Sarah Perez

The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution.

photo of eBay adds an AI-powered ‘shop the look’ feature to its iOS app image EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look” section within its iOS mobile app that will suggest a carousel of images and ideas, based on the customer’s shopping history. The company says its recommendations will be personalized to the…

EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a "shop the look" section within its iOS mobile app that

photo of Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators image Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced a revenue model that allows creators to set a per-message price for their bots so they can make money whenever a user messages them. The addition follows an earlier October 2023 of a…

photo of Google brings AI-powered editing tools, like Magic Editor, to all Google Photos users for free image Google Photos is getting an AI upgrade. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced that a handful of enhanced editing features previously limited to Pixel devices and paid subscribers — including its AI-powered Magic Editor — will now make their way to all Google Photos users for free. This expansion also…

YouTube’s comments section, historically, has had…

photo of Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) image Flipboard, a Web 2.0-era social magazine app that is reinventing itself to capitalize on the renewed push towards an open social web, is deepening its ties to the fediverse — the social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and, in time, Instagram Threads,…

photo of Lyrak to take on X by combining the best of Twitter with fediverse integration image Threads. Mastodon. Bluesky. Substack Notes. Post. Nostr. Spoutible. There’s no shortage of X competitors in the months following the acquisition of the text-based social network formerly known as Twitter by Elon Musk. Today, you can add one more startup to that lineup: Lyrak, a new X rival that aims to…

Apple has removed iGBA, a Game Boy emulator app for the iPhone, after earlier approving its launch over the weekend. The app was among the first to capitalize on Apple’s newly relaxed rules around retro game emulators — a move the tech giant made after EU regulators forced Apple to open up to App Store…

While the launch of a survey isn't necessarily a commitment to federating Ghost, it is another signal pointing to the broader reshaping of the web that's now underway.