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Apple to raise prices of apps and in-app purchases by ~25% in 3 regions, making the lowest app prices now 99p in UK, 80 rupees in India, and 3.49 lira in Turkey — UK costs will numerically match those of the US, meaning that a program that costs $0.99 will now be 99p.
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Baidu hires AI specialist and former Microsoft EVP Qi Lu as group president and chief operating officer to oversee and develop AI technologies — AI specialist Qi Lu becomes Baidu's COO and president — Lu will oversee Baidu's efforts to develop AI technologies
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| Eric Auchard / Reuters: |
Airbus CEO Tom Enders says company hopes to fly prototype of single-person, self-piloting flying car by the end of 2017 — Airbus Group plans to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car as a way of avoiding gridlock on city roads by the end of the year, the aerospace group's chief executive said on Monday.
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Intel launches new IoT retail platform called Responsive Retail Platform and announces plan to invest $100M over next five years in the retail tech sector — The platform works to bring together retail hardware, software, APIs and sensors in a standardized way.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Raspberry Pi upgrades its $30 Compute Module for embedded computing with 10x the CPU performance at 1.2GHz and twice the RAM at 1GB — Compute Module for embedded computing gets first big upgrade since 2014. — The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is getting a big upgrade … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Video conferencing startup Zoom raises $100M Series D round led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B+ valuation, plans to invest in VR and AR — Zoom Video Communications, Inc., the Santa Clara-based startup that's bidding to disrupt the online video communications industry, has just landed …
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Google publishes paper detailing its cloud security strategy, including the deployment of custom chips on servers and peripherals — Even the servers it colocates (!) says new docu revealing Alphabet sub's security secrets — Google has published a Infrastructure Security Design Overview …
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Sources: publishers think it's unlikely Facebook will renew paid livestreaming deals, as it has been pushing them to focus on creating longer content — Publishers don't expect Facebook to renew the deals it was pushing last spring; now Facebook wants something else.
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WSJ: new investors in Snap IPO won't get any voting power; founders Spiegel and Murphy, who own 45% of Snap's stock, will retain 70%+ of voting rights — Spiegel and Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy want to retain management control of their company. — Before Facebook went public …
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| Matthew Humphries / PC Magazine: |
With Google's RAISR machine learning-driven image enhancement technique, images can be up to 75% smaller without losing their detail — With unlimited data plans becoming increasingly expensive, or subscribers being forced to ditch their unlimited data due to overuse, anything that can reduce the amount of data we download is welcome.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
Priceline co-founder Jay Walker launches Upside.com, a business travel startup, with $50M funding at a $200M+ valuation — Jay Walker raised money for Upside.com at $200M valuation — Startup is aimed at helping business travelers find deals — One of the pioneers of online travel booking … | Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
How Amazon's Echo made Alexa the most successful smart voice assistant at home, and how Google, Microsoft, and Apple are fighting back — We're barely halfway through January of 2017, and it's already looking like this is going to be the year of Amazon's Alexa, the virtual assistant at the heart of the Amazon Echo.
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