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May 26, 2016, 3:20 PM

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TechCrunch:
Filing: Snapchat raised $1.8B in Series F round; leaked deck reveals $59M revenue in 2015, 110M DAUs in December  —  May 26, 2016, 2:59 amMay 26, 2016, 8:36 am  —  Earlier this week, we reported that the messaging app startup Snapchat was raising more money.  Now we have more updates for you.
Financial Times:
Sources: Apple had preliminary discussions about buying Time Warner last year as spending on original content set to increase  —  A top Apple executive raised the prospect of the iPhone maker buying Time Warner at a meeting with the owner of HBO, CNN and Warner Brothers, according to three people who were briefed on it.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
HP goes big on gaming with new Omen laptops and desktop  —  HP gave us a brief taste of the legendary Voodoo PC gaming brand with its Omen laptop over nearly two years ago.  Now, the company is bringing the Omen name to all of its gaming hardware — a new lineup of laptops and desktops, as well as a 32-inch quad-HD monitor.
Wall Street Journal:
Lenovo Q4 profit up 80% to $180M but revenue falls 24% to $9.13B YoY as PC demand slows  —  First-quarter profit up drastically, helped by cost cuts  —  HONG KONG—A year and a half ago, Lenovo Group Ltd. spent $5 billion to buy itself into growth sectors as the personal-computer market slowed.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur  —  Reddit never let you upload images, until now.  That could dismantle Reddit's informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur.  That's where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share the links on Reddit.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitch launches Clips so gamers can quickly share short videos of their favorite moments  —  Live streaming platform and gamer community Twitch is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help spread its content further afield.  The company has now debuted Clips …

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