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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 continues to grow, 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. [...]

In May, Yahoo! Answers shut down after helping the internet answer its most burning questions since 2005. But now, Quora, which began as a question-and-answer site but expanded to incorporate blogging, is making its platform more appealing to creators. Quora says it's "on track to be cash flow positive from ads alone," implying that the platform [...]

Quora went fully remote in June 2020 and has reaped the benefits already, having been able to hire top talent in 11 non-US countries and 12 states.

Ksenia Larina, content strategist at Lemon.io, shares her tips on how to get top-ranked answers on Quora and generate leads for your business at the same time.

People used Yahoo Answers to ask weird questions, seek help and make jokes. But the service offered "real human reaction, for better or for worse," one longtime observer said.

If you're a startup that's worried about building your team today for tomorrow's successes you're not going to want to miss our session with Bain Capital Ventures' Sarah Smith at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 1 & 2. The current Bain Capital Ventures partner who invests in early to mid-stage companies saw what it was [...]

/PRNewswire/ -- Turing.com, an automated platform that lets companies hire Silicon Valley caliber remote developers at the touch of a button, announced today a...

Ben Ling is as done with 2020 as the rest of us, but certainly for him, the year could be worse. Ling, who founded his own venture outfit in 2018 -- naming it Bling Capital (a nickname from way back) -- just closed on $113 million in capital commitments across two new funds: a seed-focused [...]

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As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.

Quora, a ten-year-old question-and-answer startup based in Mountain View, is laying off staff in its Bay Area and New York offices, the company's CEO announced on the site today. Like other startup leaders being pushed by investors to focus more heavily on cashflow, CEO Adam D'Angelo wrote that the layoffs and "organizational changes" were being [...]

Launched in English in 2010, the platform has grown to reach more than 300 million unique visitors per month, according to the company. It is now available in a total of 24 languages. More than half of Quoras visitors come from outside of the United States, said the company.

Read more about Build real-time speech translation to reduce language barriers: Govt to cos on Business Standard. Citing a study, Sawhney said that 0.055 per cent of websites were found with content in Hindi and next Indian language which comes closer in Bengali.

Quora said India is one of its fastest growing markets with over 70 million monthly unique visitors in English. Quora is also currently available in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil, and will soon be available in Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu.

Ask not where you rank on the intellectual leaderboard, but what you want from your mind.

There are apps out there that help you find friends, find dates and find your distant family histories, but when it comes to "growing your professional network," the options are shockingly bad, we're talking LinkedIn here. LunchClub is a startup that's looking to help users navigate finding new connections inside specific industries. The company has [...]

Some users seemed less surprised by the security breach than by the fact that they had a Quora account in the first place.