Elon Musk buying Twitter after all, the ‘next Mark Zuckerberg’ and fare thee well, Stadia

October 8, 2022

Hi all! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly sum up some of the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. The goal? Even when you’re swamped, a quick skim of WiR on Saturday morning should give you a pretty good understanding of what happened in tech this week. Want […]

Elon Musk buying Twitter after all, the ‘next Mark Zuckerberg’ and fare thee well, Stadia by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables

October 8, 2022

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s X app for ‘everything’ might be a non-starter in the US

October 8, 2022

As Elon Musk again nears a deal to buy Twitter, speculation is resurfacing around how the billionaire plans to transform the social network. Musk’s tweet this week offered a clue: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” While Musk didn’t elaborate on what X would look like, many reckon he’s aspiring […]

Elon Musk’s X app for ‘everything’ might be a non-starter in the US by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt

October 8, 2022

In a world filled with bad actors and snooping governments, surveillance is the one factor that affects almost every business across the globe. While companies like Apple, Signal and LastPass fight against surveillance using end-to-end encryption and by shunning mass data collection — you can’t hand over data you don’t have — too many companies, […]

ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch