Equity Monday: Jeff’s going to space, and everyone wants a piece of Flipkart Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff…
Nigeria orders broadcasting media to disregard Twitter as news source Nigeria’s broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, has ordered all broadcasting stations in the country to suspend their use of Twitter. The directive was…
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 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…
Twitter starts rolling out Birdwatch fact checks inside tweets Twitter is looking to crowdsource its way out of misinformation woes with its new product Birdwatch which taps a network of engaged tweeters to…
Indivisible is training an army of volunteers to neutralize political misinformation The grassroots Democratic organization Indivisible is launching its own team of stealth fact-checkers to push back against misinformation — an experiment in what it…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Twitter to revamp user profiles with About tab, support for pronouns, ‘confirmed’ status and more Alongside news that Twitter is relaunching its account verification system to the public, the company previewed a slate of changes that will soon come…
Twitter opens account verification applications to the public under new guidelines The coveted blue badge may soon be within your reach. Twitter announced today it will begin rolling out its new verification application system, which…
If 12% is the new 30%, 4% is the new 12% Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The whole team was aboard for this…
Twitter Tip Jar lets you pay people for good tweetin’ Twitter today confirmed earlier reports that it’s testing a new Tip Jar feature. The new addition utilizes a number of different payment platforms, including…
Twitter rolls out bigger images and cropping control on iOS and Android Twitter just made a change to the way it displays images that has visual artists on the social network celebrating. In March, Twitter rolled…
Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets A year ago, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to pause and reconsider before they replied to a tweet using “harmful”…
Twitter expands Spaces to anyone with 600+ followers, details plans for tickets, reminders and more Twitter Spaces, the company’s new live audio rooms feature, is opening up more broadly. The company announced today it’s making Twitter Spaces available to…
What3Words sends legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software…
An Oracle EVP took a brass-knuckled approach with a reporter today; now he’s suspended from Twitter Companies and the reporters who cover them routinely find themselves at odds, particularly when the stories being chased are unflattering or bring unwanted attention…