Top Stories of the Day // April 19, 2016

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Posted by bloggerdaddy
Apple’s MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life and a Rose Gold finish | YouTube rolls out support for 360-degree live streams and spatial audio | As VCs enroll the startup class of 2016, it’s RIP for 'me too' companies | Theranos under criminal investigation | Viber adds end-to-end encryption and hidden chats as messaging app privacy wave grows | LinkedIn doubles down on Recruiter, its big revenue generator, with a major update | Longtime Facebook VP Mike Vernal joins Sequoia Capital |
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Matthew Panzarino

Apple’s MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life and a Rose Gold finish

Apple's single-port-wonder MacBook gets a mid season upgrade with faster processors, better graphics, faster internal memory and an hour more of battery life... Read More…
Sarah Perez

YouTube rolls out support for 360-degree live streams and spatial audio

YouTube will today begin supporting 360-degree live streaming on its service, confirming reports from earlier this year stating that such a feature was in... Read More…
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CRUNCH NETWORK | Niko Bonatsos

As VCs enroll the startup class of 2016, it’s RIP for 'me too' companies

Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The... Read More…
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Prime Video Goes Solo

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Sarah Buhr

Theranos under criminal investigation

Piling on to Theranos woes, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California have started... Read More…
Ingrid Lunden

Viber adds end-to-end encryption and hidden chats as messaging app privacy wave grows

Following WhatsApp’s move to add end-to-end encryption to its platform, another big messaging company is joining the wave of apps turning on expanded... Read More…
Ingrid Lunden

LinkedIn doubles down on Recruiter, its big revenue generator, with a major update

LinkedIn — the social platform used by 400 million professionals looking to network or find work —  has taken a major tumble in the markets in... Read More…
Connie Loizos

Longtime Facebook VP Mike Vernal joins Sequoia Capital

Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local and developer platform... Read More…
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