LinkedIn will end its China local jobs app and cut 716 jobs. LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky wrote today that “fierce competition and a challenging macroeconomic climate” forced the closure of InCareer, a standalone China app. LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft and with 20,000 employees, plans to add 250 jobs in some …

IBM, like most tech giants, is betting big on AI. IBM Watsonx, a new platform for building AI models and accessing pretrained models for generating code, text, and more, was announced at its annual Think conference. It’s a slap in the face to IBM’s back-office managers, who were recently told …

With the launch of Fire TV Channels this week, Amazon is doubling down on free, ad-supported content. Fire TV Channels will now be updated throughout the day and integrated into Home Screen rows, the “Free” tab, and genre-specific pages on Fire TV. Fire TV also has a new Travel category …

Reddit today disclosed that it will start charging for use of its API, following Twitter’s decision to limit third-party access to its data. It’s not a general policy adjustment. The New York Times reported that researchers who want to study Reddit for strictly academic or noncommercial purposes as well as …

Samsung launched a “Samsung News” app today that provides daily news from multiple publications. The software, which will replace “Samsung Free,” features personalised news feeds and morning and evening briefings on important news. Samsung Free, which provides news, podcasts, live TV, and games, will become Samsung News. Like Apple News, …

Amazon enters generative AI. Instead of building AI models, it’s recruiting third parties to host them on AWS. Amazon Bedrock lets developers build generative AI apps using pretrained models from startups like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI. Bedrock offers AWS-trained Titan FMs (foundation models) in a “limited preview.” “Applying …

Visa is working with several financial service and payment companies to create an interoperable peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service that lets people send money to friends regardless of their payment service. Digital payments have revolutionized commerce, but the sheer number of payment apps has made sending money to others difficult. Both …

Today YouTube begins NFL Sunday Ticket presales. The season-long add-on costs $249 for YouTube TV Base subscribers. NFL Sunday Ticket and NFL RedZone bundles are $289 for the season during presales. The streaming company will raise both packages by $100 after the presale period ends on June 6. All local, …

Today, YouTube Premium, the $11.99 ad-free version of YouTube, is adding features to attract and retain customers. Most significantly, the subscription plan will now include higher-quality video for web and iOS users, support for co-watching videos on FaceTime using Apple’s SharePlay, and mobile queue controls. Although many people don’t know …

Today, Google revealed a new account termination policy for Android applications that create accounts. The corporation will enforce this regulation early next year. This follows Apple’s June 30, 2022 App Store regulation. By December 7, the firm will need developers to answer data deletion questions in the Data Safety form. …