Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles
Simple, link-centric user profiles might not sound like a particularly ambitious idea, but it’s been more than big enough for Linktree.
The Melbourne startup says that 8 million users — whether they’re celebrities like Selena...
Current and upcoming trends in Latin America’s mobile growth
Jen Laloup
Contributor
Jen Laloup is CEO of Mobile Growth Association.
Latin America (LATAM) is home to one of the fastest-growing mobile markets in the world. In 2018, there were 326 million mobile internet users in the...
WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages, which disappear after 7 days
Facebook recently announced that WhatsApp passed the whopping milestone of 100 billion messages sent per day, but not everyone wants those chats to stick around forever. Now, Facebook’s wildly popular messaging app...
What the iPhone 12 tells us about the state of the smartphone industry in...
The smartphone industry was in transition well before COVID-19 was a blip on anyone’s radar. More than 13 years after the launch of the original iPhone, these products have long since transitioned from luxury...
US election day: Biden vows to ‘restore decency’ to White
According to the US elections project, 98m Americans have already voted out of what could be 160m total; more than a 20% increase over 2016 Source
Former Facebook and Pinterest exec Tim Kendall traces ‘extractive business models’ to VCs
Last month, former Facebook and Pinterest executive Tim Kendall told Congress during a House hearing on the dangers of social media that Facebook made its products so addictive because its ad-driven business model...
