TikTok announced today a new initiative designed to help small businesses better market themselves on its app — and eventually become TikTok advertisers. The company is introducing a free program called “Follow Me,” which will offer guides to using TikTok’s range of business and creative tools, advertising and promotional features, as well as coaching from…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
European fintech Klarna has confirmed that it has raised $800 million at a pretty hefty valuation drop. Rumors have been circulating for at least the past month that Sweden-based Klarna, best known as a “buy now, pay later” service provider, was seeking to raise new funds. Initial reports suggested this valuation would be in the…
A Microsoft Word document with a malicious macro embedded as part of an IRS-themed malware campaign. Image Credits: Microsoft. Microsoft said it is still planning to block Visual Basic Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office apps after quietly rolling back the planned change last month. VBA Macros are lines of code that allow users to…
Instagram is testing a new Live Producer tool that allows broadcasters to go live from a desktop using streaming software, such as OBS, Streamyard and Streamlabs. The Meta-owned company told TechCrunch that the tool is still in the testing phase and is not fully rolled out yet. “We are always working on ways to make…
Forget standing in long lines with a bunch of 12-year-olds at your local waterpark this summer — why not build your own right in your backyard? Let’s face it, your grown-up body probably isn’t jonesing for those epic slide dumps and belly flops like it used to anyway. Creating a DIY waterpark is a very…
Summer movies in the park are awesome, no doubt — but finding a spot for you and your buds to spread out the blanket and still be able to see the screen can be a pain. Add in the fact you’re likely schlepping a heavy cooler full of drinks back and forth to the park…
Our long international nightmare is over. We can breathe easy. By that I mean, you can finally use emoji to react to messages in WhatsApp. The news comes courtesy of a Facebook post by Mark Zuckerberg, which is both an inconvenient place to announce news and a reminder that he owns WhatsApp, too. In the…
Summer is all about being outside as much as possible and your stuffed social calendar likely reflects that. But a scorching summer’s day is also the perfect opp to crank the A/C, get your fingers sticky with glue and glitter, and make some art. The slew of photos you’ve been posting from your park picnics,…
Text your friends, toss the bevs in the cooler, whip up your famous pesto pasta salad, and scout out the perfect patch of grass. Summer is peak picnic season, people — you already know that. What you may not know is how to put together a picnic spread that really rocks. Sure, you want frosty…
SAVE $51: Concoct perfectly thick single-serve smoothie bowls in minutes with the Ninja Foodi Smoothie Bowl Maker and Nutrient Extractor, on sale for only $69 at Walmart as of July 11. That’s 42% in savings. Rather than running out for $10 smoothies and smoothie bowls for your daily fruit and veggie servings, stay in and…