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Meme architects have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks like Instagram and Twitter that pay back none of their ad revenue to artists and comics. But 300 million monthly consumer meme and storytelling app Imgur wants to pioneer a …

The vision of a universal global ride-hailing service is over. Uber’s decision to exit sells like China, Southeast Asia and Russia coupled with the failure of its competitives to develop a proposed roaming system, is necessary that global travelers must install multiple apps if they are to take advantage of …

YouTube has shaped the weakest, least fearless response to mass backlash involving its ruling yesterday that right-wing personality Steven Crowder’s racist and homophobic assaults on Vox video producer Carlos Maza didn’t violate the current policy. Now YouTube says it’s demonetized Crowder’s channel because his” motif of heinous activities has harmed …

Causes grew to a jawdropping 186 million consumers as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and donors. Induces acquired Votizen to augment shallow clicktivism with a style to remind friends to election. But …

Facebook simply proclaimed a brand-new round of controversial accounts that will be kicked off the platform for transgressing its rules. In this instance, Facebook quoth the current policy against ” dangerous individuals and organizations “ to deliver the prohibitions hammer down on Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul …

Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …

Facebook’s social graph is aging, full of long-lost acquaintances and hometown friends you don’t care much about interpreting in the News Feed any more. But Facebook is now testing a fulcrum away from its core identity of connecting you with existing pals so it can revitalize the social graph and …

Winter is coming. It’s time for scooter startups to find a cozy, protective blanket to get them through the chill months. For Lime and Bird, that could be Uber. The pair of venture capital favorites, which both control fleets of electric scooters around the world, are said to be in …

Cowboy Ventures, the early-stage venture firm launched in 2012 by longtime VC Aileen Lee, has lassoed $95 million in capital commitments for its third fund, up from the $55 million that it raised for its second fund and more than twice what it raised for its $40 million debut fund. …

Facebook’s long-running effort to go into China got a boost this week after the U.S. company was handed a license to set up a subsidiary in the country. But quickly after news broke, the license was seemingly revoked. The incident started when Reuters spotted a filing approved on China’s National Enterprise Credit …