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Screenshots show disappearing messages coming to Messenger

Updated with comment from Facebook I'm kind of fascinated with Facebook's relationship with Snapchat. The two companies are, in some Read More

M&A roundup – week ending 4/30/16

Spotify acquired CrowdAlbum, a company that makes live music events into shared experience. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed. The Read More

Meet Shruti Gandhi, Managing Partner at Array Ventures

There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or Read More

Daily funding roundup – April 29, 2016

OMERS Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Digital Currency Group (DCG), a New York-based builder, incubator and funder of bitcoin and blockchain technology-related Read More

Judge rules against Jawbone in patent dispute with Fitbit

In the run up to Fitbit's IPO last year, one of its main rivals took the opportunity to throw the Read More

Search API Algolia brings on former Salesforce exec

Kendall Collins, formerly global CMO of Salesforce and more recently CMO of AppDynamics, has joined the board of directors for Read More

Today’s Entrepreneur: David Gritz

Today's Entrepreneur is David Gritz, Co-founder and Chief Strategist at Hatch House. Hatch House Ventures is a live-work start-up incubator for Read More

Snapchat partners with NBC for Olympics content

With Twitter winning the rights to stream NFL games, now there's another big sporting event looking to capitalize on social: Read More

LinkedIn beats in Q1 earnings, sends stock up 7%

Shares of LinkedIn are up over 7 percent in after-hours trading Thursday, after the company posted better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. In the earnings Read More

Snapchat reaches 10B daily video views, overtakes Facebook

The moment that Snapchat passed Facebook in video views has been coming for a while now, but I'm not sure Read More

Global smartphone shipments decline for the first time ever

There have been troubling signs in the smartphone market for a while now, ever since China reported a decline in its shipments Read More

Daily funding roundup – April 28, 2016

Poncho, a precious orange "weathercat" bot developed by betaworks, raised a $2 million seed round of funding led by Lerer Read More

Poncho secures $2 million seed for cute weather bot

Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Read More

Zuckerberg: 360-degree and live video are just the beginning

It's hard to overstate just how important video has become to Facebook. The company has made big bets on two Read More

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