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Microsoft says chip supply issues hurt its Q2 Office and Windows revenues and that negative effects "will take through the June quarter to normalize" (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft says chip supply issues hurt its Q2 Office and Windows revenues and that negative effects “will take through the June quarter to normalize”  —  Microsoft’s cloud businesses and Surface grew solidly during its Q2 FY19, while Windows OEM and Office Consumer products slowed, in part, due to chip supply

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Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on "family" metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps  —  Roughly half of Instagram’s users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day. Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics,

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Google says Google+ for consumers will shut down April 2; all content posted by consumer accounts, including Google+ pages, photos, and videos, will be deleted (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Google says Google+ for consumers will shut down April 2; all content posted by consumer accounts, including Google+ pages, photos, and videos, will be deleted  —  In late 2018, Google announced that it would shut down Google+, its beleaguered social network, for consumers due to “low usage” … Google says Google+

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PayPal misses with Q4 revenue of $4.23B, but saw $164B in total payment volume and 2.9M net new active accounts thanks to Hyperwallet and iZettle acquisitions (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: PayPal misses with Q4 revenue of $4.23B, but saw $164B in total payment volume and 2.9M net new active accounts thanks to Hyperwallet and iZettle acquisitions  —  PayPal revenues miss but strong growth from its recent iZettle and Hyperwallet acquisitions and booming business at Venmo point to a strong outlook for

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Argo AI, a self-driving car startup that received $1B from Ford in 2017, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in California (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Argo AI, a self-driving car startup that received $1B from Ford in 2017, has obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in California  —  Argo AI, the self-driving car startup that burst onto the scene in 2017 with $1 billion in backing from Ford, has obtained a permit to test

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