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In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan – TechCrunch

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In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan – 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 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

Oculus loses one of its first in-app VR ad partners following backlash

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Saqib Shah

Barely a week has passed since Facebook began testing ads in Oculus apps, and the initiative has run into trouble. On Monday, one of the few developers involved in the first ad experiment said it was withdrawing from the test. Resolution Games tweeted that it had decided that in-app advertising for its multiplayer shooter game, … Read more