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Rocket explosion on SpaceX launchpad destroys Facebook's first Internet.org satellite, worth $200M, which was to provide internet coverage to sub-Saharan Africa — A major explosion during a SpaceX prelaunch test Thursday destroyed Facebook's first satellite.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook Messenger adds Instant Video, which lets you quickly share live video within conversations — Open Messenger in iOS or Android, start a conversation with a friend and the app will offer you the option of adding live video to your chat. — The video starts without sound, but you can turn it on if you want.| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, and Founders Fund, with ROIs of 2.6x, 2.3x, and 1.7x for its three funds — Rare look at startup investors' performance shows Andreessen Horowitz lags Sequoia, Benchmark, Founders Fund — Andreessen Horowitz's first three venture funds … | Paul Hannon / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook says he forecasts repatriation of “several billion dollars” of Apple's overseas cash to the US next year — CEO says Apple could start moving some of its profits from its international operations to the U.S. next year — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company … | Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook plans to limit ad placement for advertisers whose sites load too slowly or are not optimized for mobile — Social network will limit where and when ads appear if they point to slow-loading sites — Facebook wants advertisers to speed up their mobile websites and plans to limit … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple will remove abandoned apps from the App Store and curb descriptive, search-optimized app names by limiting them to 50 charactersis — It's cleaning time in the App Store. Apple sent an email to its developer community indicating that there will be some upcoming changes in the App Store.| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Baidu and Nvidia to Build Artificial Intelligence Platform for Self-Driving Cars — Chinese search engine Baidu and chipmaker Nvidia announced a partnership Thursday that will focus on using artificial intelligence to develop a computing platform for self-driving cars.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Asus debuts ZenWatch 3, a round Android Wear smartwatch with battery that lasts 2 days and charges to 60% in 15 minutes, coming to US, Germany in Oct. for €229 — Today at IFA, Asus has announced the ZenWatch 3, a new Android Wear smartwatch. It jettisons everything that was underwhelming … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T's VP of federal regulatory interests writes blog post celebrating Google Fiber's reported troubles and criticizing it for seeking government favors — Google Fiber's reported struggles cause AT&T to take a victory lap. — AT&T celebrated Google Fiber's reported struggles yesterday … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Fantasy sports site DraftKings raises $153M from Revolution Growth and others — DraftKings, the controversial daily fantasy sports site, has raised $153 million in new venture capital funding, Fortune has learned. — New investors include Revolution Growth, an investment firm co-founded … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon VR820, a reference design for an all-in-one, eye-tracking VR headset — Another day, another VR headset that you will never be able to buy. — Today at the IFA conference in Berlin, Qualcomm unveiled a reference design for an all-in-one headset built on the company's new Snapdragon VR820 architecture.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google's OnHub router can now control Philips Hue lights, and its price drops $20 to $180 — Google today said that its OnHub internet router can now connect to and allow users to control Philips Hue lights. — They're a common example of an Internet of Things (IoT) device … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Box hires team behind data analytics startup Wagon; Wagon app to shut down October 3 — Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Box today announced that it has acquired the team from Wagon Analytics, a startup that built an application analysts could use to query and analyze their data.
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