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Kochava’s media guide creates a one-stop shop for mobile marketing campaigns

AppFront automates restaurant bookings with Facebook Messenger bots

Despite official EU support, Europe faces a long and bloody fight over the sharing economy

Uber exec says company will pass market leader Didi in China by 2017

Scientists propose creation of synthetic human genome

Microsoft Outlook arrives on HoloLens

Google News starts showing Accelerated Mobile Pages in 6 more countries

Apple’s App Store, iCloud, iTunes, TV, Photos, and other services are down (Update: Fixed)

Hands-on with Samsung’s Gear Fit 2 and IconX Bluetooth earbuds

NBA launches Facebook Messenger chatbot in time for the finals

Pinterest replaces ‘Pin It’ button with ‘Save’

Joel Comm, Snapchat, and what if your shadow talked back to you? — VB Engage

Medium acquires content feed provider Superfeedr

Google BigQuery gets standard SQL support in beta

Sequel lets you create a ‘Me’ bot, beats Google to the punch

Google open-sources AnyPixel, which lets anyone program interactive displays

Snapchat reportedly has more daily users than Twitter

With $3.2 million, Notion brings the Internet of Things to home monitoring

Udemy raises $60M from Naspers to grow its online education platform globally
Coupa Recognized by Independent Research Firm as a Breakout Vendor for SaaS Business Applications

Samsung Pay launches in Europe: first stop Spain

Tile raises $18 million to push its Bluetooth tracker to more forgetful people globally

Mobile marketing tech company Fiksu acquired by asset management firm Noosphere

Tech’s best barometer? Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report has ballooned from 25 to 213 slides

Oracle sued by whistleblower over cloud accounting practices

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Mobile user 30-minutes series: Acquisition strategies that pay (VB Live)

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What Mary Meeker didn’t say about bots

Uber raises $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, balance sheet now exceeds $11 billion

Armarium launches with $1.25M backed by fashion investor Carmen Busquets

Facebook’s DeepText engine is learning to read what you share like a human

Amy Vernon, live video, and how Facebook can’t count – VB Engage
Angeles Equity Partners Acquires Controlling Interest in ERP Power LLC

Apple 2016 MacBook review: More practical than you’d think, and stunning in pink

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AI and bot companies: Amaze us at the MobileBeat 2016 Innovation Showcase

Google updates Now on Tap to identify objects in photos and define highlighted words

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 becomes available to everyone

Facebook Messenger’s emojis now look the same on all platforms

OnePlus 3 goes on sale June 14 in VR, no invite required
