GoPro has launched a new initiative designed to get third-party companies to create mobile apps, camera accessories, and physical mounts for GoPro products. With the GoPro Developer Program, “The company … is trying to transform GoPro from a signature line of action cameras into a platform for others to build on and connect to,” The Verge reports.

Apple is reportedly open to the idea of charging developers to have their apps more prominently displayed in its App Store. “Apple is considering paid search, a Google-like model in which companies would pay to have their app shown at the top of search results based on what a customer is seeking,” Bloomberg reports, citing sources.

Google is rolling out Chrome 50 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Of note, “Chrome now no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, nor OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion,” Venture Beat notes. Meanwhile, among other new features, “Chrome 50 allows sites to include notification data payloads with their push messages.”

Apple just hired Cynthia Hogan to head up its Washington office. Hogan formerly served as an aide to Vice President Joe Biden, and lobbyist for the National Football League. Politico calls the hire “a major pickup for the tech giant as it continues to battle law enforcement officials who seek greater access to its customers’ data.”

David Byttow -- co-founder of the now-defunct anonymous social networking app Secret -- says he knows why anonymous social networking apps fail. “Like most entertainment products … novelty wears off, interest wanes, and attention moves on,” he explains in a new blog post. The don’t “foster community the way social products thatlast do.”

Fiber Internet consumers in Kansas City can say goodbye to Google’s free tier for new subscribers. Previously, the search giant allowed users to pay a one-time construction fee of $300, and then no monthly fee for six years, as The Hill notes. “In return, they received service with relatively slow download speeds of 5 megabits per second.”

Positioning itself as an app store for bots, Botlist is launching this week. Botlist is a “third-party database that’s a catalog [for] a lot of the bots currently available across platforms, including email, web, SMS, Slack, mobile, apps, and more,” TechCrunch notes. As for the current popularity of bots, TC writes: “We’ve reached a saturation point with the mobile app stores in developed markets.”

After missing some key revenue targets last year, mobile search and ad startup Quixey is getting a new CEO in Mark Lazar. Founding CEO, Tomer Kagan, will now serve as chief strategy officer. Re/code describes Lazar as “a veteran exec from several enterprise and networking companies.”

Verizon is reportedly planning to make a first-round bid for Yahoo’s Web business, next week. Critically, the carrier is willing to acquire the company’s Yahoo Japan Corp. stake “to help sweeten the offer,” Bloomberg Businessweek reports, citing sources. “Google, the main division of Alphabet Inc., is also considering bidding for Yahoo’s core business.”

The Yik Yak appears to be in a tailspin. The once high-flying anonymous messaging app has seen rapid declines in usership, along with key executive deparutes. Most notably, CTO Tom Chernetsky is out, TechCrunch reports. Meanwhile, “Yik Yak sank to No. 63 on the download charts amongst U.S. social networking apps and just No. 1067 amongst all U.S. iOS apps.”