Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 14, 2021

Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 14, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Microsoft is investigating … Read more

Tech companies predict the (economic) future – TechCrunch

Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss – TechCrunch

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s based largely on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but it’s free and made for your weekend reading. Would you like it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Login here. The earnings season is coming to an end, and … Read more

Apple wants Tim Cook, Tim Sweeney to testify in Epic lawsuit

Jon Fingas

Apple and Epic have created their potential witness lists for Epic Games’ alleged anti-competitive practice lawsuit on the App Store, and it’s almost a who’s who of leadership in both companies – and beyond. TechCrunch and MacRumors report that Apple wants its CEO Tim Cook, senior software vice president Craig Federighi, and former marketing director … Read more

Commentary: We must prepare our systems of learning for future disruptions with equitable access to opportunity

Commentary: We must prepare our systems of learning for future disruptions with equitable access to opportunity

(BigStock photo) Washington’s K-12 system was completely inadequate for the COVID-19 pandemic. While our educators have done an admirable job, too many children have lost learning opportunities that will be difficult to catch up with. The pandemic has also highlighted educational inequalities that have persisted in our public schools for decades, if not since their … Read more

Atlanta shootings see Asian, Black, Americans take on white supremacy

A woman attending a vigil to remember the victims of shootings at three Asian spas in the Atlanta area holds a sign with the names of the five victims.

Sindy Benavides felt he understood what the Asian community was going through after eight people, including six Asian women, were killed in Georgia this week. Benavides, national board chairman of the League of United Latin American Citizens, had felt the same trauma and then the onslaught of solidarity after a gunman in El Paso killed … Read more

Google Play slashes commissions, Apple sued over scammy apps, YouTube launches a TikTok clone in the US – TechCrunch

Google Play slashes commissions, Apple sued over scammy apps, YouTube launches a TikTok clone in the US – TechCrunch

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 devices … Read more