Global consumer spending on mobile apps reached $33.6B in Q3 2021, up 15.1% YoY, with App Store spending up 13.2% to $21.5B, and Play Store up 18.6% to $12.1B (Stephanie Chan/Sensor Tower Blog) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Biden administration is considering ways to impose bank-like regulation on stablecoin issuers, including prodding them to register as banks (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Coinbase says a threat actor stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 customers between March and May 20 using a vulnerability in its SMS multi-factor authentication (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

MiamiCoin, a crypto partnership with CityCoins unveiled in August that automatically allocates 30% of newly minted coins to the city, has made $7.1M for Miami (Dalvin Brown/Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Apple offers free AirPods with iPhone 12 purchase in India for Diwali - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:11 Rating: 5

A look at the rise of employee dissent at Apple, including pushback against returning to the office, fighting for pay equity, and increasing leaks (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Zoom says it no longer plans to acquire cloud-based call center software maker Five9, following the FCC's review of the $14.7B deal on national security grounds (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Retailer Neiman Marcus says it notified 4.6M customers that their personal info, including credit card numbers, may have been exposed in a May 2020 data breach (Kim Lyons/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Prosser: Apple Watch Series 7 to begin shipping in mid-October - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:11 Rating: 5

Apple TV shares nail-biting clip for Friday's episode of 'The Morning Show' - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:11 Rating: 5