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India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies — BANGALORE, India — American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family. — Mr. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, the center of India's technology industry …
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Indian PM Narendra Modi, meeting with top Silicon Valley execs this weekend, inks deals with Google and Microsoft to expand Internet access in India — Narendra Modi inks series of US tech deals — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inked a series of tech deals during a two-day tour … | Apple: |
Apple sold a record 13M iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in opening weekend — Apple Announces Record iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus Sales — iPhone Available in 40 Additional Countries Beginning Friday, October 9 — Apple® today announced it has sold more than 13 million new iPhone® 6s …
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Dropbox's main business of consumer file storage and sync doesn't justify $10B valuation, as efforts to expand beyond company's core competence are not working — The case against Dropbox looks stronger with each passing day — I first met Drew Houston four years ago, when Dropbox … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
As Moore's Law slows, engineers look to new approaches and opportunities in chip innovation — Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips — At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960 …
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Nexus 6P training deck for retail employees leaks, reveals AMOLED display, 3450mAh battery, Gorilla Glass 4, 12.3MP camera with 2.0 F-stop, 1.55 μM pixels — [Update: More Specs] Nexus 6P Presentation Leak Includes More Images, Confirms Metal Body, Gorilla Glass 4, And 3450mAh Battery| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
GoPro's new budget Hero+ Wi-Fi action cam offers wireless connectivity for $199.99 — GoPro wants to make sure it has the action camera for you no matter how much you're looking to spend. The company's announcing a new entry-level action camera today, the GoPro Hero+ Wi-Fi.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google voice search now faster and works in noisy places — If you've recently noticed that Google's voice search is faster and more accurate, it's thanks to the search-to-advertising giant's work on recurrent neural networks. — Google says improvements to its voice search make it more accurate, even in noisy environments.
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg Business: |
A look at coding competitions, increasingly common recruiting venues for top tech companies — The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers — At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.| Ben Einstein / Medium: |
Quirky failed because it built too many products instead of just making a few great items — The Real Reason Quirky Failed — There's been a lot of buzz covering the story of Quirky failing this summer (and filing for bankruptcy this week). It usually reads something like … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Volkswagen scandal shows why tinkering with vehicle software should be exempted from DMCA restrictions, despite objections from automakers and the EPA — VW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering — EPA says public can't be trusted to tinker with vehicle software.| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Mobile web has 2.5X+ more unique visitors than apps, growing 2X faster, but 18X more time is spent in apps — Apps Eat Digital Media Time, With Top 3 Capturing 80 Percent — Time spent with digital is increasingly concentrated in a few hands. — Measurement firm comScore has published …
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