• New app delivers food for out-of-work chefs

    New app delivers food for out-of-work chefs

    All they wanted was a home-cooked meal and now they’re helping out-of-work chefs survive the coronavirus pandemic. Israeli entrepreneurs Oren Saar and Merav Kalish Rozengarten founded WoodSpoon out of a desire find food like grandma used to make. “We missed the food from home, like real homemade hummus, and kunefe,” Saar says, referring to the …
  • Stacey Bendet’s app, Creatively, already slapped with cease and desist

    Stacey Bendet’s app, Creatively, already slapped with cease and desist

    Alice + Olivia CEO Stacey Bendet is in legal hot water after launching her new job app for creatives, Creatively. Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin, CEO and founder of the platform SohoMuse, has sent Bendet and her company a cease and desist, obtained by Page Six, claiming she launched a “copycat version” of her app. “Indeed, many …
  • Matthew Perry joins dating app after Molly Hurwitz breakup

    Matthew Perry joins dating app after Molly Hurwitz breakup

    Could dating be anymore difficult right now? Matthew Perry has rejoined dating app Raya after splitting from Molly Hurwitz, Us Weekly reported. The former “Friends” star, 50, is “messaging girls and getting back into online dating again,” a source told the magazine. Perry originally deleted his account after getting together with Hurwitz, who works as …
  • NYC will impose 20-percent cap on restaurant delivery-app fees

    NYC will impose 20-percent cap on restaurant delivery-app fees

    The Big Apple’s struggling restaurants are about to get some relief on food-delivery costs as hungry New Yorkers increasingly order in during the coronavirus crisis. The City Council is expected to pass emergency legislation on Wednesday that will cap the commission fees that delivery apps charge restaurants at 20 percent during any government-ordered state of …
  • Couple Common and Tiffany Haddish play the dating game for ‘Bumble’

    Couple Common and Tiffany Haddish play the dating game for ‘Bumble’

    There appears to be some Bumble BS afoot. Common and Tiffany Haddish seem to have signed a — no doubt lucrative — endorsement deal with the dating site, and the new couple has been helping the dating app to promote its remote video dating feature during the lockdown. Except they are together. “While we are …
  • Bluetooth apps that track coronavirus exposure show positive early results

    Bluetooth apps that track coronavirus exposure show positive early results

    When Singapore launched the first smartphone app of its kind last month to identify and alert people who had interacted with carriers of the novel coronavirus, the city-state of roughly 5.7 million people had 385 cases of infections. But even as cases in the country — which is in lockdown — have surged past 9,000, …
  • Streaming app Quibi joins crowded field during coronavirus

    Streaming app Quibi joins crowded field during coronavirus

    The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for streaming video, but that’s no guarantee of success for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new app. The former Disney chairman and DreamWorks co-founder on Monday launched Quibi, a buzzy short-form video service for smartphones, in the midst of a health crisis that has forced millions of Americans indoors with nothing …