


Telegram’s Pavel Durov giving developers $1 million in grants to build bots

Why Comcast and GM need to be more like Netflix and Uber to survive

YouTube inches toward VR with 360-degree livestreaming and spatial audio

The House Fund raises $6 million to invest in startups tied to UC Berkeley

LinkedIn’s newest app helps college grads find jobs

Analysis
Facebook just validated the bot movement for businesses

Instagram rolling out new channels to show you videos you might like

Vine now lets you automatically play all videos in a channel

Snapchat now lets you animate emojis within videos

Max Levchin’s Affirm raises $100 million to expand beyond point-of-sale financing

Facebook opens Instant Articles to all publishers

Twilio adds Facebook Messenger to its communication API platform

Facebook opens its Messenger platform to chatbots

Facebook is launching its first Internet-beaming satellite in ‘next few months’

Facebook opens up its livestream API to developers

How to livestream Facebook’s 2016 F8 developer conference

Telegram’s Bot API gets inline keyboards, support for 19 file types before Facebook’s F8 event

You can now share Dropbox files directly in Facebook Messenger

Tesla recalls ‘about 2,700’ Model X SUVs over faulty third-row seat backs

Lytro’s new Cinema camera is designed to help filmmakers nail that ‘impossible shot’

Zirx’s new platform lets auto companies offer their own concierge service

Daily Mail reportedly exploring bid to acquire Yahoo

What to expect from Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week

Former Evernote CEO Phil Libin’s first investment at General Catalyst is this bot startup

Facebook showing live videos in trending topics with new video search coming to mobile

Twitter Fabric now installed on 2 billion active devices

X.ai raises $23 million for its AI personal assistant, plans to launch this fall

Reddit scraps Alien Blue in favor of in-house built iOS and Android apps

Amazon and Accel toss $12.5M at Luma’s mesh routers after 30K preorders

Uber meets goal of 50,000 military veteran drivers, donates $1 million to support groups

Uber pilots program in California and Michigan that advances drivers up to $1,000

Y Combinator asks Hacker News for help in picking startups to join its Fellowship program

SurveyMonkey takes on App Annie with launch of its mobile app insight platform

Facebook Live now streams to Groups and Events, gets Reactions, filters, and more

Y Combinator-backed Meadow raises $2.1 million for its cannabis platform

Twitter now makes it easier to share tweets privately through Direct Messages

Kik launches a Bot Shop for its messaging platform

Lyft brings its Line service to Seattle, Denver, New Jersey, and 3 more cities
