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January 17, 2017, 11:55 AM

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BBC:
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.
Bloomberg:
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
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.
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 …
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.
Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
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 …
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 a Series B round …

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