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Sources: Amazon plans more physical stores, including retail stores that aren't bookstores, but has no immediate plans for 300-400 stores — Meet the Guy Behind Amazon's Secret Retail Store Plans — The man behind the Kindle is leading Amazon's project to create the retail stores of the future.
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Google's search chief Amit Singhal to retire February 26, will be replaced by AI manager John Giannandrea — Google Search Chief Singhal to Retire, Replaced by AI Manager — Successor John Giannandrea works on machine intelligence — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has highlighted AI as crucial
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Apple ordered to pay $625M to VirnetX after court finds FaceTime, VPN, iMessage infringed patents — Apple ordered to pay $625M in revived VirnetX patent trial — A federal jury on Wednesday found Apple guilty of willfully infringing on four VirnetX patents, awarding … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
GoPro CEO says firm will discontinue three of its cameras in April, but Hero 4 Black at $500, Hero 4 Silver at $400, and Hero 4 Session at $200 will remain — GoPro will slash camera lineup to just three models in April — Coming to terms with a rather miserable financial quarter …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cisco says it agrees to pay $1.4B for Jasper, a platform to connect Internet-of-Things devices — Cisco To Buy Jasper Technologies For $1.4 Billion — Cisco announced today it was buying Jasper Technologies, developers of an Internet of Things cloud platform for $1.4 billion.
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| Blair Hanley Frank / PCWorld: |
Microsoft announces Azure IoT Hub, its cloud service for managing internet-connected devices, will become generally available February 4 — Microsoft launches IoT Hub to ingest data from the physical world — The service helps companies manage a massive fleet of embedded devices
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Cisco: Internet traffic will pass a zettabyte this year driven by mobile, will double again in 2019; 5.5B people will own a mobile device by 2020 — Phones Will Drive Internet Traffic Past the Zettabyte Mark This Year — It's no real secret that the rise in the world's Internet traffic … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Justin Kan to restart his lifecasting channel, Justin.tv as a Snapchat channel — Justin.tv is coming back to life as a Snapchat channel — Justin Kan is relaunching the channel that created the modern live-streaming movement. Justin.tv, founded in 2007 and shuttered in 2014 …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Adblock Fast, a plugin for Samsung's browser, removed from Google Play days after launching because it “interferes” with third-party apps — Adblock Fast disappears from Google Play days after launch — Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins …
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Tweets: @jeremiahg, @dangillmor and @venturebeat
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Square NFC payment reader available in US Apple stores for $49, compatible with chip-enabled cards, Apple Pay, Android Pay, and Samsung Pay — Square is selling its NFC payment reader in Apple Stores — Last November, Square finally got on with the times and unveiled an NFC-friendly reader …
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MacRumors, VentureBeat, Fortune, App Advice, MacNN, App Advice, AppleInsider, iClarified, iMore, The Next Web, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple Music for Android now lets you save songs to an SD card — Don't ever say Apple isn't willing to play to Android's strengths. The company has just released an update for Apple Music that lets users store downloaded songs onto SD cards (which means microSD cards for most phones today).
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| Ian King / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Google to commit to purchasing Qualcomm server chips pending benchmarks being met — Google Said to Endorse Qualcomm's Fledgling Server-Chip Efforts — Companies have cooperated on design work, people familiar say — Qualcomm's push could pose threat to Intel's server dominance
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