Monthly Archives: August 2022

This Week in Apps: Whistleblowing drama, Instagram’s teen safety features, Twitter adds podcasts

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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…

Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at the Mar-a-Lago affidavit by posting an image of a black box over his father’s crotch: ‘Redact this!!!’

Donald Trump Jr. posted an image that appeared to show a black box (similar to redactions made in the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid) placed over his father’s genitals. Instagram Screengrab/Donald J. Trump Jr.; Joe Raedle/Getty Images The DOJ released a redacted affidavit of the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on Friday.  Trump Jr. lashed out at the…

Netflix is reportedly weighing plans to charge $7 to $9 per month for its ad-supported subscription, roughly half the cost of its most popular standard plan

Reed Hastings attends the Netflix & Mediaset Partnership Announcement in Rome on October 8, 2019 Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images/Netflix Netflix announced in April that it’s hoping to launch a cheaper, ad-supported plan. The company is considering charging $7 to $9 per month for that tier, Bloomberg reported Friday. Netflix’s Standard plan, which is its most…

Janet Yellen was skeptical of President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan and Jill Biden expressed reservations, while Kamala Harris was a huge backer of debt cancellation: NYT

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with business leaders about the debt limit, alongside Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in the South Court Auditorium at the White House campus on October 6, 2021. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Yellen was skeptical of a student-loan forgiveness plan as Biden made up his mind, per the NYT. Jill Biden,…

GOP critics of Biden’s loan forgiveness call it ‘astonishingly unfair.’ Here’s how much college tuition cost at their alma maters when they graduated compared to now.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Biden announced a student loan relief plan, which would forgive up to $20,000 per borrower.  Several GOP lawmakers were critical of the relief program.  Here’s the difference in tuition then and now  critics graduated from undergrad.  Several Republican lawmakers have criticized President Joe Biden’s student loan…