Monday, May 8, 2017

Top Stories of the Day // May 8, 2017

Really, Nintendo, people want a smaller, travel-friendly dock for the Switch | Emmanuel Macron and how political campaigns will never be the same | Snap’s first earnings this week will give a heat check on the new ad ecosystem | Uber hires Raquel Urtasun to lead a new ATG self-driving unit in Toronto | Facebook culls “tens of thousands” of fake accounts ahead of UK election | Comcast invests in mesh router maker Plume, launches Xfinity xFi for managing your home’s wireless network | Will smartphone AR stunt virtual reality’s growth? |
THE DAILY CRUNCH
MONDAY, MAY 8 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak

Really, Nintendo, people want a smaller, travel-friendly dock for the Switch

People really seem to want a smaller, lighter dock for the Nintendo Switch. One that’ll let you hook a Switch up to a TV while on the road without wasting... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Emmanuel Macron and how political campaigns will never be the same

Every major campaign brings its set of changes. Barack Obama used big data and micro-targeting in his 2008 campaign. Then social networks became a great way to... Read More…
Matthew Lynley

Snap’s first earnings this week will give a heat check on the new ad ecosystem

When Snap went public earlier this year, it revealed a break-neck level of growth in its nascent advertising business — and a dramatic burn rate along... Read More…
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Darrell Etherington

Uber hires Raquel Urtasun to lead a new ATG self-driving unit in Toronto

Urtasun joins Uber in a senior role at Uber’s ATG, at a time when the organizational unit, which drives most of Uber’s work on autonomous driving,... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Facebook culls “tens of thousands” of fake accounts ahead of UK election

Facebook has revealed that it has purged "tens of thousands" of fake accounts in the UK ahead of a general election next month. Read More…
Sarah Perez

Comcast invests in mesh router maker Plume, launches Xfinity xFi for managing your home’s wireless network

Comcast this morning has launched a new service called Xfinity xFi that will allow customers to better manage and control their home Wi-Fi network through an... Read More…
Lucas Matney

Will smartphone AR stunt virtual reality’s growth?

“It’s a VR play. That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a... Read More…
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