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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. YC had its biggest news in years this week: Garry Tan will be the new president and CEO of the organization, starting January 2023. Tan co-founded and helped scale Initialized Capital to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…
Parler, the infamous conservative social media app, has been added back to the Google Play store and is again available for download after being banned from the Android marketplace for well over a year. The app has reportedly made several improvements to its moderation policies allowing for the digital unbanning, including “allowing users to block…
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the fiscal year 2023 budget for the FBI in Washington, DC on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/Pool Photo via AP) Sen. John Kennedy is among the many Republicans criticizing Biden’s primetime address to the nation. He called it “a missed opportunity” and…
President Joe Biden speaks at the Arnaud C. Marts Center on the campus of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on August 30, 2022. AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File Independents are now leaning toward Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections, per a WSJ poll. In the survey, independents backed Democrats 38%-35%, compared to the GOP’s 12-point edge…
Amazon’s buyout of iRobot and One Medical may take longer than expected. According to Politico and The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Trade Commission is reviewing both acquisitions. Announced within a month of each other, the deals are valued at $1.7 billion and $3.9 billion, respectively, and have the potential to reshape two markets at…
Middle Of The Road She was in the middle of the road when her car had just died. She tried restarting it but to no avail. She was another 30 minutes away from home and couldn’t call for assistance because her phone had died, too. She climbed out of her car but regretted her decision…
Jack Dorsey is pushing Web5, his decentralized data and identity platform. But decentralized identity tools already exist for Web3.Read MoreRead More
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter seems to have handled adding an edit button about as well as possible. The edit button biases toward transparency, adding an edit history for every tweet and a big notice saying a tweet has been edited. Users will only have 30 minutes to edit their tweet, and…