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Amid growing concerns around app addiction TikTok rolls out more screen tools

Tetrate nets 125 million to bring microservices to the corporate masses

Popchew cooks up creator partnership approach to digitally native local food brands

Deepfake video app Avatarify which process onphone plans digital watermark for videos

Snap snaps up database developer KeyDB to make its infrastructure more snappy

Zebra raises 11M in a preseed round for messaging that pairs photos with voice chat

PubNub raises 65M to build and run data streams for messaging presence and other realtime aspects of virtual spaces

Bumble makes its first acquisition with deal for French Gen Z dating app Fruitz

TikTokstyle dating app Desti filters matches by date destinations

TikTok taps Atmosphere to bring TikTok videos to out of home screens in commercial venues for the first time

Truecaller forays into live audio with its new Open Doors app

BeReal: Hype or hit What to know about the Gen Z photosharing app climbing the charts

Snapchat launches Memories and Explore Layers on Snap Map

Chinas ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes worlds most valuable startup

Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees on major new regime for Big Tech

Playbytes new app aims to become the TikTok for games

Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival Spotify Greenroom

Snap paid 250 million to creators on its TikTok clone this year

Facebook and Instagram went down again this afternoon

LiveKit cofounder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure

Popl tops 27M in sales for its technology that replaces business cards

Today last chance to snap up a TechCrunch Disrupt twoforone ticket

Daily Crunch: Indias Central Bank says cryptocurrency may even be worse than Ponzi schemes

Super Bowl ads boosted crypto app downloads by 279 led by Coinbase

Snapchats new Director Mode will help anyone become a video creator

VSCO acquires mobile app Trash to expand into AIpowered video editing

News aggregator SmartNews raises 230 million valuing its business at 2 billion

A Bluetooth bug in a popular athome COVID19 test could falsify results

EWA which taps into popular media to teach languages hits 51M downloads and 35M MAUs and raises its first outside funding

Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter

App Annie: Global app stores consumer spend up 19 to 170B in 2021 downloads grew 5 to 230B

Wisdom is a social audio app for opening access to mentorship

YouTube and Snapchat were asked to defend their apps age ratings in Senate hearing

Twitter said to have held acquisition talks with Clubhouse on potential 4B deal

Poparazzi hits 5M downloads a year after launch confirms its 15M Series A

An early TikTok exec just launched a dating app Spark

Snack a Tinder meets TikTok dating app opens to Gen Z investors

WhatsApp to launch Communities more structured group chats with admin controls

Poparazzi hypes itself to the top of the App Store

Metas NPE team takes a global focus with seedstage investments offices in emerging markets

Flox an app to help friend groups meet each other is wooing college students in NYC

Playground launches in beta to help creators cultivate community

9count maker of Wink and new dating app Summer scores additional funding

Messaging social network IRL hits unicorn status with SoftBankled 170M Series C

Greg an app for plantlovers grows 54 million in seed funding

Match names Zynga President Bernard Kim as CEO replacing Shar Dubey

Spotify rolls out podcast polls and QAs to creators and users worldwide

Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the connective tissue for realtime experiences

Snapchat Trying to profit off of its TikTok clone Say it aint so

Social subscription Snapchat is already faring better than Twitter Blue