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Alphabet's Titan high-altitude drone program has been shut down after being rolled into X in late 2015; 50+ employees disperse to other units — In 2014, Google bought Titan Aerospace, maker of high altitude, solar-powered drone aircraft. At the time Google noted, “It's still early days …
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Sources: Apple planning push into original TV shows and movies for Apple Music subscribers, hopes to share viewer metrics and demographic data with producers — Apple is planning to build a significant new business in original television shows and movies, a move that could make it a bigger player … | Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
iOS devices and services will have generated Apple over $1T in revenue between 2007 and the end of 2017, with developer payments currently at $20B+ per year — In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units,[1] making it the most successful product of all time.
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| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
Peter Thiel talks Donald Trump, Silicon Valley, and more in a wide-ranging interview — Let others tremble at the thought that Donald J. Trump may go too far. Peter Thiel worries that Mr. Trump may not go far enough. — “Everyone says Trump is going to change everything way too much …
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Facebook introduces the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate with news organizations on products, offer training to reporters, and try to curb fake news — Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other.
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How BitTorrent has failed to find a successful business model despite its widely used protocol and has pursued a costly, fruitless path under new leadership — How a group of valley outsiders blew through the company's cash and nearly left it for dead. — Last April, a pair … | Jesse Granger / Las Vegas Sun News: |
Las Vegas becomes first US city to test electric autonomous shuttles on public roads in two week trial run — Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman took a cruise down Fremont Street Tuesday afternoon that made history. — Goodman rode in the first completely autonomous, fully electric shuttle … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Munchery CEO James Beriker says company's co-founders Tri Tran and Conrad Chu will leave at end of the month; sources say company to cut about 30 employees — The reductions affected chefs, photographers, and the business side — Food delivery startup Munchery cut about 30 employees this week.| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Flying camera drone maker Lily will shut down and refund customers; after $14M Series A and $34M in preorders, says it failed to raise funds for production — Lily, the autonomous camera drone that sold a whopping $34 million in preorders, has announced it is shutting down.
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University of Toronto study finds China maintains precise data on its citizens, and report by leading Chinese paper says it's up for sale for about $105/person — China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level, says The Citizen Lab at U of T
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Four months after the recall, Samsung says over 96% of Galaxy Note7 devices have been returned — Samsung said today that over 96 percent of all Galaxy Note7 phones have been returned following a recall that started in September. — First introduced in August, the latest Note7 smartphone …
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Techdirt's existence is threatened by costs of fighting $15M libel suit brought by Shiva Ayyadurai, represented by Charles Harder, who won against Gawker — As you may have heard, last week we were sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email.
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