Apps

Ahead of its upcoming initial public offering, Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd received a $125 million cash payout and loan, according to newly released documents by the company.

Between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, customers spent $1.8 billion which was "driven largely by spending on games," the company announced Wednesday. 

The exclusive private party iOS app that promised "no randoms" would attend a jam session or beer pong tournament for "you and your crew" has been removed from Apple's App Store and banned from TikTok .

Apple has removed thousands of games from its Chinese App Store because of pressure from the Chinese government, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Demand for DoorDash IPO shares is off the charts.

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, has filed a petition Tuesday evening with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, challenging an Aug. 14 order from the Trump administration requiring the video-sharing app to be divested by Thursday.

In the wake of the presidential election, the social media Parler app topped Apple's App Store for the first time over the weekend.

On Monday, TikTok announced it is partnering with Sony Music to extend its license and promote artists and their music on the platform.

GrubHub is being sued by a restaurant in North Carolina and a restaurant in California because the company listed their information on its platform without permission.

DoorDash partnered with San Francisco restaurant brand Burma Superstar to open a delivery-only restaurant in Oakland.

SNAP now boasts 249 million daily active users.

Shopping for home decor just got an upgrade with a mobile video game that lets players buy furniture and decor within its e-commerce store.

"As you get into 2021, I think you should expect for us to be in every state that's legal, where we operate and can launch by the end of 2021," Snowden told "The Claman Countdown" on Monday. "We'll be in well over a dozen states by the end of the calendar year."

Uber Eats will be rolling out a new look for its app and web platform, according to an announcement on Wednesday.

7-Eleven is offering customers an entire pizza for free on Sunday if they order through the convenience store chain's 7NOW delivery app.

The mudslinging between Epic Games and Apple continues, with the game developer arguing that the latest legal filing by the tech giant contains "a number of half-truths and outright falsities intended to paint Epic as a bad actor."

A U.S. judge early Sunday blocked the Commerce Department from requiring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to remove Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for downloads by late Sunday.

The Committee on Foreign Investment, which is chaired by the Treasury Department, has reportedly sent letters to gamemakers, including Epic Games, Riot Games and others, seeking information about their security protocols in regard to handling Americans’ personal data. 

The battle between Apple and Epic Games over the former's App Store engaged in mudslinging Wednesday and more legal action.

The app's popularity has grown immensely, particularly with millennials and Gen Z. It boasts more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S., largely from this demographic.