“I like to think of successful branding as creating a company where customers would be annoyed to part with their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they would stop being the man with Slack stickers on his laptop. Or the woman who no longer wears Nike shoes every … 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 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
Graham Ivan Clark, the teenage hacker accused by authorities of being the mastermind behind the infamous Twitter Bitcoin hack last year, has pleaded guilty to 30 charges against him. Under the agreement, he agreed to serve a three-year prison sentence in a youth facility. According to the New York Times and Tampa Bay Times, he … Read more