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Here are the best tweets about Apple’s “Far Out” event

Investors shrug, once again, at Apple’s latest deluge of product news

September 7, 2022 Alex Wilhelm 223 ViewsApple, Apple Watch, Berkshire Hathaway, computers, cupertino, iOS, iPhone, iTunes, smartphones, TechCrunch 2 min read

We’ve kept this mini-series running at TechCrunch for all this time to make a meta-point about share prices and products.

Apple agrees to pay $50M to settle lawsuit over flawed keyboards on older MacBooks

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Justice Department in early stages of filing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, says report

August 29, 2022 Sarah Perez 237 Viewsairtag, app-store, Apple, apple inc, apple store, apple tv, cloud services, computing, department of justice, doj, e-commerce, Epic Games, Facebook, Federal Trade Commission, Google, iOS, iPhone, iTunes, Judge, Netherlands, online marketplaces, operating systems, politico, San Francisco, smartphones, south korea, subscription services, United States 3 min read

The U.S. Department of Justice is in the early stages of drafting an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, according to sources cited by Politico in a report released just ahead of the weekend. While the new report suggested a potential suit could arrive by the end of the year, it also stressed that a final decision […]

Mobile users are now spending 4-5 hours per day in apps

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US App Store revenue from non-game apps just topped games for the first time

July 14, 2022 Sarah Perez 269 Viewsapp-store, Apple, Apps, China, computing, Facebook, games, Gaming, Google Play, iOS apps, iTunes, Japan, miniclip, Mobile, mobile app, mobile apps, mobile game, mobile games, sensor tower, Snapchat, Software, technology, TikTok, travel apps, United Kingdom, United States 4 min read

A major shift in the U.S. app economy has just taken place. In the second quarter of this year, U.S. consumer spending in non-game mobile apps surpassed spending in mobile games for the first time in May 2022 and the trend continued in June. This drove the total revenue generated by non-game apps higher for […]

This Week in Apps: Google battles KakaoTalk, Twitter deal in jeopardy, FTC asked to investigate TikTok

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This Week in Apps: Period tracking app privacy, Snapchat’s paid subscription, calls for TikTok ban

July 2, 2022 Sarah Perez 224 ViewsAirbnb, Android, app insights, app-store, Apple, artificial intelligence, Beijing, Ben Silbermann, Biden administration, bill ready, bp, brazil, brendan carr, Buzzfeed, bytedance, Chevron, China, Clue, computing, Deliveroo, digital bank, e-commerce, electronics, encryption, Europe, executive, Facebook, Federal Communications Commission, food, Forbes, Google, harry potter, HBO, hertz, HomePod, Indonesia, iPad, Italy, iTunes, Judge, Kindred Ventures, London, Mark Zuckerberg, meta, mobile app, mobile applications, mobile device, mysql, NBA, New Delhi, PayPal, Pinterest, president, republican party, shell, Snap, Snapchat, social media, Sofina, Software, south korea, subscription services, supreme court, T-Mobile, technology, This Week In Apps, tiger global, TikTok, trump, Trump administration, Twitch, Twitter, ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, UPS, wattpad 20 min read

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 number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]

Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight

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Period tracker Stardust surges following Roe reversal, but its privacy claims aren’t airtight

June 27, 2022August 10, 2022 Sarah Perez 217 Viewsapp-store, Apple, california, encryption, Glow, iPhone, iTunes, mobile app, sensor tower, supreme court, TikTok 7 min read

Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade after the app promised it will encrypt its users’ private data to keep it out of the hands of the government. But TechCrunch found on Monday that the […]

Consumers swap period tracking apps in search of increased privacy following Roe v. Wade ruling

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Consumers swap period tracking apps in search of increased privacy following Roe v. Wade ruling

June 27, 2022August 10, 2022 Sarah Perez 219 Viewsapp-store, apptopia, encryption, Federal Trade Commission, FLO, iTunes, mobile applications, mobile software, period tracking, Pokémon Go, privacy, sensor tower, social media, Software, supreme court, United States 5 min read

Consumers are ditching their current period tracking apps in favor of what they perceive to be safer options in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that allows individual U.S. states to criminalize abortion. The app switching trend is impacting all manner of period tracking apps, including leading app Flo, which owns […]