Snapchat officially introduces its paid subscription at $3.99 per month
Snapchat officially launched its paid subscription plan called Snapchat+ today that will offer exclusive features like the ability to change the app icon and being able to see which people have rewatc
Leverage, red flags and a changing venture landscape
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This Week in Apps: Twitter Notes, Instagram age verification, Spotify’s Live Events
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. The app industry continues to grow, with a re
What do you call the opposite of the startup halo effect?
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Twitter rolls out its closed caption toggle on iOS and Android, tests new ways to start Spaces
Twitter announced this week that it’s introducing a few new features for users. Most notably, the social media giant is rolling out its closed caption toggle to all users on iOS and Android. Twi
Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer
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Twitter officially rolls out its long-form content ‘Notes’ feature
Twitter announced today that it has begun testing “Notes,” a way to write and publish long-form content on the social media platform. The official announcement comes a day after TechCrunch
Twitter partners with Shopify to bring merchants’ products to Twitter Shopping
As part of its ongoing efforts to expand into e-commerce, Twitter today announced a new partnership with Shopify. The deal will see Twitter launching a sales channel app that will be made available to
Daily Crunch: With $153M Series C, LeadSquared becomes India’s newest unicorn
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Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (Update: confirmed)
In what could be one of Twitter’s more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the
Twitter is bringing back its long-lost Chirp Developer Conference in November
As Twitter continues to woo developers back to its platform, the company today announced the return of its developer conference, Chirp. The event was first held in 2010 but was then canceled the very
The fintech funding market is not dead
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Twitter asks shareholders to approve the $44 billion Elon Musk takeover
Twitter’s board wants the $44 billion Elon Musk takeover completed, which is why it’s asking its shareholders to approve the deal, according to a new regulatory filing. The board states in
Another brutal week for crypto and crypto companies
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SpaceX said to have fired employees behind company-wide letter criticizing Elon Musk
SpaceX moved quickly to terminate at least some of the employees involved in the open letter circulated through the company’s internal communications system this past Wednesday, The New York Tim
In all-hands Twitter call, Elon Musk fields questions about free speech and bots
As Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time in an all-hands Q&A meeting, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO provided some more details about his plans for the social platform. When Musk firs
Elon Musk tells Twitter employees he wants to be involved in product
In a company-wide Twitter call today, presumptive buyer Elon Musk answered questions from “tweeps” for the first time. Will the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s $44 billion offer to buy Twitte
A new study suggests 33% of US Twitter users post about politics
A new study from the Pew Research Center noted that out of 25% of adult Americans using Twitter, 33% tweet about politics, up from 13% in 2019. The report highlighted that while only 24% of American T
Twitter now allows local businesses to display location, hours and contact info on their profiles
Twitter’s expanding its suite of offerings for businesses with a new feature called Location Spotlight for professional accounts, the company announced on Tuesday. Now, local stores can display
Nigeria’s internet regulator releases draft to regulate Google, Facebook, TikTok and others
Nigeria has announced plans to regulate internet companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram (all owned by Meta), Twitter, Google and TikTok in a draft shared by the country’s internet regulator.