Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year, and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Along with the $2 million it
Tag: app
Vivid Money, a financial super app, raises $114M at an $886M valuation to expand in Europe
Vivid Money, a challenger bank out of Berlin with 500,000 customers, has made a name for itself with a financial one-stop-shop “super app” that, in addition to basic checking and money management services, also includes stock and cryptocurrency investing. Now,
This Week in Apps: Open App Markets Act, Facebook loses daily users, Snap turns a profit
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer
Google Pay App Won’t Be Getting Mobile Banking, Company Pulls Plug on Plex
Google has hit the brakes on a project to add mobile banking to its Pay app, even as the online financial services market for everyday investors heats up. The company has ended work on its Plex project, but continues to
Updated PC Health Check app will actually tell you why you can’t run Windows 11
Enlarge / It doesn’t fix how strict the new Windows requirements are, but the new PC Health Check app can at least give you detailed information and more useful recommendations. Andrew Cunningham When it announced Windows 11 and its strict
Apple and Google cave to Putin’s censors, block Navalny app as election begins
Enlarge / A sculpture of Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny in front of the Brandenburg Gate at an anti-Putin demonstration on May 9, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Getty Images | Adam Berry Apple and Google gave a
A new app helps Iranians hide messages in plain sight
Enlarge / An anti-government graffiti that reads in Farsi “Death to the dictator” is sprayed at a wall north of Tehran on September 30, 2009. Getty Images Amid ever-increasing government Internet control, surveillance, and censorship in Iran, a new Android
Major win for Epic Games: Apple has 90 days to open up app store payments
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Epic vs. Apple/Google View more stories On Friday, the Northern California judge handling the closely watched Epic Games v. Apple court case turned in a ruling that, in many ways, works out in Apple’s favor—but with
South Korea law forces Google and Apple to open up app store payments
Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses, that will be $1,400. Ron Amadeo / Hasbro South Korea will soon pass a law banning Apple’s and Google’s app store payment requirements. An amendment
Google Pay team reportedly in major upheaval after botched app revamp
Google Pay is apparently just as much a disaster internally as the app transition has been externally. That’s the big takeaway from a recent Business Insider article detailing an exodus of executives from Google’s payment division, lower-than-expected app adoption, and employees frustrated
Hands-on: You can now run Windows 365 on iPad, and Microsoft even has an app for it
Microsoft’s new cloud PC system, Windows 365, has officially launched for all eligible businesses and enterprises. While it’s not available to consumers yet, we hope to see it in the future. In the meantime, I was able to go
New York Times cuts off third-party app access to crosswords from next week
The New York Times announced today that it is cutting off access to its popular crosswords for third-party apps. Previously, the Times made its crosswords available in .puz files in the Across Lite puzzle format. These could be used in