IT総合 Spotify’s Audiobooks will get their own ‘Countdown Pages’ to tease upcoming new releases
Spotify is enhancing its audiobooks streaming service with a feature that may be familiar to the app’s music consu...
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IT総合 IT総合 Anti-AI sentiment gets big applause at SXSW 2024 as storytellers dub AI cheerleading as ‘terrifying bullsh**’
A whiff of anti-AI sentiment got big applause at the SXSW conference in Austin this afternoon. Award-winning writers and...
IT総合 Most subscription mobile apps don’t make money, new report shows
Investors know that most startups fail, but something that may be less understood is how few mobile apps actually make m...
IT総合 Bluesky scoops up the developer of popular third-party app, Graysky
Decentralized Twitter/X rival Bluesky is adding to its ranks by scooping up a member of its developer community. London-...
IT総合 After losing access to Twitter’s API, Block Party pivots to privacy
Block Party, a startup developed by software engineer and tech diversity advocate Tracy Chou, was among the victims of T...
IT総合 Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost
Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth...
IT総合 Potential ‘meme stock’ Reddit to raise ~$748M in IPO, will let Redditors sell shares immediately
Reddit’s IPO should be interesting to watch — and not just because the business remains unprofitable, but al...
IT総合 Bumble lost a third of its Texas workforce after state passed restrictive ‘Heartbeat Act’ abortion bill
Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Sen...
IT総合 Despite distancing itself from politics, the topic is dominating Threads’ trends
Meta’s newest app Threads, a would-be Twitter/X rival, may not want politics on its platform, but it’s comin...
IT総合 AI fraud detection software maker Inscribe.ai lays off 40% of staff
Yet another AI-powered fraud detection software provider is laying off staff. Inscribe, whose platform works to detect f...
IT総合 Apple will make it easier to move to Android by fall 2025
Apple says it plans to make it easier for customers to switch to Android as a result of the EU’s Digital Markets A...
IT総合 Turnitin laid off staff earlier this year, after CEO forecast AI would allow it to cut headcount
People worry that advances in AI will lead to job losses, but rarely does a company’s CEO openly admit that AI wil...
IT総合 Anonymous social apps face another reckoning as UNC System to ban Yik Yik, Fizz, Sidechat & Whisper
Anonymous social apps are in for a reckoning. Yes, again. This week, University of North Carolina (UNC) System President...
IT総合 Google adds new developer fees as part of the Play Store’s DMA compliance plan
Google today is sharing more details about the fees that will accompany its plan to comply with Europe’s new Digit...
IT総合 Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a ‘threat’ to the iOS ecosystem
The Apple-Epic saga has just taken a new turn today as the Fortnite game developer, Epic Games, shared that Apple has te...
IT総合 To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal
Meta today is offering more details about how it plans to make its messaging apps, WhatsApp and Messenger, interoperable...
IT総合 k-ID launches a solution that helps game developers comply with ever-changing child safety regulations
Making a video game successful is already hard. Doing so while complying with the growing number of child safety laws an...
IT総合 Amazon’s new Rufus chatbot isn’t bad — but it isn’t great, either
Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for ...
IT総合 Apple revises its DMA rules after pressure, but keeps the Core Technology Fee intact
No, Apple’s new and controversial “Core Technology Fee” isn’t going away for EU app developers w...
IT総合 Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update
Google today took aim at the SEO industry which has gamified search rankings to destroy the value of Google Search resul...
IT総合 Facebook, Instagram and Threads are all down in massive Meta outage on Super Tuesday
Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its ne...
IT総合 Streamer Deezer cheers Apple antitrust fine, but calls tech giant’s DMA response ‘deceptive’
Streaming music service Deezer is joining Spotify in cheering the European Union’s €1.84 billion fine imposed on A...
IT総合 Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney calls out Apple’s ‘bitter griping’ after its EU fine over anticompetitive practices
“Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic...
IT総合 Apple plans to appeal European Commission’s massive antitrust fine favoring Spotify
Apple says it plans to appeal the historic €1.84 billion fine issued today by the European Commission over Apple’s...
IT総合 Spotify calls Apple’s €1.84B antitrust fine a ‘powerful message,’ but cautions that the next steps matter
Spotify is cheering the European Commission’s decision to hold Apple accountable for anticompetitive practices in ...
IT総合 Spotify, Epic Games, and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a ‘mockery’ of the DMA
Epic Games, Spotify, Proton, 37Signals, and other developers had already signaled their displeasure with how Apple has c...
IT総合 Backed by $10M Series A, TravelJoy is riding the post-COVID demand for expert travel planning
A travel-focused startup that the COVID pandemic could have killed has instead thrived. TravelJoy, a company providing a...
IT総合 Spotify launches a $9.99/mo standalone audiobooks service for its free users
After adding 15 hours of free audiobooks listening to its subscription plan late last year, Spotify today is introducing...
IT総合 MacPaw’s Setapp becomes one of the first to agree to Apple’s controversial DMA rules
Mac and iOS software development company MacPaw is becoming one of the first to publicly adopt Apple’s new DMA (Di...
IT総合 Spotify’s new ‘Song Psychic’ is like a Magic 8-Ball that answers your questions with music
Spotify is rolling out a new feature called Song Psychic that will allow its customers to ask Spotify questions and get ...