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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’
Data streams with continual, real-time updates of information are a critical building block of how apps and sites function today, and now a startup that has built a platform to…
Sama taps into $70M to build ‘first end-to-end AI platform’ for training data
Sama is developing the first end-to-end AI tool for training data through machine learning.
Twitter expands API with support for posting and deleting tweets, Super Follows and more
Twitter has been steadily updating its rebuilt API following its mid-2020 relaunch. Most recently, the company added support for Twitter Spaces to its developer platform. Today, it’s announcing support that…
Ethyca raises $7.5M, open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases
Ethyca, the privacy-by-design technology startup that has built a unique set of APIs, detection tools and analytics to make it easier for organizations to adhere to data privacy policies like…
Visual workspace Whimsical closes first funding as it enters next phase of growth
Whimsical aims to make work collaborative, distributed and quick, enabling teams to create and share without having to open another tab or website.
Microsoft Teams gets 3D animated avatars, because metaverse
Microsoft wants a piece of the metaverse, too, so at its Ignite conference today, the company announced 3D avatars for those Teams meetings where you don’t want to be on…
WhatsApp brings its Business API to the cloud to speed adoption
WhatsApp will today begin beta testing a new, cloud-based version of its WhatsApp Business API, hosted on parent company Facebook’s infrastructure. With the shift to the cloud, the setup time…
Mark Zuckerberg takes thinly veiled shots at Apple for ‘stifling innovation’ via its platform policies
Facebook (aka “Meta”) CEO Mark Zuckerberg today took several thinly veiled shots at Apple and the overall app ecosystem when detailing his plans for the metaverse during today’s keynote speech…
Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta
Well, it’s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. Facebook’s corporate entity is now…
Zuckerberg on the Quest 2 as a fitness device — ‘It’s kind of like a Peloton’
Facebook wants the Quest 2 to be known as more than a game console for your face. At the company’s Facebook Connect developer conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted the company’s…
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is in development for Oculus Quest 2
During its big VR and AR-focused event Thursday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major new title headed to its VR platform that should turn a few heads.…
Soon you’ll be able to read incessant Slack messages without ever having to take off your VR headset. At Facebook’s Connect conference, the company showcased a new framework for bringing…
Facebook wants to make its Quest 2 headset a productivity device for a new generation of remote workers, but in order to pull that off, it needs apps. Today, Facebook…
Twitter Blue introduces ‘Labs’ to give users early access to new features
Twitter is rolling out a new feature called “Labs” for Twitter Blue, its premium subscription service. Labs will give Twitter Blue subscribers early access to features that Twitter is testing…
Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare
The new funding represents a “hyper growth moment” for the company, which is in position to bring in some $300 million in revenue this year.
Gluware raises $43M for ‘RPA’ tech that automatically detects and fixes anomalies in network configurations
Facebook’s network meltdown earlier this month — an outage that initially stemmed from a configuration error — was a huge pain for many users (and a big cost to Facebook). For…
Attest raises $60M to expand its no-code approach to research surveys as a service, which taps 110M consumers in 49 countries
Surveys have long been used by marketing teams and other business decision-makers to learn how customers tick. But they can be costly to put together, hard to run at scale,…
YouTube and Snapchat were asked to defend their apps’ age ratings in Senate hearing
YouTube and Snapchat were asked by lawmakers to defend whether or not their respective social media apps were appropriately rated on the U.S. app stores, given the nature of the…
Salesforce’s Kathy Baxter and Amazon’s Nashlie Sephus talk keeping AI ethical at enterprise scale
AI and big data are an important part of most enterprise-scale companies now, but that very scale can make it difficult to employ them safely and ethically. Kathy Baxter at…
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Inside the Realms of Ruin
“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. “You are cordially invited to join New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon, and Nicola Yoon in Realms of Ruin, a collaborative fantasy epic filled with dark magic, intrigue,…
Physical security startup HiveWatch lands $20M Series A, led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain
HiveWatch, an LA-based startup that uses multi-sensor fusion to help companies better respond to physical security threats, has secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Dick Costolo and…
Bild takes in funding to share, collaborate on hardware designs in the cloud
Bild, which came out of private beta, is streamlining the design review process so that hardware product releases can be developed faster.
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to permit developers to contact customers about other payment methods
Apple today introduced a new set of App Store Guidelines that include three key changes. One of the changes is the result of a previously announced settlement agreement with a…
Ethereum and the emergence of Web 3.0 paint a shifting picture — an internet not just private, but open and transparent by default.
NFT sci-fi card game Parallel raises at $500M valuation from Paradigm
It’s no secret that NFTs have been a hot space for crypto speculators in the Ethereum ecosystem to diversify their holdings, and while some see a golden opportunity to shill…
Roku warns customers contract negotiations with YouTube have failed
Roku shared a progress update today on its ongoing contract dispute with Google related to its attempt to renew the carriage agreement for YouTube TV, Google’s live TV streaming service.…
New Relic acquires CodeStream to provide chat in developer environments, inks Microsoft IDE partnership
New Relic, the observability platform, has made an acquisition and is launching a new service on the back of it to bring a new dimension into bigger strategy to bring…
Watch Edward Snowden launch Global Encryption Day, live today
Marginalized communities, survivors of abuse, politicians, law enforcement — they all use encrypted communications to keep their information safe. But the encryption of the kinds of services you and I…
Snapchat to introduce family safety tools to protect minors using its app
Following moves by major tech platforms to better protect minors using their platforms, Snapchat is preparing to introduce its own set of “family engagement” tools in the coming months. Snap…
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The red flag meme is a red flag for accessibility
If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve probably seen the red flag meme that’s going around — you quote a phrase that would be a “red flag” for someone to say to you, then add a bunch of red flag emojis. Twitter itself joined in on the fun, as well as brands like Dr. Pepper,…
