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. […]
Tennis-Andreescu rolls through to U.S. Open fourth round
September 4, 2021 By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu fired off 21 winners to make quick work of Belgian Greet Minnen 6-1 6-2 in the third round of the tournament on Saturday. The 21-year-old Canadian won nearly all of her first-serve points in the first set on Louis […]
Tennis-U.S. Open day six
September 4, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Highlights of the sixth day at the U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam tournament of the year, at Flushing Meadows on Saturday (times in GMT): 1610 ANDREESCU CRUSHES MINNEN Canadian sixth seed Bianca Andreescu swept aside Belgium’s Greet Minnen 6-1 6-2 in 67 minutes to cruise into the […]
Golf-Europe take early lead over U.S. at the Solheim Cup
September 4, 2021 (Reuters) – Holders Europe grabbed a 3-1/2 to 1/2 lead over the United States after the morning round of foursomes on the first day of the Solheim Cup at the Inverness Club in Toledo on Saturday. Clutch putts down the stretch by Europe’s Leona Maguire and Emily Pedersen helped Europe to their […]
Peyton Manning: Patriots’ rivalry encouraged move to Broncos
September 4, 2021 The thought of not playing Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in the postseason helped to encourage Peyton Manning to sign with the Denver Broncos before the 2012 season. That’s what the Hall of Fame quarterback told host Bill Simmons on his podcast, The Ringer. With the Indianapolis Colts deciding to […]
New migrant caravan sets off for U.S. from southern Mexico
September 4, 2021 By Jose Torres TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) – A migrant caravan of around 400 people, including many children, set off from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula for the United States on Saturday, just a couple of days after security and migration officials dispersed another large group. Mostly comprising Central Americans and Haitians, […]
Tennis-Osaka suffers shock loss in U.S. Open, plans to take break from the sport
September 4, 2021 By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two-time champion Naomi Osaka’s U.S. Open title defence ended in tears on Friday, as she suffered a stunning defeat in the third round to Canadian Leylah Fernandez 5-7 7-6(2) 6-4, and told reporters she planned to take a break from the sport. “I feel like […]
From passion to hobby to startup
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hey team! Alex here. I am off next week. Anna, my regular co-pilot on the weekday column, […]
Tennis-Osaka earns support after announcing break from sport
September 4, 2021 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retired athletes voiced their support for four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka on Saturday after she said she would take a break from tennis having lost her enthusiasm for competition. The world number three suffered a stunning defeat in the third round of the U.S. Open on Friday […]
Anya Taylor-Joy travels back in time in thriller ‘Last Night in Soho’
September 4, 2021 By Silvia Aloisi and Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) – British film-maker Edgar Wright said he drew inspiration from the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and Italian horror director Dario Argento to depict the dark side of London in his psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho”. The film, premiering out of competition at the […]
Beef giant Brazil halts China exports after confirming two mad cow disease cases
September 4, 2021 By Nayara Figueiredo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil, the world’s largest beef exporter, has suspended beef exports to its No. 1 customer China after confirming two cases of “atypical” mad cow disease in two separate domestic meat plants, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday. The suspension, which is part of an animal […]
Princess Charlene of Monaco leaves hospital after treatment for infection- palace
September 4, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – Princess Charlene of Monaco has left hospital in South Africa following treatment for an ear, nose and throat infection, a spokeswoman for the principality’s palace said on Saturday. The princess was admitted to hospital on Wednesday after fainting due to complications from the condition, which was however not a […]
Motor racing-Verstappen takes Dutch GP pole with Hamilton alongside
September 4, 2021 By Bart H. Meijer ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (Reuters) – Max Verstappen put Red Bull on pole position for his home Dutch Grand Prix in front of 70,000 ecstatic fans on Saturday, with Formula One rival and championship leader Lewis Hamilton alongside. Hamilton, three points clear in the standings after 12 races, was 0.038 […]
Afghanistan a wake-up call for Europe on defence, leadership – France
September 4, 2021 CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The challenges to security emerging from the upheaval in Afghanistan should be a wake-up call for the European Union, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Saturday, urging the EU to be more ambitious on defence and on global leadership. “Europe has to become No. 3 super-power […]
Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac get intimate for new TV miniseries
September 4, 2021 By Hanna Rantala VENICE (Reuters) – Actors Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac have known each other for years, but being old friends was a mixed blessing when it came to playing a married couple in new television miniseries “Scenes from a Marriage”, the pair said on Saturday. Chastain, 44, and Isaac, […]
Thai PM survives no confidence vote as more anti-government protests planned
September 4, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and five cabinet ministers comfortably survived a vote of no confidence in parliament on Saturday as activists planned more protests https://ift.tt/2Ym4LM9 against the government. Prayuth received 264 votes in favour and 208 against. Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and four other cabinet ministers also survived […]
‘Resist’: Russian opposition candidates rally media
September 4, 2021 By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – A dozen opposition candidates for Russia’s September parliamentary election met scores of journalists in Moscow on Saturday with a message of resistance against the Kremlin’s squeezing of independent media. Authorities have designated nearly 50 journalists and media “foreign agents”: a term they say denotes foreign-funded outlets […]
U.S. companies lash out at Texas law changes, including abortion ban
September 4, 2021 By Tina Bellon and Jessica DiNapoli AUSTIN, Texas/NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. companies including Lyft Inc, American Airlines Group Inc and Silicon Laboratories Inc voiced their displeasure on Friday at new Texas laws on abortion, handguns, and voting limitations, a fresh sign of increased efforts by some firms to signal their commitment to […]
Looming Moroccan election reveals parliament’s dimming sway
September 4, 2021 By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Angus McDowall RABAT (Reuters) – When Moroccans elect a new parliament next week, it is likely to be a body with even less influence than its recent predecessors thanks to a new voting law and gradual moves by the king to reassert his dominant role. A decade after […]
Afghanistan could be catalyst for common EU migration policy -commissioner
September 4, 2021 ZURICH (Reuters) – Events in Afghanistan could be a catalyst for the European Union to forge a common migration policy, European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas said in a newspaper interview. EU states are concerned that the Taliban takeover could trigger a replay of the crisis of 2015/16, when the arrival of more than […]
