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Meta announced today that it won't be holding its F8 developer conference in 2022. In a blog post, the company said it’s “pausing” the conference this year while it focuses on new initiatives, such as the metaverse. “Similar to years past, we are taking a brief break in

CNN+ launched on Tuesday, March 29 and is already showing mediocre results in terms of standalone mobile app installs. Sensor Tower released its initial figures (first reported by Insider) that show the CNN app, which now houses the new streaming service, added about 18,000 installs on the day of l

Amazon is increasing the price of its Unlimited Music subscription for Prime members, the company announced on its website. The Amazon Music Unlimited plan price is going from $7.99 to $8.99 per month, or from $79 to $89 per year, for Prime members. The cost of the Amazon Music Single-Device plan,

There is an obnoxious amount of streaming content these days. Ninety-three percent of Americans plan on either increasing their paid streaming services or making no change to their existing plans, according to Nielsen's newly released State of Play report. Despite this, nearly half of survey re

Global digital payments giant Visa has opened an innovation studio in Kenya, its first in Africa and sixth globally, after posts in Dubai, London, Miami, San Francisco and Singapore. The studio will bring together developers, Visa's internal and external clients, and other partners to co-create

Indian social media app Koo introduced a voluntary self-verification service to its users on Wednesday in an unusual step that it believes will bring credibility and trust on its platform. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup said users on its platform will have the option to self-verify their profi

To many people, e-commerce is synonymous with shopping on Amazon, but the reality is that a retailer has the option to use a bundle of different channels to sell and market products — and many do. Today, a startup called Productsup, which has built a platform that helps retailers navigate tha

Apparently it wasn’t just an April Fools’ joke or an errant Elon Musk tweet. As any true blue Twitter user knows, the divide over the social network adding an edit button is the deepest ideological ravine of our time — and Twitter is poised to switch sides. The company

Facebook is adding the ability to post Reels from third-party apps, its parent company Meta announced on Tuesday. The company is introducing a “Sharing to Reels” integration, which will allow developers to make it easy for people to share video from their apps directly to Facebook. R

Uploading paywalled audio on Substack isn’t new, but the newsletter platform is re-upping its attempt to woo podcasters into using its service. Substack posted two blog posts today urging creators to make podcasts on Substack. Like a newsletter, they can charge subscribers for access, so long

Just a month after its last acquisition of the WebAR development platform 8th Wall, Niantic announced its purchase of New Zealand-based augmented reality studio NZXR today. These strategic acquisitions are part of Niantic’s overarching plan to build what it calls a “real-world metaverse

On Monday, April 11, the highly anticipated $43 billion merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery was set to officially close. But a new report from Variety suggests the deal may actually close as early as this Friday, according to its sources.  We already have somewhat of an idea of what will happen wi

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Twitter will place new limits on government accounts that belong to countries at war when those governments also restrict the free flow of information within their own borders. In a blog update, Twitter explained that the new policy is designed to

Hulu’s streaming app is the latest to add support for Apple’s SharePlay — Apple’s newer system that allows users to co-watch content, like streaming movies or shows, over FaceTime calls. The update was quietly noted in Hulu’s iOS app update description this week alongs