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Instagram says Stories has 200M daily active users, passing 161M DAUs Snapchat reported in S1; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos — Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: secret Uber program “Hell” created fake Lyft rider accounts to track Lyft driver locations, and identified individual drivers using Lyft vulnerability — As the ride-sharing market was exploding in the U.S. between 2014 and the early part 2016, Uber had an advantage …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple has hired a small team of biomedical engineers to develop non-invasive sensors to monitor blood sugar levels; efforts have been going on 5+ years — - Apple has a secret group of biomedical engineers developing sensors to monitor blood sugar levels, sources tell CNBC
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft unveils Steam-like refund system for Xbox One and Windows 10 games and apps with a 14-day return window — Refunds are already live for many users, come with 14-day window, Steam-like caveats. — Xbox One is officially the first video game console to support digital purchase refunds by default.| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Google launches food delivery and home services app called Areo in India, currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai — Areo aggregates food dishes and home services across various local service providers, allowing users to order food or schedule appointments with a local beautician … | Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon opens up Alexa's 7-Mic voice processing technology to hardware makers for free on an invite-only basis — Amazon's digital assistant Alexa might show up in a lot of new devices soon. — That's because the online retail giant has decided to open up what amounts to Alexa's ears …
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap to roll out “Snap to Store” tool, which lets brands measure if Snapchat geofilter ad campaigns drive users to specific locations — Newly public company rolls out ‘Snap to Store’ set of data and tools for advertisers — Snapchat once pledged not to be creepy with advertising.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Yext starts trading at $14 per share, up 27% from IPO price — Yext, a 10-year-old enterprise tech business that manages “digital knowledge” — mmmkay! — started trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange at $14 per share, up by more than 27 percent from its IPO price of $11 per share.| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Filing: General Motors is planning to add 1,163 staff to its Cruise self-driving car unit in San Francisco by 2021 tax year — General Motors is adding 1,163 employees to its self-driving car unit in San Francisco, according to a state filing flagged by Bloomberg's Dana Hull .
| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Eat24 partners with robotics startup Marble for new autonomous robot food delivery in two San Francisco neighborhoods — Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Spotify Apple Watch companion app in the works as Spotify collaborates with third-party developer Snowy — Over the past few months, users on Reddit have been voicing excitement for a new app being developed and beta tested that would finally bring Spotify onto the Apple Watch.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a hub for WebVR content and adds support for its Cardboard headset — Today, Google made some WebVR updates to Chrome, adding support for Cardboard while also building a home for all of its online VR web content. — WebVR Experiments is a bit of a storefront for online VR experiences …
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