Samsung announces live VR broadcasts from UFC, X Games, and a Live Nation concert
Paul Sawers
Soulmates.ai launches to help brands find compatible influencers using AI
Stewart Rogers
Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with coding club network CoderDojo
Paul Sawers
Google launches Data GIF Maker to help storytellers convey information through animations
Paul Sawers
Zuckerberg to graduates: Create a world where everyone has a sense of purpose
Khari Johnson
Stripe now lets marketplaces onboard new sellers in less than 2 minutes
Paul Sawers
Many Uber and Lyft riders are ditching their own cars
Reuters
Worldpay demos system for making payments inside virtual reality worlds
Paul Sawers
Mark Zuckerberg tours old Harvard dorm room and dishes on Facemash, Hot Pockets, and crappy roommates
Chris O'Brien
How eastern European tech entrepreneurs are drawing global interest
Reuters
5 bots to try this week: Karrueche, Eclipse, Andromeda, PooBot, and Trivia Blast
VB Staff
Quiqup, the Postmates of London, raises $26 million to grow its on-demand logistics platform
Paul Sawers
Twitter created an ad format to put bots in your DMs
Khari Johnson
Pot luck: Hound Labs raises $8.1 million to combat stoned drivers with cannabis breathalyzers
Paul Sawers
Microsoft is helping restaurants cook up their own bots
Khari Johnson
Google and UN launch Searching for Syria to answer 5 most common questions about the civil war
Paul Sawers
Facebook leaked documents reveal how it moderates hate speech, porn, and terrorism
Reuters
Keep on truckin’: 5 companies disrupting the road freight industry
Paul Sawers
Eventbrite: Events on Facebook result in 2X the ticket sales
Ken Yeung
Instagram gives brands and celebrities up to 400% more engagement than Facebook, according to Socialbakers
Stewart Rogers
Zomato agrees to hacker’s demand — will launch bug bounty program in exchange for stolen data deletion
Paul Sawers
Facebook will live stream ESL video game tournaments
Jonathan Vanian, Fortune
On-demand child care startup Trusted expands to New York
Ken Yeung
Medium now offers audio versions of its stories for members
Ken Yeung
Opinion
Can we just call them apps?
Harrison Weber
Social Native raises $8 million for user-created advertisements
Dean Takahashi
Restaurant search service Zomato hacked, says 17 million customer email addresses and passwords stolen
Paul Sawers
Facebook fined $122 million by EU over misleading WhatsApp information
Reuters
I/O 2017: Everything coming to Google Assistant
Khari Johnson
Google Home adds free phone calls and visual search
Khari Johnson
Volvo’s testing an autonomous garbage collection truck
Paul Sawers
Facebook’s fact checking may help spread fake news
Mathew Ingram, Fortune
5 bots to try this week: Spider-Man, Discord Dungeons, Beam, Pizza Bottle, and Kim Kardashian
VB Staff
Biz Stone rejoins Twitter to ‘guide the company culture’
Ken Yeung
Facebook fined for violating French digital privacy regulations
Chris O'Brien
