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Y Combinator opens registration for its free Startup School online course

Wifi Dabba wants to help stores in India provide low-cost internet access

General Motors’ Maven launches monthly car plan

Mapbox hires former SAP and Twilio exec Roy Ng as COO

Facebook Messenger now offers a more dynamic persistent menu for bot developers

Ever launches image recognition tool to make photo-sharing with friends easier

Uber’s new analytics tool lets restaurants better track sales and service issues

Lyft reportedly seeks $500 million in new funding

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gives up 2016 and 2017 bonuses following security breaches

Medium’s new Snapchat-like story format is called Series

Twilio hires former Salesforce exec George Hu as chief operating officer

Lively launches to be the Zenefits for health savings accounts

Foursquare launches Pilgrim SDK to open up access to location intelligence in apps

Octane AI opens to the public, launches Convos feature to bring blog posts into Messenger

Square’s Caviar launches pick-up service, acquires OrderAhead assets

Twitter’s latest anti-troll update brings new filters and proactive monitoring

YouTube TV is a $35 online cable bundle with 40 networks, launching in ‘next few months’

Slack streamlines platform to give custom and shared apps the same API features

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
