Rap Genius is back in Google’s good graces after a slap on the wrist for SEO spam, but search traffic could become less important to the annotations site as today it launches its first mobile app.

The app is called Bars, and its main selling point is it provides the beats and lets you create 60-second rap videos over them. According to TechCrunch, you can then post the video to a TikTok-style ...

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The company said about half of its traffic comes from mobile devices, and foresees a future in which all of its traffic is mobile. Rap Genius is bringing its user-generated annotations of the web to ...

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Rap Genius, the service that allows users to view, annotate and discuss the meaning behind song lyrics to their hearts’ content, has just released its first app for iOS devices, called simply Genius.

They say nothing in this world is free, and nowhere is that more true than in the world of apps. Pay-to-play, countless add-ons, subscription fees — all tiny extras that often end up costing you far ...

Facebook unveils another experimental app, Atlassian acquires a data visualization startup and Newsela becomes a unicorn. This is your Daily Crunch for February 26, 2021. The new BARS app was created ...

Rap Snacks and InterApp want to help hip-hop entrepreneurs scale up. The popular brand in the rap space has launched a partnership with InterApp Inc., the provider of the InterApp Augmented Reality ...