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Nuance explores possible sale, met with Samsung and private-equity firms — Nuance Communications Explores Possible Sale — Speech-Recognition Software Maker's Customers Include Samsung, Apple — Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. has held discussions …
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Chinese gov't reveals Microsoft's secret list of Android-killer patents — For more than three years now, Microsoft has held to the line that it has loads of patents that are infringed by Google's Android operating system. “Licensing is the solution,” wrote the company's head IP honcho in 2011 …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
With an Amazon Smartphone, the Retailer Seeks a Tether to Consumers — Hold the phone: Amazon wants to burrow even deeper into your life. — The retailer is expected to introduce a smartphone on Wednesday at an event in Seattle, a long-rumored project that aims to close any remaining gap between …
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| Matthew L. Wald / New York Times: |
To combat distracted driving, DoT seeks authority to regulate navigation aids, including apps — Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles — Getting directions on the road from Google Maps and other smartphone apps is a popular alternative to the expensive navigation aids included in some cars.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
On-Demand Grocery Startup Instacart Raises $44 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — On-demand grocery delivery startup Instacart wants to make its service available in every city in the United States. To make that happen, it's raised $44 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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Box Acquires YC-Backed Streem — This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to stream files to their desktop environments. — Box declined to share terms of the agreement … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
SanDisk buys Fusion-io for $1.1 billion, beefs up data center push — Summary: With Fusion-io, SanDisk aims to double down on flash-based storage systems in data centers. — SanDisk doubled down on its strategy to target the enterprise and data centers with a $1.1 billion acquisition … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
One year on, Loon balloon flight times increase 10X, download speeds reach 5-20 Mbps with LTE — Google's Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later — Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google's high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian state of Piauí.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth — Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Google names first round of Glass at Work partners — Summary: Google chose broad mix of industry segments to develop enterprise applications for Glass, ranging from medical and media to sports and entertainment. — While Google Glass remains a subject of mockery in the consumer realm … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
BlackBerry Launches BBM Protected For Confidential Instant Messaging — BlackBerry today began the rollout of its first eBBM suite product, which tailors its BBM instant messaging service to enterprise users. Today marks the debut of BBM Protected, FIPS 140-2 cryptographic library-enabled messaging … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's iPad App Becomes An Entertainment Hub With Game Discovery And Trending Videos Sidebar — Over 70 percent of people who use Facebook for iPad played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, so the company is helping them discover or re-engage with games through a new homepage sidebar … Sponsor Posts
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Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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