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
(Relish picture) Seattle-based recipe and meal planning service Relish is stepping up its food preparation help with the launch of Relish +, a membership plan designed to make it easier to find out what to have for dinner. Relish + subscribers can access content created by top food bloggers, as well as a growing library … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Video transcript Back transcript Biden Touts Agreement on Infrastructure Plan President Biden on Thursday endorsed a bipartisan infrastructure deal which includes $579 billion in new investments for roads, broadband internet and electric utilities. For me, investment in our physical and human infrastructure are inextricably intertwined, both make us better … Read more
Die Mitbegründer von Nautilus Biotechnology, Sujal Patel (links) und Parag Mallick. (Nautilus-Foto) Nautilus Biotechnology tritt diese Woche als Seattles neuestes börsennotiertes Unternehmen auf und nutzt die Manie um SPACs, um 345 Millionen US-Dollar zu sammeln, um einen neuen Ansatz voranzutreiben, der die biomedizinische Forschung beschleunigen und die Medikamentenentwicklung verändern könnte. Das Unternehmen aus Seattle, das … Read more
In the months that followed, supporters of these sports, including current college students, alumni, and student parents, had a vocal, organized, and growing 36 Sports Strong Push – Stanford has 36 varsity sports – to raise millions of dollars to raise their programs and theirs Pressure to save the university and keep the sport going. … Read more
The Madrona Venture Labs team, clockwise from left: Flora Ku, Keith Rosema, Maria Hess, Henry Huang, Mike Fridgen, Jay Bartot, Jason Flateboe. (Madrona Venture Labs photo) The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio affiliated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $ 8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new … Read more
After some Google employees volunteered to return to the company’s offices last month, CEO Sundar Pichai says the tech giant will be introducing a new hybrid work week. In an extension of a pilot project that started in December, most employees will be out of the office for about three days and the other two … Read more
T-Mobile is rolling out a plan later this week that will almost completely remove the throttling. The new Magenta Max plan includes unlimited premium data and unlimited video streaming at 4K. It also includes 40 GB of high-speed tethering data (T-Mobile will throttle your devices to 3G speeds after you exceed this limit) as well … Read more