A years-old fight over the technology Apple uses in iTunes, App Store, and Apple Music has a new development. On Friday, a federal jury in
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Zuckerberg: Facebook could be in “stronger position” after Apple tracking change
Apple CEO Tim Cook on stage during an Apple event in September 2018. (credit: Valentina Palladino) With Apple’s big app-tracking policy change just around the
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Apple Won’t Budge On Its New Privacy Updates, Even in China
Earlier this week, stories emerged that some China-based advertising groups were coming up with their own clever workarounds for the new anti-tracking tech that Apple’s
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Google undercuts Apple with new 15% revenue share for Play apps
Enlarge / The logo for Google’s app and content marketplace, Google Play. (credit: Google Play) Today, Google announced a major change to the revenue-sharing structure
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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China
Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App
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This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide
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
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