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Sources: Snapchat has 150M daily active users, higher than Twitter's estimated 140M — The four-year-old messaging app is said to have 150 million people using it each day. — Snapchat Inc. has 150 million people using the service each day, said people familiar with the matter.
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Sources: Apple preparing new external 5K display as current model goes out of stock, may feature integrated GPU, could be announced at WWDC — The current $999 (!) Thunderbolt Display is showing its age to put it mildly, now significantly overshadowed by Retina MacBooks and iMacs in terms of screen resolution and quality.| New York Times: |
Uber raises $3.5B from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will add managing director of the fund to its board — SAN FRANCISCO — In its quest to build a global empire, Uber has turned to the Middle East for its biggest infusion of cash from a single investor.
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IDC: 2016 worldwide smartphone sales expected to grow 3.1%, down from 10.5% in 2015; Android will grow to 84% of shipments with an average selling price of $218 — According to a forecast update from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker …
| Phil Oakley / Android Police: |
Google starts suggesting unused apps for Android users to uninstall in Google Play Store to save space — Apps are getting big - that's one thing no one will deny. With some games reaching more than a gigabyte of space - LEGO Star Wars on my Nexus 6P is 1.17GB - it's becoming an issue … | Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Pebble's $99 Core music-streaming keychain fitness tracker will integrate Amazon's Alexa — The keychain computer will have Amazon's assistant. But Pebble first tested human concierges doing “anything that's legal” for users — Last week the smart watch company Pebble announced …
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich planned, then cancelled, a Thursday night fund-raiser for Donald Trump; Trump to hold rally in San Jose instead — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Donald J. Trump would not be Silicon Valley's first choice as president. Or its second. Or maybe even its third.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces general availability of SQL Server 2016, with deep integration of the R programming language — Microsoft today is announcing the general availability (GA) of its SQL Server database software. For more than a year now, Microsoft has been rolling out public previews …
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| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
Facebook announces Deep Text, an AI engine to understand meaning and sentiment behind posts, so the platform's content can be categorized, searched effectively — Today, Facebook announced Deep Text, an AI engine it's building to understand the meaning and sentiment behind all of the text posted by users to Facebook.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Yahoo publishes three FBI national security letters previously under gag order from 2013 and 2015, making it one of the first companies to do so — Yahoo has just published three national security letters, controversial government demands for information usually accompanied by a gag order and rarely made public.
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| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
A16z, USV lead $1.5M seed round in Mediachain, a startup building an open, blockchain-based tool to identify artists' works online — New York-based Mediachain has become the latest blockchain startup to join the portfolios of VC heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Recode: |
Sources: Cisco moves three engineers behind the company's “spin-in” R&D strategy to advisory roles — The people behind the company's “spin-in” R&D strategy. — Three members of a legendary four-person team of engineers at Cisco Systems who spearheaded …
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| Mary Meeker / KPCB: |
Meeker report: global internet users surpass 3B but adoption rate flat except in India; voice assistants' word accuracy, latency, usage rates continue improving — The 2016 edition of Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report covers today's Internet growth and an in-depth look at the following:
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