Apple is fiddling with its News app to appeal to more uses and publishers, Re/code reports. “Apple’s update for its iOS app … has two components,” it notes. “Only one of them will be visible to regular users: Apple’s editors will curate a list of ‘top stories’ they’ll display for all of the apps’ users, at least a couple of times a day.”

Andreessen Horowitz has led a new $10 million Series A for Gigster just 18 weeks after its launch. It's a simple premise: Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back an app. Gigster's AI engine converts a client's proposal ito a development plan, especially remote developers.

Google is turning the ability to stream Android apps into an advertising tool. “Now when you bump into an advertisement for an app, that ad may offer you the chance to stream the app, without installing it, for a minute-long demo, The Verge reports. “App streaming was introduced last month as a feature inside of Search.”

At the end of January, Google plans to shutdown the Songza website and app. “The Google Play Music team has been working hard to port over Songza’s features, and as of today the two apps have reached feature parity,” VentureBeat reports. “As a result, Songza users are being given two months to make the switch.” Google bought Songza in mid-2014.

WhatsApp is reportedly blocking links to rival chat app Telegram.me. Earlier this week, “The behavior wasn't exhibited on every device but it was consistent within devices, blocking both usernames and links to individual messages or chat rooms,” The Verge reports. “Those link-blocks are a common tool at Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, although they've been controversial in the past.”

The day is fast approaching when more than half of U.S. households are without landlines. As it stands, more than 47% of American homes now use cellphones alone, Huffington Post reports, citing new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, about 42% of U.S. home has landlines and cellphones.