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This Week in Apps: Facebook takes on Shopify, Tinder considers its long run, contact-tracing tech goes live

We continue to take a look at how the pandemic is impacting the world of cell apps. Particularly, we spotted the discharge of the Apple/Google exposure notification API with the latest style of iOS.
We continue to look at how the pandemic is impacting the world of mobile apps. Notably, we saw the launch of the Apple/Google exposure notification API with the latest version of iOS.

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Author: Sarah Perez

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Sarah Perez has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook this morning announced it will increase the penalties against its rule-breaking Facebook Groups and their members, alongside other changes designed to reduce the visibility of groups potentially harmful content". (March 17, 2021)
  2. "Facebooks internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta testing". (April 7, 2021)
  3. "Facebook confirms its testing a new QR code feature and payment links for use with Facebook Pay to make it easier for people in the U.S. to send or request money from one another". (April 6, 2021)
  4. "Facebooks internal R&D group, NPE Team, is today launching its next experimental app, called BARS". (February 26, 2021)
  5. "Facebook confirmed its testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked, after the apps website was spotted by The Verge. Unlike dating app giants such as Tinder, Sparked users dont swipe on people they like or direct message others". (April 13, 2021)
  6. "A coalition of 35 consumer advocacy groups along with 64 experts in child development have co-signed a letter to Facebook asking the company to reconsider its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, which Facebook hasconfirmed to be in development". (April 15, 2021)
  7. "Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international data scraping operation". (October 1, 2020)
  8. "Following years of backlash over its algorithms and their ability to push people to more extreme content, which Facebook continues to deny, the company today announced it would give its users new tools to more easily switch over to non-algorithmic views of their News Feed". (March 31, 2021)
  9. "Facebook today is rolling out a new feature that will allow friends and family to watch videos together over Messenger". (September 14, 2020)
  10. "Facebook this morning announced a significant change in how it approaches Holocaust denial content on its social network". (October 12, 2020)
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