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Back to news homeThis Week in Apps: Meta’s paid verifications, Instagram’s founders’ new app and Spotify’s AI DJ
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 app economy in […]
Meta to sell blue badge on Instagram and Facebook as Zuckerberg borrows Musk’s playbook
Facebook-parent Meta has launched a monthly subscription service, called Meta Verified, that will allow an individual to get the coveted blue check mark on Instagram and Facebook by verifying their […]
More brands are now testing TikTok’s Shop feature in the U.S.
TikTok is continuing its push toward making its app a shopping destination by onboarding more brands for its Shop initiative, which lets companies sell their goods directly on the app […]
Instagram launches a new broadcast chat feature called ‘Channels’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a new broadcast chat feature on Instagram called “Channels.” The feature lets creators share public, one-to-many messages to directly […]
Hacker finds bug that allowed anyone to bypass Facebook 2FA
A bug in a new centralized system that Meta created for users to manage their logins for Facebook and Instagram could have allowed malicious hackers to switch off an account’s […]
This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google’s antitrust trial gets a date
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 app economy in […]
Instagram’s new Reels template lets you create your own 2022 recap
Instagram is once again offering an in-app method for users to create shareable end-of-year content. The social network announced today that it’s rolling out a new Reels template that allows […]
Twitter battles all things ElonJet, SBF gets arrested, and OpenAI tries to figure out watermarking
Hello, hello! Greg here again with Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. Been too busy to read […]
SBF doesn’t need SPF where he’s going and other TC news
This week, I talked with Tim De Chant about his coverage of fusion energy and what feels like a rare hopeful story in renewable energy tech. And Jacquelyn Melinek walks […]