Software

According to four people with knowledge of the situation, Amazon is in talks with Times Internet to investigate buying MX Player, one of the biggest on-demand video streaming services in India, as the American e-commerce company looks to expand its entertainment ambitions in the important international market. Three sources warned …

Text messaging has just become a new method of shopping at Walmart. The retail behemoth just last month introduced its “Text to Shop” service, allowing mobile shoppers on iOS and Android devices to text Walmart the goods they wish to buy from local stores or Walmart.com, as well as quickly …

Android users can now lock their incognito sessions with a password code or biometric data when they exit the app thanks to a new Chrome update that is currently rolling out. The feature has long been accessible to iOS users, but it is now also being made available to Android …

A co-founder of Twitter has joined the board of Chroma, a startup developing a brand-new genre of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices. Biz Stone, who co-founded Twitter and Medium and was previously an angel investor in Chroma alongside the founders of Pinterest, joined the company’s board of directors today, …

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, fintech startup Stripe has given itself a 12-month deadline to go public, either through a direct listing or by pursuing a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer. The news, which was first reported by …

The $40 million Series B round was led by NEA and included Homebrew, JSV, Harrison Metal, and Cooley. Crowdbotics is a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures. The additional funding will be used to increase Crowdbotics’ enterprise presence, grow the company’s product line, and invest in …

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter and a self-described “free speech absolutist,” is up for legal action in Germany because of how the social media site handles hate speech against Jews. HateAid, a group that fights against hate speech, and the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) have filed a …

Update: Microsoft’s services are back online after a downtime of more than four hours as of January 25, 2023, at 7:15 PM IST. To reflect that, the headline has been altered. The company stated on the website for its Azure cloud service, “We determined that a change made to the …

Even though our privacy protections are rapidly evolving, accessing the internet can still give snoops and thieves a foot in the door. A gives you back control over your data and provides an always-on, simple-to-use tool. By connecting to a server owned by the network before you log into a …

A public beta of WhatsApp’s native macOS app that works with Apple Silicon has been made available. Users running macOS 11 Big Sur or later versions on Macs powered by Apple’s own chip will be able to download the test version. Additionally, this native app will work with Intel Macs …