Mobile Minutes: Instagram Stories; Google and Facebook VR; Snap IPO; Samsung's exploding phone problem
Instagram
Stories, cloned from Snapchat, has 100M daily viewers
Just two
months after cribbing one of Snapchat's most popular features, Instagram has a
big hit on its hands.
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on CNET
Why Google
and Facebook Want to Make a New Kind of VR Headset
So far,
the landscape of virtual reality has been split between two types of headsets:
expensive, high-end devices like the Oculus Rift that require PCs and external
cameras, and cheap devices like Google?s Cardboard and Daydream that use
smartphones as displays, sacrificing quality to make a mass-market product.
This week, Facebook and Google made it clear that they?re both rushing toward a
middle ground.
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on Bloomberg
Report: An
IPO in Snap's immediate future?
SAN FRANCISCO
? Snap could jostle the tech IPO market out of its slumber next year.
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on USA Today
Samsung's
exploding-smartphone nightmare is getting even worse
Samsung
just can't catch a break.
Read more
on Business Insider