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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 alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American 

One day after trading app Robinhood halted buying of red-hot stocks like GameStop and AMC, infuriating customers, the app turned off a key cryptocurrency buying feature on Friday. The paid feature, Instant Buying, allows customers to transfer funds from a bank account and use the funds immediately, before they have been settled. “Due to extraordinary market conditions, we’ve temporarily turned off Instant Buying power for crypto,” Robinhood said in a statement to Yahoo Finance…. Source link