April Fools’ 2017: Here’s the best and worst of this year’s pranks (so far) | Robinhood stock trading app valued at $1.3 billion with big raise from DST | Amazon quietly launches its own social media influencer program into beta | How Stories Search makes Snapchat a real-time YouTube | Cloudera posts long-awaited IPO filing | Here are the frontier startups that presented at Singularity University’s third demo day | SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch could attempt upper-stage recovery |
SATURDAY, APRIL 1 2017
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TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak
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April Fools’ Day falls on a Saturday this year. Seemingly worried that the internet goes away on weekends, a bunch of companies rolled out their April... Read More…
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Josh Constine, Ryan Lawler
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Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has added to its coffers, raising another big round of funding. According to sources, the round was led by Yuri Milner... Read More…
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Sarah Perez
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Social media influencers – like Instagram stars or YouTube celebs – often promote products they like, either as part of a brand relationship or as... Read More…
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Josh Constine
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Snapchat is shifting from a social network limited to content shared by people you follow to an ephemeral, real-time database of what's going on now everywhere.... Read More…
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Kate Conger, Katie Roof
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Cloudera, the enterprise big data company that's received significant backing from Intel, has unveiled its much-anticipated IPO filing. Read More…
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John Mannes
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The nine startups participating in Singularity University’s accelerator program presented this afternoon at Moffett Federal Airfield just outside... Read More…
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Darrell Etherington
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Elon Musk suggested Friday that when SpaceX does its first demo flight of the Falcon Heavy large payload rocket later this year, it might also include an... Read More…
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