Friday, March 4, 2016

Top Stories of the Day // March 3, 2016

Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family | Slack voice calling arrives on desktop | Instagram starts blocking ‘add me’ deeplinking for Snapchat, Telegram | Plane is a new ‘social icebreaker’ app from the founder of Cupple | Herschel goes high tech with its new magic fabric | WhatsApp adds support for document sharing, but only PDFs at launch | Uber and Ola launch motorbike taxi services in India |
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THURSDAY, MARCH 3 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Buhr

Amazon adds the $130 Tap and the $90 Dot to the Echo family

Amazon's voice-operated command center Echo produces something close to modern-day magic within our homes: Get the latest news, order a pizza, turn off the... Read More…
Josh Constine

Slack voice calling arrives on desktop

Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature starting... Read More…
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Natasha Lomas

Instagram starts blocking ‘add me’ deeplinking for Snapchat, Telegram

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is flexing its platform muscle by shutting down 'add me' deeplinking for some other social media services within... Read More…
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Slack Introduces Voice Calling

HTC gets 15k Vive preorders in less than 10 minutes, Google is testing a hands free mobile payment option, Gotenna raises $7.5M in Series A, No More Voicemail by Teltech Systems disables your voice messages. Watch Now
Steve O'Hear

Plane is a new ‘social icebreaker’ app from the founder of Cupple

Plane is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app acquired by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded to Couple and... Read More…
John Biggs

Herschel goes high tech with its new magic fabric

Everyone’s favorite retro backpack maker is heading into the 21st century. The Vancouver-based company has released something called the Sealtech... Read More…
Sarah Perez

WhatsApp adds support for document sharing, but only PDFs at launch

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned mobile messaging service that recently hit 1 billion users worldwide, is today rolling out a much-anticipated feature to its apps... Read More…
Jon Russell

Uber and Ola launch motorbike taxi services in India

Bangalore is the setting for the latest showdown between Uber and its India-based rival Ola after both companies launched motorbike taxi on-demand services in... Read More…
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