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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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| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
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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Thanks:@joshconstine| Dan Frommer / Recode: |
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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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
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 …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Yahoo's head lawyer Ron Bell was fired over 2014 breach; CEO Marissa Mayer lost cash bonuses from 2016 and stock awards from 2017 — The blame for the massive breach falls on Ron Bell and not where it belongs at the top — Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer has gotten her pay docked …
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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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
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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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
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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Thanks:@stevetweedie| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
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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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 … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Octane AI opens up from private beta, launches Convos, which provides way to convert blog into a format suited for bots within Facebook Messenger — Octane AI has hit a milestone four months after introducing its bot creation platform to the world. The company announced today that it is moving …
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