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Cisco announces it will eliminate 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its workforce, beginning this quarter, and reports quarterly revenue of $12.6B, up 2% YoY — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today reported fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended July 30, 2016.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel debuts a silicon photonics module for data centers, which uses a hybrid laser to beam info at 100Gbps across 2km; Microsoft's Azure is an early adopter — Intel is launching a new silicon photonics product that will make it a lot easier to hurl data around data centers at tremendous speeds.
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Cisco And Fortinet Confirm Flaws Exposed By Self-Proclaimed NSA Hackers — American firewall companies Cisco and Fortinet have issued warnings and fixes for bugs exposed by the Shadow Brokers, who claimed this weekend to have breached the Equation Group, believed to be an NSA operation.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches a dedicated shop for items featured on Product Hunt — Amazon has teamed up with Product Hunt — the San Francisco-based startup that helps curate and surface the hottest new apps, websites, gadgets, tech creations and more — by offering a collection of products for purchase …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Instagram starts showing US users personalized video suggestions of live events in the Explore tab — The photo sharer is getting into event curation again. — Instagram really wants to become a video destination. It's one of the reasons (I suspect) it built its own version …
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| Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel unveils next-gen Xeon Phi chips for deep learning; Nvidia says Intel used old benchmarks in marketing; Xeon Phi chips seem to compete on price regardless — Intel recently published some Xeon Phi benchmarks, which claimed that its “Many Integrated Core” Phi architecture …
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| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Google Cloud Platform releases three enterprise cloud database services from beta: Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore — Google Cloud Platform today released three database services from beta, signaling that they're ready for production use. Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Kobo launches 7.8" waterproof Aura One e-reader for $229, with a colored backlight for better nighttime reading — Whether you read before bed, in the bathtub, during your commute or at the beach, Kobo wants to be there for you. The e-reader maker just released the $229 Aura One …
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| Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: |
IDC: Xiaomi quarterly shipments fell in China 38% YoY to 10.5M as Huawei, OPPO, Vivo surge to top spots — Apple in fifth place as local vendors fill top 4 positions — Vivo shipments surge by 75 percent, OPPO more than doubles — Xiaomi Corp., the once-hot Chinese smartphone maker …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Huawei Honor 8 dual-camera phone with 5.2" full HD display, 8-core Kirin 950 SoC, 4GB RAM, now available for pre-order in the US starting at $399 — Huawei's second US-bound “Honor” phone brings another budget flagship option to the table. — Huawei might not be well known in the US …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Snapchat commits to creating 396 new jobs in NYC over the next five years for up to $5M in tax breaks — Snapchat is planning to significantly grow its ranks in New York City, the advertising and media capital of the world. — The Los Angeles-based startup has agreed to create 396 new jobs … | Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Pinterest rolls out click-to-play, mobile-only video ads in the US and UK with no current plans to expand to desktop — Pinterest's click-to-play Promoted Video format is effectively a free add-on to its Cinematic Pin format, but one that comes with its own free add-on.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
NVIDIA brings desktop GTX 1000 series GPUs to laptops, says they are VR-ready when on AC power — Nvidia first tried its hand at putting desktop-class graphics chips inside a notebook last year, with its Maxwell-based GTX 980. That was a hint at what the US-based technology company was really working on … | Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
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