With an eye on profitability, GoPro just announced plans to cut 270 jobs. “It was the second time in three months that the camera maker announced layoffs,” Business Insider writes. “The company said it estimated restructuring charges of up to $10 million, mostly related to severance costs.” GoPro had 1,552 employees as of December 2016, according to BI.

McDonald's is testing a new mobile order-and-pay service, the Associated Press reports. Going forward, “The company says it will gather feedback from the test before launching the option nationally toward the end of the year,” the AP writes. “It says mobile order-and-pay is now available at 29 stores in Monterey and Salinas, California, and will expand to 51 more locations in Spokane, Washington, next week.”

The Web is breathing new life into art and culture, according to Farhad Manjoo. As he writes in The New York Times: “In just about every cultural medium, whether movies or music or books or the visual arts, digital technology is letting in new voices, creating new formats for exploration, and allowing fans and other creators to participate in a glorious remixing of the work.”

Google has added a “read it later” bookmarking features to the latest version of Chrome for iOS, PCWorld reports. “This appears to be an iOS-only function for now and is similar to Safari’s reading list feature that first rolled out with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011,” it writes. “Like Safari’s Reading List, you hit the share button in Chrome and choose Read Later from the menu.”

Russian authorities just found Apple guilty of price-fixing. “Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service found that Apple had illegally ordered retailers to fix prices of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 models,” 9To5Mac reports. “Specifically, Apple apparently instructed 16 retailers in Russia to set the prices at a certain amount and if a retailer was found to be selling the iPhone at an ‘unsuitable’ price, Apple would contact them and order them to change the price or risk having the sales agreement terminated.”

Following its founding back in 2015, Astro is finally launching a smart email app and a bot that chat with users about trends in their activity, missed tasks, and networking opportunities, Venture Beat reports. “Astro offers many of the features you find in modern email clients,” it notes. “You can snooze messages, label VIPs, unsubscribe from newsletters, or schedule emails to send at a certain time, but it begins by prioritizing email sent to you by real people.”

User expectations are consistent across mobile platforms: They expect both to provide utility and the same frictionless experience. The MDEX (Mobile Index) has raised the bar for measuring and evaluating mobile performance. It will serve as the global benchmark to determine brand effectiveness across their mobile assets.

When it comes to a possible merger, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter didn't mention Sprint or Comcast by namewhen he was asked about possible mergers in the communications industry. But it was clear the fast-growing wireless carrier sees itself as a better match to expand with big cable than a struggling mobile player. Combining a wireless and cable network would provide myriad benefits, Carter explained, including lower operating costs and "amazing monetization opportunities" with more personalized advertising."

Could mobile carriers band together to grab advertising revenue from tech companies? The telecoms secret weapon is location-based data. Speaking today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Dan Rosen, global director of advertising for the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, thinks mobile network operations could team, pool data and us the scale to compete for ad dollars

IBM is highlighting the more artistic side of its AI capabilities while honoring one of Spain’s most famous architects. For the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IBM asked Watson super computer to comprehend Antoni Gaudí’s greatest works, such as La Pedrera, to create a unique sculpture for the annual trade show. IBM also tracked conversations related to topics including robotics, big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things and analyzed emotions such as joy and openness.