February 2024

Spotify now the No. 2 audiobook provider, behind Audible, hints at Daylist inspired-suggestions to come

February 6, 2024

Late last year, Spotify began offering 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to its Premium subscribers in select markets, including the U.S. Now the company says the new service is the second-largest audiobook provider behind Amazon-owned Audible — something Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said was notable “given how entrenched the legacy players are.” During its […]

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LinkedIn’s new feature nudges users to reach out to people in their network

February 6, 2024

LinkedIn users have a ton of connections in their network, but they don’t reach out to a lot of them regularly. The professional social network is trying to make that happen through a new tab called “Catch Up” in the redesigned My Network section. The new “Catch Up” tab will highlight things from your connections […]

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Meta announces new updates to help teens on its platforms combat sextortion

February 6, 2024

Meta is introducing a few new updates and efforts to help teens on its platforms combat sextortion, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, Meta announced expanded availability of Take it Down, which is an online tool that it helps finance and is run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The […]

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Mozilla Monitor’s new service removes your personal info from data broker sites automatically

February 6, 2024

Mozilla today is introducing a new subscription service that will help people locate and remove their personal and sensitive information from data broker websites around the web. This includes the ability to remove your phone number, email, home address, and other information that is exposed on data broker websites and sold for profit, the company […]

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Jam’s out to revitalize and enhance internal bug reporting

February 6, 2024

Most internal bug fixing workflows are entirely disconnected from the activity that triggered the bug, consisting mostly of written reports from users. Jam’s founders wanted to change that by automatically collecting a bunch of information related to the bug and delivering a complete package to engineering with the goal of fixing bugs much faster. Today, […]

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