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Musk and Kardashian remind us to stop crying for the wealthy

Today, Spotify released the first two episodes of the new original podcast “Kim Kardashian’s The System: The Case of Kevin Keith,” narrated by reality TV star Kim K and true-crime…

Spotify releases a new exclusive podcast hosted by Kim Kardashian

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Let’s not defend Kim Kardashian for shilling crypto

Rather than an unfairly targeted outlier, count Kim Kardashian as the first of many celebrities who should start facing the consequences of their actions.

Let’s not defend Kim Kardashian for shilling crypto

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Don’t forget that…

Welcome to Q4, crypto fans and Tesla stans

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” a “crypto security,” the agency announced on Monday morning. The SEC says that Kardashian was in…

Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement

Happy Saturday, friends. Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we very quickly sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the past week. Want it in your…

The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided

America’s favorite reality star is leveling up her repertoire and levering up businesses. Kim Kardashian, who passed the “baby bar” exam in preparation to become a lawyer last year, just…

Kim Kardashian becomes a private equity dealmaker in collab with ex-Carlyle partner

Apple and Kim Kardashian announced their first collaboration this week, taking the Beats Fit Pro wireless earbuds to new, nude-toned heights. In hues so neutral they could make even Sir…

Apple announces ‘Beats x Kim’ collab, but all I see is shapewear

From meme creators to the Kardashians, Instagram users have been vocal this week that their feeds are too saturated with irrelevant content. As Instagram’s parent company Meta chases TikTok’s astronomical…

If you think Instagram is bad now, you won’t like Zuckerberg’s plans

Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted a video this morning addressing mounting concerns about changes to the app’s feed and its increasing emphasis on video. Even Kim Kardashian and her sister…

Instagram responds to criticism with shocking revelation that it will ‘continue to support photos’

She will also be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond Meat and other creative content.

Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as first chief taste consultant

Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding from crypto investors who hope the platform can bring…

Tom Brady’s buzzy celebrity NFT startup Autograph banks $170M from Silicon Valley’s top crypto investors

Spotify has already invested around $1 billion in podcasting between its acquisitions, exclusive deals and other partnerships. Now, it wants people to do more than just listen — it wants…

Spotify opens access to video podcast publishing to Anchor creators

While much of the recent wave of relentless hype around NFTs — or non-fungible tokens — has been most visibly manifested in high-dollar art auctions or digital trading cards sales,…

Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics

On Friday, the Kenyan augmented reality game developer Internet of Elephants launched its latest game in partnership with the conservation science experts from the Borneo Nature Foundation, Goualougo Triangle Ape…

Internet of Elephants launches Wildeverse, an AR game about endangered animals and conservation

After 24 hours of frenzied buying and selling, and weeks of aggressive advertising and promotions before it, the Alibaba Group said today its sales hit another record high on Singles’…

Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales top $38 billion

Facebook will not remove the faked videos featuring Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump from Instagram, the company said in a statement. Earlier today, Vice News reported on…

Facebook will not remove deepfakes of Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian and others from Instagram

Instagram has found something it likes more than a Kardashian-Jenner family baby, and it’s an egg. This weekend, a photo of a plain egg became the most-liked photo on Instagram,…

A photo of an egg has toppled reality star Kylie Jenner as Instagram’s most-liked post

In this app-laden world, there is now a void. One so large, it will be difficult to fill. Perhaps, the Kardashians will reconsider. The Kardashian sisters, specifically Kim Kardashian West, Khloé…

The Kardashian apps are dead

In the first step of what could be an endless exploration of the wizarding world of Harry Potter, the Los Angeles mobile games studio Jam City is releasing its Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game…

New Harry Potter game, launching today, lets players enroll in Hogwarts

Pornhub, a website dedicated to the distribution of pornographic videos, is onto all you porn lovers and your sexy, sneaky ways. In a nearly catastrophically complete year-in-review post, the company…

Zelda, Overwatch are top Pornhub searches for 2017

Not-so-breaking news from the world of celebrity gossip: Kimye and T-Swift are at it again! And with this particular stage of the celebrity feud, we are given an amazing opportunity…

Kim’s Snapchat Story, Taylor’s Instagram, and all the 1’s and 0’s in between

Glu Mobile, the maker of games like “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”, “Deer Hunter”, and “Diner Dash”, is today unveiling another celebrity-branded game. This time, we’re taking a caricatured look into the…

Glu Mobile launches Britney Spears: American Dream

It seems like 2015 was the year of the “emoji.” I mean, a damn emoji was the “word of the year.” This year is ending with a massive bang on…

Kim Kardashian’s Buttmoji Owns The App Store

Because she is co-creator of one of the most popular apps of 2014. Because she is poised to make $200 million in cold hard cash from a mobile app this…

Why Is Kim Kardashian At A Tech Conference?!

If you told a random member of the tech media a year ago that one of the biggest names interviewed by Kara Swisher at her own conference in 2014 would…

Kim Kardashian West On Oversharing, Adopting New Platforms, And BlackBerry

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’s success in the App Store could open the doors to future celebrity-publisher partnerships, suggests app analytics firm App Annie in a new report out this morning which looks…

The Hollywood-ification Of The App Store

It was earnings week at TechCrunch, so most of the coverage was dominated by reports about Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Pandora. Fortunately there were a ton of other…

11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week (7/25)

Remember the time that Kim Kardashian proved that social media popularity has very little to do with talent by posting the most liked photo of all time? It was a…

The Most-Liked Instagram Photo In The World Took 4 Days To Edit