In search of a new crypto deity Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I wrote about tech taking on Disney. This week, I’m talking about the…
This Week in Apps: WWDC Prep, F8 recap, TikTok goes after biometric data Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The…
Facebook buys studio behind Roblox-like Crayta gaming platform Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced that they’re buying something with wider ambitions…
Facebook will reconsider Trump’s ban in two years The clock is ticking on former President Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook, formerly indefinite and now for a period of two years, the maximum…
Facebook to suspend Trump’s account for two years Decision follows oversight board recommendation over ex-president’s post on Capitol attack Facebook is suspending Donald Trump’s account for two years, the company has announced…
Facebook’s use of ad data triggers antitrust probes in UK and EU Facebook is facing a fresh pair of antitrust probes in Europe. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the EU’s Competition Commission both…
Europe wants to go its own way on digital identity In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital…
Facebook will end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban – report Reported change comes after the Facebook oversight board said that the same rules should apply to all users Facebook is reportedly planning to end…
Not on NextDoor? You can still grab your neighbors’ stuff on Free Finds Nextdoor, the app that helps neighbors connect, launched a new feature called Free Finds today, which will help people browse the free items available…
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take…
Facebook doubles down on business tools with WhatsApp API updates, Login Connect for Messenger and more WhatsApp now has more than 2 billion users globally, and by comparison its efforts to cultivate more business usage have been quite modest: just…
Facebook changes misinfo rules to allow posts claiming Covid-19 is man-made Facebook made a few noteworthy changes to its misinformation policies this week, including the news that the company will now allow claims that Covid…
Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and other internet giants comply with India’s IT rules Google, Facebook, Telegram, LinkedIn and Tiger Global-backed Indian startups ShareChat and Koo have either fully or partially complied with the South Asian nation’s new…
EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants, Amazon and Microsoft, under…
Twitter says concerned with India intimidation, requests 3 more months to comply with new IT rules Twitter called the recent visit by police to its Indian offices a form of intimidation and said it was concerned by some of the…
Poparazzi hypes itself to the top of the App Store If Instagram’s photo tagging feature was spun out into its own app, you’d have the viral sensation Poparazzi, now the No. 1 app on…
Tiger Global leads $30 million investment in Indian Twitter rival Koo Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with large size checks at a time when tension is brewing between the American social…
Microsoft Azure launches enterprise support for PyTorch Microsoft today announced PyTorch Enterprise, a new Azure service that provides developers with additional support when using PyTorch on Azure. It’s basically Microsoft’s commercial…
Florida’s ban on bans will test First Amendment rights of social media companies Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed into law a restriction on social media companies’ ability to ban candidates for state offices and news outlets,…
This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The…