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The scrap between Joe Rogan, Spotify, and their detractors has resurfaced the simmering debate concerning creator monetization. Given that creators include everyone TikTok performers mega-podcasters, YouTube celebrities, and Instagram influencers, no single revenue model will w

Discord will start testing a handful of new features in some of its biggest communities this week. The social audio and chat platform got its start connecting gamers for online play, but it's grown into one of the main ways to build a thriving online community, complete with custom emoji, live

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has hinted that the delay of the streaming service’s HiFi subscription tier is related to licensing issues. Speaking to analysts and investors during Spotify’s quarterly and annual earnings release on Wednesday, Ek stated that the company doesn’t have much to

Social is not just what you do on Facebook anymore; it’s what you do in every single app you use. Think of the experience on Venmo, Strava, Duolingo or even Sephora. Companies that implement social components into their apps and services, known as social+ companies, are thriv

Following a court order, developers working on dating apps don't have to use Apple's in-app purchase system in the Netherlands. And because those purchases aren't handled by Apple, the company doesn't take its usual 30% cut on digital purchases. But developers who use a third-party

Sound the horns, unveil the banners, cue the parade. Snap is profitable. And we don’t mean adjusted-EBITDA profitable, adjusted-operating-income profitable, or even the infamous non-GAAP-net-income profitable. It’s real-profit profitable. In the fourth quarter of 2021, S

Amazon is increasing the price of Prime in the United States, the company announced on Thursday as part of its quarterly and full-year earnings release. The monthly fee is going from $12.99 to $14.99 and the annual membership is rising from $119 to $139, marking a 17% increase. The price change wil

Convenience stores are typically places people run into while gassing up or if they need a quick snack, but when the global pandemic hit and no one wanted to go indoors with others, some could not survive. That was the case with Adit Gupta's parents, who owned a convenience store in New Jersey

Hopper, the mobile travel booking startup and app that lets users book flights, hotels, cars, and — most recently — short-term home rentals a la Airbnb and VRBO, has been on a fast pace of growth in the wake of Covid-19 travel restrictions loosening up in the last year, with 70 million

The biggest social network in the world isn’t getting any bigger. Meta posted its fourth quarter earnings Wednesday, sharing financials that disappointed Wall Street enough to send its stock into a nose dive. Shares of the company, still trading under the ticker symbol FB for now, plunged 20%

The Joe Rogan controversy has been a PR headache for Spotify in recent days, but it doesn’t seem to have yet prompted a sizable exit to rival streaming apps, according to new app store data. Over the past several days, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other musicians have pulled their music from

Twitch will strike up a partnership with independent digital music licensing group Merlin, marking the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform’s latest effort to get cozy with the recording industry. The deal emphasizes how Merlin’s independent artists can leverage Twitch’s livestream

We wear sunglasses to keep the sun out of our eyes, but they have always been a piece of fashion. Stoggles co-founders Max Greenberg and Rahul Khatri think the fashion label should also apply to protective eyewear. Both were working together at another fashion eyewear company when the global pandem

The explosion of software — many companies use at least 100 SaaS applications — has made the world of managing that software more decentralized and more complex than in the past. Enter Torii, a SaaS management tool that brings entire businesses together around the cloud apps they use so they ca