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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 th

Instagram now defaults new users under 16 to most restrictive content setting, adds prompts for existing teens

In December, just ahead of Instagram head Adam Mosseri’s testimony before the U.S. Senate over the impacts of its app on teen users, the company announced plans to roll out a series of safety fe

The company behind Standard Hotels is launching One Night, a same-day booking app to rival Hotel Tonight

Anyone interested in the intersection of travel and technology knows that Hotel Tonight basically revolutionize the same-day hotel booking industry. Launched in 2011, Hotel Tonight’s app let yo

500MB/s Transfer Speed, 2TB Storage: Sony, Nikon, SanDisk Propose New Memory Card Standard

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Picture-26.png" /> It's time for a new standard for memory cards - according to Sony, Nikon and chip maker SanDisk. The three companies

Japan and China cooperate in the development of next-generation cell phone services

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/meisa_kddi.jpg" /> Two of the biggest country markets of the world, Japan and China, are on their way to develop a next-generation mobil

New show bores audience, saves environment

A few TV manufacturers and broadcasters have joined forces to develop 10 minutes of boredom as a standard way of measuring energy use. Apparently energy consumption varies based on the genre so the cl