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$1.5 billion in scam mobile payments halted by Apple App Store last year

06/07/202206/06/2022 Sam Lambert

The iPhone maker’s online marketplace stood in the way of massive fraudulent charge totals in 2021. The Apple App Store has become a massive online marketplace, and as such, it has had to place careful security measures in place to keep users safe from fraudulent mobile payments. The marketplace handles many billions in transactions each year as its device users shop. The Apple App Store is currently the most lucrative platform developers have for earning profits from their products and services. It also provides solid services to consumers while allowing…

Apple App Store removes applications made in Iran due to U.S. sanctions

08/28/201708/26/2017 Jennifer Goula

The iPhone maker issued a letter to Iranian developers informing them that their offerings have been cut. The Apple App Store has removed iOS applications made in Iran. The iPhone maker made this move in order to follow U.S. government sanctions against the Middle Eastern country. According to Iranian app developers, they received letters informing them of the action, but no warning. Dozens of developers said they were informed that the Apple App Store removed their applications. They were notified as it happened but were not warned in advance at…

Most popular paid mobile app for iOS taken down after day and a half

09/23/201509/22/2015 Julie Campbell

Peace, the ad blocker that had risen to the highly coveted top spot at the App Store, was removed by its founder. The most popular paid mobile app for Apple devices, Peace, an ad blocker, has now been removed by its founder in less than two days from its launch on the market, despite its massive popularity. The mobile application was designed to stop advertising from showing up on web pages viewed on iPhones. The former Tumblr chief technology officer, Marco Arment, who is also the creator of the Peace…

Linktagger.com announces support of NFC tags within platform

06/19/201304/13/2014 Guest Post

The Linktagger.com team are very excited to announce we now support NFC tags within the Linktagger.com platform. When creating a dynamic QR code in Linktagger.com the unique web URL can now be used as the bookmark URL when programming NFC tags thereby making your NFC tags completely dynamic with the same features available as the rest of our linktags. This means for the first time a user can create a dynamic NFC tag and make changes to its actual physical action remotely. All of our linktag types are supported such…

ComboApp states full support for Apple’s crackdown against unethical marketing at the App Store

02/13/201202/13/2012 John Montgallo

ComboApp Marketing Agency, based in Chicago, has announced that it is giving its full support to the recent crackdown by Apple that stated that any iOS developers who were found to be using marketing techniques that were deceptive to the consumer will automatically have its products banned from the App Store and will no longer be able to do business there. The marketing agency, which is a mobile app promotion services leader, has been very open about its beliefs that Apple’s decision is an important one for the entire mobile…