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Facebook rolls out Messenger Day, its Snapchat Stories-like ephemeral messaging feature located inside the Messenger app and desktop chats — Today Facebook is globally launching Messenger Day to put a utilitarian spin on the slideshow format. While Snapchat Stories is for retelling what you've done …
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Thanks:@joshconstine. | Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Airbnb raises $1B at a $31B valuation; source says the firm has no plans for IPO anytime soon, was profitable in Q2 2016 and expects to be profitable in 2017 — Airbnb has closed on a more than $1 billion round of funding, according to a source close to the company. It is now worth approximately $31 billion.
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Thanks:@mattrosoff| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Some Pixel and Pixel XL owners are experiencing failing microphones; Google recommends warranty replacements — When the customer threads over on the Google Support Forum start to get hundreds of replies deep, you know there's a serious problem afoot. This one is affecting the Pixel and Pixel XL … | Joe Sullivan / Uber Global: |
Uber security chief says company is reviewing Greyball technology and will prohibit using it to evade regulators — We wanted to give everyone an update on “greyballing”. This technology is used to hide the standard city app view for individual riders, enabling Uber to show that same rider a different version.
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| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Report: WhatsApp testing chat tools to let businesses talk to customers as a source of revenue, conducting an early trial with a group of Y Combinator companies — WhatsApp has begun testing a system that allows businesses to message consumers directly, according to a report by Reuters.
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Amazon acquires meeting productivity startup Do.com, plans to integrate it into Chime, its new conferencing tool for businesses — Mar 8, 2017, 3:05 amMar 8, 2017, 7:51 am — Amazon has quietly made one more acquisition to build out the productivity services on its cloud platform AWS.
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Google receives city approval to build Charleston East, a futuristic-looking 18-acre, 595,000-square-foot campus in Mountain View — Unique design for East Charleston campus wins over City Council — Listen closely and you can probably hear the champagne corks popping over at Google.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Gary Marcus, director of Uber's AI Labs, to leave his role after four months with the company and become a “senior adviser” to Uber — Gary Marcus, a research scientist who joined Uber four months ago as director of its AI labs, is leaving the company, according to sources.
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California DMV grants Uber a limited permit to test two Volvo XC90 self-driving cars — They're back. — After a public tussle with tech titan Uber, the California Department of Vehicles today granted a permit for the ride-hail company to test self-driving cars in California.| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Mountain View, California, and hires Uber engineer Charlie Miller to lead security and development teams — The Mountain View lab will focus on AI-based security and intelligent driving systems for cars. — Didi, China's largest ride-hail player, is getting serious about self-driving cars.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Veem, formerly Align Commerce, raises $24M round led by National Australia Bank (NAB) Ventures, for faster and cheaper remittance services for SMBs — Remittances — the business of money transfers — is a fragmented and huge market, currently estimated to be worth some $25 trillion annually.
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Google announces it has bought Kaggle, a platform with ~500K data scientists, which hosts data science and machine learning competitions and has raised $12.75M — Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Google debuts Engineering Support for cloud services, charging a flat fee based on response time; plans start at $100/user per month for 4-8 hour response time — Google is famous in the tech industry for the effectiveness of its reliability engineers who keep its search and other products running smoothly.
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