Vine reboot Byte officially launches – TechCrunch
Two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android. Byte lets you...
Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok – TechCrunch
Welcome back to ThisWeek in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry...
Yo Facebook & Instagram, stop showing Stories reruns – TechCrunch
If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as “watched” at the back of the Stories row on the other...
TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019 – TechCrunch
Facebook spying on teens, Twitter accounts hijacked by terrorists, and sexual abuse imagery found on Bing and Giphy were amongst the ugly truths revealed by TechCrunch’s investigating reporting in 2019....
Samsung’s Lite devices bring the headphone jack to flagship design (sort of) – TechCrunch
Some devices need no explanation. The Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite are no such devices. They’re more nebulous, walking an interesting line, between premium and mid-range. They’re a...
India’s Reliance Jio rolls out Wi-Fi calling feature – TechCrunch
Two of the top three telecom operators in India are beginning to address one of the biggest challenges hundreds of millions of their subscribers face in the country each day:...
Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app – TechCrunch
At most, 7 million of Instagram’s 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch. And now, Instagram’s main app is removing the annoying...
Twitter’s new reply blockers could let Trump hide critics – TechCrunch
What if politicians could only display Twitter replies from their supporters while stopping everyone else from adding their analysis to the conversation? That’s the risk of Twitter’s upcoming Conversation Participants...
Twitter is bringing twttr’s experiments in threaded conversations to its main app – TechCrunch
At last year’s CES, Twitter introduced its first public prototype app, twttr — dubbed “little T” internally at Twitter. The app allows Twitter to develop and experiment with new features...
Oppo plans to showcase its foldable smartphone next February
Oppo has revealed it would be showing off its foldable smartphone at Mobile World Congress in 2019, Tweakers reports. In June, Gizmochina reported that Oppo patented a number of foldable...