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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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| 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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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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Snap Inc.'s culture of secrecy, led by CEO Evan Spiegel, could be problematic as the company prepares to IPO in March — Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel's values will be tested as he convinces investors of the company's potential. — by — Last September, Snapchat employees read a report … | Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
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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 … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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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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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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Deep learning startup Neurala raises $14M Series A led by Pelion Ventures, to build AI for drones, autonomous cars, more — Neurala, a software and services company that helps bring artificial intelligence (AI) to drones, robots, cars, and consumer electronics, has announced a $14 million series …
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SiliconANGLE, Access AI, BostonGlobe.com, BostInno, and Xconomy
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, The Overspill, SecurityWeek, and cloudpro.co.uk
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie report: number of app downloads rose 15% in 2016, time spent in apps rose 25%, and revenue paid to developers rose 40% — The app industry is continuing to grow, according to a new year-end analysis from app intelligence firm App Annie, out today, which found that app downloads …
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| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Measure raises $15M Series B led by IT services firm Cognizant, to fly drones as a service for other companies — Measure may not be building the ultimate flying camera, or drones that drop burritos at your door. But the Washington D.C.-based startup has raised $15 million in Series B funding …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
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.Sponsor Posts
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