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Among Us Dominated Mobile Gaming Global Charts With Nearly 84 Million Downloads in September

Among Us was on top of the mobile game downloads charts. | InnerslothAmong Us was on top of the mobile game downloads global charts for September 2020, Sensor Tower reported on Monday.With 83.8 million downloads worldwide last month, Among Us was well ahead of other popular mobile games. Over 23 percent of those downloads were Americans, according to Sensor Tower. India accounted for just over 11 percent of the downloads.Among Us grew substantially in popularity from August, when it was number nine on the same ranking. The mobile game is

TikTok is emerging as a significant threat to YouTube and Instagram as children and teens abandon the two most popular video-sharing platforms

A little over a year ago, we wrote a story about how social media app TikTok is taking teens by storm and making Snap and Facebook nervous. TikTok was developed and owned by China-based company ByteDance. Originally released in 2014, the app is a hit among teens. It became become popular enough to catch the attention of Facebook and Snap. It’s secret, however, is the the audio that goes with the videos. Back in February 2019, TikTok reported 500 million monthly active users across the globe. In the U.S., it ranked No.

This Week in Apps: Protests impact app stores, FTC fines app developer, kids’ app trends

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. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spending three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile