Mobile & Apps: This Week’s Top Stories // January 10, 2016

Now That Netflix Is Global, You Should Go Buy A VPN | Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac | Hide Unwanted iPhone App Icons With This iOS 9 Trick | Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine | This App Wants To Kill The Selfie Stick | Passive Fitness Tracking App Human Comes To Android | Make Magic’s Assistants Do Almost Anything With $100/Hour And A Text Message |

MOBILE AND APPS WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 2016 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jon Russell Now That Netflix Is Global, You Should Go Buy A VPN Netflix shocked the tech world (and excited investors) with an unprecedented global expansion into 130 countries yesterday. That move means that the video... Read More… Josh Constine Photo Evidence Shows Facebook Is Building Messenger For Mac TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming to Boston this February Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on February 23, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Get your tickets now! Learn More… Lucas Matney Hide Unwanted iPhone App Icons With This iOS 9 Trick For those who believe a cluttered desk is a cluttered mind, the same is likely doubly true when it comes to your iPhone’s home screen. Unfortunately,... Read More… Drew Olanoff Peach Is A Slick New Messaging App From The Founder Of Vine Chat chat chat, talk talk talk. We love it, you love it. Messaging apps are hot for 2016 (again) and there’s seemingly a niche platform for all of us.... Read More… Natasha Lomas This App Wants To Kill The Selfie Stick Can an app replace the selfie stick? Sadly that seems a forlorn hope at this point. The plague of wands topped with phone clamps and wielded by photo-loving... Read More… Romain Dillet Passive Fitness Tracking App Human Comes To Android Human has been quite popular on iOS, and Android users can now rejoice as the app is now available on the Play Store. As a reminder, Human is a passive app... Read More… Matthew Lynley Make Magic’s Assistants Do Almost Anything With $100/Hour And A Text Message Magic Assistant, an SMS-based personal assistant service, is rolling out a new plan that provides a more premium service for $100 an hour. Magic's new service,... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service