AppsFlyer raises $210M for ad attribution and more – TechCrunch
AppsFlyer has raised a massive Series D of $210 million, led by General Atlantic. Founded in 2011, the company is best known for mobile ad attribution — allowing advertisers to...
Huawei’s answer to life after Google Maps? TomTom – TechCrunch
Losing access to Google software and services understandably threw Huawei for a loop. The Chinese hardware giant has clearly been working on a contingency plan to deal with the loss...
2020 will be a moment of truth for foldable devices – TechCrunch
Phones were not the centerpiece at the recently wrapped Consumer Electronics Show; I’ll probably repeat this point a few more times over the course of this piece, just so we’re...
Octi launches a social network built around augmented reality – TechCrunch
Octi has created a new social network that uses augmented reality to connect the act of seeing your friends in real life with viewing digital content, like their favorite YouTube...
NBC partners with Snapchat on four daily shows for 2020 Tokyo Olympics – TechCrunch
Snapchat and NBC Olympics are again teaming up to produce customized Olympics content for users in the U.S. — this time, for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer. The companies...
Aki acquires Eyeview’s ad personalization tech – TechCrunch
Video advertising company Eyeview shut down in December, but its technology will live on thanks to an acquisition by Aki Technologies. Aki CEO Scott Swanson told me that he’s anticipating...
The Pentagon pushes back on Huawei ban in bid for ‘balance’ – TechCrunch
Huawei may have just found itself an ally in the most unexpected of places. According to a new report out of The Wall Street Journal, both the Defense and Treasury...
Vine reboot Byte officially launches – TechCrunch
Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android. Byte lets you...
Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok – TechCrunch
Welcome back to ThisWeek in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry...
Yo Facebook & Instagram, stop showing Stories reruns – TechCrunch
If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as “watched” at the back of the Stories row on the other...