Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Long-time Amazon Web Services boss Charlie Bell has reportedly taken a job at Microsoft. Bell, a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and long-time lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, left the Seattle company this month after more than 23 years. Business Insider reported Wednesday that Bell was joining Microsoft. The … 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
Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with extensive checks at a time when tensions are building between the American social network and New Delhi. The Indian startup announced on Wednesday that it had raised $ 30 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management. Mirae Asset, IIFL’s venture capital fund, … Read more
Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering at Harvard have developed a new gene editing tool that allows scientists to conduct millions of genetic experiments simultaneously. They call it the Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) technique, and it uses segments of bacterial DNA called retrons that can produce fragments of single-stranded DNA. When it … 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 is as hot as ever, 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 … Read more
Twitter recently had talks about acquiring Indian social media startup ShareChat as the company looked for ways to expand its presence in the world’s second largest internet marketplace and build a global rival to TikTok, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The American company, which is already investing in Bangalore-based ShareChat, offered to … Read more