IT総合 The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February
Lux, the startup and makers of the popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video. The team toda...
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IT総合 IT総合 Threads downloads return to growth as X adds Walmart to its advertiser exodus
Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working. According to a new analysis of app store t...
IT総合 Bluesky rolls out automated moderation tools, plus user and moderation lists
Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying ne...
IT総合 X says it will chase SMB ad dollars after Musk’s ‘go f*** yourself’ comments to fleeing advertisers
A new report by the Financial Times says X will now turn to small and medium-sized advertisers to shore up revenue after...
IT総合 Capsule’s new app combines AI and human editors to curate the news
A Paris-based startup called Capsule wants to transform the way users seek out their daily news. Instead of offering a s...
IT総合 Montana’s ban on TikTok is now on hold
A ban on TikTok’s app in the state of Montana, enacted earlier this year, is now on hold. On Thursday, a U.S. fede...
IT総合 Instagram Threads search now supports ‘all languages’ in latest update
Instagram’s Twitter/X rival, Threads, is becoming more competitive with the expansion of its keyword search featur...
IT総合 X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says ‘f*ck yourself’ to advertisers
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is publicly backing Elon Musk after he explicitly said “go fuck yourself” to advertise...
IT総合 Android users gain nearly a dozen new features with latest update
Android users are poised to receive nearly a dozen new features in the latest release of the mobile operating system, in...
IT総合 On ChatGPT’s first anniversary, its mobile apps have topped 110M installs and nearly $30M in revenue
It’s officially been one year since ChatGPT launched, taking the world by storm as the research preview turned int...
IT総合 Apple and Google avoid naming ChatGPT as their ‘app of the year,’ picking AllTrails and Imprint instead
Both Apple and Google today announced their best apps and games of the year, with the hiking and biking companion AllTra...
IT総合 WSJ says the Goldman-Apple deal is dead. Apple says not yet.
Apple is quietly disputing a headline by The Wall Street Journal that claims the tech giant has “pulled the plug&#...
IT総合 Pinterest begins testing a ‘body type ranges’ tool to make searches more inclusive
Pinterest is today expanding on its efforts to make its product more inclusive with respect to body type diversity with ...
IT総合 Apple Music Replay is here, and it’s still no Spotify Wrapped
Apple’s year-end review and answer to Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, has arrived, but it’s still no ma...
IT総合 Tumblr+ kills Post+, its ill-fated subscription offering for creators
Tumblr’s ill-fated Post+ subscription service is shutting down, the company announced late on Monday. The service,...
IT総合 Google’s new tools help discussion forums and social media platforms rank higher in search results
Google today introduced new tools for website owners, including those running social media sites and discussion forums, ...
IT総合 Lapse, the photo app that forced users to invite friends, is running out of steam
Lapse, a photo-sharing app that growth hacked its way to the top of the App Store earlier this year, is starting to lose...
IT総合 Evernote pushes users to upgrade with test of a free plan limited to only 50 notes
After making steep cuts to personnel earlier this year, Evernote’s Milan-based owner Bending Spoons is now experim...
IT総合 Amazon’s new $195 thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube
Amazon’s new thin client looks just like a Fire TV Cube…and that’s by design. The company this morning...
IT総合 Forget Siri. Turn your iPhone’s ‘Action Button’ into a ChatGPT voice assistant instead
With news that OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice feature is now available to all free users, you can ditch Siri as your main ...
IT総合 Elon Musk says xAI’s chatbot ‘Grok’ will launch to X Premium+ subscribers next week
Shortly after screenshots emerged showing xAI’s chatbot Grok appearing on X’s web app, X owner Elon Musk con...
IT総合 Mastodon tackles the problem of ‘reply guys’ with its latest feature
Mastodon’s latest update is tackling a problem Twitter users know all too well: the scourge of the “reply gu...
IT総合 X loses Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media partnership in latest brand pull-out
Following the advertiser exodus from X, formerly Twitter, over concerns about antisemitic content on the site, X has los...
IT総合 Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others
Decentralized social networking may be the future, but in the meantime, there are a lot of Twitter alternatives to keep ...
IT総合 eBay to gain $2.2B from sales of its shares in classified biz Adevinta
eBay is unloading its remaining shares in the online classified business Adevinta to private equity firms Permira and Bl...
IT総合 Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the ‘fediverse‘ — the decentralized soc...
IT総合 Screenshots show xAI’s chatbot Grok on X’s web app
Shortly after X announced its plans to test a three-tiered subscription service, X owner Elon Musk teased that his new A...
IT総合 Instagram Threads missed a moment to shine, as OpenAI’s drama took place on X
Instagram Threads missed its moment to truly challenge X, this weekend’s OpenAI scandal indicates. Over the past f...
IT総合 Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates
Even before major brands like Apple, Disney, and IBM paused their ad spending on X in the wake of Elon Musk’s endo...
IT総合 This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone app of the year finalists, plus 7 hidden gems
Is the App Store still a source for new technology innovations or has AI development become the hotter new tech to build...