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Marketing cloud: Enabling awesome user engagement across channels (webinar)

Microsoft launches Cognitive Services based on Project Oxford and Bing

Bots are coming to Skype on iOS, Android, HoloLens, and desktop

Microsoft launches Bot Framework to let developers build their own chatbots

Expa raises $100 million to build more companies, launches startup accelerator

Microsoft launches Cortana Collection in Windows Store, unveils proactive features coming to digital assistant

Everything Microsoft announced at Build 2016

Facebook is launching universal Windows apps for Instagram, Messenger, and its core service

Xbox chief says Windows 10 will be ‘fully open’ for game developers

Microsoft is bringing the Bash shell to Windows

Uber wants to hear your complaints, just not over email

Apple, Google routinely asked to help government access devices: ACLU

Google now shows swipeable image ads when you search for cars

Asana raises $50 million from Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and others

KLM now uses Facebook Messenger for boarding passes, flight info, and customer service

VB Event
Lyft engineering VP Peter Morelli to speak at Mobile Summit about building bigger, faster on mobile

Square’s new platform lets sellers build customized apps on top of its payment service
Cignifi and Equifax Partner to Bring Next-Generation Credit Scores to Unbanked Population in Latin America

Nvidia backs GPU-powered data analytics tool MapD in $10 million round

Scentbird raises $2.8 million so you can try luxury perfumes before buying them

Invoca lands $30M to help marketers make sense of 73 billion phone calls

Google Domains moves to a ‘.Google’ domain

Adobe survey: Working for the government is a soul-crushing, empty experience for creatives

Analysis
Uber rolls back into Spain with UberX licensed cab service in Madrid and a fresh attitude

Facebook gives in to BlackBerry’s begging, creates web-based app after killing native app

Microsoft’s Tay chatbot comes back online, says it’s ‘smoking kush’ in front of the police

Uber now lets app developers target riders with contextual information

Rythm raises $11 million for wearable device to measure sleep quality

BizReach secures $33 million to develop hiring management platform

Uber offers China and India developers an SDK that integrates its service into apps

U.S. agrees with Apple’s request to delay New York encryption case

Airbnb now lets you add hosts to manage your listing

Guest
Unicorn club in February: 2 new entrants, $2.24B raised, and Cisco annexes IoT

GitHub’s Saved Replies let users more quickly respond to issues and pull requests

Dropbox on Android now lets you open PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Facebook Messenger is reportedly taking on Apple Pay and Samsung Pay

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Learn how to monetize your app with ads, commerce, and subscriptions at Mobile Summit

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Pep Boys & Yeoman Technologies show how marketing clouds impact the bottom line (webinar)
