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VC performance report: Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, and Founders Fund, with ROIs of 2.6x, 2.3x, and 1.7x for its three funds — Rare look at startup investors' performance shows Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund — Andreessen Horowitz's …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Messenger adds Instant Video, which lets you quickly share live video within conversations — Open Messenger in iOS or Android, start a conversation with a friend and the app will offer you the option of adding live video to your chat. — The video starts without sound, but you can turn it on if you want.
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook to penalize advertisers whose sites load too slowly, are not optimized for mobile — Social network will limit where and when ads appear if they point to slow-loading sites — Facebook wants advertisers to speed up their mobile websites and plans to limit where and when ads appear across …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Fantasy sports site DraftKings raises $153M from Revolution Growth and others — DraftKings, the controversial daily fantasy sports site, has raised $153 million in new venture capital funding, Fortune has learned. — New investors include Revolution Growth, an investment firm co-founded … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Asus debuts ZenWatch 3, a round Android Wear smartwatch with battery that lasts 2 days and charges to 60% in 15 minutes, coming to US, Germany in Oct. for €229 — Today at IFA, Asus has announced the ZenWatch 3, a new Android Wear smartwatch. It jettisons everything that was underwhelming … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T's VP of federal regulatory interests writes blog post celebrating Google Fiber's reported troubles and criticizing it for seeking government favors — Google Fiber's reported struggles cause AT&T to take a victory lap. — AT&T celebrated Google Fiber's reported struggles yesterday …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google's OnHub router can now control Philips Hue lights, and its price drops $20 to $180 — Google today said that its OnHub internet router can now connect to and allow users to control Philips Hue lights. — They're a common example of an Internet of Things (IoT) device … | Elana Pidgeon / Windows Blog: |
HP unveils two Windows PCs: the speaker-like Pavilion Wave starting at $550, and the Elite Slice, a modular PC starting at $949; both launch in September — This slideshow requires JavaScript. — With the HP Pavilion Wave, design, entertainment and productivity come together in an exciting new design.
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| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Baidu and Nvidia to Build Artificial Intelligence Platform for Self-Driving Cars — Chinese search engine Baidu and chipmaker Nvidia announced a partnership Thursday that will focus on using artificial intelligence to develop a computing platform for self-driving cars.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Box hires team behind data analytics startup Wagon; Wagon app to shut down October 3 — Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Box today announced that it has acquired the team from Wagon Analytics, a startup that built an application analysts could use to query and analyze their data.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Sony unveils 5.2" Xperia XZ and 4.6" X Compact camera-focused smartphones with Snapdragon 820 CPUs, 3GB RAM; both launch in the US this fall — Meet the newest flagship and mini handset from Sony. — On the heels of releasing the Xperia X Performance smartphone a few months ago, Sony is back with another couple of handsets.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Jessica Alba joins Gwyneth Paltrow, will.i.am, Gary Vaynerchuk as exec producer and mentor on Apple's Planet of the Apps; Lightspeed commits $10M in prizes — Lightspeed Venture Partners commits $10 million to fund winning apps — Jessica Alba has boarded “Planet of the Apps” …
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| Readability / Medium: |
The Readability bookmarking service will shut down on September 30, 2016. — After more than five years of operation, the Readability article bookmarking/read-it-later service will be shutting down after September 30, 2016. — If you'd like to save your bookmarks, please follow these directions before September 30, 2016.
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo debuts Yoga 910 convertible laptop with 13.9" edge-to-edge display, 14.3mm-thick body, battery life of 15.5 hours, available for $1300 in US this Sept. — Dell first introduced its stunning edge-to-edge display with the XPS 13 last year, and now Lenovo is starting to bring a similar screen to its Yoga range.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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