Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, investors’ concerns mount as news came that the Chinese government has taken a stake ByteDance, TikTok’s parent and one of the world’s largest private…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…
PASCAGOULA, Miss., Aug. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) – Get Report announced today that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division christened amphibious transport dock Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the christening was livestreamed, and a small socially distanced event was held with limited in-person attendance. “Shipbuilding is about teamwork…
CHAM, Switzerland, Aug. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — With an aim to bring an ethical revolution in cryptocurrency, Caizcoin is set to create history with its first-ever crypto trading platform built upon Islamic banking and finance rules. From business moguls to ordinary people, everyone today is talking about cryptocurrency. What’s lacking in the current market is…
NASA has temporarily halted work on a $2.9 billion human lunar landing system, which it contracted with Tesla (TSLA) – Get Report founder Elon Musk’s SpaceX, until Nov. 1 to allow a lawsuit filed against the space agency by Amazon (AMZN) – Get Report founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to run its course. “In exchange for this…
Samsung wasn’t quite ready to declare the Galaxy Note dead. Not just yet. When we put the question to the company again after this month’s Unpacked event, a rep told us: Samsung is constantly evaluating its product lineup to ensure we meet the needs of consumers, while introducing technology that enhances users’ mobile experiences. We…
© Reuters. The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany August 19, 2021. REUTERS/Staff By Sagarika Jaisinghani and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European shares edged higher on Friday as Marks & Spencer (OTC:MAKSY) lifted retailers, but the benchmark STOXX 600 still marked its worst week since February on…
Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When COVID-19 first began to infect the world, my interviews with venture capitalists all somewhat fit into the same mold. Investors would tell me that they’re “triaging” their own portfolio to understand how to help startups rocked by…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Traders wearing masks work, on the first day of in person trading since the closure during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., May 26, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan M By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors…





