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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 … | Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
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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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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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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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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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 … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
In his final days as FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler accuses AT&T and Verizon of violating net neutrality over paid data cap exemptions, in a letter to senators — Paid zero-rating in crosshairs, but it won't matter once Trump is president. — With just over a week left as chairman … | Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
UK P2P lending marketplace Funding Circle raises $100M led by Accel — Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace used by small- and medium-sized companies, has raised $100 million in an investment round led by venture capital firm Accel. — Existing investors including Baillie Gifford …
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Amazon to hire 100K more full-time employees over the next 18 months in US, growing its workforce to 280K; jobs to include many positions in fulfillment centers — Many of the positions are for fulfillment gigs, but tech positions abound too. Amazon joins the trend of corporations touting …
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The broad choice of media on services like Netflix increasingly means entertainment is fragmented and bespoke, a break from a TV-centric past — When “One Day at a Time” started its run on CBS in December 1975, it became an instant hit and remained so for almost a decade.| Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
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 … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
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