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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 watches 3.7… Source link

New Delhi: Google has made a ‘pre-announcement’ about an upcoming safety section in Google Play that it claims will help people understand the data an app collects or shares, if that data is secured, and additional details that impact privacy and security. The new feature is aimed at providing more control to the user over their own data. The announcement follows Apple’s iOS 14.5 update which has also introduced a new safety feature where apps will have to request permission for… Source link

Reuters Videos ‘Nobody is helping’: India’s hospitals in COVID crisis Just hours ago, Manika Goel’s mother died of COVID-19. Now, she is sat by her husband’s side in a New Delhi hospital – where he is in a critical condition with the virus.39-year-old Amit is wedged between three other patients in a hospital casualty ward.One of many in India, the world’s second most populous nation, that is totally overwhelmed with patients.Goel, a software engineer, says she managed to find an oxygen… Source link

Roku Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google failed to reach a renewal agreement over the distribution of YouTube TV, meaning that the online-cable service will no longer be available in Roku’s channel store. The companies’ carriage agreement for YouTube TV had been up for renewal, sparking a dispute between Roku ROKU, -2.81% and Google GOOG, -0.74% GOOGL, -1.48% about the new terms. Roku said that Google Source link

Roku’s streaming devices are among the most popular in the US.  Sarah Tew/CNET Roku said Friday that Google‘s… Source link

Bloomberg Copper Extends Rally to Top $10,000 With All-Time High in Sight (Bloomberg) — Copper topped $10,000 a metric ton for the first time since 2011, nearing the all-time high set that year as rebounding economies stoke demand and mines struggle to keep up.Prices rose as much as 1.3% to $10,008 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, before slipping back to trade near unchanged. The metal hit a record $10,190 in February 2011.Copper has been among the best performers in a month where metals… Source link

Google has announced new Play Store policies and guidelines designed to make app listings more succinct, accurate, and less of an eyesore. New guidelines affecting the screenshots and videos meant to demonstrate an app’s features and functionality will come into force in the second half of 2021, while specific details about the enforcement of new policies for app titles, icons, and descriptions are coming “later this year.” The new app metadata policies will ban a variety of tricks… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google and Apple attacked on app store ‘monopoly’  BBC News Source link

In a lengthy Senate hearing, the app makers said Apple and Google’s rules surrounding in-app payments and app updates allow the tech giants to choke off rival services, and that they engage in retaliation when app developers refuse to comply. The occasionally tense showdown highlighted how antitrust scrutiny of Apple is ramping up after more than a year of similar focus on its peers such as Amazon, Facebook and Google. And lawmakers were clear that the hearing would serve as a springboard… Source link

A panel of U.S. Senators questioned officials from Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday about the dominance of their mobile app stores and whether the companies abuse their power at the expense of smaller competitors. Amy Klobuchar, the top Senate Democrat on antitrust issues, said Apple and Google can use their power to “exclude or suppress apps that compete with their own products” and “charge excessive fees that affect competition.” App makers like music… Source link