Daily Archives: January 28, 2021

The GameStop stock saga continues, Apple releases more details about its privacy changes and Qualtrics goes public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 28, 2021. The big story: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading Robinhood has responded to an upsurge in retail investors buying shares in companies like GameStop, AMC and Blockbuster by restricting trading on […]

Daily Crunch: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading

This entry was posted in Apps Finance Mobile Robinhood on January 28, 2021 by Anthony Ha

An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloë Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Described as a membership-based community, the app aims to connect womxn using storytelling — including through both live video chat sessions as well as with pre-recorded stories that are available at any time. […]

Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app ...

This entry was posted in Apps iOS apps networking Social social networking Startups TC and tagged snapchat social media on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Perez

Three of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run on stocks including GameStop (GME) and AMC, among others, have removed all restrictions on their exchange by their users. M1, Webull and Public had restricted transactions for the affected stocks earlier […]

Webull, M1 and Public remove restrictions on ‘meme stocks’ after ...

This entry was posted in anthony noto California ceo Finance Reddit Robinhood Social TC Yahoo and tagged social media on January 28, 2021 by Darrell Etherington

New numbers from Canalys show a slowing in the major smartphone decline we saw for 2020. The past year was, of course, a major blow to an industry already suffering a slide. Hope that the arrival of 5G would right the ship were dashed by Covid-19. Things are looking up, fueled in large part by […]

Smartphone sales slowed decline in Q4, with a big assist ...

This entry was posted in hardware Mobile smartphones and tagged apple iphone on January 28, 2021 by Brian Heater

The GameStop mania didn’t just drive up the stock price of a declining video game retailer, it’s also sent trading apps and others to the top of the App Store, due to record-breaking downloads. Today, the popular trading app Robinhood has become the No. 1 app overall on the App Store for the first time, […]

Robinhood and Reddit top the App Store, as trading apps ...

This entry was posted in app stores Apps Finance Mobile Robinhood on January 28, 2021 by Sarah Perez

Facebook’s self-regulatory ‘Oversight Board’ (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases. A long time in the making, the FOB is part of Facebook’s crisis PR push to distance its business from the impact of controversial content moderation decisions — by creating […]

Facebook’s ‘oversight’ body overturns four takedowns and issues a slew ...

This entry was posted in hate speech Policy Social and tagged facebook on January 28, 2021 by Natasha Lomas

Yes, you can use devices from different brands. And yes, location definitely matters.

How to Mix and Match Wireless Smart Speakers With Ease

This entry was posted in Gear on January 28, 2021 by Tyler Hayes

WhatsApp, the popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it shares data with its owner Facebook. And it’s not done with how it’s tweaking privacy and security. Now, it’s adding a new biometric […]

WhatsApp is adding opt-in biometrics to its web and desktop ...

This entry was posted in messaging messaging apps privacy Security Social WhatsApp on January 28, 2021 by Ingrid Lunden