Apps

Last week, WhatsApp announced it was adding support for HD photos, allowing the messaging app users the option to preserve the high-def resolution of the phones they wanted to share with friends and family. At the time, the company said support for HD videos was coming soon. Today, the company conf

Shein and Forever 21 have entered into a partnership that will give both brands new ways to reach customers, the retailers announced on Thursday. As part of the partnership, Shein will acquire around a third of Forever 21?s operator, Sparc Group. Sparc will also take a minority stake in Shein. Th

Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite, its lightweight stripped-down version of Messenger, the company confirmed to technewss. Users of the app are starting to see a message that advises them to “use Messenger to keep chatting.” The app has been removed from the Google Play Store for ne

Max, the streaming service previously known as HBO Max, announced this morning it’s adding 24/7 livestreaming news with the addition of “CNN Max,” starting September 27 in the U.S. The feature, which will launch in beta, will offer Max viewers live content from CNN US, CNN Interna

Google Chrome is testing an option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen on iOS. This comes nearly two years after Apple shifted Safari’s tab bar to the bottom with iOS 15. Chrome’s change is currently in the testing phase in the Testlfight version of the app, as

TikTok is planning to ban links to outside e-commerce links, according to a report from The Information, but TikTok denies the claim. The report says the move would be a way for the company to force people to use TikTok Shop if they want to purchase an item that they see on the app. The report also

YouTube announced a new experiment on Android devices that determines a song via humming — which seems like a major step up from Apple's music recognition app Shazam. As noted on YouTube's support page, the video-sharing platform is testing a search-by-song capability on the Android ve

Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other online publishing tools, is offering a glimpse into Tumblr’s future — the blogging site Automattic acquired from Verizon in 2019. On the Evening Standard’s “How to be a CEO” podcast, the Word

Lex, an AI-powered writing tool, today said it has raised a $2.75 million seed round led by True Ventures. The company has been spun out of Every, which Lex’s CEO Nathan Baschez helped start. Baschez described Lex as a “modern writing platform,” emphasizing that ‘modern̵

Social network X, formerly Twitter, made changes to its API pricing in March, making it expensive for developers to make applications with the platform’s data. Now, the company is announcing new changes that would retire some of the legacy API endpoints — a move that could again bump up

WhatsApp today introduced a feature that lets users create groups on the instant messaging app without needing to name them — an update over the existing way that requires users to specify group names during creation. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the update on his Facebook page and MetaR

Landing, the community-powered social platform where users create and publish virtual mood boards and collages, today launched a mobile feature called “Creation,” allowing users to express their creativity on the go. Previously only available on the web app, Creation is arguably the most popula

Twitter/X rival Bluesky announced it will impose rate limits to improve its network stability and security, but assured users their posting experience would not be impacted. The move comes shortly after Bluesky saw a record high in traffic, thanks to X owner Elon Musk’s announcement that the

Starting today, Instagram Threads will begin the rollout of one of its most-requested features: the ability to use the service via the web, while logged in. At launch, Threads users will be able to post, view their feed and interact with posts from the desktop, the company says, but the experience