Enlarge (credit: Netflix) Netflix has hired Microsoft to provide the advertising technology for the streaming service’s planned ad-supported tier, the companies announced Wednesday. Comcast’s NBCUniversal subsidiary and Google were reportedly “top contenders” to serve ads on Netflix before Microsoft won the contract. Microsoft will be the “global advertising technology and sales partner” for the “new lower…
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Toy and games maker Hasbro is bringing your face to an action figure near you with its newest partnership. It’s using a new 3D-printing material and workflow from 3D-printer company Formlabs to create custom action figures at scale. The project is called the Hasbro Selfie Series, and makes it possible for fans to create “collector-grade”…
Kids and teens are now spending more time watching videos on TikTok than on YouTube. In fact, that’s been the case since June 2020 — the month when TikTok began to outrank YouTube in terms of the average minutes per day people ages 4 through 18 spent accessing these two competitive video platforms. That month,…
Tonal, an at-home fitness company last valued at $1.6 billion, has laid off 35% of its workforce in what the company says was a “responsible” decision made in order to grow at a more sustainable rate. “Tonal is prioritizing becoming a self-sustaining business with an emphasis on profitability,” the company said in a statement confirming…
In the midst of absolutely no internal chaos whatsoever, Twitter’s accessibility team launched a much-requested feature test. Ten percent of users, who make up the test group, will be served reminders to add image descriptions to their photo uploads. Image descriptions, or alt text, are exactly what they sound like: descriptions of what appears in…
It seems like every time a demo day ends, there’s a new one waiting around the corner – and as you know, TechCrunch is no stranger to covering them. Oftentimes these events are filled with traditional seed-stage tech companies based in Silicon Valley. But today, we’re highlighting the demo day for a new wave of…
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SAVE $580: Get the Schwinn Mendocino hybrid electric beach cruiser for $1,119.99, its lowest price ever, for Prime Day 2022. It’s usually $1,699.99, so that’s 34% off. If gas prices have got you feeling down, there’s no better time to invest in an e-bike. It’s Prime Day, after all, and the deals aren’t just on…
There’s a very small window in the sales period where things are nearly off sale, and that moment when you have to commit to a purchase is dangling, longingly, in front of you. These deals are now running out for the Amazon Prime Day 2022 sales, and they likely won’t go this low again until…
So, it’s crunch time, and faced with a difficult choice: you must stare down the nozzle of your upright or stick vacuum and ask yourself – can I be bothered to keep doing this myself? Can I bear to keep manually vacuuming my floors when I know there is a better way? Enter Amazon Prime…