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Roku unveils Roku TV Wireless Speakers that use company's Roku Connect platform to link-up with Roku-powered smart TVs over WiFi, coming in October for ~$200 — The first speakers to use the new Roku Connect platform are also Roku's first foray into the speaker market
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Uber rolls out a Spotlight button that gives riders a colored screen, pre-written messages, and guaranteed pickup windows to users in US and Canada today — Uber is aiming to perfect the art of the pick-up with three features it says minimize cancellations.| Rob Price / INSIDER: |
Sources describe a dysfunctional culture at Meitu, a Chinese selfie app maker with 400M+ MAUs, with public shamings of staff, seemingly arbitrary firings, more — - Meitu is a hot Chinese selfie app maker with hundreds of millions of users — but some believe its global expansion has been plagued by dysfunction.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Some of the biggest meme accounts on Instagram have gone private in recent months as their owners say it's a new way to gain followers on a crowded platform — Over the past six months, some of Instagram's biggest meme pages—like Shithead Steve, with more than 2.5 million followers … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft executives on how the Surface Go was made, and why they think it has an edge over Chromebooks and the iPad — PANOS PANAY IS the betting type. You can see the evidence in Microsoft's Building 37, where two $1 bills stick out from beneath a Surface tablet sitting on a shelf.| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
SoftBank's stake in Alibaba is worth $132B or about 40% more than SoftBank's market cap; Tiger Global takes $1B stake in SoftBank — For most of its existence, SoftBank was known as a Japanese phone company that made some lucky bets. But in the future, being an investor in the company …
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness
| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook's diversity efforts fall short as just six African-American and ten Hispanic women serve as senior managers in the US, out of 769 such jobs — The global director of diversity at Facebook, Maxine Williams, says the company needs to invest in local communities in order to become more diverse.| Kyle Samani / Multicoin Capital: |
An attempt to describe Web3 stack, the many component parts of crypto ecosystem being built by hundreds of teams all over the world — I have yet to see an actual illustration of the Web3 stack. So this is an attempt. Given how expansive the Web3 ecosystem is, this diagram … | Justin Kan / atrium: |
Co-founder of Twitch and Justin.tv tells why he is not building another B2C firm and went the B2B route for his next startup, Atrium — The biggest technology companies in the world are typically consumer internet companies, like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook, so it's easy for new entrepreneurs to be attracted to B2C.
Tweets: @hvpandya
| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Salesforce to acquire Datorama, an Israeli cloud-based AI marketing platform; Israeli media says the deal was worth more than $800M — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. sales and marketing software company Salesforce (CRM.N) said on Monday it signed an agreement to acquire Datorama … | The Guardian: |
Lancaster University's Litcraft uses Minecraft to create accurate scale models of places from books like Treasure Island to promote reading among school kids — Ever wanted to explore Treasure Island or pretend to be Robinson Crusoe? Minecraft is now being used to create an 'immersive experience … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Online game creation platform Roblox, which is reportedly raising at a $2.4B valuation, says it's on track to more than double developer payouts to $70M in 2018 — - Roblox, the video-game app that's wildly popular with younger players, is on track to pay out $70 million to its developers this year.
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