| Slack buys HipChat, Twitter loses users and LinkedIn adds voice messaging. Here's your Daily Crunch for July 27, 2018. 1. Slack is buying, and shutting down, HipChat and Stride Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said on Twitter that his company is purchasing the IP for both HipChat and Stride from Atlassian, in order to "better support those users who choose to migrate" to Slack. If your company or team uses HipChat or Stride, it sounds like you've got until February 15, 2019 to switch to over to Slack or another platform. 
2. Twitter posts record $100M profit but loses 1M users Twitter has increased its efforts to find and suspend fake accounts, but the company said that it didn't expect these moves to impact users numbers this quarter. 3. LinkedIn adds voice messaging because we've definitely been clamoring for that Narrator: We haven't been clamoring for it. 4. WeWork China raises $500M to triple the number of cities it covers The company entered China two years ago and today it covers Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu with nearly 40 locations. It says it has 20,000 members, and it's also active in Hong Kong (which technically falls under "Greater China"). 5. Nintendo's new Labo Vehicle Kit looks like a buggy full of fun TechCrunch's Devin Coldewey says this isn't just a bargain — it might be "the most humongous" bargain of all time. (Look, he said it, not me!) 6. Facebook also removes 4 Infowars videos, including one it previously cleared Infowars and its owner Alex Jones are notorious conspiracy peddlers, and this comes days after YouTube did something similar. 7. Amazon's AWS continues to lead its performance highlights Looking at year-over-year performance over the last six months, Amazon Web Services revenue grew 49 percent. It's now on a run rate that's well north of $10 billion annually. | 
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