@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndia's JioHotstar restructures its subscriptions, adding monthly options and raising prices on some tiers, in response to a shift toward large-screen viewing (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/indian-s…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
NODEGA:
🎵 Monthly Follower
#NODEGA
https://nodegabk.bandcamp.com/track/monthly-follower
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ADfhVz4I6EwjOdLjZIaTU
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at The Sun's video strategy, which includes a shift to longform news and sponsored lifestyle content; it has 6.4M YouTube subscribers on its main channel (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotWell, today was the day I'd prepared to do my monthly run to the local recycling centre, twelve miles away, on the big cargo bike. The bike is all loaded up and ready to go. But the weather forecast, which last night was saying grey but dry, is now suggesting snow all day; so I think I may change my plans.
Bother.
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@dariaphoebe@mindly.socialMore pumpkin pancakes today, again with egg bacon tea and coffee. Huckleberry from Washington state on my pancakes. Last night I learned I’ll get to lead a couple of our monthly bike party rides this summer! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/yhXfNZ7YfvFSGUXd8
@teledyn@mstdn.caI love Cosmology. Nothing is more worthless than last year's textbook. Especially on the basics. It keeps the field humble.
Strong progenitor age bias in supernova cosmology – II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCanva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M MAUs and 31M paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/canva-gets-to-4b-i…
@cdamian@rls.socialSpain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/spain-to-launch-60-monthly-nationwide-public-transport-pass
> Bus and train initiati…
@benb@osintua.euPutin hides the truth: 30,000 killed monthly, no gains in Donbas: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/putin-hides-the-truth-killed.html
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizzaInaugurating the Level Up Log section on my blog with the January report... in February :P
#blog
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.
@scott@carfree.city"But as you can see, the programs do come at a cost... we estimate about $27.4m a year goes to the administrative costs and also the projected fare revenue reduction."
I'm waiting for the slide where they estimate the much higher cost of all the unmetered parking spaces across the city, and of turning off meters at 6pm and on Sundays. I'm sure that'll definitely be later in this presentation, right?
@dariaphoebe@mindly.socialToday’s #TogetherBreakfast is crumpets (mine with marmite), egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Poetry slam on tonight’s docket. Weekend includes a play, a wine and cheese pairing, and possibly our monthly bike party if the weather holds. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Lq9XGtVrwMbKnJNk6
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSnapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAnother Way Republicans Are Overplaying Their Hand on Immigration (Gillen Tener Martin/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/16/dual-citizenship-melania-barron-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p29#a260116p29
@usul@piaille.frServo 0.0.3 was released https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/v0.0.3
update and test while it's hot. :p
@cdarwin@c.imAn AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article
against an open-source software maintainer
after he rejected its code contribution.
⚠️ It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code.
So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of comp…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineFor now, I don't mean to be offensive.
In one way or the other, all my interests are being impacted by "Hi, I'm interested in (the thing) so I have vibecoded this app, can you please pay me a monthly subscription".
So I'm forced to wonder: dear vibe coder, why exactly should I pay to use your app, rather than just vibecode one myself (beside the fact that I don't want to participate in destroying the planet)?
@cheryanne@aus.socialThis Dog Podcast Could Have Been An Email
Join Melanie Newman, Jacqie Giggins, Zach Douglas and Macie Pisa for a monthly, entertaining take on life in the dog grooming world...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/this-d
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaFinally, we've automated copy-pasting from Stack Overflow
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe beautiful white village of Grazalema (Andalusia, Spain) had already been evacuated because of terrible amounts of rain. January had 1295 mm, an all-time high monthly total. But after today's 78 mm (and counting), February now already stands at 1373 mm, that's more than double in any February before!
@benb@osintua.eu33-38 thousand Russian servicemen – these are Russia's MONTHLY losses #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/thousand-russian-servicemen-these-are.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange
@joe@toot.worksI give monthly to PBS, NPR, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Urban Milwaukee because I appreciate what they do, but there are soooo many others that put out the occasional article I want to read but can't justify paying a monthly or annual fee for. I wish there were an equivalent to the Libby magazine rack for stuff like the Wall Street Journal or The Verge.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSince I rely on and use @… pretty much everyday as my preferred email provider, I donated €10, and will turn it to a monthly donation.
Support the projects, organizations, or initiatives you depend on the most. For me, that’s https://…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInside the Fight to Revive American Civics (Richard D. Kahlenberg/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/15/inside-the-fight-to-revive-american-civics/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p27#a260115p27
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnyone know of an Android to-do list application that is
* Completely device local, no network connectivity required or used
* No ads or spyware
* Doesn't time-out tasks even if they sit around for a year uncompleted (looking at you, google calendar)
* Supports recurring maintenance tasks for weekly, monthly, etc. cleaning or something
Open source preferred, but willing to pay a reasonable price if it's out there as a commercial tool
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzTomorrow (Tues 10 Feb, 20:00 NZDT) is our next monthly #Libre / #FOSS / #OpenSource meeting. All welcome! Find us at
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo I took my Walkman to a medical thing today which I have to do monthly and it’s perfect as the thing lasts about 90 minutes.
Plus I can regale people there with how cool this old tech is and if they remember it remind them with how old they are! 🥴
@paulomalley@c.imI know plenty of you hate recording voiceovers. Why? Because you told me that you sound like a hostage reading a ransom note, and getting high quality audio quality is always a massive struggle without high end gear.
We all know the alternative: Al voices that sound so robotic they could be running Windows 95. But what about the "good" ones? The ones charging you hefty monthly fees (looking at you, ElevenLabs and Synthesia). Pass.
I cracked a powerful, free workflow ins…
@trochee@dair-community.socialMy kid is interested in having a private Minecraft server that he can share with a few friends across the country (USA)
He would like to rent a server, but I have some questions
- how to tell which hosts are not scams
- what are reasonable prices for annual or monthly rental
- if renting a cloud server, better to administer directly?
I don't currently have servers from home/closet, & don't want to take that on right now
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says the Gemini app has 750M MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B tokens per minute via direct API use by customers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has…
@cdarwin@c.imA monthly injection could allow people with severe asthma to stop taking daily steroid tablets, a clinical trial has found.
More than 260 million people are thought to have asthma worldwide.
While most can control their asthma with inhalers to treat immediate symptoms and preventive ones to reduce inflammation,
those with the most severe asthma often take daily doses of oral corticosteroids as well.
But long-term use is associated with serious health conditions,
@benb@osintua.eu50,000 losses monthly – Fedorov’s algorithms drain Russia’s forces: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/losses-monthly-fedorovs-algorithms-drain.html
@markhburton@mstdn.socialEmail purporting to come from Netflix saying that they've been unable to
"auto-recharge your membership because you have reached your monthly spending limit. We would love to have you back. If you change your mind, simply restart your membership and update your payment details ...blah blah"
Very clever of them since I've never had, nor ever will have, a netflix account.
Email comes from a Polish domain, apparently.
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMonthly check-in. Not panicking yet as I have 11 more months and people fluctuate by a few pounds every day. I also have done nothing remotely serious about meeting my goal and in fact had several family celebrations in January that involved really good food. I'll do something about that procrastination tomorrow...
#GetHealthy
@hikingdude@mastodon.social✅ Monthly cold storage backup of my NAS
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: Apple TV set a monthly engagement record in December, with total hours viewed up 36% YoY (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@adrianco@mastodon.socialFirst time attending the monthly Oily’s Breakfast Club car meet at #Weymouth FC on Sunday. Some cool cars there despite cool/wet weather. #WeirdCarMastodon #carspotting
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaSo, here's the thing. I was fooled in the last couple of weeks.
Gentoo KDE was (and is) an absolute pleasure to use. I love my Larry. But that was also because there were no KDE updates 😜
Especially when I've got these other KDE's just rolling by and I have a memory of an impeccable JTown.
I'll pick up my dwm and slap it on Gentoo, that's the way to go. 90 minutes compiling of kwin-x11 is too much. Let alone with monthly updates.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861935/wikipedia-25th-anniversary-2026
<…
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeWow. Our neighbors really want to learn about Internet privacy.
My local neighborhood group invited me to make a presentation on privacy at their monthly meeting. I was a little hesitant at first. I have done a lot of classes and seminars in corporate conference settings over the years. But these were my friends and neighbors and most of them are not technical in matters of security and privacy. I was not sure I could give a talk that wasn’t totally nerdy and boring. But I could see an…
@Richard@worklifepsych.social✏️ I've just been putting the finishing touches to my monthly #newsletter, which goes out tomorrow.
If you'd like a monthly, brief, psychology-focused bulletin in your in-box, you can sign up here:
https://www.worklifepsych.ne…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@cheryanne@aus.socialSPARK Founders
A monthly drop of interviews with the most inspiring female founders on the planet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/spark-founders/
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaNo where near enough parking for those who drive in. Can't get a monthly pass as they have oversubscribed and a waiting list that may take God only knows how long before we get a spot. Bus system is less than reliable. Not enough space so we have to 'hotel'. Even before COVID we were alternating weekly for remote working and at-office due to parking spaces.
<sarcasm>
I don't see any problems of more of us being at my work location.
</sarcasm>
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861935/wikipedia-25th-anniversary-2026
<…
@pre@boing.worldJust a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe January average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was 428.6 ppm; that's 2.0 ppm higher than last year, fortunately not as fast a growth rate as we've often seen in recent years.
@crell@phpc.socialOH: I have a Home Warranty. You pay them a monthly premium, then when something breaks, you pay them a flat fee. Then the technician diagnoses the problem, and the company finds a reason why your plan doesn't cover that. Feels like American insurance in a nutshell.
#uspol #insurance
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialThinking of starting a Blame as a Service (BaaS) called "Blame Khalid”. For a monthly fee, you can blame all your #dev woes on me.
When your boss asks why you're behind.... Khalid
When your stakeholders ask why the feature is broken... Khalid
When you miss deployment deadlines… You guessed it, Khalid!
Reach out to find the right service plan for you and your team. Ther…
@rafa_font@mastodon.onlineHow to grow a forest without planting a single tree
A collaboration between @… and Planet Wild https://www.youtube.com/@planet-wild)
It's happening in
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzRussian kids revolt as Kremlin bans Roblox, other popular apps https://therecord.media/russia-bans-roblox-drawing-criticism-from-kids
@brichapman@mastodon.socialTennessee just turned exhausted farmland into something remarkable. Middle Fork Bottoms State Park now teems with wildlife and draws 15,000 visitors monthly.
The secret? Letting floodplains do what they do best—control floods, filter water, recharge groundwater naturally.
It's becoming a model for climate solutions across neighboring states.
@davej@dice.camp
@primonatura@mstdn.social"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNavarro says expectations for monthly jobs numbers must be reduced 'significantly,' citing deportations (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5731440-peter-navarro-jobs-report-warning/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p127#a260210p127
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI think I need to get more involved in OpenSCAD, or maybe just try to learn more about how to best us it, and improve my own workflow. I read a few things today that will really help me out. I will probably write up a blog post about it as well. (I already donate monthly because I use it so much!)
#OpenSCAD
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialHow difficult would it be for Elon Musk to liquidate all of his hundreds of billions of $? Or for someone who had almost magic-like access to his assets and could do whatever it took to accomplish that, as quickly as possible. And reinvest it in crypto. And then anybody with an SSN and access to the internet can sign up for an MBI card and get a monthly stipend, amount to be determined later. How long would it last?
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeShame on David Archuletta's team. I visit Under the Umbrella bookstore at least monthly *because* of its masking policy. Both my parents are elderly and medically vulnerable to bad outcomes from respiratory illness, so I'm still masking in public for them.
https://www.sltrib.com/ar…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social✅ monthly cold storage backup
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says Tesla will stop selling FSD after February 14 and will offer it only as a monthly subscription; FSD is already available for $99 per month (Danny Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis is good advice received from a local retrofit organisation. I'm always amazed by how many people don't appear to understand this simple fact.
MONTHLY TOP TIP
Did you know how much of a difference closing curtains and blinds can make ?
In summer leaving window coverings closed can reduce the heat input to prevent overheating and in the winter closing them before dark can keep heat from escaping and keep your home feeling cosy.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAnalysis: YouTube surpassed the BBC in monthly audience reach in the UK for the first time in Q4 2025, with 51.9M viewers in December, above the BBC's 50.8M (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/youtube-beating-bbc-barb-viewing-ratings-1236…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine’s Mobilization Crisis: challenges, needs, and implications for 2026 — Next KI Insights Monthly Briefing: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/ukraines-mobilization-crisis-challenges-needs.html
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaConsider supporting your favorite organization, free-software project, or digital-rights activist. I donate $10 every month to my email provider: https://autisitci.org, avalable at @……
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineNot exactly my cup of tea (I'm not into this melodic rock/fusion/funky/bossanova/whatever it is that Italian bands have been doing repeatedly for decades) but I know there are people out there who might like it and they're friends so here we go.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5iuiKt
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Friday’s jobs report turned out to be decidedly bleak, Trump ignored the warnings in the data and fired the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115663339675254625
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFinally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…
@pre@boing.worldActually, viewing that #Wrapstodon in #phanpy is way better. Most interacted with and boosted accounts, monthly break downs, top hashtags and more.
Well done @… why the hell doesn't the main web app show all that? Madness.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUber discontinues monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives (Ben Elgin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-1…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caI'm thinking about resolving to lose 10-ish pounds in 2026. A modest goal that is even more achievable in kilos - only 4.5 kilos. I'll commit to reporting monthly on my goal and open myself up to public debate. I'll do my first weigh-in on January 2nd. Now excuse me while I have a slice of leftover apple pie for an after breakfast snack.
#NewYearsResolution2026
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Worried Should Democrats Be About Trump Stealing the Next Election? (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/06/trump-stealing-the-election-democrats-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p34#a260206p34
@benb@osintua.euUkraine battlefield update: Strategic, operational, and defense technology shifts — next KI Insights monthly briefing: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/05/ukraine-battlefield-update-strategic-operational.html
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAnother big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: Based on daily values, the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's around 2.7 ppm higher than last year!
#ClimateChange #CO2 #emissions
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M monthly active players (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/supercell-revenue-declines-4-to-265bn-in-2025
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube launches genre-specific YouTube TV Plans as lower-cost alternatives to the $82.99 monthly subscription; the Sports Plan is priced at $64.99 per month (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/09/youtube-tv-plans-launch/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 (Rohit Singh/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2026/02/223-x-developer-api-pricing-pay-per-use-m…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDon't Make Bovino the Fall Guy for the Violence Trump Long Craved (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/bovino-the-fall-guy-for-the-violence-trump-wanted/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p28#a260128p28
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3342
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M in annual turnover (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/yelp-buy-ai-agent-startup-300-million<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSimilarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deboard_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCrunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device (Isaac Rouse/Polygon.com)
https://www.polygon.com/crunchyroll-subscription-price-increase-2026/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Chicago alt-weekly The Chicago Reader as it scales back to a monthly publication under new EIC Sarah Conway and reverts to a for-profit business model (Robert Channick/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/30/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPrivacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91481000/this-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket had 491K monthly active traders in December 2025, and <0.04% of addresses took 70% of profits (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…
