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Parse cofounder James Yu leaves Facebook

Facebook swipes at LinkedIn by letting brands post job openings on Pages

Layer to acquire assets of Cola’s messaging app service for $75,000

Google Search adds new plant and animal facts for trivia geeks

Lytro raises $60 million to bring light field VR technology into Asia

Radar launches to show developers how mobile apps are used in specific locations

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey buys $7 million in stock

Y Combinator-backed Staffjoy is shutting down on March 15

LinkedIn’s newest feature lets recruiters find contractors

Facebook’s videos are coming to Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung smart TVs

Nest adds automatic door detection and animated push notifications for subscribers

Yahoo Mail now syncs photos across devices and IDs who’s calling on the phone

Twilio CEO dismisses BlackBerry messaging play as ‘nothing we haven’t seen before’

Storm Ventures nabs Orange startup accelerator creator as new principal investor

LinkedIn now lets you choose when comments appear in long-form articles

Facebook tests machine learning to detect ads that discriminate by race

Flipboard redesigns app with an eye to identifying passions

Facebook’s Community Help tool launches to let people help one another after a disaster

Square launches dedicated point-of-sale app and service for retail merchants

Twilio acquires messaging provider Beepsend to boost its SMS delivery network

Twilio reports revenue of $82 million in Q4 2016 and 36% growth in accounts

Y Combinator and Watsi launch study to see how technology can fix health care

Facebook opens registration for F8 2017 in San Jose

Salesforce launches Quip Connect app for Sales and Service Clouds

Gusto now lets businesses set up 529 college savings plans for employees

YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with more than 10,000 subscribers

Hootsuite acquires AdEspresso to beef up social ad play

Slack hires Twitter’s former developer advocate lead Bear Douglas

Facebook shareholders urge company to replace Mark Zuckerberg with ‘independent’ board chair

Productivity analytics firm GitPrime names Prosper cofounder as president

Zenefits names former Ooyala CEO Jay Fulcher to succeed David Sacks

Snap pledges up to 13 million Class A shares to new foundation for arts, education, and kids

Here’s how much Snap paid for Bitstrips, Looksery, and Vurb

Evan Spiegel controls 44.3% of Snap

Snap files to raise $3 billion in much-hyped IPO

Facebook marks 13 years with new Friends Day video and Messenger GIFs
