


Apple reports record $18.4 billion profit as iPhone sales slow

Apple sees iPhone sales grow just 0.4% to 74.8 million in Q1 2016, iPad sales decline 25%

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Street Fighter V round 2: Yoshinori Ono, Matt Dahlgren take on monetization

FaceIt esports community raises $15 million to go global

Slack forms Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group focused on ‘mining the chat corpus’
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Clean Energy Veteran Launches zipdragon ventures

Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app

Intel’s Curie captures the motion of snowboarders at ESPN X Games

Google experiments with showing content from U.S. presidential candidates directly in search results

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Chrome gets a security panel to help developers deploy HTTPS

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Funding Daily: Memeni raises $2.5 million seed round

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Pokémon Red, Blue, & Yellow rereleases are almost like riding a time machine back to 1996

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Bravely Second: End Layer and Destiny share one thing in common

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Fire Emblem: Fates is a family tiff on an epic — and pricey — scale

Juniper acquires networking company BTI Systems

Microsoft launches Azure Stack technical preview for on-premises data centers

Firefox 44 arrives with push notifications that sites can send even after users close the page

Google’s Waze launches SDK for third-party transportation apps like Lyft

League of Legends, Clash of Clans, and CrossFire drive digital games to $61.3B in 2015

Google Inbox gets powerful new search features
Force Protection Video Receives Comment Letter from The SEC On Its S-1

Funding Daily: Fireglass raises $20 million led by Norwest and Lightspeed

Twitter confirms former Amex exec Leslie Berland as its new CMO
Halo Smart Labs Pick-Up Back-to-Back Awards at 2 of the Biggest Trade Shows of the Year
OpenX Unveils Real-Time Guaranteed

Discord raises $20M for voice comm app for multiplayer mobile games

Atlassian hires Groupon’s Sri Viswanath to be its first CTO

PlayStation Network’s down for some gamers (update)

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Platinum Games confirms Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan — here’s a trailer and more details

The Force is strong as Vidyard lands $35 million to awaken video marketing

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Games still dominated the iOS app store in Q4

HopSkipDrive raises $10.2M for its ‘Uber for kids’ service, names Uber LA head as COO

Uber’s using gyrometer and accelerometer data from smartphones to verify user feedback

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Helpshift’s automated customer support tools reach more than 1.3B devices

Uber faces new round of national protests by French taxi drivers

Here are Accenture’s 5 big tech trends for 2016
