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Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive

November 23, 2022

Shadow is now officially a tech company with two different products. In addition to its cloud computing service that works particularly well for games, the company is launching Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. “It’s now been a year and a half since Octave Klaba acquired Blade with a vision: take down […]

Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts

November 23, 2022

YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts — the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The details were first published in a new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider […]

YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Meta’s VR remains under antitrust abuse watch in Germany

November 23, 2022

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is claiming credit for Meta untying its virtual reality headsets from its social accounts — a change of direction the company announced back in August, when it began to roll out Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles, saying these accounts could be used to log into its virtual reality products […]

Meta’s VR remains under antitrust abuse watch in Germany by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Tech’s homogeneity problem

November 23, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single person, think about their work and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha interviewed Karla Monterroso, a long time leadership coach, racial equity advocate and the […]

Tech’s homogeneity problem by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Hulu subscribers are now able to stream the first two episodes of ‘Andor’

November 23, 2022

Starting today, November 23, “Star Wars” fans can stream the first two episodes of Disney+’s  “Andor” on Hulu. Just ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S., Hulu subscribers have access to episode 1, “Kassa,” and episode 2, “That Would Be Me,” until December 7. Also, the first two episodes will air across three Disney-owned networks ABC, […]

Hulu subscribers are now able to stream the first two episodes of ‘Andor’ by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa

November 23, 2022

Smartphone shipments have been declining in what has been a rough year for mobile handsets, and that’s meant even more pressure on an already-precarious sliver of the mobile market: feature phones. Today, one of the players in that space, the feature phone operating system startup KaiOS, is getting a small financial injection that both speaks […]

KaiOS, the feature phone platform startup, raises a modest $3.4M to train its sights on growth in Africa by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch