Five top mobile marketing stories, ranked and summarized every day (except weekends).
To help get you primed and ready for another week in mobile gaming, we’ve curated the biggest stories you need to know from the last seven days. 1) Report: Disney Solitaire maker SuperPlay could be purchased by Tencent…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI models, today released the full weights for its largest and most performant version yet — Kimi K3. But enterprises…
The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to…
Apple is once again being sued over a scam cryptocurrency app that allegedly slipped through App Store review and cost users nearly $2 million. Here are the details.
Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its…
Update, 6:15 p.m PT: Apple says all the problems previously listed on its Developer website have been resolved. All of the outages listed on its consumer System Status page have also been fixed. Apple says that a number…
Google is looking at two fines from the European Union, which claims the company violated the Digital Markets Act with both Search and the Google Play Store.
Google Home today is rolling out the latest updates to Gemini for Home and the mobile app (July 23, 2026), while there’s also new Nest Cam firmware.
The European Commission has fined Google €890 million ($1.02bn) after finding the company breached the Digital Markets Act (DMA) through its Google Search and Google Play practices. Google received a €460m ($523m) fine…
Lilith Games’ Clash of Critters has generated approximately $16 million in player spending in its first two months. Since launching on May 21st, 2026, the creature collector has generated $8.3m on the App Store and…
Google has published new guidance to help Android developers prepare their apps for the next generation of Samsung Galaxy devices, highlighting best practices for building adaptive experiences that work across a wide…
Code found in an iOS 27 beta would allow Apple to put a financed iPhone in "Restricted Mode" if it detects any missed payments, 9to5Mac reports. The finding follows a story from Bloomberg earlier this week claiming…
Some Android users find the security feature to be too restrictive. Here's how to disable it and what you risk by doing so.
Looking for new iPhone and iPad games to play? The App Store has plenty of games without ads and in-app purchases. Apple Arcade is a great subscription option for families, though it’s not the only game in town. If…
Anthropic has introduced live iOS Simulator integration for Claude Code on macOS, allowing developers to build, launch, and test iPhone apps without leaving the Claude Code desktop app. The new capability is designed to…
If you mention the Nordic region to anyone in the games industry, their first thought will be of the region’s pioneering presence in the realm of mobile gaming. From the classic Snake on the Nokia 6110 in 1997 to 2012’s…
Critics may label the initiative as 'Privacy sandbox 2.0,' but advocates counter with privacy arguments.
Claude Code’s Mac app now lets users test iOS apps in an interactive simulator pane, provided they have Xcode with the iOS platform installed. Here are the details.
Tencent is reportedly in negotiations to acquire Israeli mobile game developer SuperPlay from Playtika in a deal valued at between $1 billion and $1.5 billion, according to a report from Calcalist. If completed, the…
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text…
Eric Jangor, the managing director at adjoe, discusses how Playtime is becoming an external live ops layer for hardcore games: connecting players from large consumer apps to in-game milestones, rewarding their progress…
The proposal aims to provide a browser-based mechanism for measuring advertising performance without relying on cross-site tracking.
The monthly “Google System Release Notes” primarily detail what’s new in Play services, Play Store, and Play system update across Android phones/tablets, Wear OS, Google/Android TV, Auto, and PC. Some features apply to…
As vibecoding becomes more accessible, new App Store releases are surging, doubling in the first half of 2026, while downloads increased by just 2%. Here are the details.
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
Since Netflix Playground's global launch in April, the platform's dedicated mobile app for kids games has tripled its daily player count, leading to a 600% year-on-year increase in kids engagement. Read more
What marketers, publishers, and ad tech companies need to know about some of the latest proposals in browser-based ad measurement.
Enterprise marketers are leaving value on the table. Not because channels underperform, but because they can’t prove they work. This joint report from AppsFlyer and EMARKETER, based on a survey of 157 senior brand and…
The enterprise technology ecosystem is caught in a costly cycle. Over the past two years, millions of dollars have been funneled into generative AI pilots, yet many of these initiatives stall out before ever reaching a…
Welcome to Pixelated episode 108. This week, Damien, Abner, and Will briefly dive into Google and Epic’s decision to wrap up their legal battle without a settlement in place, leaving the door open for third-party app…
An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities. Here are the details.
In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.
Update, 4:29 p.m. ET: Apple reached out to 9to5Mac with more information, which you can find below the original post. San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google,…
OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively,…
The games industry moves quickly and while stories may come and go there are some that we just can't let go of… So, to give those particularly thorny topics a further going over we've created a weekly digest where the…
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss;…
Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.
Sonos has added some handy quality-of-life updates to its mobile app.
Platforms report what they can see. Teams optimize within the environments they control. Dashboards reflect the signals being fed into them. The problem is that the underlying architecture was never designed to produce…
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