David Curry

2 months ago | businessofapps.com | David Curry

TikTok has reclaimed its crown as the world’s most downloaded app, dethroning Instagram, which briefly stole the top spot in 2023. It was a two horse race for most of the year, with TikTok ending on 773 million downloads and Instagram on 759 million, according to data provided by Appfigures and AppMagic. Both apps had higher total downloads in 2024 than 2023. Instagram relies heavily on India for its downloads, the country was responsible for about 40 percent of total downloads in 2024.

Jan 20, 2025 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

The health and fitness app industry covers three main pillars: health, fitness and wellness. All three are connected to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and apps tend to pick and choose a few things to track from each. This was one of the industries that had both positive and negative effects from the pandemic. Home workouts shot up in usage, while all gyms were closed for a time. Wellness apps also noticed an uptick in users.

Nov 5, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

Music streaming service Amazon Prime Music started life as Amazon MP3, an iTunes-like digital distributor of MP3 downloads. Amazon was the first digital operator to offer music without digital rights management (DRM) and watermarks, a big accomplishment at the time as many publishers were still opposed to digital in all forms. When it launched its music streaming service in the early 2010s, it offered the streaming service to Prime users at no additional cost.

Sep 13, 2024 | networkcomputing.com | Pascal Menezes |David Curry

The MEF SD-WAN certification is the first step in the process to SASE certification. Certification comprises three modules: SD-WAN, Security Service Edge (SSE), and Zero Trust. MEF, the industry consortium of network, cloud, and security providers, recently announced the first batch of technology providers to have reached the SD-WAN certification milestone, the first module in its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) certification program.

Sep 11, 2024 | businessofapps.com | David Curry

The battle for the short-form video crown is still ongoing, with TikTok, Instagram and YouTube all battling for eyeballs. According to research published in our Video Streaming App Report, TikTok and Instagram Reels are neck and neck in terms of app users. Both platforms handle about 1.5 billion active users a month. TikTok was the original short-form video app, ballooning in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic.