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Interview with Panos Panay and other Microsoft execs on how the Surface Go was made, and why they think it has an edge over Chromebooks and the iPad — PANOS PANAY IS the betting type. You can see the evidence in Microsoft's Building 37, where two $1 bills stick out from beneath a Surface tablet sitting on a shelf.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Following the latest Mueller indictments, Twitter bans DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 accounts, says it is reviewing company policies and expects to make updates soon — The US' indictment of Russian officers over the DNC hacks is having an effect... at least, on Twitter.
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Online game creation platform Roblox, which is reportedly raising at a $2.4B valuation, says it's on track to more than double developer payouts to $70M in 2018 — - Roblox, the video-game app that's wildly popular with younger players, is on track to pay out $70 million to its developers this year.
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| Rob Price / INSIDER: |
Sources describe a dysfunctional culture at Meitu, a Chinese selfie app maker with 400M+ MAUs, with public shamings of staff, seemingly arbitrary firings, more — - Meitu is a hot Chinese selfie app maker with hundreds of millions of users — but some believe its global expansion has been plagued by dysfunction.
Tweets: @tprophet
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Headout, a mobile travel app for booking last-minute tours, activities, and tickets to local events, raises $10M Series A to grow from 21 to 100 cities globally — Imagine being in a new city with a few hours to kill, but no idea what to do. Headout is a travel app that enables tourists … | The Guardian: |
Lancaster University's Litcraft uses Minecraft to create accurate scale models of places from books like Treasure Island to promote reading among school kids — Ever wanted to explore Treasure Island or pretend to be Robinson Crusoe? Minecraft is now being used to create an 'immersive experience … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As Facebook and Instagram crack down on explicit content, Twitter has become the platform of choice for nudists as it allows content with full or partial nudity — Since Martin Belcher, a 50-year-old customer-services adviser based in the U.K., joined Twitter in 2012, he's tweeted out thousands …
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| Rory Smith / New York Times: |
How widespread use of translation apps like Google Translate helped bring international fans and locals together during the World Cup in Russia — MOSCOW — On a warm, sticky morning in Kazan, Russia, a couple of weeks ago, a British journalist decided to brave the heat and go for a run.| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
Profile of UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, who gave Facebook a £500K fine over Cambridge Analytica and is investigating data misuse during Brexit — With the publication of an interim report on her investigation into the Brexit referendum, the information commissioner … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Smule rebrands its Sing! Karaoke app, which lets users record music videos solo or as duets with other users or artists, to Smule, says the app has 50M MAUs — Smule wants everyone to know its name. — The company, a San Francisco-based startup named from a portmanteau of “sonic” and “mule,” runs a collection of music-related apps.Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Sunil Paul / Recode: |
Uber will eventually dominate the scooter sector because it has the most users looking for a ride and the logistics expertise to get supply to the right spot — The Uber of scooters is going to be Uber. — This is a contributed post by Sunil Paul, who was co-founder of Sidecar.| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint Research: Apple sold less than 1M iPhones in India in the first half of 2018; sources: three key Apple India sales executives have left — - Recent exits are said to include sales and distribution heads — The iPhone maker struggles to compete in a fast-growing market
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