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 A tense scene unfolded yesterday as user-generated music streaming service SoundCloud held an all-hands meeting to explain to employees why it suddenly had to lay off 40 percent of its staff last week. Exiting team members wanted to know why they weren’t warned, while those that survived the cuts wanted assurance that the cost reductions would keep the company afloat for the long-run. Read More from TechCrunch via April 21, 2018 at 01:00PM

 Messaging is the center of mobile, and Facebook wants ads in front of all those eyes. After seeing “promising results from Australia and Thailand”, Facebook Messenger is expanding its display ad beta test that lets businesses buy space between your chat threads. Later this month, a small percentage of users will start seeing ads in the Messenger app’s home tab. Facebook… Read More from TechCrunch via February 03, 2018 at 01:01PM

 When trolls barge into people’s notifications with offensive replies or user names, they might not keep coming back to Twitter. So today the company rolled out new tools to help you silence the riff-raff. There are now options to mute notifications from newly registered accounts, people you don’t follow, and people who don’t follow you. These can be configured in the… Read More from TechCrunch via December 06, 2017 at 01:00PM

 Startup founders deserve formal protection from sexual harassment by investors. Yet despite the clear power imbalance between these groups, traditional harassment law does not adequately shield founders since they are not technically employees of the venture capitalists. To fill this gap, venture capital firms should adopt formal investor/founder sexual harassment policies that can be… Read More from TechCrunch via August 20, 2017 at 01:00PM

 Snapchat is breaking its long-standing ‘no links’ rule today while also providing some novel new creative tools to keep it one step ahead of Instagram. The new features are rolling out globally on iOS and Android today, Snap Inc tells TechCrunch. Paperclip lets you attack a website to a Snap that friends can swipe up to open in Snapchat’s internal browser. Previously only… Read More from TechCrunch via August 09, 2017 at 01:01PM