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CNET Mobile App 4.0

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Entertainmentest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 49.9 · 2/4
49.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 12, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 95% of 19 probesavg response 2679 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
cnet.com
edge
direct origin
server
nginx
Tranco rank
#676
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

CNET Mobile App 4.0's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
ESPN for iPadentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0— unverified
Inshorts Hindientertainmentsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Baeentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Halal Jointsentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+4.8● live
Hinge Dating Site & Appentertainmentsimilar100%16.0-14.4→ redirected
Musixmatch 7.0entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Biggest Waze app updates evertraveltag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
Shelfie: Connect with readers. Get free ebooks of your print books & discover your next readentertainmentsimilar100%8.0+8.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:35Z200cnet.comnginx2076alive
2026-08-17 13:18Z200cnet.comnginx1934alive
2026-08-09 19:14Z200cnet.comnginx2048alive
2026-08-08 04:18Z200cnet.comnginx3439alive
2026-07-31 15:17Z200cnet.comnginx1523alive
2026-07-26 17:11Z200cnet.comnginx2494alive
2026-07-18 13:55Z200cnet.com3041alive
2026-07-13 13:43Z200cnet.com3030alive
2026-07-04 15:49Z200cnet.com1449alive
2026-07-03 00:28Z200cnet.com1444alive
2026-06-24 13:24Z200cnet.com1701alive
2026-06-23 10:41Z200cnet.com7103alive
2026-06-21 16:49Z200cnet.com1128alive
2026-06-20 12:13Z200cnet.com5102alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · CNET Mobile App 4.0 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/cnet-mobile-app-4-0 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.