Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram
Google is testing a new feature that will surface Instagram and TikTok videos in their ow…
How Niantic evolved Pokémon GO for the year no one could go anywhere
Pokémon GO was created to encourage players to explore the world while coordinating impro…
Samsung hasn’t announced the Galaxy S21 yet, but you can already reserve one
For obvious reasons, many of us are spending the final week of 2020 looking forward. Sams…
Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020
This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wire…
Daily Crunch: Telegram prepares to monetize
Telegram will introduce ads, TikTok’s parent company is moving into drug discovery and P…
TechCrunch’s top stories of 2020
As the year comes to a close, some of our editors share their top stories from 2020. Re…
OnePlus’ latest concept phone changes color to ‘breathe’ with the user
Back in January, OnePlus showed off its first concept phone. The aptly (if plainly) name…
Unfold launches lightweight, link-centric profiles called Bio Sites
Unfold , the social media startup acquired by Squarespace last year, is launching a new …
From India’s richest man to Amazon and 100s of startups: The great rush to win neighborhood stores
After spending more than a decade disrupting the neighborhood stores in the U.S. and seve…
Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app
A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber…
PhotoRoom launches background-removal app on Android
French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been wor…
Facebook highlights small businesses as it ramps up Apple criticism
We already knew that Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming restrictions on app tra…
2021 holds even more Samsung foldables
The foldable category got off to a famously rocky start. Fifteen months after the release…
MTG acquires mobile racing game studio Hutch Games for up to $375 million
Sweden’s MTG is making a significant acquisition in the mobile gaming industry. The comp…
Sunshine Contacts may have given out your home address, even if you’re not using the app
A third-party contacts app you’re not using may be handing out your home address to its u…
Reliance’s Jio Platforms says it will roll out 5G in second half of 2021
Reliance’s Jio Platforms, the largest telecom operator in India , plans to roll out a 5G …
Tinder makes it easier to report bad actors using ‘unmatch’ to hide from victims
Last month, Bumble introduced a new feature that would prevent bad actors from using the…
This Week in Apps: The year’s best apps, 2020’s biggest downloads, the App Store’s newest hire
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobi…