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…
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© Reuters By Peter Nurse Investing.com — AMC Entertainment continues to post staggering stock gains. However, crude oil and Wall Street have paused recent positive runs ahead of a data deluge, headed by U.S. jobless claims numbers. Meanwhile, the electric car market has received a celebrity backer. Here’s what’s moving markets on Thursday, June 3rd.…
Etsy, a marketplace for kitschy and creative DIY goods, acquired Depop, a hippy and thrifty marketplace for resale goods, for $1.625 billion this week. So, today we’ll discuss the tale of two marketplaces, a deal that has given us a peek into the evolving ethos of social shopping. Depop, for those that don’t know, is…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Seven teenage boys in the U.S. reportedly developed chest pain and heart inflammation within days of receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 shot, according to a new study published Friday, marking another possible, though yet unproven and rare, link between mRNA vaccines and heart conditions that authorities in Israel, Europe…
We’re just five days away from TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, where thousands of mobility movers and shakers will dive deep into the game-changing technology that’s reinventing the way we move people — and pretty much everything else — around the world. Mobility 2021 is a jam-packed event, and we want to make sure you know…
Stocks finished higher Friday, with the S&P 500 falling just short of a record close, and tech shares surged after the U.S. added fewer-than-expected jobs to payrolls in May. The jobs report nonetheless suggested that the employment picture might slowly be improving. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 179 points, or 0.52%, to 34,756…
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Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose acquisition company launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson, according to several sources familiar with the talks. One of the sticking points is the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A shop assistant puts a sale sign on a show window in Moscow, Russia June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s economy avoided catastrophe during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and is now approaching pre-crisis levels, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, an assertion backed up…
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