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Back to news homeStudy of Apple’s ATT impact highlights competition concerns
An interesting new study of 1,759 iOS apps before and after Apple implemented a major privacy feature last year which required developers to ask permission to track app users — […]
Allseated raises $15M to expand beyond event visualizations into corporate Metaverses
Two-dimensional virtual event platforms such as Hopin, Cvent and Zoom have become staples of virtual events but these are about consuming content rather than “user activation” for brands. So in […]
8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22
Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. […]
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees major new regime for big tech
Late Thursday the European Union secured agreement on the detail of a major competition reform that will see the most powerful, intermediating tech platforms subject to a set of up-front […]
This Week in Apps: Instagram’s parental controls, Tile’s anti-stalking update, iOS 15.4 arrives
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 industry continues to grow, […]
Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video
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Daily Crunch: B2B marketplace Sokowatch raises $125M Series B, rebrands as ‘Wasoko’
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Meta takes down deepfake of Ukraine’s President Zelensky surrendering
Meta removed an altered video falsely depicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordering troops to surrender Wednesday. The video is the latest alarming milestone in the parallel information war accompanying Russia’s […]
Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation
Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the future of this newsletter and what’s coming next. The short of which is that in […]