Techcrunch blog!: You won’t need a second phone for this new WhatsApp feature

Thursday, October 19, 2023

The multitaskers in the group will really enjoy today's top story. WhatsApp will now let users log into two accounts simultaneously. Before, you had to carry two phones if you wanted to have two accounts. Let the switching begin.

Meanwhile, we've got a gaggle of Google news again. Your favorite was that Google announced plans to manufacture Pixel smartphones in India and will begin to ship those products next year. There are some additional India initiatives, including metro ticket booking, consumer and merchant lending offerings and enhanced search around government welfare schemes.

And Netflix had strong subscriber growth during the third quarter, so what's your prize? Increased prices. That's right, Netflix is going to raise the price of some of its plans in select markets. View the plans.

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Catch and release: Catch, offering health insurance for gig workers and self-employed individuals, relaunches with new owners. Meet them.

This will make you not want to answer: Telegram is still leaking user IP addresses to contacts. It all starts with adding a contact and answering a call. Find out why this isn't a new thing.

Group work: Sidebar thinks the key to career development is small peer groups. Investors agreed and gave them $13.55 million in new funding to further prove out that theory. Read more.

Twitter is dead: Haje writes that "founders love giving top-down takes." However, he notes that with X, Musk is playing the bottoms-up game. (TC+)

Not again: Early-stage founders are optimistic about raising again — but not all of them. Find out why. (TC+)

Alert!: Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to compromise tens of thousands of Cisco devices. Get the scoop.

Going to court: The New York attorney general filed a lawsuit against Gemini, Genesis and DCG, claiming they defrauded crypto investors of over $1 billion. Here's how that came to be.

New level unlocked: Or rather locked up, as was RagnarLocker's ransomware dark website. A group of international law enforcement agencies seized it during a sting operation. Read more.

Don't dump those clothes, sell them: Uruguay clothing resale marketplace developer Vopero now has $4 million in additional capital to expand in Latin America. Try it on for size.

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