Instagram adds a captions option for Stories and soon, Reels – TechCrunch
Instagram is making its video Stories and Reels more accessible with the launch of a new “captions sticker” that will allow users to watch without having the sound on. The...
Twitter acquires distraction-free reading service Scroll to beef up its subscription product – TechCrunch
Twitter this morning announced it’s acquiring Scroll, a subscription service that offers readers a better way to read through long-form content on the web, by removing ads and other website...
Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A – TechCrunch
Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming...
alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the unbanked, raises $5.5M – TechCrunch
It looks like everyone and their mother is trying to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. Earlier this year we wrote about Nubank’s $400 million Series G, last month there was...
Amazon’s over-the-top business, including IMDb TV and Twitch, tops 120M monthly viewers – TechCrunch
Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV is getting its own mobile app. The company announced the news today at its first-ever Newfront’s presentation to advertisers, where it also shared...
Digital comics startup Madefire is shutting down – TechCrunch
R.I.P. Madefire, a startup that recruited high-profile artists to reinvent comics for new formats and platforms. An announcement on the Madefire website states the company entered into “an assignment of...
MoviePass co-founder’s PreShow Interactive raises $3M to expand into gaming – TechCrunch
PreShow Interactive is giving gamers a new way to earn in-game currency in exchange for watching ads — a concept that’s become familiar in mobile games but hasn’t really made...
Smartphone shipments jumped 27% globally in Q1 – TechCrunch
More good news from a smartphone market currently rebounding from the far reaching impacts of the pandemic. New numbers from Canalys put global shipments for Q1 2021 at 27% above...
Vivid Money raises $73 million to build a European financial super app – TechCrunch
German startup Vivid Money has raised a new $73 million Series B funding round (€60 million) led by Greenoaks with existing investor Ribbit Capital also participating. Following today’s funding round,...
Uber adds vaccine booking – TechCrunch
Uber unveils half a dozen new features, Samsung announces a new flagship laptop and Zomato files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for April 28, 2021. The big...