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Sponsored Content provided by Mel Beasley - Marketing Director, Wide Open Tech It’s a given that just about everyone in business has experienced some level of change due to the pandemic, with many companies quickly pivoting to keep revenue coming in while strategically cutting down on overhead. Even as we prepare to plunge into spring, many brands have permanently adopted the changes they’ve made after realizing how it’s improved their companies as a whole. Despite what good might have come from 2020, everyone is waiving good riddance to last year and setting high hopes on this year. F...

This Week in Apps: App Store bill passes AZ House, ‘deep nostalgia’ goes viral, Twitter Spaces arrives on Android 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 devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American...

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. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re also a big business. This Week in Apps will soon be a newsletter!

A judge has approved a settlement valued at $650 million from Facebook to end a privacy lawsuit, one which alleged the social network used facial recognition technology on user photos stored on its iPhone app without permission.

advertisement advertisement While the PR and media layer of Apple’s dispute with Facebook over user tracking by apps may still be going, at a strategic level the drama’s pretty much over, and it’s looking like Apple won. advertisement advertisement In a nutshell, Apple will soon require apps that want to track user’s movements within other companies’ apps or websites to get explicit permission to do so from the user. Facebook’s apps have long done this without such explicit permission. When the new feature, which Apple calls App Tracking Transparency, was announced earlier this ye...