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
Tesla won’t fall by the wayside as electric trucks like the Hummer EV and Rivian R1T attract customers with special features. Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla is adding rear-wheel steering to the Cybertruck to aid the EV maneuver with “high agility”. In other words, it’s a rough answer to the Hummer’s “crab mode” and … Read more
Upcoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos on July 5th (GeekWIre Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will join the company’s board of directors as he takes over Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s new CEO on July 5, the company said in a new filing on Friday. Jassy, who joined … Read more
Until the children reach a certain age, the enrichment programs are in some ways limited to school, sports and camps, while opportunities for making money are largely non-existent. Now, a year-old LA-based startup called Mighty, a type of Shopify that invites younger children to open an online store, wants to partially fill the void. In … Read more
Western Digital Network Attached Storage (NAS) owners may face another security issue. Following the two mistakes that hackers exploited to remotely wipe My Book Live devices, security journalist Brian Krebs released a report on another zero-day vulnerability affecting Western Digital products that the My Company’s Cloud OS3 software is running. Additionally, there doesn’t seem to … Read more
Ben Gilbert, left, and his father Alan Gilbert while backpacking the Olympic Peninsula, Washington state. (Courtesy photo by Ben Gilbert) As the co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based venture capital firm Pioneer Square Labs, Ben Gilbert spends a lot of time helping businesses start and finding the key people they need to succeed. When PSL spinout … Read more
Licious, a Bangalore-based startup selling fresh meat and seafood online, has raised $ 192 million in a new round of funding to expand its presence beyond the South Asian market. The new round – a Series F – was led by Singapore’s investment firm Temasek and Multiples Private Equity. The round that increases the six-year-old … Read more
Sir Richard Branson could visit space before Jeff Bezos. Virgin Galactic has announced that it will open the flight window for SpaceShipTwo Unity’s next rocket-powered test flight on July 11th, more than a week before Blue Origin’s first tourist flight is scheduled to take off on July 20th with Bezos on board. The Unity 22 … Read more
Toni Townes-Whitley (left) and Kate Johnson. (Microsoft and UPS photos) Microsoft’s US President Kate Johnson and Toni Townes-Whitley, President of the US Government and Regulated Industries, are leaving the company. The company confirmed both exits and said a search for Townes-Whitley’s replacements was ongoing. Deb Cupp takes over the management of the US subsidiary of … Read more
Hepsiburada – Turkey’s giant online shopping platform considered the Amazon of their country – is floating on Nasdaq today, with a valuation of likely $ 3.9 billion according to current forecasts, particularly with stocks trading as high as $ 14 -Dollars per item are marked (compared to the previously forecast $ 12). . But for … Read more