Facebook’s efforts to bring advertising to the Oculus virtual reality platform, which has billions of dollars spent building it, doesn’t seem like a good start. The company announced last week that it plans to launch its first in-game ads within the Blaston title of prolific VR game developer Resolution Games, and just days later the … Read more
Facebook is facing new antitrust investigations in Europe. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the EU Competition Commission both announced a formal investigation into the social media giant’s activities today – with likely coordinated timing. Competition regulators will look into how Facebook uses data from advertisers and users of its single sign-on tool … 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