This Week in Apps: Apple’s App Privacy Report arrives, Google details Android 12 Go edition, Instagram tops 2B users

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 number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the […]

Google Drive Could Soon Start Locking Your Files

Google has announced a new policy for cloud storage service Drive, which will soon begin to restrict access to files deemed to be in violation of the company’s policies. TechRadar reports: As explained in a new blog post, Google will take active steps …

Google ツールバー、先週提供が終了していた

headless 曰く、Google が先週の間に、Google ツールバーの提供を終了していたようだ (Ars Technica の記事、 Android Police の記事、 ツールバーヘルプ)。

Google ツールバーは 2000 年 12 月 11 日に提供開始。Ars Technica では 21 周年の特集記事を用意していたが、記事公開前に最後のチェックをしたところ提供終了が発表されていたという。正確な日付は不明だが、21 周年を目前にした先週 1 週間のうちに提供終了したとみられ…

Google’s Area 120 launches Qaya, a service offering web storefronts for digital creators

A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new web storefronts where they can sell their products and services directly to their audiences. The project is the latest to emerge from Google’s in-house project incubator, Area 120, which was recently a part of […]

Google offers behavioral pledges on news payments in France to try to end costly antitrust litigation

In its latest move to placate European competition regulators, Google has offered a set of commitments to France’s antitrust watchdog — in the hopes of settling a costly (for it) intervention over legally mandated payments for displaying snippets of news publishers’ content. Back in July, France’s Autorité de la Concurrence slapped the tech giant with […]

Why Google Has Sat on the Web3 Sidelines

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google doesn’t accept cryptocurrencies for ad buying, its payments service or its app store. Until recently, Google had banned several categories of crypto ads. Google hasn’t touched NFTs. In a recent interview with…

Google、Android 12 Go Edition を発表

 画像:GoogleGoogle は現地時間の14日、Android ○○ Go Edition の最新版 Android 12 Go Edition を発表した。

Android 12 Go Edition は、Android 11 Go Edition の後継OS 。Android 11 Go Edition より、アプリケーションの起動が最大30%の高速化を実現。
さらに、Android 12 Go Edition からの新機能で アプリ休止機能が追加され、ストレージの容量節約やバッテリー寿…

Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS

According to job listings on LinkedIn, Google appears to be working on an augmented reality device and operating system to pair with it. Ars Technica reports: On LinkedIn, operating system engineering director Mark Lucovsky announced that he has joined…