June 17, 2025

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.

Secure messaging apps line up to warn UK’s Online Safety Bill risks web security

March 10, 2023

Secure messaging apps are lining up to opposite measures in the UK government’s Online Safety Bill (OSB) they argue will do the opposite of promoting online safety by undermining the robust encryption web users rely upon to safeguard their communications. Meta-owned WhatsApp, the not-for-profit Signal Foundation behind the Signal app, Element, which operates the decentalized […]

Secure messaging apps line up to warn UK’s Online Safety Bill risks web security by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

US strengthens tech ties with India but doesn’t seek decoupling from China, Raimondo says

March 10, 2023

The U.S. government is not seeking to “decouple” from China, nor is it seeking “technological decoupling,” but Washington “would like to see India achieve its aspirations to play a larger role in the electronics supply chain,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on Friday. On its part, the U.S. signed a memorandum of understanding with […]

US strengthens tech ties with India but doesn’t seek decoupling from China, Raimondo says by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

March 10, 2023

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. One of the core challenges is that it has traditionally been hard to do agile hardware product development — even if you get everything ‘right,’ how do you know that people actually want one of the 20,000 gizmos you […]

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Roku partners with Best Buy and its advertising business to get first-party shopper data

March 10, 2023

Roku and Best Buy announced today that as part of their new first-to-market partnership, Roku gets access to Best Buy’s advertising platform. Also, Best Buy customers have exclusive access to Roku-branded TVs. The relationship is a first for Best Buy since it’s never partnered with a TV streaming platform to provide its first-party sales data. […]

Roku partners with Best Buy and its advertising business to get first-party shopper data by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch