IT総合 From Goodreads’ founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers
Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public...
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IT総合 IT総合 After selling Anchor to Spotify, co-founders reunite to build AI educational startup Oboe
The co-founders who sold their last startup to Spotify are working on a new project: an AI-powered educational startup c...
IT総合 VCs love using the AI meeting notepad Granola, so they gave it $20M
Granola’s notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augmen...
IT総合 LinkedIn confirms the ‘follower purge’ was just a bug that’s now resolved
LinkedIn users on Tuesday began noticing a problem with their follower counts on the platform: They were dropping rapidl...
IT総合 Farewell to Foursquare’s app
“I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,̶...
IT総合 X rolls out its real-time search tool, Radar, to Premium+ subscribers
As competition from newcomers like Bluesky and Threads increases, X on Monday launched a “Radar” trend analy...
IT総合 Daze, a creative, AI-powered messaging app for Gen Z, is blowing up prelaunch
On TikTok, Daze’s most popular video has been viewed 8 million times. Across TikTok and Instagram, the startup behind a ...
IT総合 Bluesky surges into the top 5 as X changes blocks, permits AI training on its data
Social networking startup Bluesky, which just reported a gain of half a million users over the past day, has now soared ...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts
On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party...
IT総合 Apple says support for redeeming rewards coming to Apple Pay
On Thursday, Apple celebrated 10 years with Apple Pay and announced how the service will evolve in the future, including...
IT総合 Apple debuts new business tools for managing presence across email, calls and Tap to Pay
Apple on Wednesday announced an expanded series of tools that will allow businesses to increase their visibility on Appl...
IT総合 X rival Mastodon has started selling toys
If you like open-source, decentralized social networks that put the power in the hands of the people instead of billiona...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s X still struggles to grow subscription revenue
Elon Musk’s plan to reduce X’s dependence on advertising revenue by increasing paid subscriptions is still n...
IT総合 Instagram blames some moderation issues on human reviewers, not AI
Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access...
IT総合 Bluesky joins Threads to court users frustrated by Meta’s moderation issues
Social networking startup Bluesky is seizing the moment. Amid ongoing moderation issues affecting X rival Instagram Thre...
IT総合 X changes creator payouts to depend on engagement, not ads
As X continues to alienate advertisers, even recently suing a group over their boycott of the platform, the company is s...
IT総合 Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews
Following its $40 million fundraise at the beginning of this year, streaming media company Plex announced on Wednesday i...
IT総合 The White House joins Reddit and shares hurricane information
VP Kamala Harris is on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, FEMA has a page dedicated to fighting the rumors circul...
IT総合 Meta’s Threads app references a communities feature, similar to Elon Musk’s X
Meta’s take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor’s territory ...
IT総合 Facebook launches a Gen Z-focused redesign
Facebook wants to woo more younger users to join its social network, instead of spending all their time on TikTok, Insta...
IT総合 YouTube apologizes for falsely banning channels for spam, canceling subscriptions
A misfire of YouTube’s systems led to the accidental banning of YouTube channels affecting numerous creators who w...
IT総合 YouTube takes on TikTok with longer Shorts, templates, trends, and more
YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates for its short-form video product, YouTube Shorts. These include the ab...
IT総合 Gmail’s new ‘summary cards’ help you take action on your emails, like tracking packages and checking into flights
Competition in the email market is heating up. After Apple’s iOS 18 introduced a slew of Gmail-like features to Apple’s ...
IT総合 Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers
The new capability, rolling out Tuesday, will help advertisers who want to enhance their Pinterest Product Pins (ads) an...
IT総合 Croissant debuts cross-posting app for Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon
People participating on the open social web have a problem: it’s not yet possible to reach users on multiple sites...
IT総合 Subscription management platform RevenueCat acquires a ‘spicy’ audiobooks app (??!!)
The idea here is to bring a subscription-based app in-house to serve as a testing ground for RevenueCat's new features.
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IT総合 Meta pitches VR to mobile developers with new support for Android apps on Quest
Meta says it's working to make it easier for mobile developers to make the shift to Meta's Horizon OS.
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IT総合 As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the ‘fediverse’
A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open socia...
IT総合 Sam Altman catapults past founder mode into ‘god mode’ with latest AI post
Founder mode? Pffft. Who needs that when you can be the father of creation, ushering in a new age of humanity? Welcome t...
IT総合 Tumblr reports ~350% user growth following X’s ban in Brazil
According to Tumblr, in the days since the X ban in Brazil, the site saw 222.99% growth in communities and 349.55% growt...