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Founder Brandon Landry spent two decades proving Walk-On’s needed big restaurants. Now he’s betting the opposite is true.

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Sling TV’s subscriber base continues to tank, loses over 75K subs in Q4

January 19, 2023

Sling TV, the DISH-owned streaming service, finished the year off with a substantial drop in subscribers, ending Q4 2022 with a loss of 77,000 subs. As reported in an SEC filing on January 17, Sling TV now has a total of 2.33 million subscribers, down from 2.41 million in the previous quarter. While the company […]

Sling TV’s subscriber base continues to tank, loses over 75K subs in Q4 by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Meta dodged a €4BN privacy fine over unlawful ads, argues GDPR complainant

January 19, 2023

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

January 19, 2023

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

Link raises $30M to help merchants accept direct bank payments

January 19, 2023

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

January 19, 2023

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

Smores is a music discovery app with a TikTok-like feed

January 19, 2023

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