Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Top Stories of the Day // March 2, 2016

Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat | Hands-on with the $949 mind-bending Meta 2 augmented reality headset | Facebook adds 36K Telenor employees to Facebook at Work as it gears up for global launch | How I built a hoverboard company and then blew it up | Facebook faces German antitrust privacy probe | Accelerator NFX Guild unveiled its second startup batch today: Here’s who just graduated | Blippar augmented reality search engine raises $54 million Series D |
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine

Slack will soon start testing voice and video chat

Slack is gunning for Skype and Google Hangouts with the 2016 product roadmap it revealed today. The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly turn a text... Read More…
Lucas Matney

Hands-on with the $949 mind-bending Meta 2 augmented reality headset

Right now this industry is full of products that are cumbersome and ugly enough that you’d probably swipe left on Beyoncé wearing a pair, but this past... Read More…
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Ingrid Lunden

Facebook adds 36K Telenor employees to Facebook at Work as it gears up for global launch

Facebook at Work — the enterprise version of Facebook that lets businesses build their own secure social networks — has racked up over 60,000... Read More…
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Facebook Changes News Feed To Prioritize Live Video

Checkbook lets you send digital checks for free, Soundhound launches a standalone app for iOS and Android, a Facebook VP is detained in Brazil over a WhatsApp investigation, the LM-cable is a both a Lightning and Micro USB cable. Watch Now
Khaled "Tito" Hamze

How I built a hoverboard company and then blew it up

I was first introduced to Hoverboards while watching Casey Neistat's daily vlogs on YouTube. I thought, "Wow. That's pretty cool!" and started searching... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Facebook faces German antitrust privacy probe

Facebook's data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe. This time the German federal competition authority is initiating proceedings --... Read More…
Connie Loizos

Accelerator NFX Guild unveiled its second startup batch today: Here’s who just graduated

Bay Area accelerator NFX Guild presented 16 companies to a crowded room of 200 investors down on Sand Hill Road today, and the room was reportedly very... Read More…
Jordan Crook

Blippar augmented reality search engine raises $54 million Series D

Blippar, the AR company that lets you see extra, rich content by simply pointing your phone at an object, has today announced the close of a $54 million Series... Read More…
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