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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

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That means mobile gamers are left to browsing the web for write-ups of games or they have to rely on the app stores’ top charts and editorial collections and curation of various games. But the app stores’ incentives for which games get featured don’t necessarily align with a player’s interests.

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Zenly is still hugely popular, so why’s Snap shutting it down?

TechCrunch

In Japan, for example, Zenly is typically in the top 5 or 10 apps, but it often rises to pole position ahead of Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord, and home-grown market leader Line , as this iOS chart from August 19 shows. Zenly iPhone downloads for Japan on August 19, 2022.

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Daily Crunch: Atlantic Money wants to make international money transfers even cheaper than competitors

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Amazon has also “suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus,” TechCrunch writes. is not precisely charting a path that feels all that distinct from what the EU is doing when it comes to tech regulation. They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs.

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