AdStage gets $2 million from Verizon Ventures for its marketing tech platform
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Reports of email’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
iTunes and the App Store are down for some on day of iPhone 7 launch
Twitter’s first NFL Thursday Night Football livestream watched by 2.1 million viewers
Google acquires Urban Engines to bring its location-based analytics to Google Maps
PayPal’s One Touch platform used by 36 million consumers and 5 million merchants
Twitter now lets brands list customer support information in profiles
Carbon3D raises $81.1 million and forms strategic deals with GE, BMW, Nikon, and JSR
Uber, Square, Airbnb, and others form cybersecurity coalition for vetting vendors
Salesforce hires former Microsoft exec Tony Prophet as its first chief equality officer
500px’s new app helps photographers get hired
Facebook’s next data center will be in Los Lunas, New Mexico
Facebook says about 10% of News Feed stories are actually read daily
Twitter launches live video app for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Xbox One
Canva raises $15 million at a $345 million valuation for its online design tool
Lyft teams with Budweiser to curb drunk driving with free rides
WhatsApp for iOS now lets you use Siri to send messages and make calls
Stripe acquires app prototyping startup Tonic
SAP’s Concur acquires travel booking app Hipmunk
Salesforce to name chief equality officer next week
Foursquare users have checked in over 10 billion times
Foursquare now lets you use Swarm coins to pay for perks, brings stickers to iMessage
Tenor launches iOS 10 iMessage app with GIF creator and Snapchat-like filters
Apple launches iMessage App Store for iOS 10
Facebook Messenger now has 300 million voice and video callers
First Data debuts contactless card reader that accepts mag stripe, EMV, and NFC payments
Shippo raises $7 million to further its goal of being Twilio for shipping
FAA ‘strongly advises’ against using Samsung Galaxy Note7 in-flight
BlogHer cofounder starts conference to help women founders scale their business
President Obama reportedly to name retired Air Force general as first cybersecurity chief
Box teams with cloud vendors to launch coalition supporting crisis response groups
Uber launches redesigned rider music program with Pandora and Spotify
Salesforce’s Community Cloud gets Lightning templates from Accenture, Deloitte, others
LinkedIn adds conversion tracking for sponsored updates
Twilio targets the enterprise with plan offering more security and regulatory controls
Menlo Ventures brings back Shawn Carolan as managing director of its consumer practice
Nest’s new Sightline feature highlights key moments captured from your Nest Cam
Intel teams with TPG to spin out McAfee security unit in deal valued at $4.2 billion
