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Discord acquires Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens

The messaging platform Discord announced its acquisition of Gas, an app that’s popular among teens for its positive spin on…

2 years ago

Oversight Board presses Meta to revise ‘convoluted and poorly defined’ nudity policy

Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown of two posts that depicted…

2 years ago

Putting numbers on the global venture slowdown

“Tell me something I don’t know,” was my first reaction when reports on venture capital in 2022 hit my inbox…

2 years ago

2022 global smartphone shipments were the lowest in nearly a decade

One of these days I’ll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that…

2 years ago

Twitter rivals, unicorn trivia and valuation homework

Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.…

2 years ago

UK privacy watchdog silent as Google flicks off critique its Topics API fails to reform ad-tracking

Late last week it emerged Google intends to ignore a call by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the…

2 years ago

Delphia co-founder placed on leave after sexual assault allegations from former employee

Delphia, a mobile investment platform, is facing a lawsuit and allegations that its co-founder and CTO Cameron Agius-Westland sexually assaulted…

2 years ago

HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ gets a warm welcome with 4.7M U.S. viewers

“The Last of Us” made its debut last night on HBO and HBO Max. The series premiere garnered 4.7 million…

2 years ago

Clearco co-founder Michele Romanow steps down, cuts 30% of staff

In pursuit of profits, Clearco co-founder Michele Romanow has stepped down as chief executive of the company around a year…

2 years ago

TechCrunch+ roundup: Space tech predictions, startup IP strategy, finding feasible funding

I once aspired to own San Francisco real estate. Now, I’m only interested in acquiring intellectual property. Case in point:…

2 years ago