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
Großbritannien wird immer beliebter als ein großartiger Ort, um ein Technologieunternehmen zu gründen. Das Land holt China bei den Technologieinvestitionen schnell ein, wobei die VC-Investitionen laut TechNation im Jahr 2020 einen Rekord von 15 Milliarden US-Dollar erreichten. Ungeachtet einer globalen Gesundheitskrise blieb London ein Liebling der Anleger. Britische Städte machten ein Fünftel der Top 20 … Read more
The EU for all of its lethargy, flaws, and fetishization of the bureaucracy is ultimately a good idea. It may be 64 years from the creation of the European Common Market, but it’s 29 years since the EU was founded in the Maastricht Treaty, and this international entity is definitely still acting like an indecisive … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 24th, 2021. There’s a wealth of tech news out there today, but at the very top, if you’re into the advertising market, go here … Read more
After launching in the US five years ago, Apple’s search engine advertising service finally hit mainland China this week. The feature called Apple Search Ads enables developers to bid on an advertising space based on users’ keyword searches in the App Store, similar to Google search ads. JPMorgan previously estimated that the giant’s annual advertising … Read more
An international coalition of consumer protection, digital and civil rights organizations as well as data protection experts have added their voice to the growing demands for a ban on so-called “surveillance-based advertising”. The objection is against a form of digital advertising that relies on a massive background computing machine that soaks up information about individuals … Read more
Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based lidar company, announced Tuesday that it had entered into a merger with CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp. has agreed, a Chinese blank check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate. The transaction, which implicitly values Quanergy at $ 1.4 billion, is expected to close in the second half of … Read more
Facebook’s efforts to bring advertising to the Oculus virtual reality platform, which has billions of dollars spent building it, doesn’t seem like a good start. The company announced last week that it plans to launch its first in-game ads within the Blaston title of prolific VR game developer Resolution Games, and just days later the … Read more
More and more mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly view Bitcoin as an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of some major cryptocurrencies. Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, announced Monday that it had raised $ 100 million in a Series B funding round … Read more
Today, June 10th, we recognize the efforts that this nation has yet to make to combat structural racism and disparities, including in the world of technology. This week HBCUvc, a non-profit organization dedicated to diversifying the world of venture capital, launched a multi-million dollar fund. Founder Hadiyah Mujhid told me that the capital would provide … Read more