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Apple Appears to Have Acquired GPS Firm Coherent Navigation — In one of its latest efforts to bolster its mapping capabilities, Apple appears to have acquired Coherent Navigation, a Bay Area GPS-related firm founded in 2008 by engineers from Stanford and Cornell.| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
FBI claims security researcher Chris Roberts told them he was able to hack in-flight entertainment system during a flight and issue commands to engines — Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane — A security researcher kicked off a United Airlines flight last month … | Graham Cluley: |
What we know so far on the story of the alleged in-flight system hacker Chris Roberts — Security researcher ‘hijacked plane in-flight’: questions and (some) answers — Well, at the end of last week, Wired published an extraordinary story: “Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane”
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How Microsoft is making the machine learning capabilities behind Cortana accessible to any app with Project Oxford — Cortana for all: Microsoft's plan to put voice recognition behind anything — Microsoft and co. make computer vision, voice, and text processing a Web request away.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google to place buy buttons for products sold by some retailers alongside paid search results on mobile in coming weeks — Can Google Outsell Amazon and eBay? — Company will launch buy buttons on its search-results pages in coming weeks — Google Inc. will launch buy buttons …
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| Richard Feloni / Business Insider: |
Inside Zappos' switch to Holacracy, a manager-free operating structure, which led 14% of employees to quit — Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit — On March 24, Zappos' 1,500 or so employees got a memo from CEO Tony Hsieh.| Bloomberg Business: |
Profile of Fan Bao, investment banker behind some of the biggest Chinese tech deals, like the $6B Didi Dache-Kuaidi Dache merger, and JD.com's $2B IPO — Searching for the Next Jack Ma — Fan Bao and his ‘Alpha Team’ of investment bankers are scouring China's startup scene to uncover a new wave of technology giants.| Owen Bowcott / Guardian: |
UK quietly amends law to give intelligence and law enforcement officers immunity from prosecution for hacking — Intelligence officers given immunity from hacking laws, tribunal told — Legislative changes exempting law enforcement officers from ban on breaking into people's digital devices … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it's taking control of updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices, bypassing carriers — Microsoft says it's taking over updates for Windows 10 Mobile devices — Summary:It's not exactly Android-style fragmentation, but Windows Phone users are perennially frustrated … | Miguel Helft / Forbes: |
Former Google PR employees now run communications at Silicon Valley companies like Facebook, Twitter, Uber, and Sequoia Capital — As Google Spins, So Does Silicon Valley — Google's influence on Silicon Valley's culture and business is unmatched. The free lunches, the shuttle buses …
Tweets: @darcyday and @dannysullivan
| Nellie Bowles / The California Sunday Magazine: |
Inside the almost-adult, insular lives of ambitious teenagers flooding into Silicon Valley to join tech startups — The Real Teens of Silicon Valley … “Do you know Zach Latta?” asked Fouad Matin, 19, on the roof of San Francisco's unofficial tech teenager headquarters one recent night.
Tweets: @calebgarling, @profjeffjarvis, @dannysullivan, @kevinmarks and @sg
| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
US-based Bitcoin storage company Xapo is moving its headquarters to Switzerland citing customer privacy concerns, will keep small presence in Palo Alto — Xapo Moves to Switzerland Citing Customer Privacy Concerns — Xapo has officially relocated its corporate headquarters to Zurich …
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