Clubhouse, the audio-only social media app that once had major buzz, is set to lay off more than half of its employees as it seeks to adapt to market conditions following the coronavirus pandemic.
Popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse has announced that it will boycott the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference this year in Austin, Texas, due to the state’s policy labeling extreme treatments for allegedly transgender children as child abuse. Gov. Greg Abbott said: “It is already against the law to subject Texas children to a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen.”
Tech giant Facebook (now known as Meta) is reportedly offering musicians and online creators as much as $50,000 to use its live audio feature. The feature, a clone of popular startup service Clubhouse, is hoping that chats with celebrities like Miley Cyrus will entice users to stay in the Facebook ecosystem.
Facebook is launching a podcast and live audio streaming service on its platform in the U.S. this week as it aims to compete with Twitter’s new Spaces feature and the popular app Clubhouse.
Recent reports claim that the user data of 1.3 million Clubhouse app users have been posted to hacker forums, but Clubhouse CEO Paul Davidson alleges that the app was not hacked and this information is publicly available.
Social media giant Twitter reportedly held talks in recent months to acquire the popular startup app Clubhouse for $4 billion, which is touted as an audio-based social media network and has received significant attention for its chat sessions featuring the leading lights of Silicon Valley.
Gab, the free speech internet company known for its First Amendment friendly Twitter competitor, has teased a potential new project, aimed at competing with the fledgling voice-chat app Clubhouse.
In a recent discussion on the popular Clubhouse app, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg focused on his company’s progress in the world of Virtual Reality, stating “we should be teleporting, not transporting,” and that VR could allow workers to meet virtually rather than travel to offices.
