TikTok ban: How Congress could force ByteDance to sell or push the app out of the U.S. TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. In a 352 to 65 vote Wednesday, the House voted to pass a bill that could lead to a national TikTok ban. After a surprise flurry of bipartisan act...
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TikTok ban signed into law by President Biden: How we got here, and what comes next | TechCrunch
The TikTok ban has cleared Congress and received White House approval, putting new pressure on Bytedance to divest.
Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced “AT Protocol Grants,” a new program that will ...
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Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost | TechCrunch
Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week ann...
Tracking ads industry faces another body blow in the EU It’s been over two years since a key piece of the tracking-ads’ industry’s consent collection apparatus was found to breach European Union’s data protection laws. Today the surveillance data complex s...
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Tracking-ads industry faces another body blow in the EU | TechCrunch
It's been over two years since a key piece of the tracking-ads' industry's consent collection apparatus was found to breach European...
YouTube is down too, site confirms Several social media websites are experiencing outages on Tuesday morning. YouTube confirmed that some users are having trouble loading videos on the platform; meanwhile, platforms like Discord and Me...
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YouTube no longer experiencing outages, site confirms | TechCrunch
Update: The outages have been resolved as of around 3:00 p.m. ET. A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that there was a surge in traffic beginning at
Discord is down for some users As Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads and went down this morning, Discord is now also experiencing issues and is down for some users. The company’s status website states that it is currently looki...
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Discord comes back online after widespread outage | TechCrunch
Discord is back online after an outage this morning, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The outage came as Meta's Instagram, Facebook and Th...
Facebook, Instagram and Threads are all down in massive Meta outage on Super Tuesday Reports are coming in that a number of Meta’s top social apps, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as its new app Threads, are all experiencing an outage on Tuesday morning. When loading the app...
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Facebook, Instagram and Threads were all down in massive Meta outage on Super Tuesday | TechCrunch
Reports are coming in that a number of Meta's top social apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, are all experiencing an outage on T...
Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June. Company’s engineer Jesse Chen posted that the company has been building the API for the ...
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Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June | TechCrunch
Meta-owned social network Threads said today that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.
Google is killing Gmail’s basic HTML view (but not Gmail) in 2024 Google is sunsetting Gmail's basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Google is killing Gmail's basic HTML view (but not Gmail) in 2024 | TechCrunch
Google is sunsetting Gmail's basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024.
YouTube dominates TV streaming in U.S., per Nielsen’s latest report Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed that YouTube is once again the overall top streaming service in the U.S., with 8.6% of viewing...
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YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen’s latest report | TechCrunch
Nielsen today released its January report on viewing usage across linear TV and streaming, which revealed that YouTube is once again the overall to...
Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It’s even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like services, like Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky, where staying activ...
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Can't decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti's new app lets you post to all three. | TechCrunch
Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It's even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like servic...