13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

By May 27, 2016Bitcoin Business

This week, Google successfully defended itself against the the $9 billion fair use court case against Oracle, Snapchat’s financials were leaked, Twilio revealed its IPO filing and more. These are the top stories of the week to catch you up on all things tech.

1. Closing out a $9 billion case that has stretched across many years, a jury found that Google’s implementation of 37 Java APIs in Android qualified as fair use . However, Oracle attorneys have already indicated that they will appeal the decision. 2. Earlier this week, we reported that Snapchat was raising more money. An SEC filing was made with information about Snapchat’s latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion . We also obtained a leaked pitch deck revealing Snapchat’s revenue and forecasts.

3. Twilio had a big week as it revealed its IPO filing , signifying that it could enter the public markets as early as next month. The cloud communications platform also announced a new product called Programmable Wireless – programmable SIMs for IoT and handsets with T-Mobile – as well as its new Notify API that lets developers orchestrate push notifications, text messages and chats.

4. Twitter announced it is moving away from its restrictive 140 character rule . The company said that it will no longer count media attachments and @names in select replies toward your 140 allowed characters. However, links will still count, and these rules are still confusing.

5. Facebook revealed two new features for Live. Live reactions power a visualized timeline of when a Live video receives the most engagement. So now, you’ll be able to see where the video gets interesting . Facebook also enabled Continuous Live Video to power long-form broadcasting like nature feeds and puppy cams. One more thing on the […]

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