Daily Archives: May 3, 2017





 WhatsApp’s version of Snapchat Stories is already pulling in around 15% of the messaging app’s 1.2 billion users. Mark Zuckerberg today announced on Facebook’s Q1 earnings call that WhatsApp Status now has 175 million daily users after only launching in mid-February. That’s made more impressive because Status lives in a separate tab of WhatsApp, instead of showing up at… Read More

WhatsApp’s “Status” Snapchat clone hits 175M daily users in 10 ...


Tesla Model S P85D Tesla today re-affirmed that the production of its next car, the Model 3, would begin in July — and that the company had $4 billion in cash-on-hand heading into the second quarter this year. Both of those are going to be critical as Tesla heads into the back half of the year, which reported its first-quarter earnings today. The company has gone to market multiple times to raise… Read More

Tesla’s Q1 revenue more than doubles year-over-year as Model 3 ...



 Facebook had another strong quarter, beating estimates to start 2017. It scored $8.03 billion in revenue and $1.04 GAAP actual EPS in Q1 compared to $0.87 EPS estimate. It earned that from 1.94 billion users, up from 1.86 billion last quarter, growing at a faster 4.3 percent compared to 3.91 perecent last quarter. Steady Growth, Strong Profits At this rate Facebook should hit 2 billion… Read More

Facebook beats in Q1 with $8.03B revenue, faster growth to ...


 As a company gets bigger and bigger, finding out the answer to some question you have in your head — like the definition of some kind of acronym or the right process to hire someone — is going to be harder and harder to find. For Slack, which given that it’s a constant stream of communication, that’s going to be doubly true. But over time Slack wants to become a kind… Read More

Slack beefs up its search to find the right person ...



 If you’re a big fan of some more mid-core or hardcore games on your smartphone, you might periodically get a reminder to pop in the game to do something. But that requires booting up the game — and it may also require digging through a labyrinth of menus to figure out what you’re trying to accomplish. Blackstorm Labs is trying to make the process of getting into that game… Read More

Blackstorm Labs taps Facebook’s AI bots to build a helper ...


 A week after news broke of multiple videos of suicides posted on Facebook remaining on the site for hours, the company has announced a new plan to add 3,000 more people to its operations team to screen for harmful videos and other posts to respond to them more quickly in the future. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook said that this would be in addition to the 4,500 people already working… Read More

Facebook to add 3,000 to team reviewing posts with hate ...