• GoPro Had Another Bad Quarter
    After reporting poor fourth-quarter earnings, the camera company saw its stock sink by about 10%, on Thursday. “The company reported $540 million in fourth-quarter revenue, with a net income loss of $.082 a share,” TechCrunch reports. “That’s under what analysts expected.” Meanwhile, “The company didn’t fare much better in yearly reporting either, netting just $1.185 million in 2016, down 26.8 percent from 2015.”
  • Microsoft Adds Apps To Outlook For iOS
    Microsoft is adding apps and add-ins to Outlook for iOS. “The software giant has partnered with Evernote, Giphy, Nimble, Trello, and Smartsheet to bring the first third-party add-ins directly into its iOS email experience,” The Verge reports. “Office 365 customers will be able to start using the add-ins immediately, and Microsoft plans to roll them out to Outlook.com users soon.”
  • Toutiao Buys Video-Creation App Flipagram
    Chinese news aggregator Toutiao appears to have acquired video creation app Flipagram. Per the deal, “Flipagram will retain its app and office and remain ‘completely independent,’” Recode reports, citing a statement from Flipagram CEO Farhad Mohit. “Mohit did not share deal terms, but a source familiar with the talks told Recode back in December that Flipagram’s investors were simply hoping to get their money back.”
  • EU Pushes Plan To End Continent-Wide Roaming Charges
    The European Union announced a deal this week that would end roaming charges for mobile consumers across the continent. “The plan had originally been announced two years ago when the European Commission unveiled an ambitious plan to create a DSM that would unify the continent’s fractured rules around digital content, ecommerce, and mobile communications,” Venture Beat reports. “However, the plan to end roaming charges across boarders ran into stiff opposition from telecom carriers.”
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