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‘It just felt like the right time and to do something different and to do something maybe a little bit more mature or a little upgrade’

If you thought the deal couldn’t possibly get sweeter for the influencers that flock to Facebook and Instagram to simultaneously bolster their

Instagram, which has released and teased a slew of creator-focused products ahead of its inaugural Creator Week next month, has unveiled today a new ecommerce tool called Drops. The app’s Shop section features a new Drops tab that opens a catalog of viral products. The tab will enable consumers to browse and shop soon-to-release and just-released products that will be available in limited quantities or for a limited time, Techcrunch reports. Users will also be able to sign up for reminders ab...

The virtual event will be held June 8 through 10.

Creator Week, Instagram’s first ever professional development program for creators, will feature guest speakers including JoJo Siwa, 50 Cent, Yung BBQ, Slated for June 8-10, the invite-only virtual event will bring around 5,000 U.S.-based makers together for three days of virtual sessions aimed at helping creators build their personal brands on Instagram and its parent platform, Facebook.

This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surge...

Instagram is interested in building a platform to buy and sell NFTs, based emails sent to artists inviting them to be on a panel to discuss the space with Instagrams product and development teams. Artists feel that they are being taken advantage of by not being properly compensated.

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