According to Reuters, Apple has been fined $ 12 million by the Russian Antitrust Agency (FAS) for allegedly abusing its dominance in the App Store. The investigation arose out of a 2019 complaint from Kaspersky Lab alleging that Apple forced the company to limit the functionality of its Safe Kids app shortly after Apple introduced … Read more
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The woman, featured in a viral video where she fingered another shopper and then coughed in the face at a Jacksonville mall, was sentenced to 29 days in prison for assault. The ruling ended Thursday with hours of testimony and questions at the trial of Debra Jo Michele Hunter, the woman from … 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
A witness saw the man “walking openly with a rifle and entering the bathroom” and alerted management, then notified police after a preliminary investigation. The officers immediately located the man and detained him. According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers recovered five firearms (two long guns and three pistols) and body armor during the investigation. … Read more