HQ, the live trivia game that is now seeing up to 2 million players per game, is introducing some new social features, including answer sharing with friends. The company has been testing this feature across a small group of users already, but on Friday the feature will roll out to all HQ users. Here’s how […]
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New HQ Trivia feature will let you connect with in-app friends
HQ Trivia is already great at bringing friends and coworkers together IRL (usually to scream at their phones, but still). Now it’s looking to facilitate connections inside the app, too.
The mobile game has announced a new feature called “Friends on H…
HQ Trivia finally gets social with ‘Friends on HQ’ update
The popular quiz startup HQ Trivia is beginning to roll out the first of many new social features to its app focused on leveraging competition with friends and family during game time. HQ Trivia has managed to bring people together in real life to play the game on their phones, but the startup has done […]
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View More Bedrock Capital raises $122M to fund startups that reject conventional wisdomHQ Trivia had a weird night
HQ Trivia was removed from the App Store following a controversial ending to a $25K game on Sunday night, according to Business Insider. HQ has introduced a new high-stakes version of the game where one winner takes home a larger prize. However, on Sunday night, no one won the $25K. The company posted on its […]
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HQ — the popular trivia app that almost gave away $25,000 to one lucky winner on Sunday — has been pulled from the App Store due to one tiny, but important mistake. The person behind the company’s iTunes developer account forgot to update an expired credit card.
We were alerted to HQ’s absence from the App Store by Adam Blacker, communications lead at Apptopia. After looking through the App Store rankings this morning, as part of his work routine, he did not see HQ. We checked and found when you search for “hq” only other trivia games appear:
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#DeleteHQ: HQ Trivia’s new funding may come from Peter Thiel, and the internet is revolting
A year ago the internet raged against an app with #DeleteUber. Now, it’s time to #DeleteHQ.
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HQ to trivia winners: No more minimum balance for cashing out
Winning HQ Trivia is hard. Actually obtaining that money was even harder, until this week.
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HQ Trivia gets rid of the $20 minimum to collect your winnings
HQ Trivia, the No. 1 trivia app in the Apple App Store, has removed the minimum $20 balance to cash out. The company made the announcement earlier today on Twitter.
Because the prize money is divvied out among sometimes hundreds of winners, people don’t often walk away with much money from a single game. Up until now, that has meant people were left with less than $20 in their total… Read More
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