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

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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

Firms backed by Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates have funded an electric motor company that slashes energy consumption – TechCrunch

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Firms backed by Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates have funded an electric motor company that slashes energy consumption – TechCrunch

Sometimes the smallest innovations can have the greatest impact on global efforts to curb global climate change. Arguably one of the greatest contributions to combating climate change has been the move to the humble LED light, which has reduced hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions by simply reducing energy consumption in buildings. … Read more