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Redbox enters the free, ad-supported streaming market

Redbox has entered the ad-supported streaming market with the launch of Redbox Free Live TV. The company, best known for its DVD rental kiosks, has been dabbling with streaming for years as consumer d

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Smart speaker sales reached new record of 146.9M in 2019, up 70% from 2018

Global smart speaker sales hit a record high last year with shipments of 146.9 million units, up 70% over 2018, according to a recent report on the state of the smart s

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Hungary state-run clinics to offer free IVF treatment

03:02 Hungarian couples struggling to have a baby are welcoming a new policy that makes fertility treatment free, but critics say the state is pushing private clinics out of the market

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Spotlight: Hollywood's 2020 awards season shows latest trends

Bong Joon-ho holds two of the four Oscars, including Best Picture, won by "Parasite" at the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, the United

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This Week in Apps: YouTube TV cancels Apple’s rev share, more bad news for mobile voting, WhatsApp hits 2B users

Welcome back to This Week 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 is as hot as ever, wit

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FTC votes to review influencer marketing rules & penalties

Undisclosed influencer marketing posts on social media should trigger financial penalties, according to a statement released today by the Federal Trade Commission’s Rohit Chopra. The FTC has jus

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Ofcom set for new powers to regulate harmful social media content

A Tory senior committee chair says the announcement "fails to demonstrate the urgency that is required".

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Caffeine inks exclusive agreement with Drake preps Ultimate Rap League for launch

Two years after getting a $100 million commitment from 21st Century Fox to build a mobile-based live streaming platform that could compete with Twitch, the startup Caffeine has scored another coup b

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Daily Crunch: SiriusXM backs SoundCloud

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, y

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Music streaming pioneer SoundCloud raises $75M from Pandora owner SiriusXM

SoundCloud, the music streaming company that has at times been described as the “YouTube of audio” because of its profusion of user-generated content, has some big, str

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"Time for solidarity": German video blogger voices support for China's fight against epidemic

Screenshot of the video uploaded to YouTube by German video blogger Tobias Dominiczak. "Millions of people work together on one thing. They give everything they can. They completely limit their lives

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Streaming accounts for nearly one-fifth of total U.S. TV watching, according to Nielsen

Streaming eats up a big chunk of viewers’ time, though it’s still outweighed by traditional linear TV.That’s according to the latest Total Audience Report from Nielsen — its first T

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Web traffic increases in 2019 were driven by mobile; top 100 sites saw average of 223B monthly visits

Mobile adoption around the world is having a significant impact on the web’s traffic. According to a new report from SimilarWeb, out today, mobile web traffic has jumped 30.6% since 2017, while

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Sony latest phone maker to pull out of MWC over coronavirus outbreak

Japanese electronics firm Sony is the latest phone maker to announce it’s withdrawing from the Mobile World Congress (MWC) tradeshow — citing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak.R

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California’s new privacy law is off to a rocky start

California’s new privacy law was years in the making.The law, California’s Consumer Privacy Act — or CCPA — became law on January 1, allowing state residents to reclaim their right to acce

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How Nicki Minaj, Cardi B and other women a breaking rap's old molds

Rappers (L-R) Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj and Cardi B are among the women making waves in the rap world. /AFP Photo Long stereotyped as a boys' club, not least for its braggadocious lyric

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Instagram prototypes letting IGTV creators monetize with ads

Instagram may finally let IGTV video makers earn money 18 months after launching the longer-form content hub. Instagram confirms to TechCrunch that it has internally prototyped an Instagram Partner P