Twitter is rolling out several optimizations to its direct messaging functionality, with the improvements expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks. To get started, you can now share the same tweet with up to 20 different accounts separately. As the company points out, this is an improvement that should result in less accidental … Read more
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 alone. … Read more
Chuck E. Weiss, blues musician, club owner, and oversized Los Angeles character who was immortalized in Rickie Lee Jones’ breakout hit “Chuck E.’s in Love,” died on July 20 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles . He was 76. His brother Byron said the cause was kidney failure. Mr. Weiss was a voracious musicologist, … Read more
Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma, went on leave earlier this month. (Athira Pharma photo) The lawsuits have started. Less than a week after the CEO of Athira Pharma was given a temporary leave of absence on allegations of altered images in the scientific papers she wrote, three class action lawsuits were filed on behalf … Read more
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 … Read more
A huge section of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth, and debris can land sometime on Saturday night or later – if the rocket doesn’t burn on the way down. According to calculations by Aerospace Corporation, a California-based nonprofit group that operates a space research and development center, the rocket … Read more
Chinese authorities fined Alibaba $ 2.8 billion after closing an antitrust investigation into alleged monopoly practices. The state market regulator launched an investigation in December into the e-commerce giant’s “suspected monopoly behavior”, particularly its policy of forcing merchants to sell exclusively on their platforms and preventing them from selling on competing e-commerce websites for sale. … Read more
According to Bleeping Computer, The Record and other sources, the REvil ransomware gang has claimed $ 50 million from Taiwanese computer maker Acer and may have exploited a Microsoft Exchange vulnerability to gain access to the corporate network. This is one of the biggest – if not the biggest – ransomware requests likely because Acer … Read more
ACWORTH, Georgia – There is a bullet hole in the wall of Rita Barron’s clothing store in a five-storey mall. And four people in the shop next door were fatally shot on Tuesday. “I’m sad for everyone because I knew them all,” said Barron. She was working with her husband in their shop, Gabby’s Boutique, … Read more
A series of explosions rocked the city of Bata in the central African nation of Equatorial Guinea on Sunday, killing at least 20 people. Reuters news agency quoted a local television station, TVGE, as saying that at least 20 people had been killed. A local news agency, TVGE, said hospitals reported up to 400 injuries. … Read more