IT総合 Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp has 100 million monthly active users in the U.S.
WhatsApp has recently ramped up its marketing push in the U.S. In the past few years, WhatsApp has placed ad campaigns, ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Oversight Board wants Meta to refine its policies around AI-generated explicit images
The Board wants Meta to change the terminology it uses for labeling explicit, AI-generated images from "derogatory" to "...
IT総合 X launches underwhelming Grok-powered ‘More About This Account’ feature
Since launching xAI last year, Elon Musk has been using X as a sandbox to test some of the Grok model’s AI capabil...
IT総合 Posh raises $22M to become TikTok for small events
Platforms like TikTok and Spotify have experimented with events on their platforms. But rather than concentrating on con...
IT総合 Telegram’s userbase climbs to 950M, plans to launch app store
Messaging app Telegram has reached 950M active users, and it aims to cross the 1 billion mark this year, founder Pavel D...
IT総合 India’s Swiggy turns its Minis service for small businesses into a link-in-bio landing page
Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a l...
IT総合 TikTok fast-tracks artist account creation for DistroKid members
TikTok is partnering with the music distribution service DistroKit to fast-track the creation of artist accounts for mem...
IT総合 Amazon Prime Day 2024 sales hit record $14.2 billion
Amazon’s Prime Day event clocked record sales this year, as U.S. consumers spent $14.2 billion across July 16 and ...
IT総合 US buyers spent $7.2B on the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day sales event
Adobe's report noted that consumers spent $7.2 billion on the first day as compared to $6.4 billion on the first day in ...
IT総合 Instagram now allows users to add multiple audio tracks to Reels
Instagram said Tuesday that it will allow users to add multiple audio tracks to their Reels worldwide. The company noted...
IT総合 A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-...
IT総合 Popular podcast player Overcast has been rebuilt from the ground up for its second decade
Developer Marco Arment launched the popular podcasting app Overcast a decade ago. Now, he has rebuilt and redesigned the...
IT総合 Without Apple Intelligence, iOS 18 beta feels like a TV show that’s waiting for the finale
Apple Intelligence features are not available in the developer beta, which is out now.
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IT総合 Wikipedia’s mobile website finally gets a dark mode — here’s how to turn it on
If you visited the Wikipedia website on mobile this week, you might have seen a pop-up indicating that dark mode is read...
IT総合 CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage from August 5
Bytedance’s video editing app CapCut will stop offering free cloud storage to host creative assets starting August...
IT総合 WhatsApp Business is changing its rates for messages as it aims to reduce marketing spam
WhatsApp Business is changing its per-conversation rates for businesses — a conversation is a 24-hour thread between sel...
IT総合 Medal raises $13M as it builds out a contextual AI assistant for desktop
Medal, a startup that is better known for its video game clipping product, just announced that it has raised $13 million...
IT総合 Google brings new Gemini features and WearOS 5 to Samsung devices
Along with Samsung’s launch of new devices such as the Galaxy Z Flip 6, Z Fold 6, and the new Galaxy Watches, Goog...
IT総合 As Microsoft leaves its observer seat, OpenAI says it won’t have any more observers
Months after Microsoft gained an observer seat on OpenAI’s board, the company is leaving the position of the non-v...
IT総合 With the latest iOS 18 developer beta, Apple makes flashlight UI more fun
Apple released the third developer beta version of iOS 18 on Monday. While there are no major new features like Apple In...
IT総合 YouTube’s updated eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from the...
IT総合 A year later, what Threads could learn from other social networks
Threads, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, just celebrated its first birthday. After launching on July 5 last year, t...
IT総合 How to turn off those silly video calls reactions on iPhone and Mac
A guide to turn off reactions on your iPhone and Mac so you don't get surprised by effects during work video calls.
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IT総合 Telegram lets creators share paid content to channels
Telegram launched a digital currency called Stars for in-app use last month. Now, the company is expanding its use cases...
IT総合 Apple adds support for new languages across lock screen, keyboard and search on iOS 18
Apple unveiled iOS 18 last month at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Since then, the company has released two ...
IT総合 Meta changes its label from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ to indicate use of AI in photos
After Meta started tagging photos with a “Made with AI” label in May, photographers complained that the soci...
IT総合 Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg said today that in an early test in the U.S., Meta is surfacing AI characters made by creators through M...
IT総合 Google is making your movie and TV reviews visible under a new profile page
Google is making all your movie, TV shows, books, albums and game reviews visible under one profile page starting June 2...
IT総合 Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio content quickly
Lightspeed Ventures-backed audio platform Pocket FM just announced that it has partnered with voice cloning company Elev...
IT総合 Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, but e-commerce is more fragmented than ever. With brands s...