May 14, 2025

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A survey estimates that Apple Pay users reached 507M worldwide in September 2020, about 50% of the total iPhone userbase, adding ~66M users from September 2019 (Horace Dediu/Asymco)

Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year (Shubham Agarwal/Fast Company)

Shubham Agarwal / Fast Company: Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs,...

Ahead of the holidays, the biggest game releases from EA, Take-Two, and Activision have received poor reviews, capping a difficult year for the industry (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

A look at projects like the Voguverse and companies like Pixel Vault that are trying to build media franchises around their NFT collectibles (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

UK’s 5G spectrum auction raised only £1.36B, just above the £1.1B reserve price and a fraction of the £22.5B 3G auction in 2000 (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Nic Fildes / Financial Times: UK’s 5G spectrum auction raised only £1.36B, just above the £1.1B reserve price and a fraction...