Holiday Trends in App Spending and Smartphone Activations

Apple loses an interesting copyright law case. Get ready to see TikToks in your Google searches. Amazon’s “other” business unit is becoming a monster. The tech consumers did, and did not AS MUCH partake in over the holidays. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. For the final time in 2020, here’s what you missed in the world of tech.

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Links:

• Apple loses copyright battle against security start-up Corellium (Washington Post)
• Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram (TechCrunch)
• Amazon’s advertising business booms in pandemic (Financial Times)
• Apple iPhone Devices Sweep 9 of Top 10 Devices on Christmas 2020 (Flurry)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI (Fast Company)
• Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic (WSJ)
• Ambani Sold a Tech Dream for $27 Billion. Now He Has to Deliver (Bloomberg)
• Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us (The Atlantic)
• With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence (NYTimes)
• The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (NYTimes)