Etsy sells second-hand fashion app Depop to eBay for $1.2bn

Hinge has decided that it won’t kick you off the app entirely anymore if just one thing on your profile breaks the rules. Instead of banning your entire account, Hinge will now flag and remove that specific issue, allowing you to address it first. Your profile will remain live but hidden from the discovery feed…

Light-based internet provider Taara, which spun out of Alphabet’s “moonshot” incubator last year, just launched Taara Beam to provide 25Gbps connectivity within cities over invisible beams of light — line of sight permitting. Unlike last year’s Taara Lightbridge, which connects communities separated by water and mountains at distances up to 20km (over 12 miles), the…

Flipboard has been one of the biggest boosters of decentralized social media. Now, the company, which is known for its social news reading app, is rolling out its latest experiment, “social websites.” The project offers publishers and creators an easier path into what’s often called the “open social web,” which includes the fediverse, as well…