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Clean up on aisle Phia.The shopping startup cofounded by Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter, Phoebe, is doing damage control after a bombshell Bloomberg report revealed it had been earning commissions on sales it didn’t help drive.Phia is working with at least one affiliate network, Impact.com, to refund affected parties and correct…
Two startups with the goal of keeping couples in love got hitched.Arya, a relationship wellness AI startup, recently acquired Flamme, an app with activities for couples like quizzes and milestones, Business Insider has learned exclusively.Arya and Flamme “complement each other,” Arya’s CEO, Offer Yehudai, told Business Insider.While Flamme is for…
A new feature in Walmart’s Spark app is slowing the chain’s delivery efforts, workers say.The Spark delivery workers told Business Insider that Walmart’s app has changed a feature that helps them map out their trip around the store to pick up items. Instead of providing a set route that made…
Get ready for another Meta app.Meta is rolling out Pocket, a new social AI app, Business Insider has learned. Meta describes the Pocket as a platform to “create, share, and discover gizmos with friends.”The app is listed on Meta’s Help Center and in the Google Play Store. The timeline and…
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025, at 41 years old, I found myself in bed, lying to men about where I lived.Well, sort of.Earlier that night, while my teenage kids were getting ready for bed, I scrolled through TikTok, pausing on a video from a woman who manually changed her…
Fizz, a social network for college students, says it wants to be like Facebook — when it was actually social.The app, launched in 2021, lets students post anonymously (similar to Yik Yak), scroll through a “for you” feed of recommended content, and buy and sell items in a marketplace.”It’s most…
Disney isn’t building a “super app” tying together all its businesses — at least not yet.Adam Smith, the chief product and technology officer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN, told employees at a town hall last week that the company isn’t planning to turn Disney+ into a hub for buying tickets…
