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David Barnett has learned a lot since PopSockets first came out more than a decade ago. As the story goes, the former philosophy professor was looking…
Claude’s daily active users are increasing on mobile devices, as are new app installs, following the company’s impact with the Pentagon. After Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei…
‘Clueless’-inspired app Alta partners with brand Public School to start embedding style tools into websites
A lot has changed for Jenny Wang, the founder who brings fashion technology “Clueless” to life. Last year, her company, Alta, raised $11 million in a…
App downloads decline again in 2025, but consumer spending jumps to nearly $156 billion
The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenue in 2025, even as app downloads fell for a fifth year in a row, according to the app…
A consumer watchdog issues a warning about Google’s AI reseller shopping protocol — Google says it’s wrong
Shortly after Google announced its new Global Trade Protocol for AI-powered shopping agents, a consumer economy watchdog sounded the alarm. In a now viral post on…
Investments in consumer tech startups are on a downward trend from 2022 as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation have VCs thinking about consumer power.…
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer refuses to sit on the sidelines of the artificial intelligence genetics revolution. After spending the past six years running Sunshine, a…
ChatGPT hit a new milestone of $3 billion in global mobile consumer spending as of this week, according to estimates from the app intelligence provider Appfigures.…
Google is expanding its push into consumer finance in India with the launch of a UPI-linked credit card, betting on a country of more than 1.4…
Marley Alles started in accounting. She thought her dream was to work in a big company. “And then once I got there, I was like, ‘oh,…