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Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier – TechCrunch

Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier – TechCrunch

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An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led by Reach Capital. Other investors in the new round include Rethink Impact, Homebrew, Ludlow Ventures, Afore Capital, and BBG Ventures, among others. With the new funds, Winnie has raised $6.5 million to date.

The San Francisco-based startup, which begun…

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UK election regulator calls for urgent law changes – TechCrunch

UK election regulator calls for urgent law changes – TechCrunch

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A report by the UK’s Electoral Commission has called for urgent changes in the law to increase transparency about how digital tools are being used for political campaigning, warning that an atmosphere of mistrust is threatening the democratic process.

The oversight body, which also regulates campaign spending, has spent the past year examining how digital campaigning was used in the UK’s…

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47 Famous Movie Scenes Before-And-After Special Effects

47 Famous Movie Scenes Before-And-After Special Effects

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We are not always privy to certain facts about our favorite films. All we see is the finished product. That’s why it is important to take the time to learn more about how they come together. The CGI that was used for these scenes is a sight to behold….

1. Look what she was petting! 2. Just try to look at this before and after from the Twilight saga without…

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Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaigns – TechCrunch

Facebook says it gave ‘identical support’ to Trump and Clinton campaigns – TechCrunch

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Facebook’s hundreds of pages of follow-ups to Senatorsmake for decidedly uninteresting reading. Give lawyers a couple of months and they will always find a way to respond non-substantively to the most penetrating questions. One section may at least help put a few rumors to rest about Facebook’s role in the 2016 presidential campaigns, though, of course, much is still left to the…

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Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories – TechCrunch

Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories – TechCrunch

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Instagram’s shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners. Since then it’s been a hit, expanding broadlyto regular brand posts in the feed. Starting today, hitting a little shopping bag sticker in a Story will lead you to more details on the cute and/or dope thing that caught your eye and how to…

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Amino raises $45M to bring fan communities to smartphones – TechCrunch

Amino raises $45M to bring fan communities to smartphones – TechCrunch

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Amino has raised a big Series C round of funding — $45 million from GV, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Goodwater Capital and Time Warner Investments, with Hearst Ventures joining as a new investor.

Co-founder and CEO Ben Anderson has described Amino as a way to help people who have “passionate niche interests” find others who feel the same way, via smartphone apps.

The company…

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Facebook demands advertisers have consent for email/phone targeting – TechCrunch

Facebook demands advertisers have consent for email/phone targeting – TechCrunch

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Facebook is hoping to avoid another privacy scandal by adding new accountability and transparency requirements for businesses that use its Custom Audiences too to target you with ads based on your email address or phone number. Starting July 2nd, advertisers will have to declare whether contact info uploaded for ad targeting was collected with proper user consent by them, one of…

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Facebook tests “subscription Groups” that charge for exclusive content – TechCrunch

Facebook tests “subscription Groups” that charge for exclusive content – TechCrunch

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Facebook is starting to let Group admins charge $4.99 to $29.99 per month for access to special sub-Groups full of exclusive posts. A hand-picked array of parenting, cooking, and ‘organize my home’ Groups will be the first to get the chance to spawn a subscription Group open to their members.

During the test, Facebook won’t be taking a cut, but since the feature bills through iOS and…

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Twitter wants to inject live events into every area of the app – TechCrunch

Twitter wants to inject live events into every area of the app – TechCrunch

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The chronological news feed has been a bit of a looming specter for Twitter . Sure, it’s their bread-and-butter, but it only works for users who are willing to put in the time to prune their own feeds and strip away follows while constantly keeping an eye out for new accounts. For Twitter, a major challenge is discovering how they can update the experience for casual users who follow…

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Musical.ly kills its standalone live-streaming app Live.ly – TechCrunch

Musical.ly kills its standalone live-streaming app Live.ly – TechCrunch

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Musical.ly is merging the functionality from its two-year old live-streaming platform Live.ly into its main app, and has disabled Live.ly’s standalone app as part of the transition process. The Live.ly app will eventually be pulled from the App Store and Google Play, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Instead of being able to go live, Live.ly users are presented with a message…

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Snapchat launches privacy-safe Snap Kit, the un-Facebook platform – TechCrunch

Snapchat launches privacy-safe Snap Kit, the un-Facebook platform – TechCrunch

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Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch’s scoop from last month about Snap Kit. This set of APIs lets other apps piggyback on Snap’s login for sign up, build Bitmoji avatars into their keyboards, display public Our Stories and Snap Map content, and generate branded stickers with referral links users can share back inside Snapchat.

Snap Kit’s big…

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Facebook’s longtime head of policy and comms steps down – TechCrunch

Facebook’s longtime head of policy and comms steps down – TechCrunch

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A prominent figure that helped shape Facebook public perception over the course of the last decade is on the way out. In a Facebook post today, Elliot Schrage, vice president of communications and public policy, announced his departure.

Schrage joined the company in 2008after leaving his position in the same role at Google. He had come under fire over the last year at Facebook for his…

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Gmail proves that some people hate smart suggestions – TechCrunch

Gmail proves that some people hate smart suggestions – TechCrunch

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Gmail has recently introduced a brand new redesign. While you can disable or ignore most of the new features, Gmail has started resurfacing old unanswered emails with a suggestion that you should reply. And this is what it looks like:

The orange text immediately grabs your attention. By bumping the email thread to the top of your inbox, Gmails also breaks the chronological order of…

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Crown, a new app from Tinder’s parent company, turns dating into a game – TechCrunch

Crown, a new app from Tinder’s parent company, turns dating into a game – TechCrunch

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If you’re already resentful of online dating culture and how it turned finding companionship into a game, you may not be quite ready for this: Crown, a new dating app that actually turns getting matches into a game. Crown is the latest project to launch from Match Group, the operator of a number of dating sites and apps including Match, Tinder, Plenty of Fish, OK Cupid, and others.

The…

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First look at Instagram’s self-policing Time Well Spent tool – TechCrunch

First look at Instagram’s self-policing Time Well Spent tool – TechCrunch

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Are you Overgramming? Instagram is stepping up to help you manage overuse rather than leaving it to iOS and Android’s new screen time dashboards. After TechCrunch first reported Instagram was prototyping a Usage Insights feature last month, the Facebook sub-company’s CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed its forthcoming launch.

Tweeting our article, Systrom wrote, “It’s true . . . We’re…

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Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture – TechCrunch

Prisma co-founders raise $1M to build a social app called Capture – TechCrunch

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Two of the co-founders of the art filter app Prisma have left to build a new social app.

Prisma, as you may recall, had a viral moment back in 2016 when selfie takers went crazy for the fine art spin the app’s AI put on photos — in just a few seconds of processing.

Downloads leapt, art selfies flooded Instagram, and similar arty effects soon found their way into all sorts of rival apps…

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Bet money on yourself with Proveit, the 1-vs-1 trivia app – TechCrunch

Bet money on yourself with Proveit, the 1-vs-1 trivia app – TechCrunch

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Pick a category, wager a few dollars and double your money in 60 seconds if you’re smarter and faster than your opponent. Proveit offers a fresh take on trivia and game show apps by letting you win or lose cash on quick 10-question, multiple choice quizzes. Sick of waiting to battle a million people on HQ for a chance at a fraction of the jackpot? Play one-on-one anytime you want or…