TikTok begins blocking links to app store pages from creators’ bios

March 8, 2023

TikTok has begun blocking links to app stores in creators’ bios, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed. The block, which will have significant impact on CPI (cost per install) campaign deals between creators and brands, also extends to third-party link-in-bio solutions like Linktree. The change was first spotted by Sendit’s co-founder David Tesler, who remarked […]

TikTok begins blocking links to app store pages from creators’ bios by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Today’s startups should terrify you

March 8, 2023

A steady stream of new startups pitch their ideas, concepts, products and services on a daily basis to TechCrunch reporters: Startups that claim to predict when employees might want to leave for a new job; that think they can detect depression using someone’s voice; that experiment by using chatbots on patients with depression; that scrape […]

Today’s startups should terrify you by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Hear why Kleiner Perkins went all in on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global on TechCrunch Live

March 8, 2023

The best part of TechCrunch Live is that we grab folks who we chat with privately and bring those conversations to you as they happen. It’s a great way to tear the curtain back a bit and get unvarnished commentary from the folks building, and funding, what they consider to be the future. In that […]

Hear why Kleiner Perkins went all in on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify is revamping its podcaster tools, including Anchor, and is partnering with Patreon

March 8, 2023

In addition to news related to its mobile app’s revamp and the introduction of TikTok-style music and podcast discovery feeds, Spotify today announced podcast-focused news at its Stream On event in LA this morning. The company showed off a redesigned version of its Spotify for Podcasters dashboard which will now work to better organize its […]

Spotify is revamping its podcaster tools, including Anchor, and is partnering with Patreon by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Why Paying Women An Equal Wage Helps — Not Hurts — Your Business

March 8, 2023
Just 82 cents. That’s what the average woman makes for every $1 earned by a man in the United States in 2022. It’s a shocking but not surprising statistic, as women have been given increasingly more responsibilities and influence in the business world but have never received the same compensation.