Mobile Applications

Norway’s Consumer Council is heightening pressure on app publishers to trim and clarify the lengthy terms and conditions sheets users must approve before turning on the services.

CIOs should beware: people don't care about privacy anymore, until they do.

Recent lawsuits filed by users against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google highlight the risks that companies face as they adopt the technology as an alternative to the password​.

Traditional texting is on the decline and the global telecom industry is scrambling to come up with products and strategies to compete with popular apps such as Facebook’s WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage.

Tencent’s quest for Finnish game maker Supercell won’t come cheap.

Internet giant Alibaba’s Alipay has had a lock on China’s huge mobile-payment market, but now rival Tencent is leveraging its WeChat app to increase its slice.

A small change in Facebook’s advertising formula had a devastating effect on ad-supported app maker Cheetah Mobile.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the most high-profile engagement in a charm offensive targeting a crucial but challenging market for the company.

Step by step, the world is moving closer to the day when the mobile device is the device. It already has moved in that direction with the advent of touchscreens for laptops and tablets. Now, Alphabet Inc.'s Google is taking another step in that direction by making its Android apps, which were developed for mobile devices, available to laptops and desktops.

Google’s Android and Chrome OS operating systems soon will run the same apps.

Cheetah Mobile issued second-quarter guidance well below expectations as the Chinese mobile utility and security app company said its first-quarter earnings fell 65%.

Google is kicking off its artificial-intelligence-powered vision for the future with a pair of apps that will arrive for both Android and iOS later this summer.

How the island, with landfills not far from capacity, became one of the world-wide leaders in recycling.

Facebook Inc. wants to give you an outlet to share the dozens of super-wide photos lying ignored in your phone’s camera roll.

Gboard, a useful new iOS keyboard from Google, has features not yet available on Android.

A new reality-show industry is flourishing in China, where regular people use smartphones to live stream whatever suits their whims, writes Li Yuan.