Author: Josh Constine

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Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation

April 26, 2017
Josh Constine

 Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood has joined the unicorn club thanks to reaching 2 million users…

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Instagram hits 700 million users, accelerating from 600M in December

April 26, 2017
Josh Constine

 Instagram has doubled its user base to 700 million monthly actives in two years, fueled by…

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Facebook shows Related Articles and fact checkers before you open links

April 25, 2017
Josh Constine

 Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on…

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Instagram is down around the world [Update: back for some]

April 24, 2017
Josh Constine

 Instagram isn’t working for users in the US, England, and elsewhere. Both the Instagram app and…

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Every feed app should steal Pinterest’s “More Like This” button

April 24, 2017
Josh Constine

 ‬This is the best new social app feature in a long time. Twitter should copy it.…

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Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise

April 21, 2017
Josh Constine

 Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an ntelligent…

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The augmented reality gold rush is afoot

April 21, 2017
Josh Constine

 Who will be the Pixar of AR? Someone oughta be rounding up Hollywood special effects engineers…

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Facebook plans ethics board to monitor its brain-computer interface work

April 19, 2017
Josh Constine

 Facebook will assemble an independent Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) panel to oversee its development…