commerce

Caliornia judge stops Commerce Department move to ban WeChat

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Now that the TikTok saga may potentially be over, the US government has been focusing on another Chinese-owned app. The US Commerce Department announced last Friday that they were banning US business transactions on WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings and forcing Apple and Google to remove the app from their respective app stores. But a … Read more

App Store facilitated half a trillion dollars in commerce in 2019

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Apple’s App Store facilitated half a trillion dollars in commerce last year, a new study reveals.  The  App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone, according to independent economists at Analysis Group.  The highest value categories were mobile commerce apps, digital goods and services apps, and in-app advertising, while games … Read more