Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
Microsoft has announced it is discontinuing … Thomas Stevenson / The Post Millennial : Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams David Phelan / Forbes : Microsoft Kills ...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends: e-commerce sales grow, time online rises, and smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops
in 294 slides Rani Molla / Recode : China now has nine of the world's biggest internet companies — almost as many as the U.S. Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch : Here's where it's cheaper to take an Uber...
Augmedix nabs $17M to ‘rehumanize’ doctor/patient relations using Google Glass
and it may be coming to more hospital rooms Kshitiz Goliya / Reuters : Google Glass-based startup raises $17 million in funding Stephen Hall / 9to5Google : Glass isn't dead: Augmedix secures $17M as C...