App Store spending hit record levels during the 2019 holidays
iOS users spent more than $386 million on New Year's Day alone
Google allows ToTok, the app accused of being a UAE surveillance tool, back on its store
It remains absent from Apple's App Store
App spending on Christmas reached a record $277 million, most of which went on games
PUBG made $8.5 million
ToTok messaging app revealed as a UAE surveillance tool
It's been removed from the Apple and Google stores
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Apple shares the best and most popular apps of 2019
Another banner year for social media apps
Several high profile Android apps still have vulnerabilities discovered years ago
Messenger, Instagram and WeChat are among hundreds of unpatched apps
Apple is holding a December event to honor the best apps and games
It all seems very low-key
Google bans high interest rate personal loan apps from its app store
Protecting consumers from predatory lenders
Joker malware that signs victims up to premium subscription services discovered in 24 Play Store apps
They were downloaded almost half a million times
Malware discovered in Google Play app with over 100 million downloads
A Trojan Dropper was inside the popular PDF maker
Google removes seven stalking apps from the Play Store
They could be used to surreptitiously track people and spy on their text messages, call logs
Google bans huge Chinese app maker from the Play Store for swamping users with disruptive ads
CooTek had previously promised to stop the practice
Microsoft Word has now been installed over one billion times on Android devices
The company's apps are proving popular on mobile
More than 1,000 Android apps discovered to harvest data even after you deny permissions
And researchers say they've only scratched the surface
Apple reveals App Store takedown requests by governments in its latest transparency report
It also released redacted National Security Letters (NSLs) with permitted public disclosure
Study from Facebook is a research app that will pay you in exchange for your data
The program targets users in the US and India, aged 18 and above
Google is tweaking the Play Store's app rating system to favor recent reviews
Among many other happenings at Google's IO 2019 developer conference