integrated directly with Azure’s enterprise-grade agentic platform. Deep Research Launches in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service: Enterprise-Sca...

AppsFlyer Data Trends Report

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Austin Harris

AppsFlyer, the provider in marketing measurement, attribution, and data analytics, has released its annual lookback at the past year's mobile app trends. The year saw notable growth in user acquisition ad spend and revenue fueled by increasingly advanced monetization strategies and the expanded use of AI in marketing. The findings reflect the industry’s increa...

Microsoft Dev Drive launched for developers

Tuesday, July 15, 2025 by Richard Harris

Microsoft has announced the launch of Dev Drive, a new storage volume designed to meet the performance, security, and control needs of developers. Built on the Resilient File System (ReFS) and combined with a new performance mode capability in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Dev Drive delivers up to 30% faster build times compared to the current Windows 11 (22H2) configur...

How 27 programming languages differ in energy consumption

Monday, July 14, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

A research team from Portugal has conducted a comprehensive study analyzing how different programming languages impact energy consumption, execution time, and memory usage. Their findings were published in the paper Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages, as reported by technology news outlet The New Stack. The Most Energy-Efficient Programming Languages Reve...

Mobile baseball game goes live on CHSN with Aquimo

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 by Richard Harris

Chicago Sports Network (CHSN), home to the Chicago Blackhawks, Bulls and White Sox, has partnered with Aquimo Inc., a leader in mobile gaming technology for sports broadcasts and live events, to introduce a new interactive mobile gaming experience designed and tailored specifically for CHSN viewers. The custom-built Chicago Sports Network-branded baseball game, The...

AppDirect acquires Broker Online Exchange

Monday, June 16, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield

AppDirect announced a first-of-its-kind move to power the next era of AI-driven business services: the acquisition of Broker Online Exchange (BOX), North America's leading retail energy network. Through this acquisition, AppDirect is continuing to expand and redefine how their partner network can sell, manage and optimize the critical services their customers r...

2025 Mobile Gaming Report

Friday, May 30, 2025 by Austin Harris

The mobile gaming industry in 2025 is characterized by dynamic growth, evolving monetization models, shifting market geographies, and increasingly sophisticated player engagement strategies. According to Appfigures’ comprehensive analysis of the top 1,000 revenue-generating mobile games across both the App Store and Google Play, the global mobile games market reac...

Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report 2025

Friday, May 30, 2025 by Richard Harris

SplitMetrics’ 2025 Apple Ads Search Results Benchmarks Report, covering performance data from January to December 2024, offers a deep analytical dive into how search results campaigns fared across categories, regions, and timeframes. SplitMetrics, a global software company and certified Apple Ads Partner, used data from its Acquire platform to compile this extensi...

Fortnite returns to iOS

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

Fortnite has returned to the iOS App Store in the United States after nearly five years of absence, marking a turning point in the strained relationship between Epic Games and Apple. This reappearance is not just a routine relisting of a popular mobile game, it signifies a dramatic shift in the power struggle between large tech platforms and the developers who rely on t...

Coinbase partners with Riot Games Esports

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 by Richard Harris

Coinbase has announced a significant expansion of its presence in the esports world through a new partnership with Riot Games. As the new exclusive cryptocurrency exchange and official blockchain technology partner for League of Legends and VALORANT Esports global events, Coinbase will collaborate closely with Riot Games to enhance the fan experience. This partnership w...

Coding improvements in new OpenAI GPT models

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 by Richard Harris

OpenAI recently launched three new models in the API: GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano. These models outperform GPT‑4o and GPT‑4o mini across the board, with major gains in coding and instruction following. They also have larger context windows—supporting up to 1 million tokens of context, and are able to better use that context with improved long-context c...

Mobile Casual Benchmarks Report 2025

Monday, May 5, 2025 by Austin Harris

Appodeal Publishing, part of Appodeal Ad Mediation Solution for Mobile Apps and Games that helps developers and studios launch and scale their games, released its latest report, which takes a deep dive into the casual mobile games category, sharing a wealth of data on the best and worst performing casual game genres and subgenres. The report found that, while the best-p...

Origination to distribution technology launched by 129Knots

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

Global fintech venture 129Knots has launched with a $10 million investment led by Sing Fuels. Backed by a $500 million deal pipeline, it is set to revolutionize the industry with its real-world asset origination to distribution (OTD) technology. The OTD technology will reinvent deep-tier industries by delivering and deploying scalable liquidity solutions through secu...

Cybersecurity in 2025

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 by Richard Harris

Timothy Hollebeek shares his insights on the key cybersecurity trends shaping 2025, focusing on the evolving landscape of digital trust and identity. As quantum computing and AI continue to advance, they bring both groundbreaking innovations and new cybersecurity risks. The introduction of Google’s Willow chip signals a new era of quantum technology, accelerating ...

SQream native connector for SQream Blue

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 by Austin Harris

SQream announced the launch of its native connector that brings its cloud data solution, SQream Blue, to the Snowflake environment. This follows SQream Blue’s performance benchmarks that shattered existing performance benchmarks for speed and cost efficiency. The nonprofit Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) developed the TPCx-BB as a benchmark for...

OpenAI o1 preview

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

OpenAI recently announced the development of a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before responding. These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous iterations in science, coding, and math. OpenAI o1 preview, has been released in ChatGPT and the API The first model in this series, named OpenAI o1-prev...

Apps that use icons gain users

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 by Austin Harris

New research from SplitMetrics has found that apps that optimize icons can land up to 25% more users. The findings are part of a new report, ASO Benchmarks & Mobile Trends Report 2024, which analysed close to 200 apps and over 3500 A/B tests across Google Play and the Apple App Store. Apps that use icons gain users The study found that the average mobile ...

Apps with highest install rates (CPI) revealed in latest report

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 by Richard Harris

SplitMetrics, an app growth solutions company, has released its latest report, ASO Benchmarks & Mobile Trends Report 2024, offering a comprehensive analysis of App Store Optimization (ASO) benchmarks and mobile trends for 2024. The report delves into three key app categories: finance, shopping, and utilities. Apps with highest install rates (CPI) revealed from S...

Open source extensions from Timescale

Thursday, June 27, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

Timescale, the PostgreSQL cloud database company, has unveiled two open-source extensions, pgvectorscale and pgai, which significantly enhance PostgreSQL’s scalability and ease of use for AI applications. Licensed under the open-source PostgreSQL license, these extensions empower developers to build retrieval augmented generation, search, and AI agent applications...

Mobile Games Index 2024 is out now

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

The anticipated fourth edition of the annual Mobile Games Index, powered by adjoe and Statista, is now available. The latest report offers a clear look into the current state of the mobile gaming sector, analyzing the past 12 months of the first-party data from 95 million app interactions across 27 million users. The MGI 2024 reveals what people choose to play on the...

AI 3D model search engine features coming to Toggle3D

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger

Toggle3D.ai, the all-in-one 3D modeling solution harnessing the power of generative AI to convert CAD files, apply 4K texturing, and seamlessly publish 4K 3D models, is excited to report a 75% jump in usage in Q4. The Toggle3D platform currently has 27,192 users, and 26,504 or 97% of the users are active and have logged in within the last 30 days. The Company is fo...

NFT investor and holder experiences transformed by Chappyz

Monday, October 30, 2023 by Richard Harris

Chappyz recently announced the details of its strategic partnership with MoonPass, the new token management portal. This collaboration is set to transform the way investors and NFT holders interact with, manage, and experience their assets. MoonPass is at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a unique platform where tokens and vesting contracts can be a...

User engagement promotion from Honeygain and JumpTask

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

Honeygain and JumpTask announced their most recent collaboration, "JumpTask Achievements." Aimed at promoting user engagement and participation through inventive gamified experiences, this new release is an exciting extension of their ongoing partnership. "Our collaboration with JumpTask exemplifies our mission to make every interaction count. Jum...

Top programming languages of 2023

Friday, August 18, 2023 by Richard Harris

With generative AI, machine learning, and big data processing taking the world by storm, a number of associated languages and tools have gained in popularity this year. CircleCI has revealed the top programming languages for 2023. Highlights include: Python leapfrogged JavaScript and Ruby to become the second-most commonly used language on CircleCI. Type...

What Threads from Meta can teach developers about app marketing

Thursday, July 6, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

In the landscape of mobile applications, every new launch presents an opportunity to learn valuable lessons about app marketing and user engagement. Mark Zuckerberg, has achieved overnight success with the launch of the Threads app. The highly popular app is intertwined with Instagram and offers users a new way to message and network with friends and family.&n...

eBPF Observability Agent Flora lands from groundcover

Tuesday, May 9, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

groundcover recently introduced Flora, a newly released eBPF-based observability agent that was built with a strict performance mindset - promising full observability at high scales while costing next to zero overhead. Flora has dramatically outperformed all leading observability platforms such as Datadog, OpenTelemetry, and New Relic’s modern eBPF solution -...

TrueNAS R30 launches from iXsystems

Friday, December 23, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

iXsystems, the company behind TrueNAS, has announced the RELEASE of TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 "Bluefin", the second major version of TrueNAS SCALE and the industry’s most powerful open source hyper-converged storage OS. Developed in true open source fashion alongside the hundreds of thousands of members in the TrueNAS Community, this storage software release f...

Speed up your Java development with kits from Vaadin

Monday, October 24, 2022 by Richard Harris

Vaadin announced the release of four Acceleration Kits designed to make it faster and easier to build and modernize Java applications for enterprise use. These new Acceleration Kits speed the integration of custom applications built with Vaadin Flow into enterprise authentication, observability, and Kubernetes environments. Vaadin Flow is a unique framework that le...

Edge computing company EDJX appoints new CEO

Monday, October 3, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

EDJX announced that it has hired a new CEO while simultaneously raising a seed round of funding. EDJX’s CEO Benjamin Thomas has assumed day-to-day leadership of the company and joined EDJX’s Board of Directors. Thomas is a serial entrepreneur and founder of two companies, which combined sold for over two hundred million dollars in enterprise value to strateg...

Security practices of apps in the Google Play Store

Monday, September 26, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Data removal company Incogni analyzed the top 1,000 paid and unpaid apps available on the Google Play Store to discover the apps’ privacy and security practices. Key privacy findings: 1 in 2 apps (55.2%) share your data with third parties. Free apps share, on average, seven times more data points than paid apps. The worst categ...

App Stability Index of top mobile apps

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

SmartBear, a provider of software development and visibility tools, has released its 2022 App Stability Index Report measuring the stability of the top 250 mobile and web apps used by Bugsnag customers worldwide. Using Bugsnag data from a 30-day period, the third annual report shows mobile apps are continuing the release trend of once per week, moving from a weekly rele...

Keeping startups agile and pivoting with MVPs

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 by Yasser Jilani

With low budgets and little time, startups need to react with speed and agility to launch products. Our product sat (and still sits) in the global online e-learning market, sized at approximately 250 billion US dollars in 2020, with the US contributing to 47% growth. The market was fierce and competitive, especially for new startups entering the market. Minimum viabl...