Given all the uncertainties, a global pandemic may be the wrong time to pursue a new startup idea, but in many ways the timing couldn’t be better. That’s one of the lessons we learned from our GeekWire podcast conversation this week with an entrepreneur and investor in the Seattle area Shirish Nadkarni, Author of the … 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
Microsoft released the first 64-bit version of Windows in the early hours of the morning. In 2007 it came out with OneDrive. Despite this history, the Windows version of the file sync app is only now making the leap to 64-bit, with Microsoft announcing a new client preview. In an announcement from Windows guru Paul … Read more
The new Google Dell Chromebook Enterprise devices. (Google photo) New numbers show that 2020 was the first year Chromebooks outbid Macs and saw impressive market share gains at the expense of Windows. Computers powered by Google’s Chrome OS have already sold Apple’s computers in individual quarters, but 2020 was the first full year in which … Read more
Apple If you use Safari to automatically generate strong passwords for websites, you can use those with the extension in Chrome too. In addition, passwords created in Chrome for Windows are synced with iCloud so you can use them on Apple Macs, iPads, and iPhones. Alongside Apple TV + for Xbox, iCloud Passwords is one … Read more