Tech Meme

Jesse Whittock / Deadline: Ampere: Disney+ Hotstar remains India’s streaming leader with ~50M subscribers in Q1 and a 29% share, despite losing IPL cricket rights, vs. Prime Video’s 12.4M  —  Disney+ Hotstar lost the rights to offer Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket last year, but the streamer remains India’s market leader, according to Ampere Analysis. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: An APK teardown of Instagram’s Threads, uploaded to Google Play ahead of the app’s launch, reveals the threads.net website and details on how Threads will work  —  Ahead of the app’s launch later this week, Meta has launched a landing page for its Twitter competitor, “Threads,” counting down to the service’s launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Instagram’s Twitter competitor Threads is expected to launch on iOS on July 6, 2023, according to a pre-order listing in the App Store for the standalone app  —  Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marc Schneider / Billboard: Tidal plans to increase its HiFi tier by $1 to $11/month and its family tier by $2 to $17/month in the US starting on August 1; HiFi Plus’ pricing is unchanged  —  The trend of music streamers increasing their rates continues.  Next up: Spotify?  —  Following similar moves by Apple … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: BlackRock refiles for its spot bitcoin ETF through Nasdaq, saying Coinbase will provide market surveillance to address the US SEC’s insufficient info objection  —  BlackRock Inc. has refiled paperwork with US regulators through Nasdaq to add new details to its proposal for a exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: London-based Revolut plans to stop offering Solana, Cardano, and Polygon for US customers on September 18, after its provider Bakkt decided to delist the tokens  —  UK-based fintech app Revolut will stop offering Solana, Cardano and Polygon’s tokens for US customers after its provider Bakkt … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Apple plans to ask SCOTUS to revisit an Epic case ruling that Apple cannot stop developers from providing links in apps to payment options outside the App Store  —  Apple (AAPL.O) said on Monday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to a judge’s order in an antitrust case brought by … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mastodon refreshes its official Android app with Material You support and adds 294K users over the weekend; the network has 1.4M MAUs, well below its 2.5M peak  —  While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws and says before going offline in Louisiana, age gating cut traffic there by ~80%  —  Pornhub is now blocking people in Mississippi and Virginia from visiting its website over laws that would require the service to verify their age. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Sweden’s privacy watchdog says that “companies must stop using Google Analytics” and fines local online retailer CDON less than $30K and telco Tele2 over $1.1M  —  Sweden’s data protection watchdog has issued a couple of fines in relation to exports of European users’ data via Google Analytics … Lees verder op Tech Meme