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 ...
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IT総合 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 ...
IT総合 EQ Tickets combines cheaper sports and event tickets with a social network
A startup that aims to combine the ticket-buying experience online with a social network, EQ Tickets, is today emerging ...
IT総合 Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader, backed by $4.4M
A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Par...
IT総合 Bluesky hires former Twitter Trust & Safety co-lead, Aaron Rodericks
Emerging decentralized social network and X rival Bluesky has just landed a notable former Twitter leader as its new Hea...
IT総合 Following the Bitcoin surge, Coinbase’s app is showing users a zero balance
Bitcoin’s rally is turning out to be bad news for Coinbase, the crypto trading app that has just confirmed some of...
IT総合 YouTube’s Create app, a competitor to TikTok’s creative tools, expands to 13 more markets
YouTube Create, Google’s standalone mobile app aimed at creators, which helps them produce both Shorts and longer ...
IT総合 Bumble looks to revive its friendship-focused BFF product in wake of dating app downturn
Dating app maker Bumble is rethinking its vision for the company’s future after announcing weak earnings and massi...
IT総合 Newsmast brings curated ‘communities’ to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon
An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an update...
IT総合 Splitscreen brings a multi-monitor setup to Apple’s Vision Pro
Out of the box, Apple’s Vision Pro doubles as a 4K Mac virtual display, allowing you to extend an existing Mac des...
IT総合 Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS
Although an app’s downloads aren’t an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. An...
IT総合 Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Par...
IT総合 Threads adds a bookmarking feature for saving favorite posts
Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is shaping up to look more like its competitor X with the recent launches ...
IT総合 Meta drops lawsuit against web scraping firm Bright Data that sold millions of Instagram records
Meta has dropped its lawsuit against an Israeli web scraping company Bright Data, after losing a key claim in its case ...
IT総合 Search startups DuckDuckGo and Neeva had a tough time competing with Google, court filing shows
A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice’s case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search mar...
IT総合 Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the com...
IT総合 Apple reveals new details about Spotify’s business as possible EU fine nears
With the European Commission set to rule on Spotify’s complaint focused on competition in the streaming music mark...
IT総合 Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server
Social network Bluesky, a competitor to X, Threads, Mastodon, and others, is opening up its doors with today’s new...
IT総合 Yorba’s service is like Mint for uncluttering your entire digital life
Spend enough time online, and you’ll collect a digital paper trail of accounts, logins, subscriptions, mailing lis...