TechCrunch
Instagram appears to be readying a video-calling features,
TechCrunch reports. “Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for ‘Call’ and ‘Video Call,’” it writes. “APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in an app waiting to be surfaced when the company is ready to launch them.”
Cheddar
Snap plans to release the second version of its Spectacles glasses by the fall of this year, and then launch a third version with two cameras in 2019, Cheddar reports. “Aside from being water resistant and available in new colors, the updated camera eyewear will focus on performance improvements and bug fixes rather than dramatic changes,” according to the financial news publisher.
ZDNet
Salesforce reported healthy fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, as well as raising its fiscal year 2019 guidance. “The CRM giant posted adjusted earnings per share of 35 cents, compared with an EPS of 28 cents a year prior,” ZDNet reports. “Revenue came to $2.85 billion, up 24 percent year over year from $2.29 billion.”
Reuters
Best Buy plans to shutter 250 small mobile phone stores in malls across the country. As Reuters reports, the move is part of an effort “to operate more profitably and turn around its business amid intense competition.” The stores contributed only about 1% to Best Buy’s overall revenue, according to Reuters.
Gizmodo
Loretta Lee, a former software engineer at Google, is suing the company for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination. “Lee says in her lawsuit that the company’s ‘bro-culture’ led to continuous harassment and that Google did nothing to intervene,” Gizmodo reports. “Throughout her time at Google, Lee was routinely sexually harassed, according to her lawsuit.”
9to5Google
A growing share of consumers are buying used smartphones, 9To5Google reports, citing data from Counterpoint Technology Market Research. “Refurbished phones represent the fastest-growing segment of the global smartphone industry, accounting for nearly one out of every 10 devices sold,” it writes. Combined with longer upgrade cycles, this poses a threat to future sales of flagship smartphones, it notes.
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