IT総合 Streamer Plex launches its long-promised movie rentals store
Fresh on the heels of its $40 million fundraise, streaming media company Plex is today announcing its expansion into a n...
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IT総合 IT総合 Following this week’s layoffs, Snap’s stock tanks 30% on Q4 earnings
Snap is not having a good quarter. Following this week’s news that the company was laying off 10% of its workforce...
IT総合 Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple’s DMA rules are a ‘farce,’ but says there are ‘future upsides’ too
Spotify, a notable Apple critic, unsurprisingly came out swinging after Apple announced how it was complying with the EU...
IT総合 Spotify now the No. 2 audiobook provider, behind Audible, hints at Daylist inspired-suggestions to come
Late last year, Spotify began offering 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to its Premium subscribers in select mark...
IT総合 Mozilla Monitor’s new service removes your personal info from data broker sites automatically
Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensi...
IT総合 Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray
The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down a Facebook Groups API is throwing some businesses ...
IT総合 Snapchat’s parent lays off 10% of workforce in order to ‘reduce hierarchy,’ says company
Snapchat maker Snap is the latest tech company to conduct layoffs with its newly announced plans for a 10% workforce red...
IT総合 Spotify’s podcast exclusive days are over as Joe Rogan’s show expands to other platforms
Controversies and PR headaches weren’t enough to dissuade Spotify from re-upping its agreement with podcaster Joe ...
IT総合 Mark Zuckerberg calls Apple’s DMA rules ‘so onerous’ he doubts any developer will opt in
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his voice to those criticizing Apple’s compliance with the EU’s new Digit...
IT総合 Threads now reaches more 130 million monthly users, says Meta, up 30M from Q3
Instagram Threads now has more 130 million monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company&#...
IT総合 Amazon debuts ‘Rufus,’ an AI shopping assistant in its mobile app
Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it’s calling Rufus that’s been trained...
IT総合 Meta Quest adds support for Apple’s Spatial Video ahead of Vision Pro launch
Apple’s brand-new Vision Pro headset has lost one of its competitive advantages over rivals, as Meta announced tod...
IT総合 Apple Vision Pro to launch with over 600 apps and games optimized for the new headset
The pace is picking up for the Apple Vison Pro apps ahead of the spatial computing device’s Friday launch as devel...
IT総合 X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims company has 90M U.S. users, less than 1% are teens
During today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focused on kids’ online safety, X CEO Linda Yaccarino down...
IT総合 Threads is working on surfacing Trends, says Instagram head Adam Mosseri
Instagram Threads will adopt another Twitter/X feature: trends, the company has confirmed. In a reply to a user on the a...
IT総合 Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta
In today’s online safety hearing, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg again pushed back at the idea that businesses like his ...
IT総合 Match Group says it hasn’t yet decided if it will opt into Apple’s new DMA rules
Dating app giant Match Group says it hasn’t yet determined how it plans to adapt its products in light of the EU&#...
IT総合 Twitterrific’s team is back with Tapestry, an app for tracking social media, news, RSS, and more
The Iconfactory, the maker of a popular third-party Twitter client, Twitterrific, that was among those killed off by Twi...
IT総合 Some IRS employees still access TikTok despite ban on government devices
The TikTok ban on U.S. government devices is proving hard to enforce. A month after the IRS was found to be in non-compl...
IT総合 Reading the fine print of Apple’s DMA rules: 25 things app developers need to know
Apple last week announced new rules for EU app developers to comply with new regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA)....
IT総合 Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching the top 10; X falls to No. 36
Instagram Threads is gaining traction after growth stalled last year, which had some prematurely wondering if the app wa...
IT総合 Streaming media company Plex raises new funds as it nears profitability
Media streamer Plex has raised new capital. The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over t...
IT総合 Instagram head confirms test of ‘Flipside,’ a feature that turns ‘finstas’ into an official product
Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a feature called Flipside — an experiment that would ...
IT総合 Ahead of Congressional hearing on child safety, X announces plans to hire 100 moderators in Austin
X, formerly Twitter, is trying to placate lawmakers about the app’s safety measures ahead of a Big Tech Congressio...
IT総合 Spotify calls Apple’s DMA compliance plan ‘extortion’ and a ‘complete and total farce’
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)...
IT総合 Deck.blue brings a TweetDeck experience to Bluesky users
With over 3 million users and plans to open up more broadly in the months ahead, Bluesky is still establishing itself as...
IT総合 Looking to retain App Store developers ahead of the DMA, Apple begins ‘contingent pricing’ pilot tests
Apple is moving to make the App Store more appealing to developers before the upcoming deadline to comply with the EU...
IT総合 Epic Games CEO calls out Apple’s DMA rules as ‘malicious compliance’ and full of ‘junk fees’
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is none too pleased with Apple’s new App Store rules, dubbing them once again a case of...
IT総合 Apple’s App Store now permits streaming game stores, adds in-app purchase for mini-apps, games, and AI chatbots
Alongside the numerous changes Apple is making to its platforms to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA),...
IT総合 Kids spent 60% more time on TikTok than YouTube last year, 20% tried OpenAI’s ChatGPT
No wonder YouTube launched Shorts. A new study of children’s online habits found that children ages 4 through 18 s...