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Facebook’s new Collection ads help brands tell a more visual product story

Facebook Messenger adds support for reactions and @mentions

Lystable raises $10 million more to speed up adoption of its freelance collaboration app

Lyft drivers received $100 million in tips over the last 9 months

Instagram now has 1 million advertisers, will launch business booking tool this year

LinkedIn launches trending news section

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 review: This great iPad Pro competitor is worth $600

Uber’s board is confident with Travis Kalanick staying CEO

Twitter’s Producer API lets you stream live videos without connecting to Periscope

LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator gets an enterprise plan, CRM syncing, and PointDrive integration

Lyft acquires and shuts down Q&A startup FinitePaths

Instagram now lets you save livestreamed videos to your phone

Why Samsung wants to build a ‘corporate-wide AI voice system’

KidPass wants to be the ClassPass for children’s activities
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Square’s payment and merchant services are down [Update: It’s fixed]

Koho’s mobile finance service for millennials launches in Canada

Twitter will make original series and live video pitch to advertisers at IAB’s Newfronts

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S3 tablet will cost $600, with preorders starting March 17

Vint Cerf: Musings on birthing the internet, AI, and wishing for the Star Trek computer

GoPro to lay off 270 people, expects full-year profitability in 2017

Penny takes on Mint with a bot to manage your money

Yahoo: U.S. indictment of 4 Russians proves hack was state-sponsored

You can now buy Samsung’s QLED television with Chromecast-like tech for $2,799

Yahoo hires IAC exec Thomas McInerney to lead Altaba

The tech industry needs more designers — are hybrid designer-developers the answer?

Why Planned Parenthood believes tech companies should be activists

Google launches Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor

Lyft launches in 10 more markets to meet 2017 goal of 100 in just 3 months

Facebook Messenger’s Snapchat Stories-like feature launches globally

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Oh Snap! A book on how businesses can use Snapchat

Uber says it will stop targeting regulators with ‘greyballing’

Quora launches in French, its third language

Pinterest acquires Biz Stone’s Q&A service Jelly

Facebook launches Samsung Gear VR app dedicated to showing 360 photos and videos

Vimeo adds support for 360-degree videos

Wanted: COO to help Uber CEO Travis Kalanick be a better leader

Instagram Stories get ‘early version’ geostickers starting in New York City and Jakarta

Lyft offers ride hailing for developers to use in their apps
