Twitter Blue expands to six new countries, brings back Spaces curation • TechCrunch
Twitter is in a hurry to make money, and in another step that might lead to some revenue it has expanded the Twitter Blue subscription...
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Damus pulled from Apple’s App Store in China after two days • TechCrunch
Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China’s App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple. The...
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It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by letting people “interact directly” with its “newest, most powerful language models as a companion...
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European Parliament agrees a way forward on platform workers’ rights • TechCrunch
A European Union legislative proposal targeting the gig economy’s tendency to ride rough-shod over workers’ rights has inched a step closer today as the parliament...
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Inside TikTok’s transparency center
TikTok is staring down the barrel of an outright ban in the US. It has already been prohibited on federal employee devices, blocked by dozens...
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Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the...
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The Xbox 360 store won’t be closing down, despite what an Xbox support page says
Microsoft will not be closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, the company tells The Verge, even though text on an official Xbox support page indicated...
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Google’s fastest-growing business is insuring companies against their workers’ health
I’ve heard people joke that Google only has a couple of successful businesses, primarily advertising. But it may have found another hit: insuring other companies...
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Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro supply problems sank its holiday revenues
Apple reported its Q1 2023 earnings this afternoon. During the holiday quarter, the company took in $117.2 billion of revenue, down 5 percent year over...
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Google struggled to grow over the holidays despite “great momentum” on YouTube and Pixels
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai opened his company’s latest earnings announcement by boasting about “great momentum in Cloud, YouTube subscriptions, and our Pixel devices.” But read...
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Car-sharing SPAC Getaround lays off 10% of staff • TechCrunch
Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Getaround is laying off 10% of staff starting Thursday. The layoffs are part of a restructure aimed to put Getaround on the...
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Amazon had a better holiday quarter than expected but its worst annual loss in years
Amazon had better net sales during its holiday quarter than even its best projections, but the results still show a company struggling with economic slowdowns...