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August 8, 2018, 1:30 AM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $262.3M, up 44% YoY, vs. $249.8M est., and 188M DAUs, up 8% YoY but down from 191M in Q1  —  The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat's growth.  In Q2 2018 earnings today, Snapchat's daily user count shrank 1.5 percent to 188 million this quarter …
Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal:
Snap's DAU decline in Q2 marks the first time Snapchat has lost daily users since the company was founded in 2011  —  Report of disappointing growth follows news that Facebook and Twitter are seeing a slowdown  —  Snap Inc. reported its first quarterly decline in daily users …
Shoshana Wodinsky / The Verge:
Following bans of Infowars' content, its mobile app has shot up iOS App Store and Google Play Store charts, going from 47th to 4th in US news category on iOS  —  ‘Infowars WILL NOT be silenced’  —  Infowars Official, the app named after Alex Jones' controversial radio talk show …
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David French / New York Times:
TechCrunch:
Sources: Slack is raising about $400M or more led by General Atlantic at a post-money valuation of at least $7B  —  Slack — the app that lets coworkers and others in professional circles chat with each other and call in data from hundreds of integrated apps in the name of getting more work done …
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Jem Aswad / Variety:
Warner Music Group sells its entire stake in Spotify for $504M  —  UPDATED: In its earnings call on Tuesday morning, Warner Music Group announced that it has now sold its entire stake in Spotify, realizing $504 million.  —  CEO Steve Cooper said that the sale resulted in $126 million …
Mozilla Press Center:
Mozilla unveils Advance, an experimental machine learning-driven Firefox extension that recommends pages to read next based on browsing habits and user input  —  The internet today is often like being on a guided tour bus in an unfamiliar city.  You end up getting off at the same places that everyone else does.
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Report from FCC's inspector general refutes controversial claims by senior FCC officials that a cyberattack hobbled its comment system in May 2017  —  An investigation carried out by Federal Communication Commission's own inspector general officially refutes controversial claims that a cyberattack …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Video streaming startup NewTV, led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, raises $1B round with Disney, Alibaba, NBCUniversal, Viacom, and others participating  —  Backers include Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCU, Viacom, WarnerMedia, Alibaba, Liberty Global, Madrone Capital
Instapaper:
Instapaper returns to EU users after being unavailable since May 24 for GDPR compliance and relaunches Instapaper Premium subscription for $2.99/month  —  This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we've been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.

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