Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. What are developers talking about? What do app publishers and marketers need to know? How are politics impacting the App Store and app businesses? And which apps…
November 29, 2019, proved to be the second highest day in history for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks. USA Today reports a total of 202,465 background checks were performed that day, a figure bested only by the 203,086 background checks performed on Black Friday 2017. The Black Friday figures boost already…
Following swiftly on the heels of a Thanksgiving that broke records with $4.2 billion in online sales, Black Friday also hit a new high, although it just fell short of predictions. According to analytics from Adobe, consumers spent $7.4 billion online yesterday buying goods online via computers, tablets and smartphones. The figures were up by…
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Ah, Black Friday. The day of a zillion “deals” — some good, many bad, most just meant to clear the shelves for next year’s models. Hidden amidst ten thousand “LOWEST PRICE EVER! ONE DAY ONLY!” e-mails, though, are a handful of solid sales on legitimately good stuff. Whether you’re trying to save some coin heading…
After a near two day hiatus following Sunday’s ‘The End’ event, Fortnite servers and matchmaking are now once again live, rebranded as Chapter 2 and including a bevy of changes and updates. These are quite substantial, which explains the lengthy outage. And no, Elon Musk wasn’t responsible. Check out the launch trailer Epic Games has…
Yesterday, Fortnite’s Season 10 came to a dramatic close with one of the most riveting live events Epic Games’ flagship battle royale title has seen to date and set to usher in the previously leaked Chapter 2 re-branding. Appositely titled ‘The End,’ the event kicked off at 11 am PT, and saw all of Fortnite…
Fortnite just blew up its entire map and all that’s left is a black hole. Some are speculating that this is simply a teaser for a new Fortnite map, but it’s unclear when that new map will arrive. On Epic Games’ status page, it says Fortnite is currently experiencing a minor service outage, noting “anomaly detected.”…
