What's Appening: News in Apps, every week!
At 3Advance, we eat, sleep and breathes apps (dApps too!) so every week we curate the latest news and produce an email newsletter – and a video recap on Youtube. So if you’re planning an app, you’re neck deep in startup land or you’re just a techie at heart, this one’s for you. Subscribe here or check out our recent publications below.
What’s Appening: Discord Guzzles Up Gas ⛽🔥
Discord Acquires Gas App, Reddit Web3 Plans, Big Tech Layoffs, Netflix & Win, Crypto Bounceback
January 24, 2023
What’s Appening: 2023 State of Mobile 📱🌍
Data.ai Looks Back (and Forward), VALL-E AI Voices, Twitter Suspends Apps, AWS :handshake: Avalanche
January 17, 2023
What’s Appening: Welcome to Janu-ai-ry 🤖📝🌍
AI Catches Fire, Apple’s VR Spring, Brands Embrace Web3, National Geographic NFTs
January 10, 2023
A Year’s Appenings at 3Advance!
Paul’s Year in Review: Adventures in Apps, and Advances in Technology.
January 4, 2023
What’s Appening: The Tech Year in Memes 🗓👀
As far as we’re concerned, there’s nothing much ‘appening this week. 🙈
December 27, 2022
What’s Appening: A Complete Twitshow 📢🚫
Twitter In Tatters, EU Bites Apple, Google’s Latest Translations, Messi’s Insta Likes, NFT Launches
December 21, 2022
What’s Appening: Appy Days, iOS 16.2 Drops 🍏🎁
iOS 16.2 Cometh, Twitter Character Limit, Amazon Driver Tips, AI Apps Rule, SBF Arrested
December 13, 2022
What’s Appening: The Search Engine Killer 🗣️🤖
ChatGPT Wows Everyone, Neuralink Brain Chips, BeReal AotY, AWS, Netflix, Coinbase Vs Apple
December 6, 2022
What’s Appening: AI Dominates Games Night 🤖🎲
Meta’s Cicero AI, Apple vs Musk, Fizz App Fizzes, New Twitter Verification, Bored Ape NFTs
November 29, 2022
What’s Appening: Apple Makes Metaverse Mark 🍏
Apple Vs Meta? Apple Vs Epic ✅, 1Password Passkey, Canva AI, Mr Beast, Ronaldo NFTs
November 22, 2022
What’s Appening: Kingdom of Crypto Implodes 📉🔥
FTX Collapse, More Tech Layoffs, Tesla Zooms, Netflix Trivia, Amazon Value, MetaMask Bridge
November 15, 2022
What’s Appening: The Great Layoff 😞🌍
Mass Tech Layoffs, Meet Budibase, WhatsApp Community Groups, US GOV BTC, Insta NFTs
November 8, 2022
What’s Appening: From Musk, A New Dawn 🐤📱
Elon’s First Week, Apple Upsets Everyone, Amazon Music App Revamp, Web3 Ridesharing Disruptor
November 1, 2022
What’s Appening: The Kids Are Pumping Gas 🚀⛽
Gas App On Top, Forbes Vs TikTok, Kanye to Buy Parler, Reddit🫂NFTs, Plaid Wallet Connect
October 25, 2022
What’s Appening: Meta Broadens Its Horizons 🌍
Meta Connect 2022, Microsoft Designer, Digital Stamps, TikTok VS Amazon, Google 💘 Crypto
October 18, 2022
What’s Appening: Big Tech Ups & Downs 🎢🚨
Apple’s Crash Detection Flaw, Twitter Deal Back On, Google’s New Hardware, Binance Exploit
October 11, 2022
What’s Appening: Google Ins and Outs 🐣🪦
Google Starts and Stops Products, VR Sports Potential, OG’s Instattempt, Kim’s Crypto Fine, Sega Blockchain Games
October 4, 2022
What’s Appening: NFTs Hit the AppStore 🎟️ 💸
AppStore NFTs, Teams Live Language, Twitch Streaming Big, Coinbase Dev Platform
September 27, 2022
What’s Appening: A Figma of Adobe’s Imagination 💭
Adobe to Acquire Figma, iOS 16 Widgets, Smart Homes Matter, White House Crypto Framework
September 20, 2022
What’s Appening: 2022, A Starbucks Odyssey ☕🕸️
Starbucks’ Web3 Plans, iOS 16 Arrives, Twitter Buttons, Insta Retweets, The Merge Cometh
September 13, 2022
What’s Appening: Tales From “Far Out” 2022 🍏📱
Apple’s New Hardware, Snapchat Job Cuts, The Fabled Twitter Edit Button, Ticketmaster 🤝 Flow
September 7, 2022
What’s Appening: Into the Apple-Verse 🍏👓
Apple Reality, SpaceX Internet, Twitter Podcasts, Insta BeStealin’, and a web3 Uber Rival
August 30, 2022
What’s Appening: Apple Takes Ad-vantage 🍏
Apple Adding Ads, Latest App Trends & Trials, Google’s Web3
August 23, 2022
What’s Appening: A Field of Streams 📺💰
Disney Leads Streaming, YouTube beats TikTok, Spotify Tickets, ETH Merge
August 16, 2022
What’s Appening: dAppuccinos & NFTeas ☕🕸️
Starbucks web3 Initiative, TikTok Bytes Spotify, Amazon’s Clean Up, The Hack That Never Was
August 9, 2022
What’s Appening: Keeping Up with the Algorithms🎯🔁
An Instagram Revolt, Meta’s Bad Week, Silly Gadgets, Cloud Nine for Vendors, TIME 💓 Web3
August 2, 2022
What’s Appening: Big Tech’s Battle Royale 🥊
A Special Report on Big Tech’s Shifting Focus, Footie Consumption on Social Media & Coub Web3 Micro Videos.
July 26, 2022
What’s Appening: TikTok Takes On Google🌍🔍
Google Discovery Woes, Netflix 💘 Microsoft, Spotify’s First Heardle, A Very Murray Coinbase
July 19, 2022
What’s Appening: A Bot-ched Takeover Deal 🤖🤖
Elon Pulls Out, Battle for Your Lock Screen, Meta Dumps Facebook (Sort of), EPL NFT Launch
July 12, 2022
What’s Appening: TikTok Time Up? 📵⏰
TikTok Showdown, Pinterest’s Evolution, Apple Gas From Your Dash, China’s Speculation-Free NFTs
July 5, 2022
What’s Appening: Better Call Sol 📱🕸
Solana’s Web3 Smartphone, Netflix & Ad Bill, Metaverse Collaboration, Instagram AR NFTs
June 30, 2022
What’s Appening: GoodbyIE, Old FrIEnd 👋 🌐
Internet Explorer RIP, Snapchat Plus, eBay Live App, Telegram User Surge, NYC.NFT
June 21, 2022
What’s Appening: Mobile Franchise Wars 📱⚔️
Taco Bell’s Mobile-First Restaurant, Spotify Audiobooks, Xbox Games Without Xbox, Web2+Web3=Web5
June 16, 2022
What’s Appening: WWDC – The Apple Show 🎪📲
Apple’s WWDC Event, YouTube TV Sync, Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta, Crypto Bill Drop
June 7, 2022
What’s Appening: TikTok Targets Twitch 📱🔴
TikTok Live Subscriptions, Instacart New Rating System, Apple Delete Deadline, eBay Sports NFTs
May 31, 2022
What’s Appening: TikTok’s Game-Changer? 📱🎮
TikTok’s Gaming Moves, WhatsApp Business Updates, Apple Accessibility Innovations, Spotify’s NFTs
May 24, 2022
What’s Appening: Google “Think Different” 🤷🏻♂️
Google (Sort of) Copies Apple, Insta (Kind of) Copies Twitter, Musk Twitter Saga Continues, Luna Crypto Crash
May 17, 2022
What’s Appening: 👋 Bye Bye Passwords? 🤞
The (Latest) End of Passwords, Plaid and Stripe Row, Spotify Lands on Roblox, The Power of Wordle, NFTs with Your Coffee.
May 10, 2022
What’s Appening: Pixy’s Snappening, that’s what. 📸
Snap’s Latest Tech, FAANG Apps Earnings Hit, STEPN Pays You to Walk, Twitter Fudges Numbers, Ethereum Crash
May 3, 2022
What’s Appening? He Did It: Musk Buys Twitter 🎩🐦
Musk Twitter Deal is Done, Netflix’s Subscriber Gambit, Column’s Fintech Bank, Snapchat AR, Coinbase NFT Market
April 26, 2022
What’s Appening? Twitizen Kane: Elon Wants It All 🌎
Elon Musk Wants Twitter, FIFA+ Scores Nostalgia Goal, Amazon & Etsy Hit Sellers, Meta Hits Creators Harder
April 19, 2022
What’s Appening? The Fast and The Frivolous 💸
Fast Burns Up, DALL-E 2 Draws, BeReal Surges, Twitter Goes Elon
April 12, 2022
What’s ‘Appening: Raiders of the Best Startups 💰🏴☠️
Google Vs Calendly, New Messenger Features, Twitter Co-Tweets, Amazon NFTs
April 5, 2022
What’s Appening: GrubHub’s Being Served 🧑⚖️ ⚖️ 👎
GrubHub Lawsuit, EU Digital Markets Act, Apple Wallet ID, TIME NFT Issue
March 29, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? Amazon Prime’s MGM Deal 🦁 📺
Amazon Acquires MGM, Slack iPad Upgrade, DraftKings NFTs, Yuga Labs Adds CryptoPunks
March 22, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? Stripe Returns to Crypto 🙌 💵
Stripe Crypto Return, Uber New App Features, Typeform Raise, LimeWire NFT Platform
March 15, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? Whole Foods: Cash Register-less Shopping 📲 👋
Whole Foods’ Just Walk Out Tech, Uppbeat Creator Solution, Amazon Music Grows, NFT Vending Machines
March 8, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? Slack Suffers an Outage 🔌⚡🖥️
Slack and Others Go Down, Reddit New Features, EWA 50M Downloads, Coinbase Questions Web3 Ideals
March 1, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? MoviePass Makes a Return 🍿 🎥 🎞️
MoviePass Is Back, Twitter Safety Mode, Spotter Backs YouTube Creators, Coinbase Super Bowl Ad
February 22, 2022
What’s ‘Appening? Peloton Fires 2,800 Staff 👎 😬 🤸
Peloton Fires Staff, McDonald’s McMetaverse, Disney+ Subscribers Skyrocket, NFT Property Sale
February 15, 2022
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