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Google Play revamp to highlight higher-quality apps, offer new promotional capabilities • TechCrunch

Google Play revamp to highlight higher-quality apps, offer new promotional capabilities • TechCrunch

Google today announced it’s making several changes to the Google Play Store that will impact Android apps’ discoverability, how developers can market their apps to consumers and various trust and safety concerns. Most importantly, Google is now advising developers that the Play Store will begin to prioritize apps that deliver on both technical and in-app quality by promoting them in more places across the Play Store where they can be discovered by consumers. The changes hint at… Source link

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Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction • TechCrunch

Play Store revamp, Google antitrust suit updates, BeReal’s real traction • TechCrunch

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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and… Source link

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How Warriors walked ambitious line to revamp dynasty without full rebuild

How Warriors walked ambitious line to revamp dynasty without full rebuild

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s easy to paint Steve Kerr as a sentimentalist, the championship coach with the magic touch and a moral compass to boot. But he’s been on the business side of at least one abrupt ending to an incredible run, then found himself decades later trying to complete a mission the Boston Celtics could never reach the finish line on. In 1992, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Celtics engaged in a seven-game slugfest for the right to play the defending champion Chicago Bulls in the… Source link

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Google says it’s raising employee pay in performance review revamp

Google says it’s raising employee pay in performance review revamp

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is overhauling its performance evaluation process, implementing changes that will result in increased salaries, as the company tries to ease tension between employees and leadership on the issue of compensation. Starting this week, Google is using a new process for performance reviews called GRAD, which stands for Google Reviews and Development. It’s part of an effort to streamline the evaluation process, limiting… Source link

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Google Pay team reportedly in major upheaval after botched app revamp

Google Pay is apparently just as much a disaster internally as the app transition has been externally. That’s the big takeaway from a recent Business Insider article detailing an exodus of executives from Google’s payment division, lower-than-expected app adoption, and employees frustrated with the slow movement of the division. Business Insider spoke with ex-employees and learned that “dozens of employees and executives have left” the… Source link

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Google Assistant’s ‘Memory’ feature could revamp reminders on Android

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Google Chrome’s third-party cookies going next year, no new user-tracking in browser revamp to tighten privacy

Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the Internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from Chrome browsers in an upcoming overhaul aimed at tightening up privacy. The digital giant has been working on proposals to remove from Chrome third-party cookies — snippets of code used by a website’s advertisers to record browsing history in order to show users personalized ads. Third-party cookies have been a longstanding source of privacy… Source link

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