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

TikTok parent ByteDance just bought a hospital group in China

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

Opal raises 43 million for its digital wellbeing assistant for iPhone

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

Instagram will require users to provide their birthday

SwoonMe uses avatars and audio for its less superficial dating app

Snapchat launches Memories and Explore Layers on Snap Map

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

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

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

Snap further invests in AR Shopping with dedicated inapp feature new tools for retailers

Chinas ByteDance leapfrogs Uber to becomes worlds most valuable startup

Reface now lets users faceswap into pics and GIFs they upload

LOral rolls out a line of virtual makeup

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

Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

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

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

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

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

Snap emphasizes commerce in updates to its camera and AR platforms

LiveKit cofounder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure

Snap had its best quarter in four years

How much is link in bio real estate worth Linktrees new valuation says 13 billion

Starship Technologies picks up 50M from the EUs investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots

Match names Zynga President Bernard Kim as CEO replacing Shar Dubey

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

Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month initially focused on Lens Creators

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

WhatsApp to launch Communities more structured group chats with admin controls

AtomChat secures new funding to capitalize on Latin American trend of sales through messaging

Popcorns new app brings shortform video to the workplace

Omnichannel customer messaging platform Superchat raises 156M round led by Blossom

Twitter is working on a podcasts tab

Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival Spotify Greenroom

Googles Message app can now handle iMessage reactions challenges Apple with new features

Playbytes new app aims to become the TikTok for games

TikTok updates its policies with focus on minor and LGBTQ safety age appropriate content and more

Snapchat adds My Places feature to Snap Map recommending spots to visit

Google Play launches its own privacy nutrition labels following similar effort by Apple

Clubhouse begins externally testing its Android app

Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

Spains Rosita Longevity an app that helps seniors be more active is headed to Florida

How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal

Playground launches in beta to help creators cultivate community

An early TikTok exec just launched a dating app Spark

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

Roblox buys digital avatar startup Loomai

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