


The Muse raises $16 million to grow its recruitment service for millennials

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Why chatbots can’t do much more than order you an Uber…yet

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The limits of A.I. and chatbots: How not to fail like Microsoft (VB Live)

Juniqe raises $15.7 million for art marketplace

Samsung targets Apple Pay with mobile wallet strategy

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CMO Checklist: Why brands should engage with bots (VB Live)

Withings founder explains why Nokia Technologies may be Silicon Valley’s scariest ‘startup’

Apple rumored to eschew traditional refresh cycle with a largely unchanged 2016 iPhone

Tesla makes bid to buy SolarCity for as much as $2.78 billion

Adobe sees ‘record’ $1.4B revenue in Q2, stops disclosing new Creative Cloud subscribers
OpenX Expands Los Angeles Presence, Opens Culver City Office
Seven Bridges Is Named to MIT Technology Review’s Annual 50 Smartest Companies List
Eywasystems Launches Real-World Happiness With WEALLMEET (WAM) – a new revenue stream to social networks.

Microsoft shows off SQL Server in a Linux container, Docker Datacenter comes to Azure Marketplace

Slack adds shortcut buttons for quick actions in connected apps
AdAction Interactive Launches New Revolutionary Platform, Action Insight

More than 25% of U.S. internet users will choose ad blockers in 2016

Yahoo’s new travel assistant streamlines planning for your next trip

On-demand booze delivery startup Thirstie expands into mail order in search for scale

VLC for Android hits version 2.0, gets network browsing, subtitle downloads, and more

Bryan Kramer, staying human, and the rise of the chatbots – VB Engage

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Samsung’s Gear Fit 2 could replace your old fitness band

Tumblr adds live video support from YouTube, YouNow, Kanvas, and Upclose

Microsoft launches its first SharePoint mobile app, but only on iOS for now

Instagram passes 500 million users, 300 million daily users

This chatbot lets you ‘ghost’ that creepy person you met at a bar

Twitter now lets you share 140-second videos, launches its version of Facebook Mentions

Peter Thiel-backed banking startup Number26 raises $40 million to grow into new markets

Hyperloop One partners with Moscow for high-speed transport projects

Zenefits CEO David Sacks on his bold bet: Less than 10% of employees accepted ‘The Offer’

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Kayak’s cofounder talks about how bots are transforming customer engagement

Apple news site MacNN is shutting down on July 1

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WWDC for CMOs: How Apple’s announcements will impact marketing

Venture capitalist David Morgenthaler dies at 96

Netflix made a new logo that’s designed for mobile devices

Docker for Mac and Windows launches out of private beta

Facebook shareholders vote to issue Class C shares that keep Zuckerberg in control

OpenAI says it will build a household robot and intelligent agents

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