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Twitter’s data leak response is a lesson in how not to do cybersecurity
For startups trying to avoid making the same mistake and running afoul of watchful US regulators: Watch what Musk-led Twitter is doing, and do the opposite.
Twitter’s data leak response is a lesson in how not to do cybersecurity by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Meta dodged a €4BN privacy fine over unlawful ads, argues GDPR complainant
A €390M privacy fine for Meta announced earlier this month in the European Union — for running behavioral ads on Facebook and Instagram in the region without a valid legal basis — was several billion dollars smaller than it should have been, and orders of magnitude too tiny to be a deterrent for others going […]
Meta dodged a €4BN privacy fine over unlawful ads, argues GDPR complainant by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Trunk extends its developer toolkit with CI analytics
Trunk, a startup that aims to build a toolkit that helps developers build and ship their code faster, today announced the launch of its latest product: CI Analytics. The new service helps developers understand how their CI Workflows (currently with a focus on GitHub Actions) perform in the real world — and if there are […]
Trunk extends its developer toolkit with CI analytics by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Apple Drops 2nd Generation HomePod With Theater Like Audio Experience
Link raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments
People are addicted to credit cards — and it’s no wonder, given the lucrative rewards that many of them offer. But for merchants, credit cards tend to be less appealing. That’s because they’re on the hook for interchange fees, or transaction fees a merchant’s bank must pay whenever a customer uses a card to make […]
Link raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Instagram’s new ‘Quiet Mode’ helps you take a break from the app
Instagram announced today it’s expanding its selection of time management tools with the launch of a new feature called “Quiet Mode.” The feature aims to reduce users’ anxiety about taking time off from the app by silencing incoming notifications, auto-replying to DMs, and setting your status to ‘In Quiet Mode’ to inform friends that you’re […]
Instagram’s new ‘Quiet Mode’ helps you take a break from the app by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign
In this third part of my five-part series, we’ll examine how to set up email marketing to push consumers through your funnel and drive conversions.
Teach yourself growth marketing: How to boot up an email marketing campaign by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed
Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. But users often have to listen to many songs just to find some likable tracks — that’s because they don’t have any control over the recommendation algorithm. Romanian developer duo Alex Ruber and Andrei Patru […]
Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile
Just a few days after announcing a significant round of layoffs that will impact 18,000 employees, Amazon is trying to find money wherever it can as the company announced that it would end AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a donation program that redirects 0.5% of the cost of all eligible products toward charities. It is a separate […]
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch