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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 is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020.
Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.
Holler, described by founder and CEO Travis Montaque as “a conversational media company,” just announced that it’s raised $36 million in Series B funding. You may not know what conversational media is, but there’s a decent chance you’ve used Holler’s technology. For example, if you’ve added a sticker or a GIF to your Venmo payments, […]
Holler, a conversational media company focused on the creation and delivery of engaging content, secured $36 million in Series B funding.
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BlocPower Issues First Climate Impact Note for Retail Investors After Raising $63 Million to Green Urban Buildings
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Funding Satisfies Demand for Residents to Invest in their Local Neighborhoods Across the U.S. to Address Climate Change, High Unemployment Rates, Public Health and Economic Inequality NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 12, 2021 BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that is rapidly greening American inner cities, today announced that it has issued the first Climate Impact Note, a peer-to-peer crowdfunded debt offering. BlocPower is raising up to $1 million in project-level debt to satisfy demand from consumers and retail investors seeking to invest in clean energy projects in their cities.
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