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College social app Fizz expands into grocery delivery

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Founded in 2021, Fizz is available at more than 620 campuses across the United States, with over 27 million posts shared to date. The social platform allows students to connect anonymously with others at their university. Fizz also features a marketplace where users can buy and sell items locally. The partnership will allow students to order anything from late-night snacks to weekly groceries directly within the Fizz app in as fast as 15 minutes, Fizz says.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/college-social-app-fizz-expands-into-grocery-delivery/

Notion brings its AI-powered email app to the iPhone

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Back in April, Notion launched its AI-centric email client on the Mac. Four months later, Notion Mail has arrived on iOS. The app uses AI to help sort incoming messages automatically. Users can tell the system which types of emails matter most, and it will label and organize them accordingly.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/18/notion-mail-iphone/

Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, blogs, and more, will launch in ‘early 2025’

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A new app called Tapestry promising to unify social media, news, and RSS in one place, is nearing completion. Designed by Iconfactory, the same team that created the third-party Twitter client Twitterific back in the day, Tapestry was unveiled at the beginning of the year as a tool that could better organize today’s fragmented online media, allowing users to track their favorite blogs, news sites, and social networks from a single app. This week, the company announced an update on Tapestry’s progress, saying that it planned to officially launch the app to the public in “early 2025.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/tapestry-a-new-app-for-tracking-social-media-news-blogs-and-more-will-launch-in-early-2025/

Celeb greetings app Cameo pivots to creators

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“The nature of fame has changed dramatically. Some of our most successful talent are digitally native creators who aren’t famous in the traditional sense, but have an extremely engaged fan base,” said Cameo CEO Steven Galanis, in a blog post announcing the service’s official launch. “The amount of fame in the world is exponentially increasing as new stars are being minted overnight on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, SoundCloud, and YouTube. Whether you’re famous, infamous or emerging, there is a place for you on Cameo,” he added.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/03/celeb-greetings-app-cameo-pivots-to-creators/

Intenty nudges you to provide a reason every time you unlock your phone

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But at times, you mindlessly unlock your phone as a force of habit to eventually do nothing or scroll timelines. To get rid of the habit, Ukrainian developer Yaroslav Neznaradko has built an Android app called Intenty, which nudges you to provide a reason or do an action like breathing or stretching every time you unlock the phone.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/28/intenty-will-nudge-you-to-provide-a-reason-every-time-you-unlock-your-phone/

Brace Yourself for Ads on Threads in January

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Meta execs have acknowledged that ads are coming to its newest social network. "We definitely plan to bring ads to Threads," Instagram Head Adam Mosseri, who also oversees Threads, said in April. "At the end of the day, we're a business, and Threads needs to make enough money to pay for the people and servers that it takes to run the service and provide it to people for free."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/brace-yourself-for-ads-on-threads-in-january

Apple now lets app developers apply to be featured on the App Store

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App developers now have a new way to promote their app launches, updates, and other new features on Apple’s App Store. First announced at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June, Apple this week introduced a “Featuring Nominations” option in App Store Connect, which is the service developers use to submit their apps, games, and updates to the App Store. Now, instead of waiting for Apple to recognize their work, developers can nominate their own apps to be featured. This will allow developers to inform Apple about three different types of updates: new content, app enhancements, or new app launches.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/13/apple-now-lets-app-developers-apply-to-be-featured-on-the-app-store/