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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

Vise, a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that its bringing on Andrew Fong as its Chief Technology Officer.Fong

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S. Korean Mukbanger under fire in China over fermented cabbage row

A popular South Korean Mukbang host has found herself in a pickle with her fans in China after being sucked into a months-long spat over kimchi between the two countries' internet users.Hamzy post

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This Week in Apps: Parler deplatformed, alt apps rise, looking back at 2020 trends

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app industry is as hot as ever, with a rec

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What do China and the U.S. have in common?

05:05 What trending on social media in China. These two guys can tell you. If you are interested check out Pandaorma athttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtX_OD8abgOsEn0i8Or6ibQCheck out

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Crossbeam raises $25M to back startups built on ‘platform economies’

While many venture capitalists might hope to fund the next Amazon or Shopify, Crossbeam is a new firm focused on backing the startups built on top of these platforms. And it recently closed its $25 mi

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Proud Boys, the Western chauvinist men's club on 'stand by'

A flag of the Proud Boys, a far-right neo-fascist organization, is seen as Donald Trump supporters gather for a Donald Trump Cruise Rally at Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon, U.S., Septembe

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Snapchat permanently bans President Trump’s account

Quite a bit has happened since Snapchat announced last week that it was indefinitely locking President Trump’s Snapchat account. After temporary bans from his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube acc

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Snapchat permanently bans President Trump’s account

Quite a bit has happened since Snapchat announced last week that it was indefinitely locking President Trump’s Snapchat account. After temporary bans from his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube acc

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Blue Origin set to launch a New Shepard rocket outfitted with crew upgrades as it readies for astronaut flight

Blue Origin is set to launch one of its New Shepard rockets as early as tomorrow, January 14 at 9:45 AM CST (10:45 AM EST) for its first mission of 2021. This is a big one for the Jeff Bezos-founded s

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YouTube puts a temporary freeze on uploads to Trump’s channel

YouTube has been the slowest of the big social media platforms to react to the threat of letting president Trump continue to use its platform as a megaphone to whip up insurrection in the wake of the

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App stores saw record 218 billion downloads in 2020, consumer spend of $143 billion

Mobile adoption continued to grow in 2020, in part due to the market forces of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to App Annie’s annual “State of Mobile” industry report, mobile app do

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YouTube removes new content uploaded to Trump's channel

YouTube has removed new content uploaded to U.S. President Donald Trump's channel as it violated policies for inciting violence, the company said late on Tuesday.The channel is now prevented from upl

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Descript raises $30M to build the next generation of video and audio editing tools

The popularity of podcasting and online video shows no signs of slowing down, and so we continue to see a wave of creators publishing a profusion of audio and video content to fill out the airwaves. T

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Study finds around one-third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook

Around a third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook, according to the latest study from Pew Research Center, whose surveys aim to better understand the current media landscape in the U.

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Twitter stock tumbles as Trump ban puts social media in spotlight

Twitter's stock tumbled over 6 percent on Monday after its move to permanently suspend U.S. President Donald Trump's widely-followed account spurred concern among investors over the future regulation

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The Capitol riot and its aftermath makes the case for tech regulation more urgent, but no simpler

Last week and throughout the weekend, technology companies took the historic step of deplatforming the president of the United States in the wake of a riot in which the US Capitol was stormed by a col