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Hit the weekend and search for potential dates in your area with Swoon, today's first app worth downloading. It lets you anonymously search profiles of other singles near you and “like” them, and if two people “like” each other, they're given the option to send messages. We've also got some games for your weekend: Gravity …

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple says its customers have downloaded more than 50 billon applications from its App Store since its launch in 2008.

Bring some social consciousness to your spending habits today with Buycott, which lets you scan products to find out what companies actually benefit from you buying them. Famous Birthdays is up next and is packed with information about celebrities. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online first-person shooter with vehicles, …

We've got three great updates to popular apps for today's haul of apps. Up first is Airbnb, an app for connecting with other users to rent space when you're traveling, which now supports Google Wallet. Pinterest is up next, allowing users to share images and videos in a very visual and clean way, and which now supports …

When the game works, it works great. Even with only the two starting classes (the rest are hiding behind a level grind, though you can always opt to buy them instead) there is plenty of fun to be had. The maps are well designed, and the three vehicle types are all extremely empowering, yet not too overpowered. You can take …

Emilly is having a very bad day, to put things lightly. First she wakes up in the middle of a forest with no memory of who she is. That's usually the end of the game's setup right there, but nope. Poor Emilly is then shot down and killed, waking up again in a labyrinthine kind of purgatory or hell, full of strange demonic …

The countdown on Apple’s website stopped late Wednesday indicating that the company’s App Store has surpassed 50 billion downloads. The milestone comes just 14 months after Apple announced 25 billion apps had been downloaded from its popular marketplace. Apple launched the App Store in July 2008 and downloads have increased …

At Google I/O on Wednesday, Google announced a new music streaming service aimed at rivaling Spotify and Pandora that will be run over its Google Play store. The music service, called Google Play Music All Access, is described as “a uniquely Google approach to a music subscription service.” The new service will give users …

Google on Wednesday at its annual I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco announced Google Play game services. As earlier rumors suggested, the gaming suite is similar to Apple’s Game Center and allows developers to add support for leaderboards, achievements, matchmaking and the ability to save game data to the cloud. …

The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may launch a streaming music service to rival Spotify’s as soon as this week, possibly to coincide with the Google I/O conference that’s kicking off today and runs through Friday. Why now, out of the blue? I/O notwithstanding, the Journal‘s sources claim Google has signed deals …

Get all the information you need from your Android device without ever typing a word with Speaktoit, today's first app worth downloading. It's a virtual assistant similar to Apple's Siri and can understand natural language questions to help you find what you need. We've also got an update to TuneIn Radio, a streaming Internet …

Start your day with Pling, a social networking app that's designed to connect you with friends in the real world. Pling lets you share your location with, or request location info from, your Facebook friends, for easier meet-ups. Dampa's Boat is up next, providing reading-age kids with a storybook that explores the Alaskan …

App Store Official Charts for the week ending May 6, 2013: Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Heads Up! (Warner Bros.) 2. WhatsApp Messenger (WhatsApp Inc.) 3. Survivalcraft (Igor Kalicinski) 4. Minecraft - Pocket ...

Fire up your video chatting capabilities and get in touch with people on your Contacts List or your Facebook friends with Rounds Video Calling + Chat. The app lets you share videos and watch them while chatting, or make video conference calls. We've also got two games worth your attention: physics-heavy platformer Chuck …

Get in some great golf this week with the help of GolfLogix, an app that utilizes GPS capabilities and other features to help improve your golf game. If you're planning to travel, check out the updated version of Hotel Tonight, which can help you land a last-minute hotel room on the cheap. Finally, there's Fractal Combat, …

Earlier this year, Google began a trial program to allow select Android developers the opportunity to respond to their critics on the Play Store. The company announced on Monday that the ability to reply to app reviews has now been expanded to all Google Play developers. Ellie Powers of the Google Play team notes that ever …

Test your creativity and find new ways of thinking with The Pocket Scavenger, a scavenger hunt app for photographing things based on prompts. Kids will have a great time with our second app worth downloading, Fraggle Friends Forever, which is part storybook and part educational game. Finally, there's Blitz Brigade, an online …

Start your day with Bazaart, an app for accessing and rearranging Pinterest images into unique collages. Meanwhile, if you're in need of some games, you're in luck: Sid Meier's Ace Patrol is a a turn-based strategy game in the vein of World War I fighter planes, and Impossible Road will challenge you to guide a ball down …

This week of apps has us gazing at the stars, creating our own galaxies, spinning around in circles, and even fixing our kitchen sinks! Our top app of the week is Loss of the Night, which is a seriously cool global science project in which we can all take part. We’ve also got a new alarm clock, a mobile version of Fixya, …

This weekend, find all kinds of real estate information with Homesnap, an app that finds all kinds of information about houses for you. Following Homesnap is an update to music streaming app Spotify that makes searching for songs easier for mobile users. Finally, Mosaique is a matching game that takes the pressure off, …

Head into the weekend with some fresh photography ideas with LearnPhoto365, which provides you with photography assignments that can help inspire you. We've got a couple of great games for your weekend, as well – Daddy Was a Thief, a vertical arcade game in which you must escape the police after a bank heist by dropping …

After creating your captain (I made mine look like Commander Riker, because his beard is powerful), choosing the first rooms of your ship, and hiring your first crew members, you are immediately sent out by Star Command to tackle mission after mission. The game is very linear at first, plotting you through the intro before …

There is a real sense of speed as you zoom through the world as Iron Man, shooting down drones and enemies, dodging missiles and obstacles, and even fighting off bigtime baddies from the comics who never got the Marvel Cinematic Universe treatment. You simply swipe along the bottom of the screen to steer, tapping and sliding …