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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: ByteDance launches Douyin Box, a fashion-focused shopping app in China akin to its Fanno app in Europe, betting on the Gen Z trend of buying on influencer tips — The stand-alone Douyin Box app signals that ByteDance, the world's most valuable start-up, is...

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of...

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: TikTok launches a Discord server with five moderators, as brands use the messaging tool to forge a sense of community, including Wendy's with 60K+ Discord users — Many brands are using the messaging app Discord to forge a sense of community among their fans.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google launches Qaya, its latest project from in-house incubator Area 120, which helps US creators set up online storefronts to sell directly to customers — A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new...

A team at Google is today launching a new service called Qaya, which will allow creators to easily set up new web storefronts where they can sell their products and services directly to their audiences. The project is the latest to emerge from Google’s in-house project incubator, Area 120, which...

Martin Matishak / The Record: The US Department of Homeland Security launches “Hack DHS”, a bug bounty program that will pay hackers $500 to $5,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its systems — The Homeland Security Department has launched a bug bounty program that will allow hackers to report...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a permanent "Hack DHS" program following a successful pilot, which will allow vetted cybe... | Read the rest of https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1863231&goto=newpost

Charmaine D'Silva / The Keyword: Google details Android 12 Go edition, coming to low-end phones in 2022 with faster app launches, longer battery life, better sharing, and more privacy controls — Android (Go edition) launched in 2017 with the goal to help more people access the best of Android...

Mia Sato / The Verge: Snap launches a preview of Story Studio, a standalone video editing app for iOS, aimed at users who make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — The app is for users wanting to make more professional content, like Spotlight creators — Snap has launched a...

Apple is now rolling out access to its new, lower-cost Apple Music Voice plan, first introduced this fall at the company’s hardware event. The new service, designed largely for use with HomePod speakers or AirPods, limits consumers to accessing Apple Music using Siri commands. Due to its...

Mohak Shroff / Official LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn launches InCareer, a mobile and web app to help professionals in China find jobs, two months after shutting down the local version of LinkedIn in China — Exactly two months ago, we announced that we were moving into a new chapter in China...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Adobe launches Creative Cloud Express, a mobile and web app to help create social media content, available for free or $9.99/month with more advanced templates — Adobe today launched Creative Cloud Express, a new mobile and web app that brings some of the best...

Adobe today launched Creative Cloud Express, a new mobile and web app that brings some of the best features of the company’s sprawling Creative Cloud Suite and Acrobat PDF tools into a single application to help users quickly create anything from social media posts to promotional posters and...

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Meta launches new tools for creators and says it is testing live chat help for some English-speaking users globally who are locked out of their accounts — Better customer support for creators and average users alike — Despite eagerly participating in a platform...

Bloomberg: Coinbase launches a DeFi yield product for non-US customers in over 70 countries, after US regulators effectively killed plans for its Lend program in September — - U.S. regulators effectively shut down Lend program earlier — Holdings to be deposited into the Compound Finance protocol

Netflix has launched a new website called “Tudum,” which will host consumer news about renewals, release dates and extra content featuring its TV shows and movies. The company is marketing the website as “a place to discover more about your Netflix favorites.” For a more curated experience...

Mariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Niantic buys gameplay recording app Lowkey to improve its in-game social experience Apple’s mixed reality headset may be a standalone device A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off with...

Razorpay is making it more convenient for users to pay businesses with a faster checkout option as the leading Indian payments infrastructure giant pushes to win a bigger slice of the world’s second largest internet market. The new feature, called Magic Checkout, saves shopper’s information —...

Fintech startup Klarna is launching a desktop browser extension that provides many of the features that you can find in the company’s mobile app — but on your computer. In addition to the ability to manage your Klarna payments, the extension automatically applies coupon codes when you’re on a...