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Digit’s new feature helps put away money to pay your rent and phone bills

X.ai targets teams with business edition of its AI scheduling assistant

Xiaomi introduces the Surge S1, its first in-house chipset

Periscope’s groups feature getting new admin controls

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 phone will be unveiled on March 29

Samsung introduces the Galaxy Tab S3 and Galaxy Book detachable tablets

The state of your self-driving car

Layer raises $15 million, confirms acquisition of Cola’s messaging platform

Twitter opens up Periscope Producer service to everyone

Facebook starts inserting ads in the middle of videos

Lyft expands to Fargo, Topeka, Pensacola, Iowa City, and 50 more cities

500 Startups names DataHero’s Chris Neumann as entrepreneur-in-residence

Twilio paid $8.5 million in cash for assets of Kurento Open Source Project

Square grew transactions 39% to $50 billion in 2016

7 things startups should think about when recruiting and keeping employees

Twitter tweaks direct messages for brands so they sound more human

Instagram now lets you share up to 10 photos and videos per post

This chatbot helps Airbnb hosts answer guests’ questions faster than ever before

Facebook Analytics passes 1 million apps

Dovetale launches tool to identify influencer communities using image recognition

Meitu unveils $479 T8 smartphone with 12MP front-facing camera to take the perfect selfie

Xiaomi courts U.S. interest while flirting with expansion

Former Uber engineer details sexism nightmare, CEO orders investigation

10 ways companies are driving innovation

Parse cofounder James Yu leaves Facebook

Facebook swipes at LinkedIn by letting brands post job openings on Pages

Layer to acquire assets of Cola’s messaging app service for $75,000

Google Search adds new plant and animal facts for trivia geeks

Lytro raises $60 million to bring light field VR technology into Asia

Radar launches to show developers how mobile apps are used in specific locations

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey buys $7 million in stock

Y Combinator-backed Staffjoy is shutting down on March 15

LinkedIn’s newest feature lets recruiters find contractors

Facebook’s videos are coming to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung smart TVs

Nest adds automatic door detection and animated push notifications for subscribers

Yahoo Mail now syncs photos across devices and IDs who’s calling on the phone

Twilio CEO dismisses BlackBerry messaging play as ‘nothing we haven’t seen before’

Storm Ventures nabs Orange startup accelerator creator as new principal investor

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