Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/app-…
Musk Is Already Spending Big To Help GOP In Midterms - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/musk-is-already-spending-big-to-help-gop-in-midterms/
Tech Force: US-Konzerne leihen Trump ihre Mitarbeiter
US-Behörden suchen rund 1.000 IT-Experten, von KI über IT-Sicherheit bis zu Projektmanagement. Das ist eine Gelegenheit für Trump-Spender.
https://www.
In the latest clear violation of the Transit First policy in the city charter, SFMTA is canceling transit-only lanes because business owners whined about congestion. Who will be the one to finally sue the city to enforce Transit First?
https://www.sfmta.…
Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands
with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ...
not only in things she agrees with, but in everything":
"She belongs to him. He owns her."
https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatc…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Four Tet:
🎵 Two Thousand and Seventeen
#FourTet
https://tommy2000.bandcamp.com/track/four-tet-two-thousand-and-seventeen-tommy-2000s-y2k-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZIaH69kaz55RM4Pjx6KXl
Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthr…
SFMTA is proposing eliminating the Clipper discount and raising all fares to $3.00, which may be(?) the highest bus fare in the country. Also, they’re using AI slop to illustrate their slides now. #sfpol
https://ca…
Teneo survey of 350 public-company CEOs: 68% plan to spend more on AI in 2026 than in 2025, <50% of AI projects generated more returns than their cost, and more (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ceos-to-…
Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-202…