TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Meta is facing a major legal challenge and damages claim in Spain that argues the adtech giant’s years of failing to have a valid legal basis for processing people’s data for ads under European Union data protection rules also constitutes a competition breach for which they should be compensated financially.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Tucker Carlson has raised $15 million for a new subscription-based entity. But he'll need more than name recognition for it to succeed. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages for content used to train the company’s AI models. But the real news may be that a group of platforms may soon form a unified front against what many consider an exploitation of their content. Medium joins […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X this summer, there were concerns that the new company could face trademark lawsuits as there were nearly 900 active U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2023

National Amusements, the cinema chain and corporate parent giant of media giants Paramount and CBS, has confirmed it experienced a data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of tens of thousands of people.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. Revel blends them both, helping consumers build a “portfolio of media [and] of the people they collect,” Sideman said. (As As it stands, there isn’t a robust social media collectible ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2023

It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I was surprised to find that it’s actually quite good — certainly good enough that media companies ought to […] © 2023 TechCrunch. For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Space 9 that looks decent on modern TVs.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

The feature is available in EVs with Android Auto, a secondary interface that runs on the user’s phone and wirelessly communicates and projects features like navigation, media and messaging from their Android-based […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

During the historic strike, AI emerged as a key point of contention between the writers and […] AI Media & Entertainment artificial intelligence sag-aftra wga writer's strike Starting Wednesday, writers will be able to resume work under the conditions established by their new contract.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

India is drafting rules to detect and limit the spread of deepfake content and other harmful AI media, a senior lawmaker said Thursday, following reports of proliferation of such content on social media platforms in recent weeks. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A new $1M in funding should help the company add a few studios to its media and gaming clients. Ukrainian synthetic voice startup Respeecher is finding success despite not just bombs raining down on their city, but a wave of hype that has raised up sometimes controversial competitors. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Coinbase said Monday that it disabled new user sign-up on its exchange product in India in June of this year but remains committed to the country, where its operations have remained in limbo for over a year, issuing a rebuttal to media reports, including that in TechCrunch, that reported otherwise citing customer emails. based […]

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Media Matters last Thursday published an article with screenshots showing ads from IBM, Apple, Oracle […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has filed a lawsuit alleging defamation by a news organization over claims that major companies had ads appear next to antisemitic content. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s that time of year again where half of your social media feed is clogged with graphics from Spotify’s annual, personalized roundup, and the other half is people whining that they don’t care about your Spotify Wrapped. Happy Spotify Wrapped Day!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Amazon might never formally endorse AirPlay or Google’s media-casting tech. But the company will be the first to support Matter Casting, the video- and audio-beaming feature of the Matter smart home standard, on its smart displays and smart TVs, Amazon announced this morning at CES 2024.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Elon Musk has restored the X accounts of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media site Infowars. The X accounts of Jones and Infowars were “permanently banned” from Twitter by the previous management in 2018 for posting abusive content and violating the platform’s rules.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour. The error, the cause of which remains unknown, prevented users from viewing tweets, according to their complaints. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

said the journalist from a global mainstream television outlet to me at the Web Summit Media Dinner, earlier this month in Lisbon. “What controversy?”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We last wrote about Breakr — a platform that connects record labels, artists and brands with social media influencers to run mass campaigns in a programmatic way — when it closed a $4.2 million round in 2021. In the past two years, Breakr has onboarded over 30,000 influencers and managed more than $3.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The social media giant is adding a new Premium+ tier that costs $16 per month and offers the “largest reply boost” and removes ads from the For You and Following feeds. X, formerly known as Twitter, is introducing two new tiers for its subscription offering in order to bring in additional revenue.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In a new report, a social media watchdog group details how steroid content is exploding in some TikTok communities, promoting potentially dangerous and often illegal substances while propagating unattainable body image ideals to boys and young men.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Over the years, social media has moved further and further away from its original value proposition of being a network where you could keep up with close friends and family in a private space. Instead, today’s apps are entertainment giants, filled with creator content, multimedia and brand advertisements.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

A group of family members related to children and teens who overdosed on fentanyl sued Snapchat maker Snap last year, accusing the social media company of facilitating illicit drug deals involving fentanyl, a […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

When you think of the term “creator” you generally think of someone making content for social media platforms like TikTok, YouTube or Instagram.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponised AI and other tech advances are making it ever harder to address. A startup out of Cambridge, England, called Unitary AI […]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Waymo riders can now access the service across the vast majority of SF, Waymo announced on Monday on social media site X. Alphabet subsidiary Waymo is expanding its service area in San Francisco despite protests against robotaxis, while rival Cruise grapples with crashes and other incidents.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” Clark made the comments Monday in a lengthy post on social media site X following a report from CNBC that […] Dave Clark, the former Amazon executive who was ousted as CEO of Flexport just a year into the job, fired back at its founder and board, calling recent reporting on the logistics company “deeply concerning.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2023

CEO Elon Musk posted on social media Wednesday that the Cybertruck delivery event, which traditionally means a few select customers get to take possession of their vehicles, will be held November 30 at company’s Austin gigafactory. Tesla has finally set a date for the first deliveries of the Cybertruck.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s that time of year again: the week when startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch present their products for media — and investor — scrutiny. Over the next two days, roughly 217 companies will present in total, a tad smaller than last winter’s 235-firm cohort as VC enthusiasm a slight slump.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Social media giant Reddit is once again reportedly testing the IPO waters. Bloomberg reported on Monday that Reddit “is holding talks with potential investors for an initial public offering.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Singapore-based fast fashion platform Shein has confidentially planned to go public in the United States, according to multiple media reports. The Wall Street Journal broke the news earlier on Monday.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Humane, a stealthy software and hardware company, is clearly milking the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. The company’s origin dates all the way back to 2017, when it was founded by former Apple employees, Bethany Bongiorno, Imran Chaudhri.

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