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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Appears to Have Acquired GPS Firm Coherent Navigation — In one of its latest efforts to bolster its mapping capabilities, Apple appears to have acquired Coherent Navigation, a Bay Area GPS-related firm founded in 2008 by engineers from Stanford and Cornell.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
FBI claims security researcher Chris Roberts told them he was able to hack in-flight entertainment system during a flight and issue commands to engines — Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane — A security researcher kicked off a United Airlines flight last month … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google to place buy buttons for products sold by some retailers alongside paid search results on mobile in coming weeks — Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay? — Company will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages in coming weeks — Google Inc. will launch buy buttons …
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Tech Times, PC Magazine, musictechpolicy.wordpress.com, Good E-Reader, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, Forbes, Computerworld, Engadget, The Register, Digital Trends, Slashdot, Fone Arena, The Geek Byte, iamWire, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google, CNET and USA Today
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| Richard Feloni / Business Insider: |
Inside Zappos' switch to Holacracy, a manager-free operating structure, which led 14% of employees to quit — Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit — On March 24, Zappos' 1,500 or so employees got a memo from CEO Tony Hsieh.| Bloomberg Business: |
Profile of Fan Bao, investment banker behind some of the biggest Chinese tech deals, like the $6B Didi Dache-Kuaidi Dache merger, and JD.com's $2B IPO — Searching for the Next Jack Ma — Fan Bao and his ‘Alpha Team’ of investment bankers are scouring China's startup scene to uncover a new wave of technology giants.| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft is making the machine learning capabilities behind Cortana accessible to any app with Project Oxford — Cortana for all: Microsoft's plan to put voice recognition behind anything — Microsoft and co. make computer vision, voice, and text processing a Web request away.
Tweets: @timoreilly
| Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Former Google PR employees now run communications at Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Sequoia Capital — As Google Spins, So Does Silicon Valley — Google's influence on Silicon Valley's culture and business is unmatched. The free lunches, the shuttle buses …
Tweets: @darcyday and @dannysullivan
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it's taking control of updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices, bypassing carriers — Microsoft says it's taking over updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices — Summary:It's not exactly Android-style fragmentation, but Windows Phone users are perennially frustrated …
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eWeek, PC Magazine, SuperSite for Windows, Fone Arena, Tech Gadget Central, Neowin, TmoNews, PCWorld, PhoneDog.com, BetaNews, WinBeta, The Geek Byte, Digital Trends, The Next Web, VentureBeat, WMPoweruser, Wpxbox, Windows Central and MSDN Blogs. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Nellie Bowles / The California Sunday Magazine: |
Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups — The Real Teens of Silicon Valley … “Do you know Zach Latta?” asked Fouad Matin, 19, on the roof of San Francisco's unofficial tech teenager headquarters one recent night.
Tweets: @calebgarling, @profjeffjarvis, @dannysullivan, @kevinmarks and @sg
| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
US-based Bitcoin storage company Xapo is moving its headquarters to Switzerland citing customer privacy concerns, will keep small presence in Palo Alto — Xapo Moves to Switzerland Citing Customer Privacy Concerns — Xapo has officially relocated its corporate headquarters to Zurich …
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Xapo Blog, Fortune and Bitcoin Magazine
| Sukhinder Singh Cassidy / Re/code: |
Survey of 100 women tech entrepreneurs shows 84% not from STEM background, 67% perceived bias in workplace, mentorship from men key for most, more — Tech Women Choose Possibility — When I came to Silicon Valley 18 years ago, I stayed. — I found the place that fanned the flames …
Tweets: @sukhindersingh and @sukhindersingh
| Joshuah Bearman / Wired: |
The fall of Silk Road: how the FBI closed in on Dread Pirate Roberts — The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall — “I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be — good to have a detailed account of it. journal/2012/q1/january/week1
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