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Sources: Snap to price its initial public offering at $17 a share, above the $14 to $16 range targeted, giving the company a valuation of nearly $24B — Shares set to price at $17 each, valuing firm at $24 billion in biggest U.S. tech debut since Alibaba — Snap Inc. is set to price …
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Sources: Snap has worked on a drone, but it is unclear if or when the product would be available to consumers — Snap has long been known as the maker of Snapchat, an app that sends disappearing messages, photographs and videos. But over the past few years, the company has repositioned itself as a modern-day camera company.
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Twitter ramps up proactive measures against abusive accounts and now lets users mute specific words from their timelines and mute accounts without profile pics — Most importantly, Twitter is speeding up its pace of taking action against harassment. — Twitter is announcing a few new anti-harassment features today:
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Sources: Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless version of its streaming service called Spotify Hi-Fi; screenshots show it could be $5 to $10 extra per month — The company is A/B testing its pricing strategy on some users — Spotify is preparing to launch a lossless audio version …
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Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live video and Messenger, begins using AI to spot suicidal users — Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves. — The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Medium debuts Series feature for its mobile app, similar to Snapchat Stories, but Series don't expire and users can subscribe to updates — At some point in every technology's evolution, the world settles on its Right Way To Do Stuff. Having one broadly adopted system just makes life easier …
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Nintendo Switch review: amazing portable experience with a great display but lacks big-name games and has weak software support, lingering hardware issues — Hybrid system merges an amazing portable experience with a middling TV console. — Since the release of the Game Boy in 1989 …
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GitHub debuts $21/mo. Business offering that brings SAML single sign-on, user provisioning, and more to GitHub.com rather than being hosted on corporate servers — GitHub is expanding its offering for large companies today. The service, which allows developers to more effectively collaborate …
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Yelp acquires restaurant waiting list tech startup Nowait in a $40M all-cash deal; Pittsburgh-based Nowait had raised around $22M in total — Yelp has acquired restaurant technology startup Nowait in an all-cash deal valued at $40 million. — Founded out of Pittsburgh in 2010 …
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Foursquare debuts Pilgrim SDK to license its location data to mobile app devs and improve notifications; pricing will be tiered based on app's number of users — Foursquare's transformation from fun consumer app into serious behind-the-scenes business is taking another step forward.
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Oculus drops price of Rift headset and Touch wireless controllers by $100 each, together now $598 — Facebook has a new strategy to get people interested in virtual reality: cutting the price. — The company's VR subsidiary, Oculus, announced Wednesday that it's lowering the cost …
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Amazon cuts affiliate revenue in some categories and eliminates volume pricing in favor of a flat rate of commission — Amazon is a powerful partner, but as book publishers have learned, it can also be a fickle one. — When digital advertising rates are falling and e-commerce is rising …
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Microsoft says the Acer Mixed Reality Development Edition tethered headset will ship to devs this month; retail version slated to cost $299 — The first Windows Mixed Reality headsets will start shipping to developers later this month, as Microsoft works to distribute the Acer Mixed Reality … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Nvidia unveils its top of the line GTX 1080 Ti, available next week for $699, with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, claims it is faster than the $1,200 Titan X — Last year we called NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 “the upgrade you've been waiting for,” and now PC gamers have another high-end graphics card to drool over.
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Google unveils “playable” ad format for Android game developers that lets users play an in-ad lightweight version of a game and other tools — Google rolled out a series of new tools for Android game developers at GDC in San Francisco this week that offer new ways to entice users … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
As was expected, FCC votes to stay a set of privacy rules for broadband providers, adopted last year, which would have come into effect tomorrow — As new FCC Commissioner Aji Pai telegraphed last week, the Commission voted today to stay a set of privacy rules for broadband providers … Sponsor Posts
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