A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a vertically scrollable, fullscreen feed where you…
Over the previous two or three years we’ve seen an explosion of new debit and credit card products come to market from consumer and B2B fintech startups, as well as companies that we might not traditionally think of as players in the finan…
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had banned spyware maker SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance business. The commission called SpyFone a “stalkerware app company” that allegedly harvested and sha…
Asus has announced the ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED and the ProArt StudioBook 16 Pro OLED, two of the first 16-inch laptops to include 4K OLED HDR displays. Per Asus, the displays will cover 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut and deliver a…
Twitter is planning new features to give people more privacy options, according to Bloomberg. The social network’s plans reportedly include the option to archive old tweets so they’re not visible to other users after a given period of ti…
Samsung has announced new sizes for some of its best TVs, giving more choices to consumers who want the option of either a small or massive flagship TV. Samsung has added 43-inch and 98-inch sizes to its QN90A lineup of “Neo QLED” 4K T…
Apple will start asking for permission to enable Personalized Ads in iOS 15, the company’s method of serving relevant ads in the App Store and Apple News by analyzing what you read, purchase, and search for on your device (via 9to5Mac). Th…
Google has announced that it has 50 million users subscribed to or trying YouTube Music and YouTube Premium, which is a marked increase from the 30 million subscribers it reported in December 2020. This seems to mark a continued trend in p…
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared more details Thursday about what to expect from the rumored bigger screens coming to the next Apple Watch.
Gurman has previously reported that the next watch, which he says will be called the Apple Watch S…
One of the new features in Android 12 is the ability to automatically fit your phone’s color palette to that of your wallpaper. If you’ve been able to upgrade to Android 12, you may want to give it a try, especially if you’re into styling …
Three hours a week? Imagine the outrage if young British or American online gamers were told, as children in China have been, that this was the maximum time they could spend on their pastime.
After all, that's how long many spend daily …
India’s top banks five years ago built the interoperable UPI railroads and enabled over 150 million people in the South Asian market to pay digitally. Scores of firms — including local firms Paytm, PhonePe, CRED and international giants Go…
Apple has reached a settlement with the Japanese regulator to allow developers of “reader” apps to link to their own websites for users to manage their accounts. The change goes to effect in early 2022.
Apple has been facing scrutiny in…
A ground-breaking code to create "a better internet for children" comes into force in the UK on Thursday.
Critics say it leaves many digital businesses unsure what to do - but big firms including TikTok and YouTube have already made cha…
Twitter is launching a feature that it hopes will help crack down on abuse and trolling, both of which have become huge issues for the platform.
Safety Mode will flag accounts using hateful remarks, or those bombarding people with uninv…
WhatsApp has been fined €225m (£193m) by Ireland's data watchdog for breaching privacy regulations.
It is the largest fine ever from the Irish Data Protection Commission, and the second-highest under EU GDPR rules.
Facebook, which ow…
Samsung Electronics 2weeks ago announced the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic — marking a new era for smartwatch innovation. They are the first smartwatches to feature the new Wear OS™ Powered by Samsung, built jointly with Google™,…
Since the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky (Kaspersky.com) has detected more than 1,500 fraudulent global resources aimed at potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining. During this period, the company also …
Over 90% of IT decision makers across South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe have accelerated their Cyber Security due to the substantial emergence of digital ways of working. This according to the latest 2021 research undertaken by leading pan…
Amsterdam-based challenger bank Bunq is updating its service with a handful of new features. In addition to Dutch, German and French bank account numbers, existing and new users in Spain can now get a Spanish IBAN.
European IBANs are su…
What do LinkedIn and Twitter have in common? They both introduced ephemeral story features that were pretty fleeting. LinkedIn announced today that it will suspend its Stories feature on September 30 and begin working on a different way to…
Russian internet and ride-hail giant Yandex has acquired Uber’s stake in its Self-Driving Group (SDG), as well as Uber’s indirect interest in Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka and Yandex.Delivery. The total cost of the deal came to $1 billion, giv…
A major cryptocurrency exchange has mistakenly sent emails to 125,000 users, wrongly telling them their two-factor authentication settings had been changed.
Coinbase said the emails were "not the result of malicious behaviour".
Two-f…
TikTok is expanding its in-app parental controls feature, Family Pairing, with educational resources designed to help parents better support their teenage users, the company announced morning. The pairing feature, which launched to global …
Aviation has always been at the cutting edge of technology, adopting new innovations that made it a critical player in global travel and commerce. Air transportation not only facilitates social connections but also acts as a conduit for go…
Motional revealed Tuesday the first images of its planned robotaxi, a Hyundai all-electric Ioniq 5 SUV that will be the centerpiece of a driverless ride-hailing service the company wants customers to be able to access starting in 2023 thro…
Less than two weeks after its official launch, The Boring Company’s Loop system in Las Vegas had its first security breach.
On June 21, the morning of the final day of the International Beauty Show, an “unauthorized vehicle” joined the …
Square’s popular free invoicing software is becoming the company’s next big subscription service. The company is poised to announce a paid subscription offering called Invoices Plus, which will offer sellers a set of advanced features, inc…
Online gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, China's video game regulator has said.
The National Press and Publication Administration told state-run news agency Xinhua tha…
Toyota is resuming operations of its autonomous vehicles at the Paralympic Games village in Tokyo following an accident.
Services of the e-Palette pods were halted after a vehicle hit a visually impaired athlete last week.
The athlet…
GLOBAL CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY INFOBIP [1] HAS STRENGTHENED ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ADOBE AND FURTHERED THE GLOBAL REACH OF INFOBIP’S OMNICHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM BY BECOMING AN ACCELERATE PARTNER IN THE ADOBE EXCHANGE PARTNER PR…
Bitnob announces the integration of the lightning network on its mobile app for faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions.
In line with its mission to promote financial inclusion through blockchain technology, Bitnob has integrated the li…
Air conditioning is one of those inventions that have become so ubiquitous, that many in the developed world don’t even realize that less than a century ago, it didn’t exist. Indeed, it wasn’t so long ago that the air inside our buildings …
Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a service, is a staple of how businesses u…
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.
The biggest news of the week again comes from Beijing’s ongoing ef…
It’s been a busy summer for Clubhouse. The hit social audio app rolled out new messaging features and an Android app over the last few months and now the company is turning its attention to enhancing its core audio experience. Clubhouse an…
Though YouTube has supported picture-in-picture viewing on Android devices since 2018, YouTube told TechCrunch today that it plans to launch the feature to all iOS users in the U.S. on both iPhone and iPad. For now, YouTube is inviting Pre…
Facebook is looking to create a standalone advisory committee for election-related policy decisions, according to a new report from The New York Times. The company has reportedly approached a number of policy experts and academics it is in…
A new startup called Popcorn wants to make work communication more fun and personal by offering a way for users to record short video messages, or “pops,” that can be used for any number of purposes in place of longer emails, texts, Slack …
When it comes to e-paper devices, the Kindle is of course the first brand people think of, though I’ve done my best to spread the Kobo and reMarkable gospel as well. Chinese e-reader maker Boox is a relatively new entrant to the space, and…
China is not done with curbing the influence local internet services have assumed in the world’s largest populous market. Following a widening series of regulatory crackdowns in recent months, the nation on Friday issued draft guidelines o…
Apple app developers will soon be able to email customers and tell them how to avoid Apple's payment systems.
The current rules ban app makers from mentioning that there are ways to pay that avoid Apple's 30% cut, even through e-mail ou…
The fitness bike maker Peloton is to slash the price of its flagship bike as people head back to the gym and do less exercise at home.
The US firm will cut the price of its less expensive Bike machine by about 20% to $1,495 from Thursda…
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has received more than five million shares in the technology giant, as he marks ten years in the job.
A company filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) watchdog shows that he sold most …
YouTube has removed 1 million videos for dangerous COVID-19 misinformation since February 2020, according to YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mahon.
Mahon shared the statistic in a blog post outlining how the company approaches misi…
A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a messaging app that offers a combination o…
OnlyFans has announced that it will delay making changes to policy on content creation, following a widespread backlash by its users.
The content subscription service announced plans last week to block sexually explicit photos and video…
Zoom has announced that it will adopt a hybrid approach as it prepares for a return to office working.
It said an internal survey of employees found only 1% wanted to return to the office full-time.
The pandemic spurred huge growth f…
Taxi driver Chris is obsessively checking his phone for updates.
"I'm set to lose almost 2,500 euros (£2,100) worth of cryptocurrency coins," he says.
Chris describes himself as "a small crypto-holder from Austria" and is one of many…
Waymo, the self-driving vehicle company under Alphabet, has launched a robotaxi service that will be open to certain vetted riders in San Francisco.
On Tuesday, the company officially kicked off its Waymo One Trusted Tester program in t…
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