India’s daily Covid cases saw the slimmest daily rise in one-and-a-half-years despite recent large festivals such as Diwali as vaccination and antibody levels riseSlovakian prime minister Eduard Heger considers 3-week lockdownGermany issues warning: ‘v…
TikTok brings its TV app to more devices across the US and Canada
Just ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holidays, TikTok is expanding its footprint in the living room. The company earlier this month launched its TV app in North America in partnership with Amazon Fire TV. Today, TikTok is rolling out its TV app to more TV platforms across North America, including Google TV and other Android […]
Spotify’s new Podcast Subscriptions expand to global markets
Just a few months after launching support for podcast subscriptions to U.S. creators, Spotify today is making the service available to creators in global markets. The company says the service, which allows creators to mark episodes as “subscriber-only” content, will now become available in 33 new markets worldwide. When podcast subscriptions publicly launched in the […]
AnyDesk, a maker of remote desktop software, raises $70M at a $660M+ valuation
Remote and hybrid working are the order of the day, and now a startup called AnyDesk that helps enable that to be pulled off smoothly — regardless of the architecture of a company’s network, or where a person happens to be working — is announcing a round of $70 million to fuel its growth. The […]
Laura Kampf buys some storage containers.
Laura Kampf, previously and previously, gets a really good deal on some mysterious storage boxes.
Facebook agrees to pay French publishers for news reuse
Facebook has reached a multiyear agreement to pay French publishers for resharing their content on its platforms, it announced today. The social media giant said the licensing agreement with the Alliance of national and regional newspapers “means that people on Facebook will be able to continue uploading and sharing news stories freely amongst their communities, […]
The future of Europe is at stake in the fight for Germany’s finance ministry | Adam Tooze
A fiscal conservative in the job and a new era of debt limitation could spell disaster for EU countriesAdam Tooze is the author of Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s EconomyThe result of the German election was known within minutes of the polls clos…
Google makes calling businesses less painful with features for seeing wait times, phone tree options and more
Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked — functions: the ability to make phone calls. In previous years, Google Assistant learned to screen your calls and make your reservations by phone via a technology called Duplex. Last year, it […]
CCTV footage appears to challenge singer’s claims in Star of David row
Police express ‘serious doubts’ after Jewish symbol absent in images of Gil Ofarim published by German mediaCCTV footage published in the German media appears not to show the Star of David pendant that a Jewish German singer alleged a Leipzig hotel had…
Enpal closes out Series C with $174M from SoftBank for tech to make it easier for homeowners to make the switch to solar energy
One of the gating factors for getting more homeowners to make the switch to solar energy has been that solar, as a business, is hard one to get right, with many a company failing when they’ve been unable to strike the right balance between the technology working as it should, provisioning services in a cost-effective […]