The PayPal unit has added the ability to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies within its app. Venmo will let users participate if they have a minimum balance of $1 and will offer support for four cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Venmo is positioning crypto trading to be a social activity—users can share transaction updates with friends via the Venmo feed.

Engagement on Bilibili’s mobile app in China has accelerated in the past year, with growth in monthly active users, daily active users, the number of sessions and the amount of time spent on the app all growing faster than in the previous year, per QuestMobile data and our calculations.

In H1 2021, over 20% of respondents said they’d used a voice command with a mobile app or a smart speaker to search for information in the prior week, and 16.5% had used voice to carry out a task. Respondents ages 16 to 34 and those in high-income households recorded above-average usage.

Introduction. 2021 was a year of feverish activity for brands and companies across Europe—regardless of whether they thrived during the pandemic or had to re-engineer their business models in a time of stress. The momentum behind ecommerce means physical retailers in Western Europe need to up their game in 2022, taking cues from digital sellers.

Shopping apps ascendant: Consumers in India hit a record 113 million mobile shopping app downloads in October 2021, per Sensor Tower. Social commerce app Meesho grew the most over the past year, becoming the most downloaded shopping app on Android in September 2021, up from No. 4 a year prior. On iPhones, it broke into the top five this year.

Some 82.0% of respondents said they had used social networking sites or apps (including YouTube) in the prior month, and spent an average of 2:09 per day with social sites.

Daily engagement with these activities added up to 1:42.

The Restaurants Canada/BrandSpark data shows that 23% of 18-to-34s used such an app at least once a month compared with 8% for 50 and over. Social media marketing tactics are helping to level the playing field for smaller restaurateurs who traditionally have had trouble competing with large QSR chains and their marketing budgets.

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In H1 2020, that gap has widened further: More than 90% of those polled had used social sites or apps in the month prior to polling, compared with 80.5% who had watched live TV, and 84.9% who had watched TV shows via any method. However, social networking no longer occupied more time. Respondents estimated that each activity consumed 2:19 per day.

The news: Big Tech companies are struggling to contain a wave of antitrust and regulatory activity as government authorities and would-be competitors go on the attack. Meta is threatening to remove Facebook and Instagram from Europe should the EU block the transfer of user data to the US, Bloomberg reports.

Amazon is adding Venmo as a payment method to reach younger shoppers: The partnership marks progress in PayPal’s efforts to monetize the mobile app and may pave the way for similar deals.

Of those, 30.9% were removed because of adult nudity or sexual activity, 22.3% for the safety of minors, and 19.6% for illegal activity or regulated goods. TikTok said the removed content made up less than 1% of all videos uploaded, and that it took down 90.3% of them before they received any views.

Brisimitzis said that 5G Open Innovation Lab partners are “actively engaged in everything from the selection of the companies to the mentoring of the companies, then to activities that happen post-program, like proof-of-concept engagements or go-to-market engagements.”

Banks would have more clarity on how their activities would be credited. Agencies would create a list of community development activities that qualify for CRA consideration, letting banks know in advance whether engaging in those activities would be worthwhile.

So, while cryptocurrencies are significant, they are far from the only emerging blockchain application—a notion some Indian legislators are trying to keep in mind ahead of any large-scale crypto ban.

YouTube engagement has been primarily driven by recommendations for a while, but in November it began testing, among select users, opening the app directly to its 100% algorithmic Shorts feed. In June, Instagram also began adding recommended content on its main feed by way of “Suggested Posts,” meaning algorithmically recommended content is now present in all parts of the app.

Many consumers likely turned to mobile banking apps during lockdown out of necessity, but the uptick in engagement also suggests that a large portion of consumers have had the opportunity to realize the convenience of these channels and continue using them in the long term. Canadian consumers like using their smartphone for financial activities, per a Deloitte study.

Almost 100,000 fewer high-school seniors completed financial aid applications to attend college in 2020 (National College Attainment Network). The number of students submitting enrollment deposits for fall 2020 decreased 8.4% among students from families making less than $60,000 annually (EAB).

RBC said the tool gives customers “a more holistic view of their account activity” and cited payments for mortgages and subscription services as uses for it. More on this: NOMI Forecast will complement several mobile features that can give users more personalized control over their finances and security:.

Most customers who used mobile banking apps more often during the crisis said they’ll keep their current habits or increase it, per new research—and data points to a large potential market for neobanks.

The Health app is available on all iPhones and securely collects and tracks health data like heart rate, activity levels, lab results, sleeping patterns, and menstrual cycles. This fall, the tech giant is planning to roll out an update that directly relays this health information to a user’s care team.